Picture books for modern history?

[little1stwo]

I'm trying to find picture books for the 1900's up until now and need ideas on where to look for ideas or how to find them at the library.  If you already know of some, that would be great!  My list so far only has few:

 

Hanna's Cold Winter

The Yellow Star

The Whispering Town

The Bravest Cat

Christmas in the Trenches

 

Can anyone help?

 

Thank you!

 

Lynn

[thescrappyhomeschooler]

For what ages?

 

There are a bunch of Little House picture books.

 

Boxes for Katje

 

 

[Sherry in OH]

Age of Miracles/Industrial Revolution:

 

You Wouldn’t Want to Work on the Brooklyn Bridge (Thomas Ratliff)

Twenty-one Elephants and Still Standing (April Jones Prince) 

It’s a Snap: George Eastman’s First Photo (Monica Kulling)

Edison’s Fantastic Phonograph (Diana Kimpton)

Snowflake Bentley (Jacqueline Briggs Martin)

Listen Up!: Alexander Graham Bell’s Talking Machine (Monica Kulling)

Eat My Dust: Henry Ford’s First Race (Monica Kulling) 

The Story of Cars (Katie Daynes)

How People Learned to Fly (Fran Hodgkins)

First Flight: The Story of the Wright Brothers (Caryn Jenner)

First Flight: The Story of Tom Tate and the Wright Brothers (George Shea)

The Fabulous Flying Machines of Alberto Santos-Dumont (Victoria Griffith) 

The Glorious Flight (Alice Provensen)

Life in a New England Mill Town (Sally Senzell Isaacs)

Steamboat in a Cornfield (John Hartford) 

The Titanic: Lost and Found (Judy Donnelly)

You Wouldn’t Want to Sail on the Titanic 

You Wouldn’t Want to be a Victorian Mill Worker

You Wouldn’t Want to be a Victorian Servant

Mailing May (Michael O. Tunnell)

The Wild Horses of Sweetbriar (Natalie Kinsey-Warnock)

Degas and the Little Dancer (Laurence Anholt)

Linnea in Monet’s Garden (Christina Bjork)

 

 

WWI:

 

Christmas in the Trenches (John McCutcheon)

Casey Over There (Staton Rabin)

The Donkey of Gallipoli: A True Story of Courage in World War I (Mark Greenwood) 

Fly, Cher Ami, Fly: The Pigeon Who Saved the Lost Battalion (Robert Burleigh)

Cher Ami (Harry Webb Farrington) [Poem]

Where Poppies Grow: A World War I Companion (Linda Granfield)

The Poppy Lady: Mona Belle Michael and Her Tribute to Veterans  (Barbara Walsh)

In Flanders Field: The Story of the Poem by John McCrae (Linda Granfield)

The Magical Garden of Claude Monet (Laurence Anholt)

The 1918 Flu Pandemic (Katherine Krohn)

Marvin of the Great North Woods (Kathryn Lasky)

 

1920s (and 1930s):

 

Charles Darwin and the Theory of Evolution (Heather Adamson)

Night Flight: Charles Lindbergh’s Incredible Adventure (S. A. Kramer)

The Tomb of the Boy King (John Frank)

Keisha Discovers Harlem (Zoe Lewis)

I, Too, am American (Langston Hughes) 

 

Balloons over Broadway (Melissa Sweet) 

You Wouldn’t Want to be a Chicago Gangster (Rupert Matthews)

You Wouldn’t Want to Work on the Hoover Dam (Ian Graham)

The Great Serum Race: Blazing the Iditarod Trail (Debbie S. Miller)

Akiak: A Tale from the Iditarod (Robert J. Blake)

When Willard Met Babe Ruth (Donald Hall)

Angel Island (Lori Morensen)

You Wouldn’t Want to be a Skyscraper Builder (John Malam)

Sky Boys: How They Built the Empire State Building (Deborah Hopkinson)

 

 

[Sherry in OH]

Great Depression:

 

Potato: A Tale from the Great Depression (Kate Lied)

Dorothea Lange (Mike Venezia)

Mighty Jackie the Strike-out Queen (Marissa Moss)

The Babe and I (David A. Adler)

Dust for Dinner (Ann Turner) 

The Gardener (Sarah Stewart)

Oh Lord, I Wish I Was a Buzzard (Polly Greenberg)

Working Cotton (Sherley Anne Williams)

Uncle Jed’s Barbershop (Margaree King Mitchell)

Woody Guthrie: Poet of the People (Bonnie Christensen)

Through Georgia’s Eyes (Rachel Victoria Rodriguez)

It Jes’ Happened: When Bill Traylor Started to Draw (Don Tate)

In Coal Country (Judith Hendershot)

Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride (Pam Munoz Ryan)

When Marian Sang (Pam Munoz Ryan)

Born and Bred in the Great Depression (Jonah Winter)

You wouldn’t want to be on the Hindenburg (Ian Graham)

Mount Rushmore (Thomas Kingsley Troupe)

Jesse Owens: Fastest Man Alive (Carole Boston Weatherford)

