Young Readers
Fired Magic: Detroit’s Pewabic Pottery Treasures
Marcy Heller Fisher • Illustrated by Marjorie Hecht Simon
An energetic young girl leads you on an engaging tour of public Pewabic Pottery installations throughout metropolitan Detroit in this tale full of lush illustrations that celebrates one of the nation’s few still-functioning Arts-and-Crafts era art potteries.
The Outdoor Museum: The Magic of Michigan’s Marshall M. Fredericks
Marcy Heller Fisher • Illustrated by Christine Collins Woomer
An illustrated children’s book that helps young readers appreciate the work of a major sculptor, Marshall M. Fredericks (1908–1998).
Albert Kahn: Builder of Detroit
The Reuther Brothers: Walter, Roy, and Victor
Mike Smith and Pam Smith
The story of three brothers who helped to found one of America’s great unions.
Willie Horton: Detroit’s Own Willie the Wonder
Grant Eldridge and Karen Elizabeth Bush
The story of baseball legend Willie Horton.
First Lady of Detroit: The Story of Marie-Thérèse Guyon, Mme Cadillac
Karen Elizabeth Bush
The story of the wife of Antoine Laumet de Lamothe Cadillac, the founder of Detroit.