The Parent Advisory Council (PAC) Equity Committee has created a Diverse Book List, geared toward consistently representing all students in an equitable and inclusive way. The book list is extensive and broken down into curriculum units that are often seen in the Co-op classrooms. From Dinosaurs to Friendship, Outer Space to Families, you are sure to find some excellent ideas for reading aloud with your children.
The list has over 550 books and counting! So the best way to find what you’re looking for is by using the search bar on the right above the table. It allows you to search in all of the columns. Clicking on the column title also allows you to sort by that column. To help you narrow your search, here are the options for Areas of Diversity and Subject Areas used in the list:
Areas of Diversity: Race, Ability, Neurodiversity, LGBTQIA+, Religion, Culture, Socioeconomic, Body Type, Family Make-up, Nationality, Language, Age, Refugees, Gender Roles, Gender Identity, and Gender Expression
Subject Areas: Emotions, Friendship, Family, New Baby, Neighborhood/Community, Home, Travel, Food, Bodies, Colors, Shapes, Counting, Alphabet, Opposites, Marine Life, Insects, Land Animals, Birds, Pets, Dinosaurs, Geology, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, Seasons, Celebrations, Music, Dance, Visual Art, Outer Space, Sports, Transportation, Construction, Firefighters, Plants/Gardening, Textiles/Clothing, School, Bullying, Books/Library, Writing/Poetry, Self Pride, Babies, World, Communication, and History
| Title | Author | Illustrator | Subject Areas | Age | Book_Description | Areas of Diversity | # of Pages | Language | Seattle Public Library Link | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| You Were the First | Patricia MacLachlan | Stephanie Graegin | New Baby | 2+ | A loving ode to every child’s firsts shown by a biracial family. | Race, Family Make-up | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2926301 | |
| Welcome, Baby! Keeping You Safe | Susan Kathleen Hartung | Susan Kathleen Hartung | Babies | All | Sweet words about playing with baby also give tips for safe sleep. Board book only. | Race | 18 | English | none | |
| A Kiss Means I Love You | Kathryn Madeline Allen | Eric Futran | Emotions | All | Photos show the many ways kids communicate with facial expressions. | Race | 16 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2841652 | |
| Peekaboo Morning | Rachel Isadora | Rachel Isadora | Babies | All | A very simple book about a boy playing peekaboo with everyone around him. | Race | 24 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2131835 | |
| I Am a Baby | Kathryn Madeline Allen | Revecca Gizicki | Babies | All | Photos of happy babies and words that encourage. | Race | 22 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3215454 | |
| The Magical Snowflake | Bernette Ford | Erin K. Robinson | Winter | 3+ | A magical snowflake welcomes winter by leading a group of kids on an adventure through town. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3922092 | |
| Gathering the Sun | Alma Flor Ada | Simon Silva | Alphabet, Plants/Gardening | 4+ | Beautiful illustrations of farming life accompany this Spanish alphabet with a poem for each letter. English translation included. | Race, Nationality, Culture, Language, Socioeconomic | 40 | Spanish, English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C1750784 | |
| My Name | Supriya Kelkar | Sandhya Prabhat | School, Self Pride | 3+ | When an Indian American boy starts at a new school, the kids mispronounce his name. His parents show him to be proud of where his name and he comes from. | Race, Nationality, Culture, Language | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3902730 | |
| Niko Draws a Feeling | Bob Raczka | Simone Shin | Emotions, Visual Art | 4+ | Most people don't understand Niko's drawings of the feelings he gets from the world, but he finds a friend who does. | Race, Neurodivergence | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3255739 | |
| Littles and How they Grow | Kelly DiPucchio | AG Ford | Babies | All | An adorable love song to babies and how quickly they grow up. | Race, Family Make-up | 26 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3275042 | |
| Please, Baby, Please | Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee | Kadir Nelson | Babies | All | A girl gets into mischief throughout the day. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2154223 | |
| Show Me Happy | Kathryn Madeline Allen | Eric Futran | Emotions, Communication | All | In lively photos, real kids show simple actions and concepts that all children learn as they start to socialize and communicate. | Race | 16 | English | none | |
| I Like Myself | Karen Beaumont | David Catrow | Self Pride | All | This girl knows how to celebrate what makes her great. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2243079 | |
| Whose Toes Are Those? | Jabari Asim | LeUyen Pham | Bodies | All | A fun rhyming board book about toes. | Race | 20 | English | none | |
| Up! How Families Around the World Carry Their Little Ones | Susan Hughes | Ashley Barron | Babies, Family | All | This great read-aloud celebrates how babies are carried around the world. | Race, Nationality, Culture, Family Make-Up | 24 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3264000 | |
| All the World | Liz Garton Scanlon | Marla Frazee | World, Neighborhood/Community | All | All the world is all of us, showing people help each other in their community. | Race, Family Make-Up | 44 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2605499 | |
| Little You (Kîya-k'apisîsisîyân) | Richard Van Camp | Julie Flett | Babies | All | A sweet rhyme about babies with beautiful illustrations. Board book only. | Race, Language, Culture | 24 | Cree, English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3421847 | |
| What a Wonderful World | Bob Thiele and George David Weiss | Tim Hopgood | World | All | The song by Louis Armstrong with cute illustrations. | Race | 28 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3069014 | |
| Say Hello! | Linda Davick | Every kid says, “I love being me” as they display their fresh hairstyle, from fab fro to lovely locs. | Communication, Community | All | Illustrations and rhyming text reveal that "hello" can be said many ways, from a handshake to a dance of happiness. | Race | 40 | English | none | |
| Little Bitty Friends | Elizabeth McPike | Patrice Barton | Land Animals | All | Young children form special bonds with nature. The illustrations and rhymes are adorable. Great read-aloud. | Race | 28 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3153512 | |
