Build a House

Build a HouseGrammy Award winner Rhiannon Giddens celebrates Black history and culture in her unflinching, uplifting, and gorgeously illustrated picture book debut. I learned your words and wrote my song. I put my story down. As an acclaimed musician, singer, songwriter, and cofounder of the traditional African American string band the Carolina Chocolate Drops, Rhiannon Giddens has long used her art to mine Americas musical past and manifest its future,

Malcolm’s optimism and faith were threatened

or risk losing everything

After achieving academic and athletic success in school

the city became home to thousands of African immigrants and

Mia’s parents are trying to buy a house of their very own

Join little Umar

In this companion to the beloved and bestselling classic Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

and that her family thinks her love of medieval times is weird

what will become of their family—and their friendship

Ever since

to be revisited again and againÉThe candy-colored pages and straightforward stories are hard to resistÉÓ ÐThe New York Times

Confused and distraught after the death of his father