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9781466560956 | Auerbach Pub, November 1, 2013, cover price $79.95

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Product Description: Nothing says Christmas like a Christmas tree, and the Rockefeller Center tree in New York City has said it beautifully since 1931. But how does the tree get there? One year, the tugboat captain (and author) George Matteson, his wife, and their daughter traveled by tug to fetch the giant tree...read more
By James Ransome (illustrator)
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9780618992157 | Clarion Books, November 6, 2012, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Nothing says Christmas like a Christmas tree, and the Rockefeller Center tree in New York City has said it beautifully since 1931.

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Product Description: A lovely tribute to elementary school teachersA great teacher is the best gift of all, according to the narrator of this warm look inside an urban classroom. Her teacher encourages the students to write stories, listen to jazz music, help in their neighborhood, celebrate different kinds of families, and build their own class library...read more
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9780803732599 | Dial Books for Young Readers, April 26, 2012, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: A lovely tribute to elementary school teachersA great teacher is the best gift of all, according to the narrator of this warm look inside an urban classroom.

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Product Description: "Belle, tonight was special. I could feel all of those folks with me. I want us to feel this way all the time. I want to sing in a place where black people and white people aren't kept apart," Grandmama said. "That's the kind of world I want for you...read more
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9780688175634 | Amistad Pr, January 3, 2012, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: "Belle, tonight was special.

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This inspirational picture book biography follows a young, poor boy named Edson as he overcomes many challenges and obstacles in his life to become the world champion soccer star Pelé.
By Lesa Cline-Ransome and James Ransome (illustrator)
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9780375835995 | Schwartz & Wade Books, September 25, 2007, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Presents the life and accomplishments of Pelâe, the Brazillian who has been called the king of soccer.

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9780375935992 | Schwartz & Wade Books, September 25, 2007, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Presents the life and accomplishments of Pelâe, the Brazillian who has been called the king of soccer.

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By James Ransome (compiler)
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9780805066210 | Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, September 28, 2010, cover price $19.99

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Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A powerful tribute with rousing, inspiring text and gorgeous illustrations commemorates the American experience before, during, and after the Civil Rights Movement.
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9780060555191 | Amistad Pr, January 1, 2006, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Text and illustrations commemorate the American experience of African Americans before, during, and after the Civil Rights Movement.

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9780606091442 | Turtleback Books, January 1, 2010, cover price $18.40 | also contains This Is the Dream | About this edition: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.

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Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A powerful tribute with rousing, inspiring text and gorgeous illustrations commemorates the American experience before, during, and after the Civil Rights Movement.
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9780060555214 | 1 edition (Amistad Pr, December 22, 2009), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: "With courage they rallied and answered the call .

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9780060555207 | Amistad Pr, January 1, 2006, cover price $17.89 | About this edition: Text and illustrations commemorate the American experience of African Americans before, during, and after the Civil Rights Movement.

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9780606091442 | Turtleback Books, January 1, 2010, cover price $18.40 | also contains This Is the Dream | About this edition: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.

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Product Description: As a seamstress in the Big House, Clara is luckier than the slaves who work the fields. Still, she dreams of a reunion with her Momma, who lives on another plantation–and even of running away to freedom. Then she hears two slaves talking about how they could find the Underground Railroad if only they had a map...read more
By James Ransome (illustrator)
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Reinforced:

9780606086264 | Demco Media, August 1, 1995, cover price $15.81 | About this edition: A young slave stitches a quilt with a map pattern which guides her to freedom in the North.

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9781439555460 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, October 1, 2008), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: As a seamstress in the Big House, Clara is luckier than the slaves who work the fields.

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Product Description: For Helen Keller, w-a-t-e-r was a cool, slippery splash. S-u-n was the warm afternoon glow coating her skin. L-i-l-y was a sweet-smelling petal, soft and delicate to her touch. After an illness left her blind and deaf, Helen relied on her senses of touch and smell to help compensate for her loss...read more
By Lesa Cline-Ransome and James Ransome (illustrator)
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Hardcover:

9780060570743 | Collins, July 1, 2008, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: For Helen Keller, w-a-t-e-r was a cool, slippery splash.

