"Four-year-old TJ spends his days on his lively Harlem block playing with his best friends WT and Blinky and running errands for neighbors. As he comes of age as a "Little Man" with big dreams, TJ faces a world of grown-up adventures and realities. Baldwin's only children's book celebrates and explores the challenges and joys of black childhood. This new edition includes a foreword by Baldwin's nephew Tejan "TJ" Karefa-Smart and an afterword by his...

Following his mother's advice, Cat determines to become king but a series of disasters changes his mind.

Sailor Peter Penny leaves the navy and sets out to dance the sailor's hornpipe around the world in five years, thereby winning the right to marry the captain's daughter.

The raucous and randy adventures of a stateside soldier during World War II Sergeant Dan Miller wanted to be a flying ace, but the air force grounded him for poor vision. To make matters worse, when the myopic Miller travels home to Minneapolis on furlough, he finds the local "feather merchants"-aka civilians-breaking all the wartime rules. They're guzzling black-market gas, hoarding rationed food, and listening to suspiciously expensive radios. But...

Poems expressing the hopes, fears, joys, and sorrows of growing up.

A retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's classic fairy tale about a girl who is only one inch tall.