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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.

114 books

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.

This affirming address to Black children holds beauty, vulnerability, fear, and love in the same breath.

A girl sees the many ways the women in her family wear hijab and express beauty, work, and personality.

This adaptation introduces the Black women mathematicians whose work helped launch the space race.

Mae Jemison's childhood dream of space becomes a picture-book invitation to ambition and persistence.

Colors introduce parts of Muslim family and religious life through rich imagery and a simple conceptual frame.

This biography of Jean-Michel Basquiat connects Black creativity, art-making, and city energy from childhood on.

Poetic text and motion-filled art celebrate girls and women who own the basketball court.

This affirmation-rich picture book invites children to value themselves and still make room for one another.

Children working in a community garden introduce many kinds of disability, health, and difference through direct conversation.

With a chant-like rhythm, this book celebrates body diversity across size, skin, ability, scars, and movement.