Abrams Books imprint: 231 books
Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote
A Migrant's Tale
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
In this allegorical picture book, a young rabbit named Pancho eagerly awaits his papa’s return. Papa Rabbit traveled north two years ago to find work in the great carrot and lettuce fields to earn money for his family. When Papa does not return, Pancho sets out to find him. He packs Papa’s...
by Daniel Kirk
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
A small creature offers his big voice for aspiring authors everywhere
Every child can be a writer—and Library Mouse shows them how!
Beloved children’s books author and illustrator Daniel Kirk wonderfully brings to life the story of Sam, a library mouse. Sam’s home was in a little...
Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln and the Dawn of Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Published on the anniversary of when President Abraham Lincoln’s order went into effect, this book offers readers a unique look at the events that led to the Emancipation Proclamation. Filled with little-known facts and fascinating details, it includes excerpts from historical sources, archival...
by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
In this read-along picture book, a classroom full of young dinosaurs plays with toys, does art projects, and reads books. But each activity is another opportunity for the over-enthusiastic Tyrannosaurus Rex to wreak havoc. Parents and young children will love the call-and-response nature of the book,...
Discovering Black America
From the Age of Exploration to the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Discovering Black America offers readers an unprecedented account of more than 400 years of African American history set against a background of American and global events. The book begins with a black sailor aboard the Niña with Christopher Columbus and continues through the colonial period, slavery,...
by Andrea Beaty
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
**A #1 New York Times Bestseller
A Wall Street Journal Bestseller
A USA Today Bestseller
The creators of the New York Times bestselling picture books Rosie Revere, Engineer and Iggy Peck, Architect are back with a story about the power of curiosity in the hands of a child who is on a mission...
Miles to Go for Freedom
Segregation and Civil Rights in the Jim Crow Years
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Told through unforgettable first-person accounts, photographs, and other primary sources, this book is an overview of racial segregation and early civil rights efforts in the United States from the 1890s to 1954, a period known as the Jim Crow years. Multiple perspectives are examined as the book...
Library on Wheels
Mary Lemist Titcomb and America's First Bookmobile
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
If you can’t bring the man to the books, bring the books to the man.
Mary Lemist Titcomb (1852–1932) was always looking for ways to improve her library. As librarian at the Washington County Free Library in Maryland, Titcomb was concerned that the library was not reaching all the people it...
by Andrea Beaty
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
For curious young minds who ask why? how? what? when? and then why? again and again, the bestselling team behind Ada Twist, Scientist has developed a STEM project book based on the beloved character. Ada herself will take readers through the scientific method and introduce them to some of her favorite...
by Robert Burleigh
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
In this delightful picture book, loosely inspired by Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, a scat-singing, bebopping jackrabbit travels across the United States and marvels at all the wonders that the country reveals—from hopping on the subway in New York City to playing a jukebox in Chicago, and from gazing...
Pluto's Secret
An Icy World's Tale of Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
People, children especially, have been baffled, bewildered, and even outraged by the fact that Pluto is no longer called a planet. Through whimsical artwork and an entertaining dialogue format, Pluto’s Secret explains the true story of this distant world. Providing a history of the small, icy world...
by Laura Numeroff, Nate Evans
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Read this sweet New York Times bestselling series from the author of If You Give a Pig a Pancake, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, If You Give a Mouse a Brownie, and other beloved books.
The Jellybeans are back—this time in the library stacks to discover the varied and wonderful world of reading.
When...
Danza!
Amalia Hernández and El Ballet Folklórico de México
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Award-winning author and illustrator Duncan Tonatiuh tells the story of Amalia Hernández, dancer and founder of El Ballet Folklórico de México.
Published in time for the 100th anniversary of Hernández’s birth, Danza! is the first picture book about the famous dancer and choreographer.
Danza!...
The Girl from the Tar Paper School
Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Before the Little Rock Nine, before Rosa Parks, before Martin Luther King Jr. and his March on Washington, there was Barbara Rose Johns, a teenager who used nonviolent civil disobedience to draw attention to her cause. In 1951, witnessing the unfair conditions in her racially segregated...