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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.

This playful bilingual riff on a nursery rhyme follows Maria and her llama through a lively school day.

Children, families, and libraries celebrate books in a bilingual invitation to read together.

A boy runs through the city trying to catch the paletero before his neighborhood treat is gone.

A girl who left the Dominican Republic as a baby rebuilds the place through family and neighborhood stories.

During urban unrest, neighbors divided by prejudice discover shared fear, loss, and responsibility.

On a Harlem rooftop, a girl imagines herself flying over the city and claiming the world she deserves.

The story of Jovita Id?r, who challenged expectations and fought for justice when girls were told what they could wear or do.

Children imagine how music, kindness, and collective action can make change in the world around them.

A girl carries grief in her body and voice in a story about loss, silence, and the beginnings of expression.

The true story of a Harlem school garden that became a source of food, pride, and neighborhood change.