Doreen Rappaport. Candlewick, $15.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-7636-7624-7
Rappaport (Elizabeth Started All the Trouble) uses personal vignettes to bring to vivid life the story of the first man to break the color barrier in Major League Baseball. Grabbing readers’ attention with lines such as, “It was 3:00 a.m., but no...
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Doreen Rappaport. Candlewick, $22.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2976-2
In a thoroughly researched project far more ambitious and expansive than her acclaimed picture-book nonfiction, Rappaport (Lady Liberty: A Biography) has assembled more than 20 stories of Jewish resistance to the Holocaust, some never before told....
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Doreen Rappaport, Author HarperCollins Publishers $14.95 (117p) ISBN 978-0-06-025108-6
Rappaport casts her fishing net over the vast and teeming waters of the 20th century and plucks out six American women who have little in common except grit. In a ``you are there'' reportorial style, she spotlights days in the lives of thrill...
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Doreen Rappaport, illus. by C.F. Payne. Disney-Hyperion, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-4231-2488-7
Rappaport continues her series of biographies that emphasize direct quotations from their subjects (including Helen’s Big World and Abe’s Honest Words) by studying the setbacks and successes of Theodore Roosevelt. The author proceeds chronologically,
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Doreen Rappaport, illus. by John Pomeroy. Disney-Hyperion, $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-142318470-6
Walt Disney may be a household name, but readers may be surprised to learn of the man behind the franchise. Rappaport introduces him as a child who found a reprieve from difficult family circumstances through performance and art. At 16, Disney...
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Doreen Rappaport, Author, Shane W. Evans, Illustrator , illus. by Shane W. Evans. Candlewick $17.99 (60p) ISBN 978-0-7636-0984-9
Weaving together first-person accounts by familiar historical figures, traditional black spirituals and vignettes featuring fictional composites of actual people, Rappaport (Freedom River) creates an affecting, multitextured chronicle of slavery in...
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Doreen Rappaport, Author, Shane W. Evans, Illustrator , illus. by Shane W. Evans. Candlewick $7.99 (60p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2876-5
"Rappaport creates an affecting, multitextured chronicle of slavery in America," wrote PW
. "The symbolic and realistic converge effectively in Evans's oil paintings." Ages 9-12. (Jan.)
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Doreen Rappaport, Author, Shane W. Evans, Illustrator , illus. by Shane W. Evans. Candlewick $19.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-7636-1440-9
The creators of No More! Stories and Songs of Slave Resistance
here
chronicle the African-American experience from the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 to the 1954 Supreme Court decision outlawing school segregation. Rappaport labels this era "
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Doreen Rappaport, Author, Cornelius Van Wright, Illustrator, Ying-Hwa Hu, Illustrator , illus. by Cornelius Van Wright and Ying-Hwa Hu. HarperCollins $15.99 (31p) ISBN 978-0-688-17150-6
The creative trio behind We Are the Many: A Picture Book of American Indians
turns its focus to the stories of 13 notable Jewish Americans in this compendium of brief and colorful biographies. Famous figures such as magician/escape artist Harry...
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Doreen Rappaport, Author, E. B. Lewis, Illustrator Dial Books $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-1460-1
A thoughtful folktale from Madagascar and spare, painterly watercolors affectingly cohere in this compassionate book about a boy's encounter with death. When his father the king is killed on a hunt, the crown prince-the ``new king''-commands...
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Doreen Rappaport, Author, Emily Arnold McCully, Illustrator , illus. by Emily Arnold McCully. Hyperion $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0777-2
A boy comes to appreciate the true depth of his faith in this picture book about European Jews who took great risk to secretly practice their religion during the Holocaust. Young Jacques and his parents escaped Paris during Hitler's occupation...
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Doreen Rappaport, Author, Charles Lilly, Illustrator HarperCollins $5.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-06-446169-6
In a starred review, PW praised this ""concisely wrought volume""; five 18th- and 19th-century slaves attain freedom in these ""inherently suspenseful accounts."" Ages 9-12. (Jan.)
