Learn about the lifecycle of a tree across decades in Mighty: The Story of an Oak Tree Ecosystem, by Henry Cole.
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Learn the story of how France’s Louvre Museum was redesigned and the architect who did it in The Glass Pyramid: A Story of the Louvre Museum and Architect I. M. Pei.
Follow the lifecycle of the monarch butterfly in a new picture book by Kirsten Hall, Isabelle Arsenault, authors of The Honeybee.
Little Heroes of Color, by David Heredia, introduces little ones to ten important heroes of color who have changed the world.
Shell Song, by Sharon Fujimoto-Johnson, tells the story of Japanese American incarceration in in Hawai’i during World War II.
Magic in a Drop of Water, by Julie Winterbottom and Susan Reagan, is a biography of scientist and environmental hero Ruth Patrick, one of the first to warn about the dangers of pollution.
Learn the story of how one woman used children’s books to help heal a generation of Germany’s children after WWII Jella Lepman and Her Library of Dreams.
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.