Explore curated collections of popular picture books, BIPOC picture books, and classic picture books
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Spanish picture books
Bilingual and Spanish-language reads for home, school, and gifts.
Award winners
Start with the books that already stand out for writing and illustration.
Books about friendship
Useful for read-alouds about kindness, empathy, and connection.
History picture books
Story-rich books that connect children to people, movements, and change.
Holiday books
Seasonal shelves for celebration, ritual, and family reading traditions.
Religious picture books
Faith-aware stories that make room for ritual, belief, and belonging.
New And Notable
Recent releases and fresh additions worth surfacing first.
A Black family searches for safety, dignity, and permanence in a historically grounded story about where belonging can be built.
Land, sound, and shared experience shape a story that invites young readers to notice ecology, culture, and connection together.
A Sikh girl far from India finds ways to honor Vaisakhi through family, memory, and new community rituals.
An Aboriginal family navigates floodwater, uncertainty, and care for one another in a story shaped by climate pressure and resilience.
A lively portrait of potato expert Alberto Salas shows science, agriculture, and Peruvian food culture working together through curiosity and care.
Spanish And Bilingual
Books for families looking for Spanish-language and bilingual reading.
Benita and her dog venture into the night to help fix a problem and discover a world full of glowing, helpful creatures.
A boy and his father travel from California to the border to visit the mother who has been deported to Mexico.
Mother Goose rhymes get remixed with Spanish vocabulary, playful rhythm, and bright family-centered scenes.
Joyful resistance, movement, and self-expression animate this celebration of children who refuse to shrink themselves or their imaginations.
A bilingual retelling of Little Red Riding Hood turns the familiar tale into a playful rhyme filled with Spanish vocabulary and comic timing.
School And Feelings
Useful classroom and family reads about friendship, emotions, and school transitions.
A Hmong American girl learns about change, grief, and tenderness in a neighborhood shaped by gardens, seasons, and care.
A Black boy moves through layered feelings about his neighborhood and the violence that surrounds it.
A newcomer from Venezuela learns that snow and friendship can open a new kind of joy.
A seasonal, sensory picture book about a child's bond with an abuelo and the bittersweet memory of Cuba.
Humpty Dumpty learns how to live after a fall that leaves him frightened of heights and change.
BIPOC Picture Books
Stories centered on BIPOC children, families, and communities.
A twist on the classic Stone Soup, the residents of an apartment building come together for a hot pot night. Everybody contributes, bringing their diverse community together for a delicious meal. Recipe for hot pot included!
A clever and engaging book about temper tantrums, dealing with emotions and learning to express and understand your feelings.
Thunder Boy Jr. is a charming and vibrant picture book by Sherman Alexie, illustrated by Yuyi Morales. This engaging children's book tells the story of a young Native American boy named Thunder Boy Jr. who wants to forge his own identity rather than live in the shadow of his father's legacy.
Max doesn't feel like talking, but he lets his sticks do the talking for him as he taps out the rhythms of all that he sees and hears.
A day-in-the-life picture book centered on a nonspeaking autistic child and his autistic mother.
Board Books And Early Reads
Sturdy, giftable, and younger-skewing books for babies, toddlers, and early readers.
A playful bedtime fable inspired by the Mid-Autumn Festival and the phases of the moon.
After a fire, a girl, her mother, and her grandmother save coins for one beautiful chair of their own.
A migration story that links a family's separation and reunion with the movement of monarch butterflies.
A granddaughter learns that memory, craft, and story can become an inheritance as meaningful as any object.
A warm intergenerational picture book about an abuela's visit, family memory, and staying connected across distance.
Classics
Long-loved picture books that still deserve prominent shelf space.
A girl and her grandmother imagine themselves flying over New York City while speaking English and Spanish together.
A baby bird's repetitive search for his mother makes for one of the sturdiest early-childhood read-alouds around.
A spare, warm classic captures the sounds, motions, and pleasures of a baby's day with family.
A berry-picking trip turns into a gentle comic mix-up between a little girl, a little bear, and their mothers.
Frances insists on eating only bread and jam until monotony teaches her what variety can mean.