Remember Me, Tomah Joseph’s Gift to Franklin Roosevelt  (Donald Soctomah)

Mickey Mouse (Bob Italia) 

Gandhi: A March to the Sea (Alice B. McGinty)

 

WWII:

 

Odd Boy Out: Young Albert Einstein (Don Brown)

Albert Einstein Genius of the 20^th Century (Patricia Lakin)

Lise Meitner (Mike Venezia)

Why Did the Whole World Go to War? (Martin W. Sandler) 

You Wouldn’t Want to be a WWII Pilot (Ian Graham)

I Will Come Back for You: A Family in Hiding During World War II (Marisabina Russo)

Elsie’s War: A Story of Courage in Nazi Germany (Frank Dabba Smith)

My Daddy Was a Soldier (Deborah K. Ray)

Coming on Home Soon (Jacqueline Woodson)

Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman  (Marc Tyler Nobleman)

The Yellow Star: The Legend of King Christian X of Denmark (Carmen Agra Deedy)

Lily’s Victory Garden (Helen L. Wilbur)

All Those Secrets of the World (Jane Yolen)

Hanna’s Cold Winter (Trish Marx)

You Wouldn’t Want to be a Secret Agent (John Malam)

Roosevelt and Churchill: A Christmas that Changed the World

Franklin D. Roosevelt (Mike Venezia)

Eleanor Roosevelt: First Lady of the World (Ryan Jacobson)

A Place where Sunflowers Grow (Amy Lee-Tai)

Baseball Saved Us (Ken Mochizuki)

Wind Flyers (Angela Johnson)

Across the Blue Pacific (Louise W. Borden)

The Unbreakable Code (Sara Hoagland Hunter)

 

Cold War Era: 

 

The History of the Computer (Elizabeth Raum)

Harry S. Truman (Mike Venezia)

Boxes for Katje (Candace Fleming)

The Gift (Aliana Brodmann)

A New Coat for Anna (Harriet Zeifert)

The Road to Santiago (D. H. Figueredo)

One Thousand Tracings: Healing the Wounds of World War II (Lita Judge)

The United Nations: Come Along with Me! (Nane Annan) 

Let there be Peace on Earth, and Let it begin with Me (Jill Jackson)

When Jackie and Hank Met (Cathy Goldberg Fishman)

Jackie and Me: A Very Special Friendship (Tania Grossinger)

Sweet Music in Harlem (Debbie A. Taylor)

Finding Lincoln (Ann Malaspina)

What Really Happened in Roswell (Kathleen Krull) 

You Wouldn’t Want to Climb Mount Everest (Ian Graham)

Picasso and the Girl with a Ponytail (Laurence Anholt)

No Star Nights (Anna Egan Smucker)

The Pledge of Allegiance (Norman Pearl)

Grandma Moses (Mike Venezia)

Behind the Creation of the Muppets (Bob Italia)

Rockwell: A Boy and His Dog (Loren Spiotta-DiMare)

Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot (Margo Theis Raven)

Shake, Rattle & Turn That Noise Down! How Elvis Shook Up Music, Me and Mom (Mark Alan Stamaty)

Elvis: A Graphic Novel (Terry Collins)

Action Jackson (Jan Greenberg)

 

Uncle Andy’s: A Faabbbulous Visit with Andy Warhol (James Warhola)

Halmoni’s Day (Edna Coe Bercaw)

Korean War Memorial (Jason Cooper)

Sputnik: The First Satellite (Heather Feldman)

Race into Space (Eric Arnold)

Yuri Gagarin: The First Man in Space (Heather Feldman)

Godspeed, John Glenn (Richard Hilliard)

Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (Gary Jeffrey)

The Story of Ruby Bridges (Robert Coles)

Cracking the Wall: The Struggles of the Little Rock Nine (Eileen Lucas)

The Beatles (Mike Venezia) 

Yellow Submarine (Charlie Gardner)

Child of the Civil Rights Movement (Paula Young Shelton)

Martin and Mahalia: His Words, Her Song (Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney)

My Daddy, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Martin Luther King III)

Martin’s Big Words (Doreen Rappaport)

The Cart that Carried Martin (Eve Bunting)

Belle, The Last Mule at Gee’s Bend   (Calvin Alexander Ramsey and Bettye Stroud)

X: A Biography of Malcolm X (Jessica Gunderson)

Marc Chagall (Mike Venezia)

Georgia O’Keefe (Mike Venezia)

Alexander Calder (Mike Venezia)

Roy Lichtenstein (Mike Venezia)

Odetta: The Queen of Folk (Stephen Alcorn)

Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez (Kathleen Krull)

Gemini 4 Spacewalk Mission (Carl R. Green)

Look to the Stars (Buzz Aldrin)

The First Moon Landing (Thomas K. Adamson)

Moonshot (Brian Floca)

Reaching for the Moon (Buzz Aldrin)

One Giant Leap: The Story of Neil Armstrong (Don Brown)

Max Said Yes! The Woodstock Story (Abigail Yasgur)

Jacob Lawrence (Mike Venezia)

Bald Eagles: A Chemical Nightmare (Meish Goldish)