| I Can Do It Too | Karen Baicker | Ken Wilson-Max | Self Pride | All | A girl shows all the things she can do that her older family members can do. | Race | 18 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2995077 | |
| More, More, More Said the Baby | Vera B Williams | Vera B Williams | Babies | All | A classic tribute to babies and the adults who love them. | Race | 34 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C580168 | |
| It’s Okay to Be Different | Todd Parr | Todd Parr | Self Pride | All | A reassuring book about being who you are. | Ability, Family Make-Up | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2079893 | |
| I Am Enough | Grace Byers | Keturah A. Bobo | Self Pride | 2+ | An inspiring lyrical ode to loving who you are, respecting others, and being kind to one another. | Race, Body Type | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3343050 | |
| Every Little Thing | Cedella Marley and Bob Marley | Vanessa Brantley-Newton | Emotions | 2+ | The story of a boy who won’t let anything get him down, especially with the help and encouragement from his family, friends, and three little birds. | Race | 24 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2845844 | |
| Little Humans | Brandon Stanton | Brandon Stanton | Neighborhood/Community | 2+ | The author of the Humans of New York blog combines his favorite children’s photos with a heartwarming ode to little humans everywhere. | Race, Ability, Socioeconomic, Culture | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3037724 | |
| Lullaby (For a Black Mother) | Langston Hughes | Sean Qualls | Babies, Family, Poetry | 2+ | Sean Qualls adds gorgeous illustrations to this classic poem about a mother’s love for her baby. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2874091 | |
| Julian is a Mermaid | Jessica Love | Jessica Love | Community, Self Pride | 2+ | Julian wants to be a mermaid, but what will his abuela think? Gorgeous illustrations show Julian’s imagination and celebrate his individuality. | Race, Culture, Gender Expression, LGBTQIA+, Family Make-Up, Language | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3364719 | |
| Hello! Good-bye! | Aliki | Aliki | Communication, Community | 2+ | Aliki shows that these simple words are full of possibilities. | Race | 32 | English | none | |
| I am Brown | Ashok Banker | Sandhya Prabhat | Self Pride | 3+ | A joyful celebration of kids with brown skin and all their diversity. | Race | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3523068 | |
| What’s the Difference? Being Different is Amazing | Doyin Richards | Doyin Richards | Friendship | 4+ | The topics of diversity and acceptance within friendship are distilled for young readers. | Race, Culture, Ability | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3305744 | |
| Who Am I? I Am Me! | Jayneen Sanders | Diane Ewen | Self Pride | 4+ | Frankie talks about all the things they love to do and there are no boundaries or gendered rolls to limit what Frankie does. | Gender Expression, Gender Identity, Gender Roles | 42 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3449890 | |
| Outside, Inside | LeUyen Pham | LeUyen Pham | Community | 4+ | A heartfelt book about the early days of the worldwide Covid-19 lockdown, this book makes the story accessible and engaging for young kids, celebrating resilience, community, and the ways people supported each other. | Race, Culture, Socioeconomic | 48 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3627860 | |
| My Heart Fills With Happiness | Monique Gray Smith | Julie Flett | Emotions | All | Board book showing a present day Indigenous family talking about the things that make them happy. | Race, Culture, Language | 24 | Cree, English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3858224 | |
| The Rabbit Listened | Cori Doerrfeld | Cori Doerrfeld | Emotions | 2+ | When Taylor’s amazing tower is knocked over, no one seems to know how to help him through his feelings until the rabbit just sits with him and listens. | Race | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3337930 | |
| Susan Laughs | Jeanne Willis | Tony Ross | Emotions | 2+ | Susan, who uses a wheelchair, does many things and feels many emotions. | Ability | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3428534 | |
| Big Feelings | Alexandra Penfold | Suzanne Kaufman | Emotions, Friendship | 3+ | We may feel mad, frustrated, or overwhelmed when things don’t go according to plan, but this book gives great ideas for working through it with friends. | Race, Ability, Religion | 42 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3664288 | |
| The Amazing Erik | Mike Huber | Joseph Cowman | Emotions, Friendship | 3+ | Erik feels sad when his sleeves get wet at the water table. A friend helps him feel happy again. | Neurodiversity, Race | 32 | English | none | |
| Yesterday I Had the Blues | Jeron Ashford Frame | R. Gregory Christie | Emotions, Family | 3+ | This family feels a whole rainbow of colors from the “wish it was tomorrow blues” to the “glitter on her cheeks pinks.” | Race, Culture | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2224896 | |
| There Might Be Lobsters | Carolyn Crimi | Laurel Molk | Emotions | 3+ | Eleanor’s dog, Sukie, is scared of many things on the beach, but when her toy monkey is in danger, she becomes “braver than the bravest dog.” | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3270041 | |
| Love | Matt de la Peña | Loren Long | Emotions, Family, Community | 3+ | From the author of Last Stop on Market Street comes a beautiful description of how love shows up in children’s lives. | Race, Culture | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3330515 | |
| Off & Away | Cale Atkinson | Cale Atkinson | Emotions | 3+ | Jo faces her fears in order to do her dad’s deliveries when he’s sick. A wondrous land of sea creatures awaits her. | Race, Family Make-Up | 48 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3375435 | |
| Why is Jane so Mad? | Jeffrey Cheetham II | Ebony Glenn | Emotions, Friendship | 3+ | Chad tries to cheer up his friend Jane, but Jane is not interested until someone else comes along. | Race | 30 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3254240 | |
| Ruby Finds a Worry | Tom Percival | Tom Percival | Emotions, Friendship | 3+ | The worry that starts following Ruby around keeps getting bigger and bigger, until she discovers a boy with his own worry and they talk about it. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3465401 | |
| Ravi’s Roar | Tom Percival | Tom Percival | Emotions | 3+ | Ravi turns into a tiger when he’s having a really bad day. It’s great at first, but not everyone loves it. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3510726 | |
