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Alicia's Happy Day

Alicia receives greetings from her Hispanic neighborhood as she walks to her birthday party.

By Ying-Hwa Hu (illustrator), Meg Starr and Cornelius Van Wright (illustrator)

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Hardcover:

9781932065015 | Bilingual edition (Star Bright Books, October 1, 2003), cover price $15.95

9781887734851 | Star Bright Books, December 1, 2002, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Alicia receives greetings from her Hispanic neighborhood as she walks to her birthday party.

Paperback:

9781932065060 | Star Bright Books, October 1, 2003, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Everyone in the Latino neighborhood where Alicia lives helps to make her birthday special.

Prebinding:

9780613998802 | Turtleback Books, January 1, 2003, cover price $16.00

Almost Starring Dad

Berry and Terry secretly enter a video contest sponsored by a local movie theater and win with a home video of their father, who happens to own a rival theater across town

By Suzanne Allen and Cornelius Van Wright (illustrator)

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Paperback:

9780425122181 | Splash, July 1, 1990, cover price $2.75 | About this edition: Berry and Terry secretly enter a video contest sponsored by a local movie theater and win with a home video of their father, who happens to own a rival theater across town

American Slave, American Hero: York of the Lewis And Clark Expedition

Offers the true account of York, the African-American slave owned by William Clark, who went on and helped make the famous Lewis and Clark expedition the great success it turned out to be, enhanced with vivid illustrations and quotations from the expedition's journals.

By Ying-Hwa Hu (illustrator), Laurence P. Pringle and Cornelius Van Wright (illustrator)

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9781590782828 | Calkins Creek, October 1, 2006, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A biography of William Clark's personal slave, who provided invaluable assistance to the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

An Angel Just Like Me

An inspiring text and festive illustrations that highlight the story of Tyler's quest to find a Christmas tree angel who does not have golden hair and pink skin, but rather looks like him and his family, is a unique Christmas story that celebrates ethnic diversity. Reprint.

By Mary Hoffman, Ying-Hwa Hu (illustrator) and Cornelius Van Wright (illustrator)

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Hardcover:

9780803722651 | Dial Books for Young Readers, October 1, 1997, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: An African American child wonders why all Christmas tree angels look alike and sets out to find an angel that looks just like him

Paperback:

9781845077334 | Reprint edition (Frances Lincoln Childrens Books, September 28, 2007), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: An African American child wonders why all Christmas tree angels look alike and sets out to find an angel that looks just like him.

The Best Older Sister

Fearing that her family has stopped caring about her when her new baby brother receives all the attention, Sunhi is comforted by her wise grandmother, who understands her feelings and involves Sunhi in preparing for the baby's first birthday party.

By Sook Nyul Choi, Sook Nyul Chol, Ying-Hwa Hu (illustrator) and Cornelius Van Wright (illustrator)

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9780385322089 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, February 1, 1997, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Sunhi is unsettled by the arrival of a baby brother, but with the help of her wise grandmother she learns to appreciate her new role of big sister

Paperback:

9780440411499 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, February 1, 1997, cover price $3.99 | About this edition: Sunhi is unsettled by the arrival of a baby brother, but with the help of her wise grandmother she learns to appreciate her new role of big sister

Bucky and Stu Vs. the Mikanikal Man

Product Description: Itâs the adventure of a lifetime when best friendsâand self-proclaimed superheroesâdefeat bad guys of their own invention.Â Itâs wonk âem time when Bucky and Stu have to stand up to Phat Tyre, TrashMan and Hose-Nose. No matter that the bad guys are all made out of household items that Bucky and Stu have assembled themselvesâthese bad guys donât stand a chance against the boysâ power moves...read more

By Cornelius Van Wright

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Hardcover:

9780391031180, titled "Symbolism of Indian Architecture" | Humanities Pr, September 1, 1984, cover price $16.00 | also contains Symbolism of Indian Architecture

School and Library:

9780399164279 | Nancy Paulsen Books, July 28, 2015, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Itâs the adventure of a lifetime when best friendsâand self-proclaimed superheroesâdefeat bad guys of their own invention.

