Christopher Myers

"Two friends try to outdo each other on the basketball court in an out-of-this-world game of H.O.R.S.E"--

A compilation of tall tales collected by folklorist Zora Neale Hurston during her travels in the Gulf states during the 1930s.

An artist celebrates the many things he can do with a simple pen, and encourages the reader to do the same.

Ikarus Jackson, the new boy in school, is outcast because he has wings. But his resilient spirit inspires one girl to speak up for him in this thought provoking story about celebrating individuality.

An artist celebrates the many things he can do with a simple pen, and encourages the reader to do the same.

Relates how the plants and animals around a farmer's barn change over the course of fifty years.

While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.

A collection of poems celebrating the people, sights, and sounds of Harlem.

Illustrations and rhyming text celebrate the roots of jazz music.

What is it to be an American? In lyrical, soul-searching free verse and seamless, evocative paintings, the father-son team who presented Jazz, delivers a heartfelt and thought-provoking homage to this country. Reflective and non-judgmental, stretching across a tumultuous history, following dreams of and struggles for freedom, this is a masterful and stunning presentation of patriotism through poetry, quotations and depictions of myriad Americans-from...