1st Grade

Mae Jemison's love of science, dance, and possibility becomes a rhyming biography full of momentum and encouragement.

Luis Agassiz Fuertes and scientists of the deep help reveal a giant squid in a story that combines art, curiosity, and ocean research.

Katherine Johnson's life and mathematical brilliance become a lively story about persistence, numbers, and spaceflight.

Eugenie Clark's fascination with sharks becomes a picture-book invitation to scientific curiosity and marine research.

When Ravi's anger turns him into a tiger, he has to learn what feeling mad is trying to tell him and how repair can happen afterward.

The Pigeon does his best to avoid school in a comic monologue that captures first-day nerves from a child's-eye angle.

A small dinosaur with a wonderful picnic plan must learn how to soothe anxious thoughts before they spoil the day.

A school community models what it means to welcome differences while building a place where everyone belongs together.

As Chester Raccoon heads to school, his mother offers a ritual of reassurance that has comforted generations of children.

Llewellyn stores up feelings in jars until they cannot be contained, in a gentle story about naming and sharing emotion.