Kadir Nelson

Using an "Everyman" player as his narrator, Kadir Nelson tells the story of Negro League baseball from its beginnings in the 1920s through the decline after Jackie Robinson crossed over to the majors in 1947. Illustrations from oil paintings by artist Kadir Nelson.

The story of one African American family fighting to stay together and strong in the face of brutal racist attacks, illness, poverty, and betrayal in the Deep South of the 1930s.

A fictionalized account of how in 1849 a Virginia slave, Henry "Box" Brown, escapes to freedom by shipping himself in a wooden crate from Richmond to Philadelphia.

"There was an old lady who swallowed a fly" presents the traditional version of a famous American folk poem first heard in the U.S. in the 1940's. Pete Seeger's favorite American folksong, "The foolish frog", about a vain bullfrog, will have everyone singing along. In "Chicka chicka 1, 2, 3" one hundres and one numbers race each other up the apple tree. Suddenly bumblebees come buzzing. Which number will save the day? The adaptation of "He's got...