Library:

9780060570750 | Collins, July 1, 2008, cover price $17.89 | About this edition: For Helen Keller, w-a-t-e-r was a cool, slippery splash.

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With the moon hanging high in the sky, a young boy listens to the diverse nighttime sounds coming through his window while trying to settle in for a good night’s rest, in a lyrical bedtime tale with full-color illustrations.
By James Ransome (illustrator) and Ferida Wolff
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Hardcover:

9780060281915 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, April 1, 2005, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: At night the sounds of various animals lull a child to sleep.

Library:

9780060281922 | Harpercollins, April 1, 2005, cover price $17.89 | About this edition: At night the sounds of various animals lull a child to sleep.

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Discusses the changing roles, rights, and contributions of African-Americans in the United States during the colonial period from 1607 to 1763 and includes a chronology of significant events. By the illustrator of The Wagon. Reprint.
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Hardcover:

9780688102661 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, January 1, 2001, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Discusses the changing roles, rights, and contributions of African Americans in the United States during the colonial period from 1607 to 1763, and includes a chronology of significant events.

Paperback:

9780060585549 | Reprint edition (Amistad Pr, January 1, 2005), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Discusses the changing roles, rights, and contributions of African-Americans in the United States during the colonial period from 1607 to 1763 and includes a chronology of significant events.

Library:

9780060293611 | Harpercollins, January 1, 2001, cover price $17.89 | About this edition: Discusses the changing roles, rights, and contributions of African Americans in the United States during the colonial period from 1607 to 1763, and includes a chronology of significant events.

Prebinding:

9781417643202 | Turtleback Books, January 1, 2005, cover price $16.75 | About this edition: The colonial period in America (1607-1763) spanned more than 150 years and brought great changes in the lives of African-American slaves, In the 1600s, slaves could buy their freedom and could even become property owners and slave owners, but as the years passed, such rights were gradually revoked.

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By James Ransome (editor)
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Miscellaneous:

9780080521190 | Digital Pr, February 1, 2004, cover price $67.95

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Introduces the life of the African-American bicycle racer, Marshall 'The Black Whirlwind' Taylor, who won the 1899 World Championship title at the age of twenty-one.
By Lesa Cline-Ransome and James Ransome (illustrator)
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9780689831591 | Atheneum, December 30, 2003, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Introduces the life of the African American bicycle racer who won the 1899 World Championship title.

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Offers a diverse collection of stories from Ghana, Nigeria, the Congo, and other African nations that expresses wisdom, humor, courage, and diversity, and is enhanced with full-color illustrations of the rich settings of the continent.
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9780060249298 | Amistad Pr, January 1, 2004, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: A collection of African folktales originating in the storytelling tradition.

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Shows how archaeologists and historians sift through corn cobs and root cellars, study songs and quilts, and use the latest technology to reconstruct the secret Underground Railroad, offering a fresh look at the escape routes used by American slaves. (view table of contents)
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Hardcover:

9780812626735 | 1 edition (Cricket Books, April 1, 2003), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Shows how archaeologists and historians sift through root cellars, study songs and quilts, and use the latest technology to reconstruct the Underground Railroad, offering a look at the escape routes used by American slaves.

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A young girl and her grandmother get ready in their Sunday best to take the long bus ride to visit the girl's father in prison, in a story where love knows no boundaries.
By James Ransome (illustrator) and Jacqueline Woodson
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Paperback:

9780590552622 | 1 edition (Scholastic, March 1, 2001), cover price $10.01 | About this edition: A young girl and her grandmother visit the girl's father in prison.

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9780590400053 | Scholastic, October 1, 2002, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: A young girl and her grandmother visit the girl's father in prison.

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From apples to cows, kettles to scarecrows, warm country images abound in a delightful alphabet poem which is accompanied by striking folk-art illustrations by the Coretta Scott King Award-winning illustrator of The Creation. Reprint.
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9780823417650 | Ill edition (Holiday House, September 1, 2002), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: From apples to cows, kettles to scarecrows, an alphabet poem accompanies a description in verse with country images for readers to identify.

