BIPOC Picture Books for Kindergarten

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BIPOC Picture Books for Kindergarten

A starting shelf for kindergarten teachers and families who want joyful, nuanced stories centered on BIPOC children, families, and communities.

Best for: Morning meeting, classroom libraries, identity-safe read-alouds, and early elementary book gifts.

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A rich urban read-aloud in which a boy and his grandmother find beauty, service, and joy on a city bus ride.

By Matt de la Pena · ages 3-5 · fits African American, BIPOC, Culture and Race

This bilingual biography introduces Pele through childhood determination, dazzling skill, and love of the game.

By Monica Brown · ages 4-8 · fits African American, BIPOC, Culture and Race

A young girl in Guatemala turns discarded plastic into weaving material so she can make art like the women in her family.

By Linda Elovitz Marshall · ages 4-8 · fits BIPOC, Culture and Race, Hispanic Heritage Month

A day-in-the-life picture book centered on a nonspeaking autistic child and his autistic mother.

By Tiffany Hammond · ages 4-8 · fits African American, BIPOC, Culture and Race

A migration story that links a family's separation and reunion with the movement of monarch butterflies.

By Cynthia Harmony · ages 4-8 · fits BIPOC, Culture and Race, Hispanic Heritage Month

A granddaughter learns that memory, craft, and story can become an inheritance as meaningful as any object.

By Cecilia Ruiz · ages 4-8 · fits BIPOC, Culture and Race, Hispanic Heritage Month

This biography imagines the childhood reading life that helped shape writer and scholar Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz.

By Pat Mora · ages 5-9 · fits BIPOC, Culture and Race, Hispanic Heritage Month

A warm intergenerational picture book about an abuela's visit, family memory, and staying connected across distance.

By Natalia Sylvester · ages 4-8 · fits BIPOC, Culture and Race, Hispanic Heritage Month

A Black boy moves through layered feelings about his neighborhood and the violence that surrounds it.

By Zetta Elliott · ages 5-9 · fits African American, BIPOC, Culture and Race

A newcomer from Venezuela learns that snow and friendship can open a new kind of joy.

By Emma Otheguy · ages 4-8 · fits BIPOC, Culture and Race, Hispanic Heritage Month

An alphabet board book introduces Black history through names, ideas, movements, and moments worth returning to as children grow.

By Rio Cortez · ages 2-6 · fits African American, BIPOC, Culture and Race

A girl and her grandmother imagine themselves flying over New York City while speaking English and Spanish together.

By Arthur Dorros · ages 4-8 · fits BIPOC, Culture and Race, Hispanic Heritage Month

A young girl learns weaving from her grandmother and comes to see the beauty in handmade work and inherited skill.

By Omar S. Castaneda · ages 4-8 · fits BIPOC, Culture and Race, Hispanic Heritage Month

A seasonal, sensory picture book about a child's bond with an abuelo and the bittersweet memory of Cuba.

By Ismée Williams · ages 4-8 · fits BIPOC, Culture and Race, Hispanic Heritage Month

Ada's endless questions turn everyday observations into a celebration of curiosity, science, and persistence.

By Andrea Beaty · ages 4-8 · fits African American, BIPOC, Culture and Race

This affirming address to Black children holds beauty, vulnerability, fear, and love in the same breath.

By Tami Charles · ages 4-8 · fits African American, BIPOC, Culture and Race