Red Kite, Blue Kite (Ji-Li Jiang)

Dancing to Freedom: The True Story of Mao’s Last Dancer (Cunxin Li)

Who Invented Home Video Games – Ralph Baer (Mary Kay Carson)

John Denver’s Grandma’s Feather Bed (Christopher Canyon)

You Wouldn’t Want to be on Apollo 13 (Ian Graham)

Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam (Walter Dean Myers)

Sweet Dried Apples: A Vietnamese Wartime Childhood (Rosemary Breckler)

Wall of Names (Judy Donnelly)

Emergency at Three Mile Island (Aaron Feigenbaum)  

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak (Mike Venezia)

Star Wars: The Making of the Movie (Larry Weinberg) 

[Sherry in OH]

1980 to present:

 

Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument (Sharlene and Ted Nelson)

Jimmy Carter: Beyond the Presidency (Mellonee Carrigan)

God’s Dream (Desmond Tutu)

Desmond and the Very Mean Word (Desmond Tutu)

 

To Space and Back (Sally Ride)

The Challenger Space Shuttle Explosion (William Caper)

The Wall (Peter Sis)

Border Breakdown: The Fall of the Berlin Wall (Molly Smith)

For Every Child (Caroline Castle)

The Dalai Lama (Demi)

Exxon Valdez’s Deadly oil spill (Linda Beech) 

Behind the Creation of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Bob Italia)

 

 

My name is Sangoel (Karen Lynn Williams)

Faraway Home (Jane Kurtz)

Brothers in Hope (Mary Williams)

 

Stitchin’ and Pullin’: A Gee’s Bend Quilt (Patricia C. McKissack)

Stories Told by Mother Teresa (Mother Teresa)

Mother Teresa (Demi)

Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (ed. Chris van Wyk)

Faith Ringgold (Mike Venezia)

Tar Beach (Faith Ringgold)

How did that get to my house? Internet (Gary Chmielewsi)

The Empty Room (Jon Mikkelson)

The People Shall Continue (Simon J. Ortiz)

Smokey Night (Eve Bunting)

Extreme Machines in Space (Patricia Armentrout)

Art that Moves: Animation around the World (John Bliss)

A Basket of Bangles: How a Business Begins (Howard Ginger)

Amazing Story of Space Travel [Max Axiom]

Exploring the International Space Station (Laura Hamilton Waxman) 

Exploring Mars (Deborah A. Shearer)

Robots and Rovers (Sue L. Hamilton)

 

The Little Chapel that Stood (A. B. Curtiss)

America is Under Attack: September 11, 2001: The Day the Towers Fell (Don Brown)

A Storm Called Katrina (Myron Uhlberg) 

Understanding Global Warming with Max Axiom (Agnieszka Biskup)

Don’t Forget, God Bless Our Troops (Jill Biden) 

The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq (Jeanette Winter)

Listen to the Wind (Greg Mortenson)

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (William Kamkwamba)

Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table (Jacqueline Briggs Martin) 

Who is Barack Obama? (Roberta Edwards)

Energy Island: How One Community Harnessed the Wind and Changed Their World (Allan Drummand)

Owen & Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship (Isabella Hatkoff)

Hands Around the Library: Protecting Egypt’s Treasured Books (Susan L. Roth)

Wangari’s Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa (Jeannette Winter)

Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters (Barack Obama) 

[ScoutTN]

Thanks, Sherry in OH!

I am not the OP, but this list will be extremely helpful for me this year!

[little1stwo]

Wow Sherry!  That is quite a list of books!  Where did you get that from?  So glad I asked.  Thank you for taking the time to post them : )

 

Lynn

[little1stwo]

Oh, I forgot to say - the ages are about 7 to 11, but I am sure my older kids will read them too.  

[Sherry in OH]

I am glad you find the list helpful.  We covered modern history last year.  These are the bulk of the titles we read for the 20^th and 21^st centuries.  You might also like The American Story: 100 True Tales from American History, by Jennifer Armstrong.  It isn't a picture book but the individual stories are short.

[thescrappyhomeschooler]

Wow, Sherry!

 

[duckens]

These aren't exactly history.  They are biography, but many would tie in nicely.

 

Picture Book Biography

 

Examples: 

A Picture Book of Martin Luther King
A Picture Book of Amelia Earhart

A Picture Book of Anne Frank

 

[duckens]

Thread Hijack!!!!

 

Sherry in OH:

Do you have a list for the Middle Ages?

*too lazy to start my own thread*

[Farrar]

Most of the ones I thought of were on Sherry's awesome list.  Wow.  The one topic about which there are a ton more that I know of are the Civil Rights movement, but the ones Sherry listed cover that and are some of the best IMO.

 

I'll mention just two more that didn't make her list that were favorites for us: War Game by Foreman about WWI and Freedom Summer by Wiles about the Civil Rights movement.

[Rachel TX]

I find quite a few on the junior biography shelf at the library.

 

On a Beam of Light: A Story of Albert Einstein by Jennifer Berne

 

Henri's Scissors (about Henri Matisse) by Jeanette Winter

 

Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story of Africa by Jeanette Winter