| Calvin | JR and Vanessa Ford | Kayla Harren | Emotions, School | 4+ | Calvin bravely faces scary things like telling his parents that he’s a boy and starting the school year with his new name and pronouns by breathing and counting down from 5. He’s surprised by how supportive everyone is with his transition. | Race, Gender Identity, LGBTQIA+ | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3724142 | |
| Happy Right Now | Julie Berry | Holly Hatam | Emotions | 4+ | It’s easy to want to wait until things are exactly perfect to be happy, but this girl shows how to be happy in the moment and embrace things as they are. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3494746 | |
| Anh’s Anger | Gail Silver | Christianne Kromer | Emotions | 4+ | Anh models how to sit with his anger at his grandfather. He finds that when he takes care of it, it goes away. | Race, Culture, Family Make-Up | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2622633 | |
| Steps and Stones: An Anh's Anger Story | Gail Silver | Christianne Kromer | Emotions | 4+ | In this sequel to Anh’s Anger, his anger is back on the playground and he walks with it. | Race, Culture | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2743179 | |
| Proud (Dealing with Feeling...) | Isabel Thomas | Clare Elsom | Emotions | 4+ | Happy, Angry, Sad, Worried, Proud, Jealous, Caring, and Shy all show healthy ways of understanding and managing emotions, as modeled by diverse children. | Race | 24 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2980230 | |
| Worried (Dealing with Feeling...) | Isabel Thomas | Clare Elsom | Emotions | 4+ | Happy, Angry, Sad, Worried, Proud, Jealous, Caring, and Shy all show healthy ways of understanding and managing emotions, as modeled by diverse children. | Race | 24 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2980842 | |
| Jealous (Dealing with Feeling...) | Isabel Thomas | Clare Elsom | Emotions | 4+ | Happy, Angry, Sad, Worried, Proud, Jealous, Caring, and Shy all show healthy ways of understanding and managing emotions, as modeled by diverse children. | Race | 24 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2980231 | |
| Angry (Dealing with Feeling...) | Isabel Thomas | Clare Elsom | Emotions | 4+ | Happy, Angry, Sad, Worried, Proud, Jealous, Caring, and Shy all show healthy ways of understanding and managing emotions, as modeled by diverse children. | Race | 24 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2980843 | |
| Shy (Dealing with Feeling...) | Isabel Thomas | Clare Elsom | Emotions | 4+ | Happy, Angry, Sad, Worried, Proud, Jealous, Caring, and Shy all show healthy ways of understanding and managing emotions, as modeled by diverse children. | Race | 24 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2980232 | |
| Happy (Dealing with Feeling...) | Isabel Thomas | Clare Elsom | Emotions | 4+ | Happy, Angry, Sad, Worried, Proud, Jealous, Caring, and Shy all show healthy ways of understanding and managing emotions, as modeled by diverse children. | Race | 24 | English | none | |
| Sad (Dealing with Feeling...) | Isabel Thomas | Clare Elsom | Emotions | 4+ | Happy, Angry, Sad, Worried, Proud, Jealous, Caring, and Shy all show healthy ways of understanding and managing emotions, as modeled by diverse children. | Race | 24 | English | none | |
| Caring (Dealing with Feeling...) | Isabel Thomas | Clare Elsom | Emotions | 4+ | Happy, Angry, Sad, Worried, Proud, Jealous, Caring, and Shy all show healthy ways of understanding and managing emotions, as modeled by diverse children. | Race | 24 | English | none | |
| Not ‘Til Tomorrow, Phoebe | Julie Zwillich | Denise Holmes | Emotions | 4+ | Phoebe is very frustrated that people keep telling her to wait until tomorrow. Her grandmother gives her a new perspective that helps her feel better. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3358824 | |
| All Kinds of Friends | Sheila Kelly | Shelley Rotner | Friendship | 2+ | Photos of friends and the things they like to do together. | Race, Ability | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3556734 | |
| Bree Finds a Friend | Mike Huber | Joseph Cowman | Friendship | 2+ | Bree digs alone in the school yard when she finds a worm and a new friend joins her. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3015114 | |
| Yo! Yes? | Chris Raschka | Chris Raschka | Friendship | 2+ | Simple words and illustrations introduce how to make a friend. | Race, Culture | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3309922 | |
| You Hold Me Up | Monique Gray Smith | Danielle Daniel | Friendship | 2+ | Encourages children to show each other love and support. Features present day Indigenous people. Available in Ojibwa or Cree with English edition. | Race, Culture, Language | 32 | Cree, Ojibwa, English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3479330 | |
| My Friend Isabelle | Eliza Woloson | Bryan Gough | Friendship | 2+ | Charlie describes playing with his friend Isabelle, who has Down syndrome. | Ability | 28 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3312207 | |
| What Riley Wore | Elana K. Arnold | Linda Davick | Friendship, Clothing | 2+ | Riley wears everything from ball gowns to police officer jackets to bunny costumes. When a kid asks Riley whether they are a boy or a girl, Riley’s non-specific answer doesn’t affect their budding friendship. | Gender Expression, LGBTQIA+ | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3465417 | |
| Benny Doesn’t Like to Be Hugged | Zetta Elliott | Purple Wong | Friendship | 2+ | A girl uses rhyming verse to describe the unique traits of her autistic friend, Benny. | Ability, Neurodiversity | 42 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3337945 | |
| Jenny Mei Is Sad | Tracy Subisak | Tracy Subisak | Friendship, Emotions | 3+ | A girl models how to be a good friend to someone who is struggling by being there for her through everything. | Race | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3684244 | |
| A Friend for Henry | Jenn Bailey | Mika Song | Friendship | 3+ | A heartfelt story from the perspective of an autistic boy celebrates the everyday magic of finding a first friend. | Neurodiversity, Race | 36 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3435052 | |
| A Hat for Mrs. Goldman | Michelle Edwards | G. Brian Karas | Friendship, Clothing | 3+ | Mrs. Goldman knits hats for everyone else, so when Sophia notices that Mrs. Goldman’s head is cold, she decides to make her first hat. | Race, Religion, Age | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3213547 | |
| Introducing Teddy | Jessica Walton | Dougal MacPherson | Friendship | 3+ | This gentle story about gender and friendship is a sweet, accessible book to help the youngest readers understand gender identity and being an accepting friend. | Gender Identity, LGBTQIA+ | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3191134 | |
