A girl retools The Little Red Hen into a building project that shows what initiative and making can do.

Art and text together introduce Arturo Schomburg and his lifelong work collecting Black history the world tried to erase.

This biography shows how Isatou Ceesay helped transform plastic waste into community income and environmental change.

A young dancer hears encouragement from Misty Copeland in a soaring ode to discipline and artistic becoming.

In this retelling rooted in Ghana, seven brothers must find a way to turn inheritance into something shared and useful.

A dinosaur has a rough first day of school until she learns what kindness feels like from the other side.

This lyrical historical picture book centers the weekly gathering place where enslaved Africans in New Orleans sustained culture and community.

A box of crayons stages a hilarious labor dispute, each color tired of being used the wrong way.

A family gathers across seven nights of Kwanzaa, centering ritual, memory, and Black cultural continuity.

An inventor's big idea meets repeated failure until frustration becomes part of the making process.