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Read All About It: Family History in Picture Books
- Jocelyn T.
- Friday, September 03, 2021
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Learning about the people who came before you can be a fascinating, exciting, and emotional adventure. It helps you gain more knowledge about your family, as well as who you are. Below are wonderful picture books about different families and what makes them special and unique.
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Alma and How She Got Her Name (read Along.
Published in 2019
1 online resource (1 video file (approximately 8 min.)) : sound, color

Fry Bread
A Native American Family Story
Published in 2020
1 online resource (1 video file (approximately 36 min.)) : sd., col.

Going Down Home with Daddy (read Along.
Published in 2020
1 online resource (1 video file (approximately 14 min.)) : sound, color

Grandfather's Journey.
Published in 2019
1 online resource (streaming video file) (10 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound

I Remember
Poems and Pictures of Heritage
Published in 2019
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm

This is the Rope.
Published in 2019
1 online resource (streaming video file) (7 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound

This is the Rope
A Story from the Great Migration
Published in 2014
1 online resource (1 audio file (15 min.)) : digital.










Fry Bread
A Native American Family Story
Published in 2019
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color map ; 26 cm

Alma and How She Got Her Name
Published in 2018
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 25 cm

Stitchin' and Pullin'
A Gee's Bend Quilt
Published in 2008
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm




Grandma Hekmatt Remembers
An Arab-American Family Story
Published in 2003
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 23 x 30 cm.

Grandma Lois Remembers
An African-American Family Story
Published in 2002
30 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 x 30 cm.




The Keeping Quilt
Published in 1988
32 unnumbered pages : all illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 x 28 cm

See Where We Come From!
A First Book of Family Heritage
Published in 2021
32 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 23 cm.






This is the Rope
A Story from the Great Migration
Published in 2013
1 volume unpaged : color illustrations ; 29 cm