| Yaffa and Fatima; Shalom, Salaam | Fawzia Gilani-Williams | Chiara Fedele | Friendship | 3+ | Two friends, one Jewish and one Muslim fall on hard times. Can they find a way to help each other? | Religion, Culture | 24 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3264006 | |
| Sign Up Here: A story about friendship | Kathryn Cole | Qin Leng | Friendship, Bullying, School | 4+ | Dee-Dee is frustrated when all of her friends exclude her from their clubs, so she comes up with her own club that shows what friendship really is. | Race, Ability, Religion | 24 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3179999 | |
| My Two Blankets | Irena Kobald | Freya Blackwood | Friendship, Textiles | 4+ | A girl from Sudan struggles with loneliness in her new home as a refugee until she makes a friend at the park. | Race, Nationality, Culture | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3122928 | |
| My Three Best Friends and Me, Zulay | Cari Best | Vanessa Brantley-Newton | Friendship, School | 4+ | Zulay is a blind first grader who helps her friends at school and runs a race on field day. | Ability, Race | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3054283 | |
| Mrs. Katz and Tush | Patricia Polacco | Patricia Polacco | Friendship, Pets | 4+ | Larnel makes friends with his neighbor, Mrs. Katz, and brings her a kitten. They bond over finding Tush when she’s lost and over Passover dinner. | Religion, Culture, Race, Age | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C1260247 | |
| Maddi’s Fridge | Lois Brandt | Vin Vogel | Friendship, Food | 4+ | When Sofia discovers that Maddi’s family doesn’t have money to buy healthy food, she struggles with how best to help her friend. | Socioeconomic | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3042116 | |
| Four Feet, Two Sandals | Karen Lynn Williams & Khadra Mohammed | Doug Chayka | Friendship | 4+ | Two girls at a refugee camp in Pakistan become friends while sharing one pair of sandals between them. | Socioeconomic, Culture, Nationality, Religion, Refugees | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2496612 | |
| Someone New | Anne Sibley O’Brien | Anne Sibley O'Brien | Friendship, School | 4+ | Even though the new kids seem so different, Jesse, Jason, and Emma find ways to be their friends. | Race, Religion, Culture, Nationality | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3385707 | |
| The Girls | Lauren Ace | Jenny Løvlie | Friendship | 4+ | These four best friends navigate challenges and fun times together as they grow up along with their favorite apple tree. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3449644 | |
| When Charley Met Emma | Amy Webb | Merrilee Liddiard | Friendship | 4+ | When Charley goes to the playground and sees Emma, a girl with limb differences who uses a wheelchair, he doesn’t know how to react. But after they start talking, they quickly become friends. | Ability | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3450305 | |
| It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity | Theresa Thorn | Noah Grigni | Friendship, Self Pride | 4+ | This sweet, straightforward exploration of gender identity in a group of friends will give children a fuller understanding of themselves and others. | Gender Expression, Gender Identity, Ability, Race, LGBTQIA+ | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3445087 | |
| Families | Shelley Rotner | Sheila M. Kelly | Family | 2+ | Through photos and brief prose, the author shows the diversity of families. | Race, Family Make-Up, Culture | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3084697 | |
| The Family Book | Todd Parr | Todd Parr | Family | 2+ | Celebrate the many different types of families with this simple book. | Family Make-Up | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2217924 | |
| Mama Zooms | Jane Cowen-Fletcher | Jane Cowen-Fletcher | Family | 2+ | A boy's wonderful mama takes him zooming everywhere with her, because her wheelchair is a zooming machine. | Ability | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C1300715 | |
| A Family is a Family is a Family | Sara O’Leary | Qin Leng | Family | 2+ | A foster child doesn’t want to talk about her family at school because she worries it’s too different. Once she hears about how different everyone’s family is, she opens up. | Race, Family Make-Up, LGBTQIA+ | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3207280 | |
| Henry Wants More! | Linda Ashman | Brooke Boynton Hughes | Family | 2+ | Henry exhausts his multiracial family as he wants to do everything more and again. | Race, Family Make-Up | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3138995 | |
| My New Mom and Me | Renata Galindo | Renata Galindo | Family | 2+ | A sweet story about a cat mom and a dog child who are learning how to be a family. | Family Make-Up | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?query=My%20New%20Mom%20and%20Me&searchType=smart | |
| All Families Are Special | Norma Simon | Teresa Flavin | Family, School | 2+ | A class talks about how each of their families is different. | Race, Family Make-Up | 32 | English | none | |
| I Wonder: Celebrating Daddies Doin’ Work | Doyin Richards | Doyin Richards | Family | 3+ | Fun photos show diverse fathers taking care of their kids. | Race, Family Make-Up | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3173399 | |
| We Are Family | Patricia Hegarty | Ryan Wheatcroft | Family | 3+ | This book celebrates the diversity of family through shared experiences. | Race, Family Make-Up, Ability, Culture, LGBTQIA+ | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3246890 | |
| Heather Has Two Mommies | Leslea Newman | Laura Cornell | Family | 3+ | Heather starts preschool and wonders if anyone else has a family like hers. | Family Make-Up, LGBTQIA+ | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3077232 | |
| Stella Brings the Family | Miriam B. Schiffer | Holly Clifton-Brown | Family, School | 3+ | Stella doesn’t know what to do about her school’s Mother’s Day celebration because she has two dads, but her friends help her find a solution. | Family Make-Up, LGBTQIA+ | 36 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3091758 | |
| Thunder Boy Jr. | Sherman Alexie | Yuyi Morales | Family | 3+ | A boy who is named after his father wants a name that’s all his own, so he tries to come up with his own, then his father solves everything. | Race, Family Make-Up, Culture | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3162209 | |
