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Culture and Race

Explore picture books about culture, race, heritage, and identity, with a focus on books that help children see more of the world and themselves. This collection brings together diverse picture books that support read-alouds, classroom conversations, and family reading around belonging, representation, and community.

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Culture and Race

Explore picture books about culture, race, heritage, and identity, with a focus on books that help children see more of the world and themselves. This collection brings together diverse picture books that support read-alouds, classroom conversations, and family reading around belonging, representation, and community.

Dark Nights and Light Hearts: A Muslim Book of Opposites by Hena Khan

Dark Nights and Light Hearts: A Muslim Book of Opposites

Mehrdokht Amini

A lyrical opposites book rooted in Muslim family and community life turns everyday rituals into a warm introduction to faith-inflected experience.

Afloat by Kirli Saunders

Afloat

Freya Blackwood

An Aboriginal family navigates floodwater, uncertainty, and care for one another in a story shaped by climate pressure and resilience.

Ron's Big Mission by Rose Blue

Ron's Big Mission

Rose Blue; Corinne J. Naden

Young Ron McNair challenges segregated library rules in a story of courage, books, and civil rights.

Mi papá es un agrícola / My Father, the Farmworker by J. Roman Pérez Varela

Mi papá es un agrícola / My Father, the Farmworker

J. Roman Pérez Varela

José B. Ramírez

A bilingual tribute to a farmworker father that centers labor, sacrifice, and family pride.

My Tata's Remedies by Roni Capin Rivera-Ashford

My Tata's Remedies

Roni Capin Rivera-Ashford

Antonio Castro L.

A granddaughter learns the stories and care practices behind her grandfather's home remedies.

Every Peach Is a Story by David Mas Masumoto; Nikiko Masumoto

Every Peach Is a Story

David Mas Masumoto; Nikiko Masumoto

A Japanese American family tends peaches and remembers the generations, labor, and land that made the orchard possible.

The Most Beautiful Thing by Kao Kalia Yang

The Most Beautiful Thing

A Hmong American girl learns how beauty, language, and family pride can look different across generations.

Amy Wu and the Patchwork Dragon by Kat Zhang

Amy Wu and the Patchwork Dragon

Amy brings creativity and family collaboration to a Lunar New Year dragon costume project.

Amy Wu and the Perfect Bao by Kat Zhang

Amy Wu and the Perfect Bao

Amy wants to make bao that look as perfect as everyone else's, but practice brings her somewhere better.

The King of Kindergarten by Derrick Barnes

The King of Kindergarten

Vanessa Brantley-Newton

A Black boy heads into kindergarten feeling regal, loved, and ready for his first big school adventure.

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