Picture Writing

Student Resources

"Aboard the Underground Railroad— Harriet Tubman Home for the Aged." U.S. National Park Service - Experience Your America. http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/underground/ny1.htm (accessed August 3, 2013). National Park Service site a wonderful resource. This one is her home in Auburn, NY.

Allsburg, Chris. Queen of the Falls. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 2011.

Appelt, Kathi, and Joy Fisher Hein. Miss Lady Bird's Wildflowers: How a First Lady Changed America. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2005.

Bolden, Tonya. Maritcha: A Nineteenth-century American Girl. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2005. Primary sources used for illustrations.

Bruchac, Joseph. Sacajawea. San Diego, Calif.: Harcourt Children's Books, 2009. Read aloud for younger class. Switches point of view. Begins chapters with Native American tales.

Ferris, Jeri, and Karen Ritz. Go Free Or Die: A Story About Harriet Tubman. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, 1988. Good for beginning chapter book readers.

Goodheart, Lawrence B., and Hugh Hawkins. Problems in American Civilization: The Abolitionists: Means, Ends and Motivations. Lexington, MA: D.C. Health & Co., 1995. p.150 Charlotte Forten Grimke's diary entry for January 31, 1863 titled "Moses" gives Harriet Tubman's description of one of her most harrowing trips leading people to freedom. Primary Source.

Grimes, Nikki, and Earl B. Lewis. Talkin' About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman. New York: Orchard Books, 2002. Tells the story from multiple points of view remembering Bessie after her untimely death.

Hoose, Phillip M.. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice. New York: Melanie Kroupa Books/Farrar Straus Giroux, 2009.Not for young children. Goes beyond Rosa Parks' version of Montgomery bus ride civil rights protest. Colvin's testimony swayed the judge in favor of changing the law.

Hopkinson, Deborah, and Raul Colon. A Band of Angels: A Story Inspired by the Jubilee Singers. New York, N.Y.: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1999.

Hopkinson, Deborah, and Leonard Jenkins. Sweet Land of Liberty. Atlanta: Peachtree, 2007. Use with When Marian Sang by Pam Munroz Ryan and Eleanor, Quiet No More by Doreen Rappaport for the same story from three view points.

Hopkinson, Deborah, and A. G. Ford. Michelle. New York: Katherine Tegen Books, 2009. Michelle Obama, of course.

Hopkinson, Deborah. Annie and Helen. New York: Schwartz & Wade , 2012. Annie Sullivan and Helen Keller. Beautifully illustrated.

Krensky, Stephen, and Bernie Fuchs. Shooting for the Moon: The Amazing Life and Times of Annie Oakley. New York: Melanie Kroupa Books, 2001.

Krull, Kathleen, and David Diaz. Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World's Fastest Woman. San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1996. Great option for whole class teaching steps to create a side-by-side poem.

Krull, Kathleen, and Jane Dyer. A Woman for President: The Story of Victoria Woodhull. New York: Walker & Co., 2004.

Krull, Kathleen, and Amy June Bates. Hillary Rodham Clinton: Dreams Taking Flight. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2008.

Lyon, George Ella, and Peter Catalanotto. Mother To Tigers. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2003. Helen Martini was the Bronx Zoo's first woman zoo keeper.

Mackey, Barbara . "Harriet Tubman Special Resource Study." National Park Service PEPC Harriet Tubman Resources. parkplanning.nps.gov/showFile.cfm?projectID=11008 (accessed August 2, 2013).Definitive study. PDF download Chapter two for Tubman Biography and Resources. It gives you detailed maps of her escape routes in Maryland. Good example to show students developing research skills.

Macy, Sue. Bulls-eye: A Photobiography of Annie Oakley. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 2001.

Martin, Michael. Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad. Mankato, Minn.: Capstone Press, 2005. A well-presented brief graphic novel.

McCully, Emily Arnold. Marvelous Mattie: How Margaret E. Knight Became an Inventor. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2006.

McGill, Alice, and Chris K. Soentpiet. Molly Bannaky. Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1999.

Miller, Robert H., and Cheryl Hanna. The Story of Stagecoach Mary Fields. Englewood Cliff, N.J.: Silver Press, 1995.

Mora, Pat, and Beatriz Vidal. A Library for Juana: The World of Sor Juana Inez del la Cruz. New York: Alfred A. Knopf :, 2002. A beautiful book about an acclaimed Mexican American poet and scholar whose works were hand copied in Spain to share with intellectuals of the 1680s. She died in 1695.

Mortensen, Lori, and Frances Moore. Harriet Tubman: Hero of the Underground Railroad. Minneapolis, Minn.: Picture Window Books, 2007.

O'Connor, Sandra Day, and Dan Andreasen. Chico. New York: Dutton Children's Books, 2005. This book is Sandra Day O'Connor's autobiography of her childhood on the ranch.

Petry, Ann. Harriet Tubman, Conductor on the Underground Railroad. New York: Crowell, 1955. Book club length chapter book is good for small group discussion with strong readers.

Quallen, Sudipta, and Courtney A. Martin. Ballots for Belva: The True Story of a Woman's Race for the Presidency. New York: Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2008.

Rappaport, Doreen, and Gary Kelley. Eleanor, Quiet No More: The Life of Eleanor Roosevelt. New York: Disney/Hyperion Books, 2009. Use with When Marian Sang by Pam Munroz Ryan and Sweet Land of Liberty by Deborah Hopkinson to contrast points of view on the story of Marian Anderson's Lincoln Memorial performance.

Rockwell, Anne F., and Cynthia von Buhler. They Called Her Molly Pitcher. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.

Ryan, Pam Munroz, and Brian Selznick. When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson : The Voice of a Century. New York: Scholastic Press, 2002.Use in conjunction with Sweet Land of Liberty by Deborah Hopkinson and Eleanor, quiet no more by Doreen Rappaport. One story, three viewpoints.

Stanley, Fay, and Diane Stanley. The Last Princess: The Story of Princess Kaªiulani of Hawaiii. New York: Four Winds Press , 1991.

Stone, Tanya Lee, Tanya Lee Stone, Rebecca Gibbon, and Rebecca Gibbon. Elizabeth Leads the Way: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Right to Vote. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2008.

Szabo, Corinne. Sky Pioneer: A Photobiography of Amelia Earhart. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society ;, 1997.

White, Linda, and Linda White. I Could Do That: Esther Morris Gets Women the Vote. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.