| Max and the Tag-Along Moon | Floyd Cooper | Floyd Cooper | Family, Outer Space | 3+ | The moon follows Max on his trip home, so it always reminds him of his grandfather, who told him it would always shine for him. | Race, Age | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2900050 | |
| Me and My Family Tree | Me and My Family Tree | Emma Trithart | Family | 3+ | An ungendered kid explores the people who make up their multiracial family and how they all fit on their family tree. | Race, Family Make-Up, Gender Identity, LGBTQIA+ | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3422407 | |
| My Abuelita | Tony Johnston | Yuyi Morales | Family | 3+ | Eye popping illustrations show a boy helping his grandmother get ready for work. What could Abuelita’s job be? | Race, Culture, Age, Language | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2606789 | |
| The Ring Bearer | Floyd Cooper | Floyd Cooper | Family | 3+ | Jackson’s mama is getting married, but he’s worried about being ring bearer and having a new dad and sister. | Race, Family Make-Up | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3255746 | |
| Real Sisters Pretend | Megan Dowd Lambert | Nicole Tadgell | Family | 3+ | As they play, Mia and Tayja confirm that there’s one thing they don’t have to pretend: they are real sisters even though they don’t look alike and are adopted. | Race, Family Make-Up | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3173445 | |
| Alma and How She Got Her Name | Juana Martinez-Neal | Juana Martinez-Neal | Family | 3+ | Daddy tells Alma the story of how she got her many names from different members of the family. | Race, Culture | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3356827 | |
| My Mommy Medicine | Edwidge Danticat | Shannon Wright | Family | 3+ | A girl describes everything her mother does with her when she’s sick. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3428484 | |
| A Gift from Abuela | Cecilia Ruiz | Cecilia Ruiz | Family | 3+ | A Mexican girl loves spending time with her grandmother, but when a gift idea doesn’t work, they discover the best gift is simply time together. | Race, Age, Culture, Language | 38 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3385686 | |
| Mommy Sayang | Rosana Sullivan | Rosana Sullivan | Family | 3+ | Aleeya wants to always be by her mother’s side in their Malaysian village, but when Mommy sayang becomes ill, Aleeya needs to think of a new way to do things. | Race, Culture, Religion, Nationality, Language | 48 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3439459 | |
| Under My Hijab | Hena Khan | Aaliya Jaleel | Family, Clothing | 3+ | As a young girl observes the women in her life and how each covers her hair a different way, she dreams of how she might express her personality through her hijab. | Race, Culture, Religion | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3425623 | |
| Abuelo | Arthur Dorros | Raúl Colón | Family | 4+ | After moving to the city, a boy remembers the wonderful times he had with his grandfather in the country. Some spanish words. | Race, Culture, Language | 32 | Spanish, English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2987621 | |
| Just Like a Mama | Alice Faye Duncan | Charnelle Pinkney Barlow | Family | 4+ | Carol’s parents live far away and she wishes they were together, but for now she lives with Mama Rose, who is just like a mama to her. | Race, Family Make-Up | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3516337 | |
| Pitching in for Eubie | Jerdine Nolan | E B Lewis | Family | 4+ | Lily tries to find a way to make money to help her sister pay for college. | Race, Socioeconomic | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?query=Pitching%20in%20for%20Eubie&searchType=smart | |
| Mama and Me | Rudy Gutierrez | Rudy Gutierrez | Family | 4+ | For a bilingual girl and her mama, a loving bond is about being together and being independent as they get ready for a Mother’s Day surprise. Some Spanish. | Race, Culture, Language | 32 | Spanish, English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2708900 | |
| Red Kite, Blue Kite | Greg Ruth | Greg Ruth | Family | 4+ | Tai Shan loves to fly kites with his father, but when his father has to leave for a labor camp they find a way to communicate even though they don’t get to see each other. | Race, Culture, Nationality, Socioeconomic, Family Make-Up | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2857475 | |
| Felicia’s Favorite Story | Leslea Newman | Adriana Romo | Family | 4+ | Felicia loves to hear the story of how her two moms adopted her from Guatemala. | Race, Family Make-Up, LGBTQIA+ | 24 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2191774 | |
| In My Family/En Mi Familia | Carmen Lomas Garza | Carmen Lomas Garza | Family, World | 4+ | Paintings show the artist’s life growing up in Mexico. Text in English and Spanish. | Race, Nationality, Culture, Language | 32 | Spanish, English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3286234 | |
| These Hands | Margaret H. Mason | Floyd Cooper | Famiy, History | 4+ | Joseph’s grandpa could do almost anything with his hands, but there used to be things they weren’t allowed to do because of racial discrimination. Joseph learns how his grandfather stood up so that Joseph’s hands would be allowed to do anything. | Race, Age | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2703956 | |
| Still a Family | Brenda Reeves Sturgis | Jo-Shin Lee | Family, Community | 4+ | How do you have family time when you’re homeless? A young girl and her parents take time to play, walk, and eat together, even though her father has to sleep in a separate shelter. | Socioeconomic | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3236710 | |
| Leila in Saffron | Rukhsanna Guidroz | Dinara Mirtalipova | Family | 4+ | At a family dinner at her grandmother’s house, Leila looks for parts of herself that she likes while her family helps her see them. | Race, Culture, Nationality, Age | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3455722 | |
| My Grandma and Me | Mina Javaherbin | Lindsey Yankey | Family, World | 4+ | The author describes her childhood in Iran with her beloved grandmother and the fun things they did together. | Race, Culture, Nationality, Age | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3466741 | |
| Lola Reads to Leo | Anna McQuinn | Rosalind Beardshaw | New Baby | 2+ | When Lola learns that her mother is having a baby, she helps prepare and learns how to help her parents after he is born. | Race | 28 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2756570 | |
| 15 Things NOT to Do with a Baby | Margaret McAllister | Holly Sterling | New Baby | 2+ | This funny book gives kids rules for taking care of a new baby in the house. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3296263 | |
