Nancy Churnin: 3 books
The William Hoy Story
How a Deaf Baseball Player Changed the Game
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Winner:
2017 Storytelling World Resource Award Honor Book
2017 Bank Street College, Best Children's Books of the Year, Five to Nine
Nominee:
2017 Texas 2x2 Reading List
2017 Texas Topaz Nonfiction Reading List
2018 Illinois Monarch Award Master List
All William Ellsworth Hoy wanted to...
Charlie Takes His Shot
How Charlie Sifford Broke the Color Barrier in Golf
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2018
Charlie Sifford loved golf, but in the 1930's only white people were allowed to play in the Professional Golf Association. Sifford had won plenty of black tournaments, but he was determined to break the color barrier in the PGA. In 1960 he did, only to face discrimination from hotels that wouldn't...
The Queen and the First Christmas Tree
Queen Charlotte's Gift to England
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Queen Charlotte brought her family's festive holiday yule bough from Germany to England. While planning a Christmas Day party in 1800 at Windsor Castle for over 100 children, she realized a single bough isn't enough. So she brought in the whole tree instead, making it the first known Christmas Tree in England. This story tells a little known fact about a favorite holiday tradition.