Building Friends

While watching the Habitat for Humanity volunteers build a house in the empty lot next to her house, Rosa and her new friend Matthew decide to fix up Rosa's tree house.

By Ying-Hwa Hu (illustrator), Ronald Kidd and Cornelius Van Wright (illustrator)

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Hardcover:

9781887921268 | Habitat for Humanity Intl, June 1, 1997, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: While watching the Habitat for Humanity volunteers build a house in the empty lot next to her house, Rosa and her new friend Matthew decide to fix up Rosa's tree house.

The Case of the Shrunken Allowance

Mike and his friends try to figure out why the money in his allowance jar appears to be shrinking

By Ying-Hwa Hu (illustrator), Joanne Rocklin and Cornelius Van Wright (illustrator)

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Paperback:

9780590120067 | Cartwheel Books, January 1, 1999, cover price $3.99 | About this edition: Mike and his friends try to figure out why the money in his allowance jar appears to be shrinking

Reinforced:

9780606170352 | Demco Media, September 1, 1999, cover price $11.74 | About this edition: Mike and his friends try to figure out why the money in his allowance jar appears to be shrinking

Prebinding:

9780613113861 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $11.80 | About this edition: Mike and his friends try to figure out why the money in his allowance jar appears to be shrinking

Dance Y'All

As his family begins to arrive to celebrate the bountiful harvest, Jack Henry, who has agreed to sleep in the barn to make room for company, finds his mind preoccupied with the snake he has seen in the barn and he must overcome his fears to join in the celebration and dance the night away!

By Van Wright Cornelious (illustrator), Ying-Hwa Hu (illustrator), Bettye Stroud and Cornelius Van Wright (illustrator)

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9780761450658 | Marshall Cavendish Corp/Ccb, September 1, 2001, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: With the help of his grandfather and his sleepwalking cousin, Jack Henry overcomes his fear of the long coach-whip snake he's seen in the barn.

El dia mas feliz de Alicia / Alicia's Happy Day

Product Description: Alicia receives greetings from her Hispanic neighborhood as she walks to her birthday party.

By Maria A. Fiol (trans), Ying-Hwa Hu (illustrator), Meg Starr and Cornelius Van Wright (illustrator)

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Paperback:

9781932065039 | Star Bright Books, October 1, 2003, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Alicia receives greetings from her Hispanic neighborhood as she walks to her birthday party.

Don't Split the Pole: Tales of Down-Home Folk Wisdom

Seven stories inspired by and illustrating the folk wisdom of such sayings as, 'you can't teach an old dog new tricks,' and 'big things come in small packages'

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Paperback:

9781491732670 | Iuniverse Inc, May 22, 2014, cover price $10.95 | also contains Don't Split the Pole: Tales of Down-Home Folk Wisdom, Don't Split the Pole: Tales of Down-Home Folk Wisdom

Reinforced:

9780606158152 | Demco Media, January 1, 1999, cover price $11.76 | About this edition: Seven stories inspired by and illustrating the folk wisdom of such sayings as, 'you can't teach an old dog new tricks,' and 'big things come in small packages'

Don't Split the Pole: Tales of Down-Home Folk Wisdom

Seven stories inspired by and illustrating the folk wisdom of such sayings as: 'You Can't Teach an Old Dog New Tricks,' 'A Hard Head Makes a Soft Behind,' and 'Big Things Come in Small Packages'

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Hardcover:

9780385323024 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, October 1, 1997, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Seven stories inspired by and illustrating the folk wisdom of such sayings as: 'You Can't Teach an Old Dog New Tricks,' 'A Hard Head Makes a Soft Behind,' and 'Big Things Come in Small Packages'

Paperback:

9781491732670 | Iuniverse Inc, May 22, 2014, cover price $10.95 | also contains Don't Split the Pole: Tales of Down-Home Folk Wisdom, Don't Split the Pole: Tales of Down-Home Folk Wisdom

9780440413226 | Reprint edition (Yearling Books, February 1, 1999), cover price $4.50 | About this edition: Seven stories inspired by and illustrating the folk wisdom of such sayings as, 'you can't teach an old dog new tricks,' and 'big things come in small packages'

Elizabeth's Song

A fictionalized account of how an eleven-year-old girl, Elizabeth 'Libba' Cotten, saved to buy her first guitar and composed the popular folksong, 'Freight Train.'

