This Women’s History Month, discover the stories of some extraordinary women who helped change the world for the better with these picture books.
Browsing: Celebrating Diversity
Learn the story of a cellist whose love of music and nature amazed the world in Beatrice and the Nightingale, by Patricia Newman and Isabelle Follath.
Learn about the woman who mapped Earth’s address in the universe in Galaxy Mapper: The Luminous Discoveries of Astrophysicist Hélène Courtois by Allie Summers and Sian James.
Learn the story behind the storyteller in The True Ugly Duckling: How Hans Christian Andersen Became a Swan, by Sandra Nickel and Calvin Nicholls.
Copland: A Story About America, by Veronica Mang, is a story about music and taking risks and being part of something bigger than yourself.
Black experience in America includes deep roots in African American history, culture, and achievements. The following books celebrate different aspects of that experience.
Learn about a major contributor to 19th-century paleontology in Mary Morland in the Time of Dinosaur Discovery, by Jane Kurtz and Giselle Potter.
A boy learns how much work raising a pet is in Leo’s Lobo, a picture book by Melissa Cristina Márquez and Maria Gabriela Gama.
Delve into influential author Judy Blume’s childhood in Otherwise Known as Judy the Great: A Poetic Ode to Judy Blume, by Selina Alko.
A Chinese American girl struggles to be herself against the backdrop of expectations in Goodbye, French Fry, by Rin-Rin Yu.