Learn the story behind the storyteller in The True Ugly Duckling: How Hans Christian Andersen Became a Swan, by Sandra Nickel and Calvin Nicholls.
Browsing: Celebrating Diversity
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.
A group of puzzle–solving friends races to find a powerful ring before their rivals can use it for dark magic in The Wish Ring Cipher, by Alexandra Ott.
Explore the wonders of the universe in Through the Telescope, a poetic ode to trailblazing astronaut Mae Jemison, from Charles R. Smith, Jr. and Evening Monteiro.
Feminist organizer Gloria Steinem and Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee share their parallel journeys as activists in Rise, Girl, Rise.