A child considers how Grandmother's lap is just right for those times when lightning is coming in the window or the cat is missing.

Ernestine, who loves going to the railroad station and watching the trains come and go, finally realizes her dream of going on a train trip.

"Calling to mind the best works of Paul Beatty and Junot Diaz, this collection of moving, timely, and darkly funny stories examines the concept of black identity in this so-called post-racial era. A stunning new talent in literary fiction, Nafissa Thompson-Spires grapples with black identity and the contemporary middle class in these compelling, boundary-pushing vignettes. Each captivating story plunges headfirst into the lives of new, utterly original...

Hollywood Black is a riveting chronicle of black performers and filmmakers, told through an engrossing history by award-winning author Donald Bogle and images that illustrate the struggles and triumphs of more than a century of cinema. The story opens in the silent film era, when white actors in blackface often played black characters, but which also saw rise of independent African American filmmakers, including the remarkable Oscar Micheaux. It follows...

A child living near the Limpopo River in Zimbabwe encounters several wild animals on her way to school.

Text and photographs depict how a Chicago family celebrates the African American holiday, Kwanzaa.

A young girl's dream of attending school in her small Ugandan village is fulfilled after her family is given an income-producing goat. Based on a true story about the work of Project Heifer.

A wily fox, notorious for stealing eggs, meets his match when he encounters a bold little girl in the woods who insists upon proof that he is a fox before she will be frightened.

Although a classmate says that she cannot play Peter Pan in the school play because she is African-American, Grace discovers that she can do anything she sets her mind to do.