| The New Small Person | Lauren Child | Lauren Child | New Baby | 3+ | Elmore Green isn’t happy about the new baby getting the attention he usually gets, but he realizes there are good things about having a little brother too. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3060589 | |
| What’s In There? All About Before You Were Born | Robie H. Harris | Nadine Bernard Westcott | New Baby | 4+ | Gus and Nellie learn about the stages of development as their new sibling grows inside their mother and is born. Multiracial family. | Race, Family Make-Up | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2939698 | |
| Just Right Family: An Adoption Story | Silvia Lopez | Ziyue Chen | New Baby | 4+ | Meili loves the story of her parents adopting her, but she’s not happy about her parents adopting another baby. She thinks her family is just right as it is. | Race, Family Make-Up | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3356842 | |
| Pecan Pie Baby | Jacqueline Woodson | Sophie Blackall | New Baby | 4+ | Gia isn’t happy about her mother having a baby, but Mama soothes her worries. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2673931 | |
| A Most Unusual Day | Sydra Mallery | E. B. Goodale | New Baby | 4+ | Everything seems to be different today for Caroline, but the biggest difference is her new baby sister who greets her after school. Multiracial family. | Race, Family Make-Up | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3369439 | |
| When Aidan Became a Brother | Kyle Lukoff | Kaylani Juanita | New Baby | 4+ | As a transgender boy, Aidan feels extra pressure to get everything right about becoming a big brother. He learns that love is the most important thing of all. | Race, Gender Identity, LGBTQIA+ | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3447449 | |
| Counting on Community | Innosanto Nagara | Innosanto Nagara | Neighborhood/Community | All | Count the ways that people help each other in a community in this board book. | Race | 24 | English | none | |
| One Love | Cedella Marley and Bob Marley | Vanessa Brantley-Newton | Neighborhood/Community | All | A group of neighbors works together to beautify a local park, with poetry based on the Bob Marley song. | Race | 24 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2845868 | |
| I See and See | Ted Lewin | Ted Lewin | Senses, Neighborhood/Community | All | A boy names things that he sees in his neighborhood. Beautiful illustrations. Beginning Reader. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3133257 | |
| Whose Hands Are These?: A Community Helper Guessing Book | Miranda Paul | Luciana Navarro Powell | Neighborhood/Community | 2+ | Illustrations of diverse hands show helpful work done by adults in our community. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3160269 | |
| A Sock is a Pocket for Your Toes | Elizabeth Garton Scanlon | Robin Preiss Glasser | World, Clothing | 2+ | Follow four families through a busy day exploring the surprising ins and outs of the world’s pockets. | Race, Nationality, Culture | 32 | English | none | |
| Say Hello! | Rachel Isadora | Rachel Isadora | Neighborhood/Community | 2+ | Carmelita walks with her mother and greets everyone in her neighborhood in their own language. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2640926 | |
| This is My Eye | Neela Vaswani | Neela Vaswani | Neighborhood/Community | 2+ | See what a girl sees in her NYC neighborhood through photographs and simple prose. | Race, Socioeconomic | 56 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3385711 | |
| Chik Chak Shabbat | Mara Rockliff | Kyrsten Brooker | Food, Neighborhood/Community | 3+ | Neighbors help a sick neighbor with Shabbat dinner, bringing food from their diverse cultures. | Race, Culture, Nationality, Religion | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3028707 | |
| Last Stop on Market Street | Matt de la Peña | Christian Robinson | Neighborhood/Community | 3+ | CJ and his mother take the bus to volunteer at a soup kitchen, soaking in their city neighborhood. | Race, Socioeconomic | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3047477 | |
| All Are Welcome | Alexandra Penfold | Suzanne Kaufman | School, Neighborhood/Community | 3+ | Follow a group of children through a day in their school and their neighborhood, where everyone is welcomed with open arms no matter their race, religion, or background. | Race, Ability, Religion | 44 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3379056 | |
| Marvelous Cornelius | Phil Bildner | John Parra | History, Neighborhood/Community | 3+ | Cornelius, a beloved garbage collector, and the community come together to clean the streets of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. | Race, Socioeconomic, Culture | 44 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3118177 | |
| A Bike Like Sergio’s | Maribeth Boelts | Noah Z. Jones | Neighborhood/Community | 4+ | Ruben wants a bike like his friend, but his family can’t afford it. So when he finds money that’s dropped out of a neighbor’s purse, he is torn about what to do with it. | Race, Socioeconomic | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3213537 | |
| Tar Beach | Faith Ringgold | Faith Ringgold | History, Neighborhood/Community | 4+ | In this dream adventure, eight-year-old Cassie flies above her apartment-building rooftop, the 'tar beach' of the title, looking down on 1939 Harlem. | Race, Socioeconomic, Culture | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C596157 | |
| Something Beautiful | Sharon Dennis Wyeth | Chris K. Soentpiet | Neighborhood/Community | 4+ | A girl looks around her neighborhood for beauty and realizes she can create it herself. | Race, Socioeconomic | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3307074 | |
| Abuela | Arthur Dorros | Elisa Kleven | Neighborhood/Community | 4+ | Rosalba and her abuela fly over Manhattan to take in the sights of their neighborhood. Some Spanish. | Race, Culture, Language | 40 | Spanish, English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C626293 | |
| The Night Is Yours | Abdul-Razak Zachariah | Keturah A. Bobo | Neighborhood/Community | 4+ | Amani plays a summer evening game of hide-and-seek with friends outside their apartment building. The moon’s glow helps her find her friends. | Race, Culture | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3468186 | |
| What is a Refugee? | Elise Gravel | Elise Gravel | Neighborhood/Community | 4+ | This simple, bold picture book teaches why a refugee is just like you and me. | Race, Religion, Refugees | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3469500 | |
