James Ransome
21) Do like Kyla
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A little girl imitates her big sister Kyla all day, until in the evening Kyla imitates her.
23) Visiting day
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A young girl and her grandmother visit the girl's father in prison.
26) Benny Goodman & Teddy Wilson: taking the stage as the first black-and-white jazz band in history
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Celebrates the 1936 debut of the Benny Goodman quartet with Teddy Wilson in Chicago, considered to be the first widely seen integrated jazz performance.
30) Quilt alphabet
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Presents a rhyming riddle for each letter of the alphabet and includes folk art illustrations that provide clues to the answers.
36) Freedom bird
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In the antebellum South, two siblings shelter a large, mysterious, wounded bird and eventually follow it west toward freedom.
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"The baseball legend, Joe DiMaggio's picture book biography"--
A tribute to the golden-era baseball star traces his upbringing as a fourth-generation Italian in San Francisco while describing the influences that the Depression, World War II and his proud father made on his history-making career. --Publisher's description.