Eric Velasquez
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Pecosita’s Freckly Freckle Face
$19.99 Add to cart- Author: King Neil, Aliya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 1665936533
- Language: English
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El Oso Polar Y La Bailarina
$18.99 Add to cartUn oso en el ballet? Incre?ble! Un oso polar explora la ciudad de Nueva York en este emotivo libro ilustrado del galardonado artista afrolatino Eric Velasquez.
Es una historia de una amistad improbab… [more below]- Author: Velasquez, Eric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0823456773
- Language: Spanish
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The Polar Bear and the Ballerina
$18.99 Add to cartHow does a bear go to the ballet? A polar bear escapes into New York City in this heartfelt picture book from award-winning Afro-Latino artist Eric Velasquez.
A wordless story of unlikely friendship t- Author: Velasquez, Eric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0823449181
- Language: English
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Buscando a Bongo
$8.99 Add to cartWhere could Bongo be? Help a young boy find his beloved toy–and figure out how it got lost to begin with.
Eric Velasquez’s cozy and playful story is now available in Spanish. The boy knows Bongo was- Author: Velasquez, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0823460126
- Language: Spanish
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Outspoken: Paul Robeson, Ahead of His Time: A One-Man Show
$18.99 Add to cartNewbery Honoree Carole Boston Weatherford and award-winning illustrator Eric Velasquez–the team behind Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library–reunite to take full measure of an iconic performer and … [more below]
- Author: Weatherford, Carole Boston
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: March 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1536212970
- Language: English
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I, Matthew Henson: Polar Explorer
$9.99 Read moreThe inspiring story of the Black explorer who made the first successful expedition to the North Pole.
Matthew Henson was not meant to lead an ordinary life-his dreams had sails. Those dreams took him- Author: Weatherford, Carole Boston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 154760896X
- Language: English
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Pulpo Guisado
$17.99 Read moreWhat do you do when an octopus captures Grandma? Put on your superhero cape and rescue her! Award-winning Afro-Latino artist Eric Velasquez’s delightfully meta story is now in Spanish.
Bank Street Me- Author: Velasquez, Eric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: October 27 2020
- ISBN10: 0823448649
- Language: Spanish
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Looking for Bongo
$8.99 Read moreWhere could Bongo be? Help a young boy find his beloved toy–and figure out how he got lost to begin with.
The boy knows Bongo was right there with him this morning–but suddenly, Bongo is missing.- Author: Velasquez, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 30 2017
- ISBN10: 0823437671
- Language: English
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¡Mambo Mucho Mambo! El Baile Que Atravesó La Barrera del Color
$17.99 Read moreNew York City’s desegregated Palladium Ballroom springs to life with a diverse 1940s cast in this jazzy picture-book tribute to the history of mambo and Latin jazz.
Era la década de 1940 en la segreg- Author: Robbins, Dean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1536213357
- Language: Spanish
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Jesse Owens: Fastest Man Alive
$9.99 Read moreIn paperback for the first time, the compelling story of the famous Black Olympian who stood up to Hitler.
Jesse Owens grew up during the time of Jim Crow laws, but adversity didn’t stop him. After se- Author: Weatherford, Carole Boston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1547608986
- Language: English
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She Was the First!: The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisholm
$20.95 Read moreNAACP Image Awards Winner – National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
A timely, inspiring picture book biography of the dynamic twentieth-century educator, activist, and politi
- Author: Russell-Brown, Katheryn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: August 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1620143461
- Language: English
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As Fast as Words Could Fly
$12.95 Add to cartThe story of Mason Steele, an African American boy in 1960s Greenville, North Carolina, who relies on his inner strength and his typing skills to break racial barriers after he begins attending a “whi
- Author: Tuck, Pamela M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1620148595
- Language: English
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Pulpo Guisado
$8.99 Read moreWhat do you do when an octopus captures Grandma? Put on your superhero cape and rescue her! Award-winning Afro-Latino artist Eric Velasquez’s delightfully meta story is now in Spanish.
A Bank Street B- Author: Velasquez, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: December 27 2022
- ISBN10: 823452514
- Language: Spanish
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Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library
$18.99 Add to cartIn luminous paintings and arresting poems, two of children’s literature’s top African-American scholars track Arturo Schomburg’s quest to correct history.
Where is our historian to give us our side? A- Author: Weatherford, Carole Boston
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: September 12 2017
- ISBN10: 076368046X
- Language: English
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Octopus Stew
$8.99 Read moreWhat do you do when an octopus captures Grandma? Put on your superhero cape and rescue her! Two stories in one from award-winning Afro-Latino artist Eric Velasquez.
The octopus Grandma is cooking has- Author: Velasquez, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0823448487
- Language: English
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Champion: The Story of Muhammad Ali
$18.99 Read more“I am the greatest! I am the king!”
Muhammad Ali was one of the most electrifying, inspiring, and confrontational athletes of his generation. At the height of his boxing career, Ali was as despised as- Author: Haskins, Jim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 02, 2018
- ISBN10: 1681195887
- Language: English
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The Rain Stomper
$16.99 Read moreToday is the day of the big neighborhood parade. Baton twirler Jazmin is ready to lead the way for the dogs and kids, music and fun. But then the clouds crowd in. The sky darkens. Thunder roars. And t
- Author: Boswell, Addie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: December 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0761453938
- Language: English
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Strong Voices: Fifteen American Speeches Worth Knowing
$21.99 Read moreStrong Voices: Fifteen American Speeches Worth Knowing is a collection of significant speeches, made both by those who held the reins of power and those who didn’t, at significant times in American hi
- Author: Bolden, Tonya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 11 2020
- ISBN10: 0062572040
- Language: English
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Twice as Good: The Story of William Powell and Clearview, the Only Golf Course Designed, Built, and Owned by an African American
$16.95 Read moreTo nine-year-old Willie Powell, there was no prettier sight than the smooth grass lawns of Edgewater Golf Cource. He had been so eager to see them that he’d run seven miles to where the course was sit
- Author: Michelson, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 15, 2012
- ISBN10: 1585364665
- Language: English
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Octopus Stew
$17.99 Add to cartWhat do you do when an octopus captures Grandma? Put on your superhero cape and rescue her! This clever picture book tells two stories in one, from award-winning Afro-Latino artist Eric Velasquez.
The- Author: Velasquez, Eric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 17 2019
- ISBN10: 082343754X
- Language: English
