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Riding to Washington
Janie is not exactly sure why her daddy is riding a bus from Indianapolis to Washington, D.C. She knows why she has to go-to stay out of her mother's way, especially with the twins now teething. But Daddy wants to hear a man named Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speak and, to keep out of trouble, Janie is sent along. Riding the bus with them is a mishmash of people, black and white, young and old. They seem very different from Janie. As the bus travels across cities and farm fields to its historic destination, Janie sees firsthand the injustices that many others are made to endure. She begins to realize that she's not so different from the other riders and that, as young as she is, her actions ca...
Sojourner Truth
Isabella changed her name to Sojourner Truth because she “was to travel up an’ down this land...to declare truth to the people.” Her strong voice and faith forced people to listen to her, in spite of her being a woman and a former slave. She traveled thousands of miles and spoke out for God, against slavery and for women’s rights. Her moving speeches inspired hope and change in many that heard her.
Celebrating
Through colour photographs, the 'Small World' series illustrates how people are the same and how people differ around the world. With simple rhyming text, the series focuses on the everyday lives and activities of children.
Wash Up!
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Get Dressed!
All over the world children get dressed. This looks at how they learn to take care of themselves. Using photographs and text it aims to give readers and pre-school children a glimpse of ways people's lives are the same and different the world over.
Eating
Through colour photographs, the 'Small World' series illustrates how people are the same and how people differ around the world. With simple rhyming text, the series focuses on the everyday lives and activities of children.
Civil Rights Pioneer
Mary Church Terrell grew up after the Civil War with many opportunities. Although she received an excellent education and had a distinguished teaching career, Mary grew up African American in a segregated country. There were opportunities she did not have. Always determined, she joined the fight for equal rights. By lecturing, picketing, and writing she made her voice be heard and helped to end segregation.
Freedom Seeker
The son of a wealthy, repected admiral, William Penn did what was forbidden in seventeenth-century England--he openly practiced the Quaker religion. Penn dreamed of a place with freedom of religion. He asked for land in the New World and was given a colony called Pennsylvania. His success in establishing a new and just government there later became the blueprint for thirteen newly independent colonies.
President of the Underground Railroad
Growing up in a Quaker family in the South in 1830, Levi Coffin did not support slavery, but he was exposed to its atrocities. Convinced that every person deserved to be free, Levi began helping slaves escape to the North along the Underground Railroad, and during the following 40 years he was able to help over 3,000 people find freedom.
Smiling
Through colour photographs, the 'Small World' series illustrates how people are the same and how people differ around the world. With simple rhyming text, the series focuses on the everyday lives and activities of children.
