Picture Books About Farmers and Peacemakers in Honor of President Jimmy Carter

This title takes on the importance of friendship, caring, and acceptance. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Spotlight is a division of ABDO.

A little boy is excited to work alongside his Papa as they collect eggs, plums, peppers and pumpkins to sell at their stand in the farmer's market, but when Papa cannot make it to the stand, his community gathers around him, with dishes made of his own produce.

Illustrations and simple, rhyming text show different ways that peace can be found, made, and shared.

"The first picture book about the inspiring life of humanitarian Jimmy Carter, the thirty-ninth president of the United States and a Nobel Prize winner--from Alabama Spitfire author Bethany Hegedus. Even before Jimmy Carter became president, he knew the value of hard work. Living on his family's peanut farm, Jimmy saw how hard work yielded strong results. At least it did for some people. But growing up in the segregated South, Jimmy also saw firsthand...