Writer and librarian Vaunda Micheaux Nelson has made something of a specialty of bringing hitherto under-recognized African American heroes into prominence. In Small Shoes, Great Strides: How Three Brave Girls Opened Doors to School Equality, Nelson and illustrator Alex Bostic celebrate three very young heroes first graders in the fight to desegregate a New Orleans public school in 1960.
The story of the Kindertransport is unusual among Holocaust narratives in that it has a happy ending for a while. In Stars of the Night: The Courageous Children of the Czech Kindertransport, author Caren Stelson and illustrator Selina Alko explore the hope, heroes, and tragedy of the rescued children, a complex task for a picture book, as we discuss below.
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