My Nana and Me

By Irene Smalls

A young girl and her grandmother enjoy a day filled with tea parties, hide-and-seek, stories, and plenty of love.

Irene and the Big, Fine Nickel

By Irene Smalls

Afther buying a raisin bun with the nickel she finds on the street, seven-year-old Irene, living in 1950s Harlem, New York, must make a decision about friendship.

My Pop Pop and Me

By Irene Smalls

A young boy who loves to sniff the lemon whiff and to clink the dishes in the sink helps his Pop Pop bake a cake.

Because You re Lucky

By Irene Smalls

A strawbeater's thanksgiving

By Irene Smalls

Determined to be the strawbeater during the corn shucking party, Jess, a small young slave boy, wrestles a bigger, stronger boy for the honor.

Because you're lucky

By Irene Smalls Hector, Irene Smalls

When Kevin comes to live at his cousin Jonathan's house, both boys must make some big adjustments.

Jonathan and his mommy

By Irene Smalls Hector, Irene Smalls

As a mother and son explore their neighborhood, they try various ways of walking--from giant steps and reggae steps to criss cross steps and backwards steps.

Irene and the big, fine nickel

By Irene Smalls

Relates the adventures of a young girl, living in Harlem in the 1950s, on the morning that she finds a nickel in the street.

Louise's gift

By Irene Smalls

Louise is disappointed in Nana's gift and prediction for her future, but later comes to understand just how special she is.

Irene Jennie and the Christmas masquerade

By Irene Smalls

On a North Carolina plantation, a young slave girl's Christmas is brightened by the Johnkankus parade she witnesses as she waits for her parents to come home.