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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.

The Polar Bear and the Ballerina by Eric Velasquez

The Polar Bear and the Ballerina

Performance, imagination, and family encouragement come together in a graceful story about artistic longing and self-belief.

Sundust by Zeke Peña

Sundust

Sunlight, dust, and movement across the borderlands shape a visually bold story rooted in land, family, and cultural place.

Sparrow by Mary Tebo

Sparrow

The appearance of a bird opens into a reflective story about observation, neighborhood life, and the meaning people make around the natural world.

Alberto Salas Plays Paka Paka con la Papa: Join the Quest with Peru's Famed Scientist and Potato Expert by Sara Andrea Fajardo

Alberto Salas Plays Paka Paka con la Papa: Join the Quest with Peru's Famed Scientist and Potato Expert

Sara Andrea Fajardo

Juana Martinez-Neal

A lively portrait of potato expert Alberto Salas shows science, agriculture, and Peruvian food culture working together through curiosity and care.

We Go Slow by Maríahadessa Ekere Tallie

We Go Slow

Maríahadessa Ekere Tallie

A caregiver and child move gently through the world, finding calm, attention, and affection in a deliberately unhurried day.

Smiling Eyes by Linda Sue Park

Smiling Eyes

A celebration of faces, recognition, and affection invites children to see smiling eyes as a source of beauty, connection, and pride.

Nunu and the Sea by Isabella Kung

Nunu and the Sea

A seaside encounter opens into a contemplative story about curiosity, scale, and a child's relationship with the larger natural world.

How to Grow a Family Tree by Bea Birdsong

How to Grow a Family Tree

Children imagine family as something that can branch, graft, and keep growing in ways that honor both relation and change.

At the Window by Hope Lim

At the Window

Looking out from home becomes a way of observing change, neighborhood life, and the quiet emotional weather of family transition.

Made for More by Chloe Ito Ward

Made for More

A girl considers inherited expectations, self-worth, and possibility in a story about growing into a life bigger than what others assume.

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