by Barb Langridge | Jul 19, 2021 | Non-Fiction
“Morse and Yi (the team behind What Is Punk?) highlight hip-hop’s cultural hegemony via an impressively encyclopedic parade of rhyming biographies. Yi’s meticulously styled clay figures are as magical as in the previous book, combining profound...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 19, 2021 | Non-Fiction
Find out how this one-time American hero became the country’s most notorious traitor. As a young child, Benedict Arnold never shied away from a fight. So when the French and Indian War began in 1754, Benedict was eager to join the militia and fight for the...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 19, 2021 | Non-Fiction
Rev your engines and get ready for this exciting look at how Dale Earnhardt Jr. lived up to his family legacy and became one of the greatest professional stock car racing drivers in the world. No one was surprised when Dale Earnhardt Jr. began his racing career at age...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 19, 2021 | Non-Fiction
How did a working-class young man from Washington, DC, turn the music world on its head and become the “Master Of Jazz”? Find out in this addition to the Who HQ library! A pivotal fixture of the Harlem Renaissance, Duke Ellington was the bandleader of the...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 19, 2021 | Non-Fiction
Learn more about China’s most famous teacher and philosopher, whose ideas are still influential today. Born in 551 BC, Confucius was a young man when he set his heart and mind on learning as much as he could. By his thirties, he’d become a brilliant...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 19, 2021 | Non-Fiction
How did a New York printer become one of the most influential poets of all time? Find out in this addition to the Who HQ library! Walt Whitman was a printer, journalist, editor, and schoolteacher. But today, he’s recognized as one of America’s founding...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 19, 2021 | Non-Fiction
How did an immigrant who sold sewing supplies in New York City reinvent himself in the American West by creating the most iconic pair of pants in the world? Find out in this addition to the Who HQ library! As a young working-class German immigrant, Levi Strauss left...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 19, 2021 | Non-Fiction
Find out how this English singer-songwriter and actor who constantly reinvented his look and sound became one of the most influential musicians of the twentieth century. David Bowie, born David Robert Jones, wasn’t just an incredible singer; he had an amazing...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 19, 2021 | Non-Fiction
Find out how a journalist and sportsman became one of the most famous American novelists of the twentieth century! Ernest Hemingway wasn’t just a novelist. He was a hunter and a fisherman; he became an ambulance officer in Paris, France, during World War I; and...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 19, 2021 | Non-Fiction
Learn more about the cartoonist who created Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the rest of the lovable Peanuts gang! Charles (otherwise known as Sparky) Schulz always loved drawing from the time he was a young child, and as he grew older, he turned this passion into a...
