1st Grade

Children communicate in many ways, and this affirming picture book centers disability, access, and connection without flattening anyone's experience.

A Cinderella retelling rooted in the Underground Railroad reframes bravery, escape, and hope through a Black historical lens.

History, survival, and sacred relationship shape this account of the buffalo's central place in Indigenous life and renewal.

Mae Jemison's childhood imagination and scientific ambition come together in a picture-book biography about looking upward and reaching farther.

A Black family searches for safety, dignity, and permanence in a historically grounded story about where belonging can be built.

Night sounds and close observation guide a child through darkness, wonder, and the reassurance of shared experience.

Drawing instruction and close looking become a playful invitation to notice the individuality, structure, and life of trees.

Water, movement, and memory shape a visually driven story about displacement, safety, and the meaning of carrying home with you.

A meditation on what makes a home stretches from one family's shelter to a wider network of care, memory, and place.

Land, sound, and shared experience shape a story that invites young readers to notice ecology, culture, and connection together.