Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University

In this Cherokee family, Chooch is Sissy's younger brother who is only two years old. The family speaks Cherokee words when painting, cooking, biking, playing music, fishing, and gardening. Sissy's parents yell at her for not understanding that Chooch is just trying to help. When Sissy learns that she is one of Chooch's most important teachers, she helps him learn how to make a pot out of clay.

An extraordinary new piano composition is released by John Cage. An extraordinary pianist, David Tudor, enters the stage to play the composition. He sits at the piano for four minutes and thirty-three seconds. Even though some people in the audience are angry, the composition becomes a classic and is performed often. And everyone basically does nothing.

In a journey of progress, love and, possibilities, this prose shows the music, art, speakers, and food that have celebrated African Americans and their impact in society. With the big hands and small hands that built the Black legacy, there are countless steps of heroes who have made a contribution to the world.

This Christmas narrative is a moving visual narrative without words. A hungry, old woman leaves her home to find food in the snow but is sad to give up her treasured accordion for sale when no one gives her money for playing music in the village street. She experiences a theft in the streets and then observes vandalism in the church by a man on a motorcycle. The woman reassembles the nativity scene in the church for Christmas and later earns the mercy and support from the participants when she collapses in the snow. This story of Christmas has a surprise ending (A wordless book).

Oswego Pete, a monkey living on Monkey Island, is tired of working for his good life. He wants to find the easy life so he challenges Uh-Huh Freddie, the Chief Monkey, for his position. The two of them, along with other monkeys go off in search for the Easy Life. While exploring, they run into challenges and they realize that work is good if you have a good life.