Picture Books

Author/Illustrator: Gaia Cornwall Description:  Jabari is definitely ready to jump off the diving board. He’s finished his swimming lessons and passed his swim test, and he’s a great jumper, so...

Author: Maria Isabel Sanchez VegaraIllustrated by: Sophie BeerSeries: Little People, Big DreamsDescription: As a child, Elton started playing his grandmother's piano in Harrow, London. He could pick tunes out by ear and was...

Author: Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara Illustrator: Roza NozariSeries: Little People, Big Dreams Description:  When Mindy was a little girl, she loved TV comedy sketches; in particular, Saturday Night Live. At...

Author: Maria Isabel Sánchez VegaraIllustrator: Lauren SemmerSeries: Little People, Big DreamsDescription: Little Kamala used to accompany her parents to civil rights marches in California, strapped into her stroller so she wouldn't...

When devastating news rattles a young girl's community, her normally attentive parents and neighbors are suddenly exhausted and distracted. At school, her teacher tells the class to look for the...

Author/Illustrator: Kenesha Sneed Description:  Eisha lives with her mother, a ceramic artist, who helps her make a special shape out of a piece of clay. The shape reminds Eisha of...

Author: Wafa' Tarnowska Illustrators:   Hoda Hadadi, Sahar Haghgoo, Christelle Halal, & Esteli Meza Margarida Esteves Description:  Discover Sheherazade, the famous storyteller, dive into the musical world of the beautiful singer...

Author: Adam Rubin Illustrator: Daniel Salmieri Description: Dragons love tacos. They love chicken tacos, beef tacos, great big tacos, and teeny tiny tacos. So if you want to lure a bunch...

Author/Illustrator:  Gaia Cornwall Description:  Jabari is making a flying machine in his backyard! "It'll be easy. I don't need any help," he declares. But it doesn't work! Jabari is frustrated....

Julián and his abuela are going to a wedding. Better yet, Julián is in the wedding. Weddings have flowers and kissing and dancing and cake. And this wedding also has...

Author/Illustrator: Jessica Love Description:  While riding the subway home from the pool with his abuela one day, Julián notices three women spectacularly dressed up. Their hair billows in brilliant hues,...

Mari is getting ready to make a sign with crayon as the streets below her fill up with people. "What are we making, Mama?" she asks. "A message for the...

In New Orleans, there lived a man who saw the streets as his calling, and he swept them clean. He danced up one avenue and down another and everyone danced...

Ayesha is excited to attend her cousin Ritu's wedding. She can't wait to dance at the baraat ceremony! But not everyone is happy that Ritu is marrying her girlfriend Chandni....

Something Happened in Our Town follows two families -- one White, one Black -- as they discuss a police shooting of a Black man in their community. The story aims to...

The Big Bed is a humorous picture book about a girl who doesn't want to sleep in her little bed, so she presents her dad with his own bed―a camping...