| Just Ask!: Be Different, Be Brave, Be You | Sonia Sotomayor | Rafael López | Neighborhood/Community | 4+ | Using her own experience as a child with diabetes, Justice Sotomayor writes about children with all sorts of challenges. As the kids work together to build a community garden, asking questions of each other along the way, this book encourages readers to do the same. | Race, Ability, Neurodiversity | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3476838 | |
| Cook It! A Cocinar! | Georgie Birkett | Georgie Birkett | Food, Home | 2+ | A girl and her dad make dinner for the family. Bilingual English and Spanish. | Race, Language | 24 | Spanish, English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3205041 | |
| Quiet! | Kate Alizadeh | Kate Alizadeh | Home | 2+ | A toddler enjoys the sounds they hear in their house as their day comes to an end. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3277395 | |
| This is Our House | Hyewon Yum | Hyewon Yum | Family, Home | 3+ | A girl shares the history of her home from her grandparents arriving from a place far away long ago to her multigenerational multiracial family currently living there. | Race, Family Make-Up, Age, Nationality | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2914937 | |
| This is Our House | Michael Rosen | Bob Graham | Friendship, Emotions | 3+ | George won't let any of the other children into his cardboard box house, but when the tables are turned, he finds out how it feels to be excluded. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3374549 | |
| Love and the Rocking Chair | Leo Dillon and Diane Dillon | Leo Dillon and Diane Dillon | Family, Home | 3+ | Follow this family through the generations while following the chair that represents their love. | Race, Age | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3482279 | |
| Home at Last | Vera B. Williams | Chris Raschka | Family, Home | 4+ | Lester finds a loving home with Daddy Rich and Daddy Albert and their big, fluffy dog. | Family Make-Up, LGBTQIA+ | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3204930 | |
| A Chair for My Mother | Vera B. Williams | Vera B. Williams | Family, Home | 4+ | Rosa, her mother, and grandmother save coins in order to buy a comfortable chair for the family. | Race, Socioeconomic, Age | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C219997 | |
| Sunday Shopping | Sally Derby | Shadra Strickland | Family, Home | 4+ | Evie lives with her Grandma because her mother is in the military. They take their weekly shopping trip from home with their imaginations and the newspaper. | Race, Socioeconomic, Family Make-Up, Age | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3091787 | |
| The Hello Goodbye Window | Norton Jester | Chris Raschka | Family, Home | 4+ | The kitchen window at Poppy and Nanna’s house is a magic gateway for a little girl when she visits them. The rest of their house is also full of fun. | Race, Age | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2295990 | |
| Around the World in a Bathtub | Wade Bradford | Micha Archer | World, Travel | 2+ | Look at how families bath all over the globe, in the U.S., Japan, Turkey, India and more. | Race, Nationality, Culture, Socioeconomic | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3274384 | |
| Over the Ocean | Over the Ocean | Over the Ocean | Travel | 2+ | A girl wonders what lies over the ocean and her imagination takes off. | Race, Nationality, Culture | 36 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3176629 | |
| In the Canyon | Liz Garton Scanlon | Ashley Wolff | Travel | 2+ | A girl hikes through the Grand Canyon, soaking in the sights so that she can remember them when she’s back home in the city. Rhyme and beautiful illustrations. | Race, Culture | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3113897 | |
| Everywhere, Wonder | Matthew Swanson | Robbi Behr | World, Travel | 3+ | A boy discovers the wonders all around the world and right in front of him. | Race | 48 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3235471 | |
| Boundless Grace | Caroline Binch | Caroline Binch | World, Travel | 4+ | In this sequel to Amazing Grace, she visits her father in Africa. | Race, Nationality, Culture | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3454110 | |
| Memories of Korea | Seong Min Yoo | Seong Min Yoo | World, Travel | 4+ | A girl visits her mother’s home country of Korea, meets her cousin for the first time and enjoys time with her grandmother. | Race, Nationality, Culture | 24 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3268905 | |
| Two White Rabbits | Jairo Buitrago | Rafael Yockteng | World, Travel | 4+ | A girl travels with her father from Mexico to the US border, picking up two rabbits along the way. | Race, Nationality, Culture, Refugees | 56 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3130398 | |
| Marwan’s Journey | Patricia de Arias | Laura Borràs | World, Travel | 4+ | Marwan tells the story of his journey as a refugee leaving his war-torn home, looking forward to a new beginning. | Race, Nationality, Culture, Refugees | 36 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3367591 | |
| Feast for Ten | Cathryn Falwell | Cathryn Falwell | Counting, Food | All | An African-American family prepares a feast, counting along the way. | Race | 28 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C1300796 | |
| Bee Bim Bop! | Linda Sue Park | Ho Baek Lee | Food | 2+ | A celebration of cooking together featuring a Korean family. | Race, Culture | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2310449 | |
| Let’s Eat! A Comer! | Pat Mora | Maribel Suarez | Food | 2+ | A close-knit family prepares and eats a meal together. Bilingual English and Spanish. | Race, Culture, Language | 24 | Spanish, English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2475456 | |
| Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story | Kevin Noble Maillard | Juana Martinez-Neal | Family, Food | 3+ | A diverse depiction of a modern Native American family, this book celebrates the history and importance of fry bread in Indigenous culture. | Race, Culture, Family Make-Up | 48 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3480507 | |
| Baby Goes to Market | Atinuke | Angela Brooksbank | Counting, Food | 3+ | When baby and Mama go to the market in Nigeria, count the gifts of food that people give them. | Race, Culture, Nationality | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3311055 | |
| Yummy! Good Food Makes Me Strong | Shelley Rotner and Sheila Kelly | Shelley Rotner | Food | 3+ | Photos of kids eating healthy food. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2988315 | |
