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A girl retools The Little Red Hen into a building project that shows what initiative and making can do.
A young dancer hears encouragement from Misty Copeland in a soaring ode to discipline and artistic becoming.
An inventor's big idea meets repeated failure until frustration becomes part of the making process.
This affirming address to Black children holds beauty, vulnerability, fear, and love in the same breath.
Humpty Dumpty learns how to live after a fall that leaves him frightened of heights and change.
Mae Jemison's childhood dream of space becomes a picture-book invitation to ambition and persistence.
Poetic text and motion-filled art celebrate girls and women who own the basketball court.
Poetry and portraiture honor Black excellence, grief, resistance, and survival across generations.
Jabari sets out to build a flying machine and learns how frustration and persistence can live side by side.
A boy and his tiny elephant are shut out of a pet club and build a more welcoming one instead.