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Celebrate the love of brothers and sisters everywhere with award-winning author Eloise Greenfield in this poignant collection of poems for and about families, illustrated by renowned artist Jan Spivey Gilchrist. "These are the sweetest poems for kids and families of all kinds." --Charlotte Observer Brothers and sisters can be dear, can be company, can bring cheer, can start arguments, can make noise, can cause tears, can break toys . . . Still, I think no matter what, I'd rather have them than not. This collection of 25 short poems about life with siblings--full, half, step, old and young, close in age and far apart--showcases the powerful and special bond between all brothers and sisters. With lyrical text and pen-and-ink and vibrant watercolor illustrations, Brothers & Sisters is the perfect way for the children in your family to share their love for each other."Everyone can relate to the poems' affection, frustration, laughter, jealousy, and family pride, as well as the love that a

#1 New York Times Bestseller“In her long and extraordinary career, Cicely Tyson has not only succeeded as an actor, she has shaped the course of history.” ―President Barack Obama, 2016 Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony“While undoubtedly personal . . . Just as I Am is a universal accounting of just how far we’ve come in Tyson’s near-century of life, and how far we still must go. . . . Tyson’s story, while frankly written and supremely eye-opening, isn’t just her own. It’s also the story of Black women in America, of generations past, present and yet to come, whose wills to survive are divinely gifted and ancestrally guided.”―Washington Post“Just as I Am is my truth. It is me, plain and unvarnished, with the glitter and garland set aside. In these pages, I am indeed Cicely, the actress who has been blessed to grace the stage and screen for six decades. Yet I am also the church girl who once rarely spoke a word. I am the teenager who sought solace in the verses of the old hymn for wh