By Cornelius Van Wright (illustrator) and Michael Wenberg

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Hardcover:

9781582700694 | Beyond Words Pub Co, November 1, 2002, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A fictionalized account of how an eleven-year-old girl, Elizabeth 'Libba' Cotten, saved to buy her first guitar and composed the popular folksong, 'Freight Train.

Library:

9780836835724 | Gareth Stevens Pub, December 1, 2002, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: A fictionalized account of how an eleven-year-old girl, Elizabeth 'Libba' Cotten, saved to buy her first guitar and composed the popular folksong, 'Freight Train.

Ginger Brown: Too Many Houses

When her parents separate, Ginger Brown spends a lot of time moving between her mother and her father, in a touching story of a young girl's first difficult year in a changing family structure. Simultaneous.

By Ying-Hwa Hu (illustrator), Cornelius Van Wright (illustrator) and Sharon Dennis Wyeth

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Paperback:

9780679854371 | Random House Childrens Books, June 1, 1996, cover price $3.99 | About this edition: When her parents get a divorce, six-year-old Ginger lives for a while with each set of grandparents and begins to understand her mixed background and her new family situation

Library:

9780679954378 | Random House Childrens Books, March 1, 1996, cover price $11.99 | About this edition: When her parents get a divorce, six-year-old Ginger lives for a while with each set of grandparents and begins to understand her mixed background and her new family situation

Grace at Christmas

Product Description: Grace loves everything about Christmas, especially acting out all the parts in the Nativity. But when strangers come to stay with Grace and her family, she wants to say "no room at the inn." Will Grace learn to give up the spotlight and make these new friends feel welcome? Just in time for the twentieth anniversary of Amazing Grace, the newest addition to the acclaimed series will capture the hearts of established fans and new readers alike...read more

By Mary Hoffman and Cornelius Van Wright (illustrator)

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9780803735774 | Dial Books for Young Readers, October 13, 2011, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Grace loves everything about Christmas, especially acting out all the parts in the Nativity.

The Great Eggscape

Product Description: Using clever word play and humorous comic-book style illustrations the author and illustrator have created an action-packed book, where the eggs decide to escape their fate of becoming painted Easter eggs. The book closes with an unexpected ending that kids will love.

By Susan Glass and Cornelius Van Wright (other contributor)

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Hardcover:

9781595722614 | Star Bright Books, February 15, 2011, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Using clever word play and humorous comic-book style illustrations the author and illustrator have created an action-packed book, where the eggs decide to escape their fate of becoming painted Easter eggs.

A House by the River

Belinda hates her house by the river, and as a terrible storm approaches, she wishes that she and her mother lived in town, safe from the rising waters, until she begins to understand that her house is fortified by family and loving memories.

By Ying-Hwa Hu (illustrator), William Miller and Cornelius Van Wright (illustrator)

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9781880000489 | Lee & Low Books, April 1, 1997, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Belinda's courage is tested when she and her mother sit out a storm, hoping that their house will protect them from the rising river

How Do You Get a Mouse to Smile?

Join Lyle as he goes to great lengths to make his new pet mouse smile. He juggles balls, trips on his own feet and even tumbles backward into a can of paint to entertain his furry friend. Children will laugh out loud as Lyle s hilarious attempts become more and more outlandish. He barks, and quacks, and clucks and moos, but in spite of Lyle s buffoonery, it is his little sister s calm ingenuity that makes the mouse beam from ear to ear.

