ABSTRACT
This chapter examines a set of informational picture books set in the United States, England, Dahomey, Canada and Haiti. Informational picture books are crucial to today's classrooms. In fact, in the United States, the Common Core State Standards have moved such texts to the forefront: "Forty-four states and United States territories have adopted the Common Core State Standards and one major change teachers can expect to see is more emphasis on reading 'informational', or nonfiction, texts across subject areas". The chapter provides a reading of texts as both a way to learn about groundbreaking heroes and heroines across fields, arts, civil rights, sports and sciences, and as a gateway to explore the development of morality. The story of Muhammad Ali is a remarkable tale about perspective within morality. The outside society may have viewed his actions or inactions from different level within Kohlberg's Stages of Morality, but those conversations about whether or not Ali are justified in his life choices.
