A Native American learns the importance of growing out his hair in Brave, a picture book by author-illustrator Weshoyot Alvitre.
Browsing: ages 5 & up
Learn about the first woman student at MIT—a pioneering environmental chemist — in The Girl Who Tested the Waters: Ellen Swallow, Environmental Scientist, by Patricia Daniele and Junyi Wu.
Learn the about the women who blazed a path forward for everyone The ABCs of Women’s History, by Rio Cortez and Lauren Semmer.
Learn the story of the first American woman to fly to space in I am Sally Ride, the 35th hero in the Ordinary People Change the World series by Brad Meltzer and Christopher Eliopoulos.
Black Artists Shaping the World, by Sharna Jackson and Marilyn Esther Chi, includes 14 stories of the lives and works of Black artists.
Learn about civil rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr. in You Are a Star, Martin Luther King, Jr., by Dean Robbins and Anastasia Magloire Williams.
Every year, Cracking the Cover compiles a list of books that make great additions to your holiday library. The following were published in 2024.
A boy travels back in time to fix his homework and chaos ensues in Brandon and the Totally Troublesome Time Machine, by Seth Fishman and Mark Fearing.
A boy forms a special bond with a panda bear in the forest near his village in The Panda’s Child, by Jackie Morris and Cathy Fisher.
A displaced family sets out to make a home in a new country in A Star Shines Through, a picture book by Anna Desnitskaya.