By Cornelius Van Wright (illustrator)

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Hardcover:

9781595721723 | 1 edition (Star Bright Books, September 30, 2009), cover price $16.50 | About this edition: Join Lyle as he goes to great lengths to make his new pet mouse smile.

Paperback:

9781595721679 | 1 edition (Star Bright Books, September 30, 2009), cover price $6.50

If You Were a Bird

A robin discusses the habits, habitat, birth, infancy and flight of birds

By S. J. Calder and Cornelius Van Wright (illustrator)

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Library:

9780671685959 | Silver Pr, July 1, 1989, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: A robin discusses the habits, habitat, birth, infancy and flight of birds

If You Were a Cat

Describes the characteristics and behavior of cats and what it would be like to be a cat

By S. J. Calder and Cornelius Van Wright (illustrator)

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Library:

9780671685980 | Silver Pr, July 1, 1989, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Describes the characteristic and behavior of cats and what it would be like to be a cat.

If You Were an Ant

An introduction to the physical characteristics, habits and natural environment of the harvester ant.

By S. J. Calder and Cornelius Van Wright

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Library:

9780671685973 | Silver Pr, September 1, 1989, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: An introduction to the physical characteristics, habits and natural environment of the harvester ant.

In the Promised Land: Lives of Jewish Americans

The biographies of thirteen Jewish-Americans, such as Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Steven Spielberg, and their notable accomplishments are presented in an illustrated book by the creators of We Are the Many: A Picture Book of American Indians.

By Yi wa Hu (illustrator), Ying-Hwa Hu (illustrator), Doreen Rappaport and Cornelius Van Wright (illustrator)

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Hardcover:

9780688171506 | 1 edition (Harpercollins Childrens Books, April 5, 2005), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Offers vignettes from the lives of thirteen Jewish Americans whose achievements, from the colonial period through the present, contributed to women's and worker's rights, medicine, science, fashion, photography, sport, and entertainment.

Library:

9780060593957 | Harpercollins, March 1, 2005, cover price $16.89 | About this edition: Offers vignettes from the lives of thirteen Jewish Americans whose achievements, from the colonial period through the present, contributed to women's and worker's rights, medicine, science, fashion, photography, sport, and entertainment.

Jewels

Lea Mae loves spending time with her grandparents and treasures their stories of the past, including the tale about Harriet Tubman leading her great-great grandfather to freedom, as if they were rare and precious gems.

By Ying-Hwa Hu (illustrator), Belinda Rochelle and Cornelius Van Wright (illustrator)

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Hardcover:

9780525675020 | Lodestar Books, January 1, 1998, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: During Lea Mae's annual summer visit her great-grandmother 'Ma Dear tells her wonderful stories about their family members and the past, stories that are jewels of African American history

Jingle Dancer

Jenna, a member of the Muscogee, or Creek, Nation, borrows jingles from the dresses of several friends and relatives so that she can perform the jingle dance at the powwow, in a picture book that includes a note about the jingle dance tradition and its regalia.

By Ying-Hwa Hu (illustrator), Cynthia Leitich Smith and Cornelius Van Wright (illustrator)

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Library:

9780688162429 | Harpercollins, March 1, 2000, cover price $18.89 | About this edition: Jenna, a member of the Muscogee, or Creek, Nation, borrows jingles from the dresses of several friends and relatives so that she can perform the jingle dance at the powwow.

Jumping the Broom

When Erin worries that she does not have enough money to buy her sister a wedding present, her grandmother's story of 'jumping the broom' gives her an idea.

By Sonia Black, Ying-Hwa Hu (illustrator) and Cornelius Van Wright (illustrator)

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Paperback:

9780439568784 | Scholastic Prof Book Div, April 1, 2004, cover price $3.99 | About this edition: When Erin worries that she does not have enough money to buy her sister a wedding present, her grandmother's story of 'jumping the broom' gives her an idea.

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