New Releases by Toyomi Igus

Clap Your Hands Educator''s Guide is a companion to Clap Your Hands by Toyomi Igus and illustrated by Michele Wood. This guide can be utilized in the classroom, in a home school setting, or by parents seeking additional resources. Ideal for grades K-3.

''We free now, baby,'' mama whispers as we bounce and sway with the wagon''s twists and turns over roads of clay through the land that oppressed us to a new world, a brand new day. The dynamic author/illustrator team of Toyomi Igus and Michele Wood has come together again to produce I See the Rhythm of Gospel, a sequel to the Coretta Scott King Award-winning I See the Rhythm. Readers of all ages will be captivated by this informative and inspirational blend of poetry, art, and music that relates the history of gospel music as reflected through the journey of African Americans from their arrival as slaves in America to the election of our first black president, Barack Obama.

The biracial daughter of an African American father and a Japanese mother fondly recalls growing up with her mother and her father''s mother, two very different but equally loving women.

When Noel and his Grandpa Will go fishing, Noel learns about how things were when his grandfather was little.

Profiles biographies of 80 historial and contemporary black women.