Little Receipts Vol. 1 — We Can Do Big Things! First Stories for Young Dreamers (Kid-Friendly Edition — Interactive Edition)

Garrett Morgan made busy streets safer with a signal that told everybody to stop and wait. Sarah Breedlove — Madam C. J. Walker — built a hair-care company and shared what she earned with schools and students. Brave Bessie Coleman crossed an ocean to learn to fly, because no school at home would teach her. Katherine Johnson counted the numbers that flew astronauts around Earth. Lonnie Johnson turned a happy accident into the Super Soaker. And Dr. Mae Jemison — a doctor and an engineer — flew among the stars.

Inside the Interactive Edition (KID-FRIENDLY EDITION, 3,743 words): the complete book — all 6 chapters, written for reading aloud, one big idea per chapter; recorded narration by Marcus — 17.24 minutes, every chapter read aloud; picture cues on every spread — scenes and objects, never invented portraits of real people; every chapter ends with The Receipt — a one-line takeaway a child can repeat; a chronological timeline; a 10-question educator quiz drawn strictly from the text. For educators: a TEKS correlation sheet for this volume is available with the Little Receipts Educator materials — mapped against the adopted Texas standards, claiming only what the sheet claims. These materials make classrooms eligible, not district-adopted.

The chapters:

Stop, Go — Everybody Stop! Garrett Morgan and the Safer Street

Sarah's Big Idea: Madam C. J. Walker Builds Her Dream

Brave Bessie Flies! Bessie Coleman Takes to the Sky

Count the Stars: Katherine Johnson and the Numbers That Flew

WHOOSH! Lonnie Johnson and the Happy Accident

Dr. Mae in Space: Mae Jemison Reaches the Stars

Little Receipts is the first series from The Digital Black Voice written for young readers first — the receipts are still real, built chapter by chapter from a research dossier of checkable facts. Big history. Little readers. All receipts.