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9780823414536 | Holiday House, September 1, 2001, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: From apples to cows, kettles to scarecrows, an alphabet poem accompanies a description in verse with country images for readers to identify.

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While helping their dad run Fred's Fall Color Tours in New England, Jim and Andy think the tourists, or 'Leaf Peepers,' are pretty silly; then one night the boys experience something which makes them change their minds.
By Eve Bunting and James Ransome (illustrator)
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9780152602970 | Harcourt Childrens Books, September 1, 2001, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: While helping their dad run Fred's Fall Color Tours in New England, Jim and Andy think the tourists are pretty silly; then one night the boys experience something which makes them change their minds.

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A collection of eight folktales from people in the Deep South includes tales with Cajun, Creole, Native American, and African American descent, as well as English and Scotch-Irish-German traditions. (view table of contents)
By James Ransome (illustrator) and J. J. Reneaux
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9780688162535 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, January 1, 2001, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: A collection of folktales from people in the Deep South including Cajun, Creole, Native Americans, African Americans, those of English as well as Scotch-Irish-German traditions, and others living in Appalachia.

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9780688162542 | Harpercollins, January 1, 2001, cover price $17.89 | About this edition: A collection of folktales from people in the Deep South including Cajun, Creole, Native Americans, African Americans, those of English as well as Scotch-Irish-German traditions, and others living in Appalachia.

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Interested in knowing about the woman for whom she was named, young Hattie Lottie Annie Quinnie Blue begins asking her mother about her grandmother and the life she lived so many years ago. 15,000 first printing.
By Dinah Johnson and James Ransome (illustrator)
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9780805043785 | Henry Holt & Co, May 1, 2000, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Hattie wonders about the activities of her grandmother Quinnie Blue when she was little.

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In a tale drawn from the rich legacy of AfricanAmerican folklore, John and Clara, armed with only mysterious Aunt Easter's advice and their own affectionate, courageous hearts, must solve the secret of the stones to fill the void in their childless home.
By James Ransome (illustrator) and Robert D. San Souci
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School and Library:

9780803716407 | Dial Books for Young Readers, January 1, 2000, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: A childless couple discovers that the two stones they have brought home are actually two bewitched orphans

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Sisters Sarah and Susan look forward to each visit to great-great-aunt Flossie's home, where they delight in listening to their beloved aunt's tales of the days when she was a little girl
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9780613124706 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $18.40 | About this edition: Sara and Susan share tea, cookies, crab cakes, and stories about hats when they visit their favorite relative, Aunt Flossie.

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A young boy is sustained by his family as he endures the difficulties of being a slave, but when he finally gains his freedom, his joy is tempered by the death of President Lincoln
By Tony Johnston and James Ransome (illustrator)
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Hardcover:

9780688134570, titled "The Wagon" | Tambourine, September 1, 1996, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: A young boy is sustained by his family as he endures the difficulties of being a slave, but when he finally gains his freedom, his joy is tempered by the death of President Lincoln

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9780688135379, titled "The Wagon" | Tambourine, September 1, 1996, cover price $15.89 | About this edition: A young boy is sustained by his family as he endures the difficulties of being a slave, but when he finally gains his freedom, his joy is tempered by the death of President Lincoln

Reinforced:

9780606166775, titled "The Wagon" | Demco Media, April 1, 1999, cover price $13.49 | About this edition: A young boy is sustained by his family as he endures the difficulties of being a slave, but when he finally gains his freedom, his joy is tempered by the death of President Lincoln

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Twelve Old Testament classics are retold in the dramatic voice of Price Jeffries, a free black Southerner of post-Revolutionary times, who is trying to explain to his curious daughter--through biblical reference--the injustices of their world. (view table of contents)
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9780689808562 | Atheneum, September 1, 1998, cover price $21.99 | About this edition: The daughter of a free black man who worked as a blacksmith in Charleston, South Carolina, in the early 1800s recalls the stories from the Bible that her father shared with her, relating them to the experiences of African Americans.

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