Describes how black guide Holt Collier's plea for Teddy Roosevelt to spare the life of a bear led to the creation of the teddy bear.

Uptown is the 2001 winner of the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award.

A biography about Rosa Parks, the Alabama black seamstress who refused to give up her seat on a bus and helped establish the civil rights movement.

Examines the possible origins of jazz, its variety, greatness, and individual artists.