Coloring book · From the Block Coloring Books, Book 3
From the Block to the Stars
Our People, Our Story, Your Colors
Ages 8 and up
African American pioneers of the sky and a kid with a cardboard telescope.
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Zuri wants to go to space. Her brother Malik says nobody from Marigold Street ever will. Then Ms. Odessa from the third floor, who did math for space flights for forty years, shows them the wall of African American heroes who got there first.
They meet Benjamin Banneker, Bessie Coleman, the Tuskegee Airmen, Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Dr. Ronald McNair, Dr. Mae Jemison and Victor Glover. Then Zuri and Malik build a weather balloon of their own and send it to the edge of space with the whole block behind them.
This book shows Black children that science, math and space belong to them too. Every picture has a short caption, so it's a book you can read as well as color.
A great gift for African American kids who love space, science and big dreams.
What's inside
- 49 full-page pictures that tell one complete story
- Ms. Odessa's Wall of Heroes at the front: a short, colorable bio card for every pilot, scientist and astronaut, with the page where you'll meet them
- Real African American pilots, mathematicians, engineers and astronauts
- An African American family and neighborhood building something amazing together
- A real science project: a weather balloon, a parachute and a camera
- A blank panel at the end to design your own mission patch
- Each picture printed on one side of the page, 8.5 x 11 inches
A peek inside
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More in this series
Coming soonFrom the Block to the Back Porch
An African American family story you can color. Every square is somebody's story.
Coming soonFrom the Block to the Ballot Box
The African American fight for the vote, in a story you can color.
Coming soonFrom the Block to the Big Stage
African American music, from the stoop to the spotlight.
Coming soonFrom the Block to the Holidays
An African American holiday story you color yourself: Christmas, Kwanzaa and Watch Night.