Most Popular Books by Angela Shelf Medearis

The science fair trophy is missing and Cameron and his friends only have until Friday to find it.

This year Sharie''s mother wants their family to celebrate Kwanzaa. And she has to work on a project with Caitlin, who insists on studying her family''s Greek Christmas. Hannah, Sharie''s best friend, invites her over for Hanukkah.

Ransome''s paintings are glorious in this celebration of the market in the French Quarter of New Orleans at the turn of the century, and Medearis'' poetic rhyme captures the rhythm of the street cries and the ragtime beat of the marching band. A young girl is awakened by the shouts of the street vendors ("Nice little snap beans / pretty little corn"). She runs to the window, opens it wide. What she sees are "Creole women in red bandannas," shouting vendors with baskets on their heads, fruit sellers with juicy watermelons, shoppers searching for best buys. The beautifully composed, richly colored paintings are filled with light and movement, from market street scenes to close-ups of luscious vegetables. The child is part of it all, reaching for fruit, watching, listening, and then joining in, high-stepping, whirling, and twirling to the hot jazz notes of the marching band.

Provides recipes and suggestions for celebrations for African-American holidays and special occasions throughout the year.

To win a $5000 reward, a chef named Dan agrees to stay in a haunted house overnight and when he meets a very hungry ghost, he gets more than he had expected.

After some kitchen disasters, Angela Medearis went from a cooking novice to a culinary historian eager to share her knowledge with others. Becoming the sassy, boa-wearing Kitchen Diva helped make sharing her message fun and inspired her popular TV show of the same name. The Kitchen Diva Cooks! is a collection of recipes from her motivational show, which teaches viewers about the history of their favorite foods, how to prepare healthful meals, and how to make cooking enjoyable.

A collection of stories mainly set in Texas and based on tales of local ghosts.

This multi-cultural board book is vibrantly illustrated with lots of activities in which young children can participate.

Explores the dance traditions of African Americans, from their origins in the expressive dances that the slaves brought from Africa through the development of jazz and tap to modern dance and ballet.

Discusses the evolution of African-American music from its roots in the rhythms and instruments from Africa through the development of the blues, gospel, and soul to modern rock and rap.

After waiting anxiously for the arrival of snow, children enjoy it by making snow angels, throwing snowballs, and riding their sleds.

Introduces the influence of African-based foods, cooking techniques, and traditions to American culinary history.

Boldness and a gift for improvising verse enable eight-year-old African American Daisy Turner to triumph over an incident of discrimination in her nineteenth century rural Vermont school. Told in Daisy''s voice, the book''s themes of identity and self-affirmation offer a powerful lesson to today''s youngsters who face similar situations of prejudice and stereotyping in twenty-first century classrooms. Suggestions on the concluding page provide creative ways for young readers to develop their own storytelling style in verse. Ages 6-10

A retelling of a traditional West African tale about a king who refuses to believe that yams, fish, and cloth can talk until his throne agrees with him.

INQUIZITIVE SCIENCE EARLY LEVEL: SOUNDS ALL AROUND - A series of information books that integrate literacy and science. INQUIZITIVE with a focus upon science has been developed to help young children gain an understanding of: the different ways information can be read and communicated, the specialised language and language structures used in non-fiction texts, the way non-fiction is organised to highlight information and the selective way non-fiction is read according to the reader''s purpose. Suitable for 4-8 year olds.