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

Garrett Morgan patented a three-position traffic signal with an everybody-stop pause in the middle — this book does not call him the inventor of the traffic light, because the record is bigger than one man. Sarah Breedlove of Delta, Louisiana — Madam C. J. Walker — built a hair-care company that trained Black women as agents, and gave her money to schools and students on purpose; her wealth is told the honest way here, as a contested claim carried against her documented estate, never as a settled legend. Bessie Coleman, refused by the American flying schools she asked, learned French and earned her pilot's license in France in 1921. Katherine Johnson checked astronaut John Glenn's orbital numbers by hand, at his request, before he would fly. Lonnie Johnson, a NASA engineer, turned a happy accident at home into the Super Soaker. And Mae Jemison — doctor, engineer, and Peace Corps medical officer — became, in September 1992, the first African American woman to travel in space, aboard the shuttle Endeavour.

Inside the Interactive Edition (STANDARD COMPANION EDITION, 11,516 words): the complete book, all 6 chapters, full text; recorded narration by Marcus — 57.51 minutes, every chapter read aloud; a chronological timeline that jumps straight to the chapter behind each date; a 10-question educator quiz drawn strictly from the text; every chapter closes with its sources and a method note — receipts first, and contested numbers labeled in the text, never silently repeated; the storybook-style cover. 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.