Text and accompanying photographs present a collection of American poetry that celebrates over 200 years of American life and history as illustrated by fine art from the collection of the National Museum of American Art.

Picturing Children features a diverse selection of photographs: spontaneous records of intimate family moments, playtime and communal activities as well as posed portraits. Photographers include Henry Clay Anderson, Wayne F. Miller, Joe Schwartz, Jamal Shabazz, Milton Williams and Ernest C. Withers. The volume includes short reflections on individual photographs which explore how the images speak not only to past experiences of African American youth,...

Using a special technique that makes paper look like traditional leather shirts, this Ojibway artist creates a song of praise for wild horses on the prairie. Each page reveals the important role that horses played in the lives of the First Peoples.