Three cheers for We Are the Ship ! I wrote about this book earlier, and said I thought it might be a good candidate for the Caldecott Award. It didn't win that, but it did win the Sibert Award, for the most distinguished informational children's book of the year, along with the Coretta Scott...
Every family has a relative who is their claim to fame. Mine is Branch Rickey, the man who hired Jackie Robinson, the first African American to play in major league baseball. Now Kadir Nelson has written and illustrated We Are The Ship; The Story of Negro League Baseball , and he's even included...