Abrams Books imprint: 231 books
by Daniel Duncan
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
When a lonely fisherman finds an injured bird on his boat, he nurtures it back to health and—since the bird can no longer migrate with its family—charts a course to head south for the winter. Together, the two form a special friendship and enjoy life at sea until both the healing process and the...
Knit to Flatter
The only instructions you'll ever need to knit sweaters that make you look good and feel great!
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Knit to Flatter is about celebrating the body you have been given and creating sweaters that make you look and feel great. Part instruction manual and part pattern collection, Knit to Flatter teaches you how to assess your shape—top-heavy, bottom-heavy, or proportional— and then knit accordingly....
Black Elk's Vision
A Lakota Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Told from the Native American point of view, Black Elk’s Vision provides a unique perspective on American history.
From recounting the visions Black Elk had as a young boy, to his involvement in the battles of Little Big Horn and Wounded Knee, as well as his journeys to New York...
Facing Frederick
The Life of Frederick Douglass, a Monumental American Man
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) is best known for the telling of his own emancipation. But there is much more to Douglass’s story than his time spent enslaved and his famous autobiography. Facing Frederick captures the whole complicated, and at times perplexing, person that he was. Statesman, suffragist,...
American Gothic
The Life of Grant Wood
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
From humble beginnings sketching Iowa’s cornfields and rolling hills as a child, Grant Wood became the father of regionalism, an artistic movement that celebrated the simple and real-life surroundings of the people. When studying art in Europe in the early 20th century, Grant couldn’t find a style...
Pathfinders
The Journeys of 16 Extraordinary Black Souls
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Over the centuries, untold numbers of black men and women in America have achieved great things against the odds. Pathfinders is a collective biography of sixteen diverse American men and women of African descent who made their mark on American history in the 18th to 20th centuries. People who dared...
The Princess and the Warrior
A Tale of Two Volcanoes
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Award-winning author Duncan Tonatiuh reimagines one of Mexico’s cherished legends. Princess Izta had many wealthy suitors but dismissed them all. When a mere warrior, Popoca, promised to be true to her and stay always by her side, Izta fell in love. The emperor promised Popoca if he could defeat...
Andrew Jackson
The Making of America #2
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Andrew Jackson tells the story of one of our most controversial presidents.
Born in the Carolina backwoods, Jackson joined the American Revolutionary War at the age of thirteen. After a reckless youth of gunfights, gambling, and general mischief, he rose to national fame as the general who defeated...
by John Seven
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Frankie Liked to Sing celebrates the life of Frank Sinatra, whose iconic voice changed popular music forever and influenced generations of listeners all over the world. From his early days in Hoboken, New Jersey, to making it big in New York City, Sinatra was determined to follow his dream of being...
Coco Chanel
Pearls, Perfume, and the Little Black Dress
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Award-winning author Susan Goldman Rubin introduces readers to the most well-known fashion designer in the world, Coco Chanel. Beginning with the difficult years Chanel spent in an orphanage, Goldman Rubin traces Coco’s development as a designer and demonstrates how her determination to be independent...
by Andrew Weiner
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
One beautiful autumn day, Art sets out with his mother and grandfather for a fishing trip. Fishing days are Art’s favorite. He loves learning the ropes from Grandpa—the different kinds of flies and tackle and the trout that frequent their favorite river. Art especially appreciates Grandpa’s...
by Erica S. Perl
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
It’s Ida’s first day of school. She carries her new lunch box and a long, blue string with her special friend Dotty attached to it. A big, colorfully spotted pal with horns, Dotty just happens to be invisible. On that first day of school, Ida and Dotty find out there are plenty of other imaginary...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The Case of R.B.G. vs. Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
To become the first female Jewish Supreme Court Justice, the unsinkable Ruth Bader Ginsburg had to overcome countless injustices. Growing up in Brooklyn in the 1930s and ’40s, Ginsburg was discouraged from working by her father, who thought a woman’s place was in the home. Regardless, she went...
by Shoham Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Little Nina will not go to bed. Not when the adults are having so much fun in the other room without her! Before her exasperated parents can catch up, Nina escapes her bedroom and races through the house, sampling cakes and just generally stirring up trouble. With Nina on the loose, a cordial family...