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Doreen Rappaport, Author, Charles Lilly, Illustrator, Charles Lilly, Photographer HarperCollins Publishers $15.95 (117p) ISBN 978-0-06-021631-3
Throughout this concisely wrought volume, Rappaport ( American Women: Their Lives in Their Words ; The Boston Coffee Party ; Trouble at the Mines ) expresses the courage, determination and ingenuity of black American slaves who risked their lives to
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Doreen Rappaport, Author, Lyndall Callan, Author, Toby Sherry, Editor Dial Books $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2042-8
Drawing on written accounts and interviews with former players in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, Rappaport (paired with Lewis for The New King) and Callan (a playwright) whisk readers back in time to the 1946 championship game...
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Doreen Rappaport, Author, Brian Collier, Illustrator , illus. by Bryan Collier. Hyperion/Jump at the Sun $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0714-7
This picture-book biography provides an ideal introduction to this leader and his works. Juxtaposing original text with quotes from King's writing and speeches, Rappaport's (Escape from Slavery) narrative offers a pastiche of scenes from...
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Doreen Rappaport, illus. by Matt Tavares, Disney-Hyperion, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-4231-2272-2
As with these collaborators' Lady Liberty, the striking cover of this picture-book biography features a closeup portrait of the subject, all the more compelling in this instance with the omission of any type. In her signature succinct style,...
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Doreen Rappaport, Author, Matt Tavares, Illustrator , illus. by Matt Tavares. Candlewick $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7636-2530-6
Tracing the Statue of Liberty's path to completion, Rappaport (Nobody Gonna to Turn Me 'Round
) lets those responsible for its creation tell the story of the project that spanned 20 years and two continents. Based on primary sources, their
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Doreen Rappaport, illus. by Matt Tavares. Disney-Hyperion, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0890-8
Punctuating the narrative with excerpts from Keller's own writing, Rappaport and Tavares, previously paired on Jack's Path of Courage, take a sweeping approach to their picture book biography, beginning when Keller was a healthy baby ("The beginning
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Doreen Rappaport, Author, Gary Kelley, Illustrator , illus. by Gary Kelley. Disney-Hyperion $16.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-7868-5141-6
Rappaport's spare text and Kelley's handsome paintings, evocative of WPA murals, reclaim the legendary first lady's story for the younger set, revealing the person behind the icon. Writing in clipped, one-or-two-sentence paragraphs...
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Doreen Rappaport, Author, Yang Ming-Yi, Illustrator Dial Books $13.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8037-0895-2
Meng joins the ranks of strong female heroines that people the growing number of multicultural folktales finding their way into print. This classic Chinese legend chronicles the young bride's perilous journey to find her husband, a scholar who, like
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Doreen Rappaport, Author, Yang Ming-Yi, Illustrator Dial Books $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-1411-3
In this fine retelling of a Chinese legend, a terrible drought has come to the land near the Lei-Gong Mountains. When Ah-Mei discovers a secret spring of water as ``sweet as pear juice,'' Lei-Gong, the God of Thunder, threatens her with death if she
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Doreen Rappaport, Author, Curtis James, Illustrator Jump at the Sun $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0645-4
The pair behind The School Is Not White! here collaborates on a picture book that focuses attention on the African-American struggle during the Civil War. Rappaport bases her tale on the slave ship pilot Robert Smalls and the all-slave crew of the...
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Doreen Rappaport, Author, Curtis James, Illustrator , illus. by Curtis James. Hyperion $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7868-1838-9
Rappaport (Martin's Big Words
) relays the wrenching yet ultimately uplifting story of one brave black family in rural Mississippi in the 1960s. Sharecroppers on a cotton plantation, Mae Bertha and Matthew Carter believed that "a good...
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Doreen Rappaport, illus. by Oliver Dominguez. Little, Brown, $19.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-7595-5494-8
A flutist and physicist becomes the first Latina to visit space in Rappaport and Dominguez’s inspirational biography of Ellen Ochoa (b. 1958). Beginning with her early life, detailed text describes how Ochoa, one of five siblings, shared a love of...
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Doreen Rappaport, illus. by Eric Valasquez. Disney-Hyperion, $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-4847-4717-9
Rappaport adds to her Big Words series with this well-researched picture biography of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. As with all books in the series, quotations—set apart via color and larger text size—appear on each spread, bringing...
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