Born Ready: The True Story of a Boy Named Penelope Cover:Hardcover Andrea and Brian Pinkney convey

Andrea and Brian Pinkney convey the final months of Martin Luther King's life -- and of his assassination -- through metaphor

to live a life that is bursting with vibrant energy

as much as I love cookies and milk

the Gingerbread Man steals her book

Born Ready: The True Story of a Boy Named Penelope Cover:Hardcover Andrea and Brian Pinkney conveyJodie Patterson, activist and Chair of the Human Rights Campaign Foundation Board, shares her transgender son's experience in this important picture book about identity and acceptance. Penelope knows that he's a boy. (And a ninja.) The problem is getting everyone else to realize it. In this exuberant companion to Jodie Patterson's adult memoir, The Bold World , Patterson shares her son Penelope's frustrations and triumphs on his journey to share