| What Can You Do with a Paleta? | Carmen Tafolla | Magaly Morales | Food | 3+ | A girl explores the many things she can do with this traditional Mexican popsicle treat. Also available in Spanish and English version. | Race, Nationality, Culture | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2573116 | |
| Peeny Butter Fudge | Toni Morrison and Slade Morrison | Joe Cepeda | Food | 3+ | A sweet story of what really goes on when Nana is left in charge, including the making of an old family recipe. | Race, Age | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2604319 | |
| Amy Wu and the Perfect Bao | Kat Zhang | Charlene Chua | Food | 3+ | Amy loves to make bao with her family, but is frustrated that hers don’t turn out as beautifully as those of the adults. But she perseveres and gets creative. | Race, Culture | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3473352 | |
| What’s So Yummy? All About Eating Well and Feeling Good | Robie H. Harris | Nadine Bernard Westcott | Food, Bodies | 4+ | A multiracial family gets ready for a picnic in the park and talks about healthy food and activities. | Race, Family Make-Up | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3042993 | |
| The Water Princess | Susan Verde | Peter H. Reynolds | Food, World | 4+ | Imagine your life without running water. Follow a girl in Burkina Faso who spends the day collecting water from a faraway well. | Race, Nationality, Culture, Socioeconomic | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3204944 | |
| Shopping with Dad | Matt Harvey | Miriam Latimer | Family, Food | 4+ | A girl and her dad go grocery shopping and learn that accidents can happen and they can also be put right. | Race | 32 | English | none | |
| Rice from Heaven: The Secret Mission to Feed North Koreans | Tina Cho | Keum Jin Song | Food, World, History | 4+ | In a secret mission to feed hungry children, Yoori, her father, and a group from church send rice by balloon from South Korea to North Korea. | Race, Nationality | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3379084 | |
| Hot, Hot Roti for Dada-ji | Farhana Zia | Ken Min | Food | 4+ | Aneel makes roti for his grandfather to give him power when he visits from India. | Race, Nationality, Culture, Age | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2710583 | |
| Shades of People | Shelley Rotner and Sheila Kelly | Shelley Rotner | Bodies | 2+ | The author notices the different shades of skin in these photos of children. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?query=Shades%20of%20People&searchType=smart | |
| My Five Senses | Aliki | Aliki | Bodies | 2+ | A boy talks about how he uses his senses. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3121041 | |
| Calling Dr. Zaza | Calling Dr. Zaza | Calling Dr. Zaza | Bodies | 2+ | Zaza’s animal friends aren’t feeling well today, so she checks their body parts to find out what is wrong. | Race | 24 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3369998 | |
| Healthy Kids | Maya Ajmera, Victoria Dunning, and Cynthia Pon | Bodies | 2+ | Look at what keeps kids healthy all over the world with beautiful photos. | Race, Nationality | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2872911 | ||
| We Move Together | Kelly Fritsch, Anne McGuire | Eduardo Trejos | Community, Bodies | 2+ | A joyful exploration of disability community and culture - and all the different ways we move together - told in simple words and fun illustrations. | Ability, Neurodiversity, Race, Body Type | 44 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3669452 | |
| Bodies are Cool | Tyler Feder | Tyler Feder | Bodies | 2+ | This energetic read-aloud, with bright friendly scenes to pore over, is an inclusive and joyful body-positivity anthem. | Ability, Body Type, Gender Expression, Gender Identity, LGBTQIA+, Religion, Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3676918 | |
| I Love You, Nose! I Love You, Toes! | Linda Davick | Linda Davick | Bodies | 3+ | A fun rhyme celebrates body parts on diverse kids. Good read aloud. | Race | 32 | English | none | |
| All of Me! A Book of Thanks | Molly Bang | Molly Bang | Bodies | 3+ | From toes to elbows, colorful collages capture the curiosity and sense of wonder felt by young children as they discover themselves and the world around them. | Race | 40 | English | none | |
| I Love My Hair! | Natasha Anastasia Tarpley | E. B. Lewis | Bodies, Self Pride | 3+ | Keyana and her mother recount the many ways that her hair is special and beautiful even though it hurts when her mother combs it every night. | Race, Culture | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3107566 | |
| Happy in Our Skin | Fran Manushkin | Lauren Tobia | Bodies, Neighborhood | 3+ | This celebration of being who you are follows a family around their neighborhood as they talk about the differences and similarities of everyone’s skin. | Race, Religion, Ability, Family Make-up, Body Type | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3116129 | |
| Hair Love | Matthew A. Cherry | Vashti Harrison | Bodies, Family | 3+ | Zuri and her father work hard to find the perfect hairstyle in order to showcase her kinky, curly hair for a special day. | Race, Culture | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3456753 | |
| We All Move | Rebecca Rissman | Rebecca Rissman | Bodies | 3+ | Photos show the different ways people of different physical abilities move. | Ability, Race | 24 | English | none | |
| Cool Cuts | Mechal Renee Roe | Mechal Renee Roe | Bodies | 3+ | Every kid says, “I am born to be awesome” as they display their fresh haircut and style, from cornrows to fresh ‘fros. | Race, Culture | 28 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3516333 | |
| Happy Hair | Mechal Renee Roe | Mechal Renee Roe | Bodies | 3+ | Every kid says, “I am born to be awesome” as they display their fresh haircut and style, from cornrows to fresh ‘fros. | Race, Culture | 28 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3486213 | |
| Senses in My World: Hearing | Martha E.H. Rustad | Bodies | 3+ | Photos of diverse kids show how our senses work. | Race | 24 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3052864 | ||
| Senses in My World: Smelling | Martha E.H. Rustad | Bodies | 3+ | Photos of diverse kids show how our senses work. | Race | 24 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3052858 | ||
| Senses in My World: Seeing | Martha E.H. Rustad | Bodies | 3+ | Photos of diverse kids show how our senses work. | Race | 24 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3052861 | ||
| Senses in My World: Tasting | Martha E.H. Rustad | Bodies | 3+ | Photos of diverse kids show how our senses work. | Race | 24 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3052855 | ||
| Senses in My World: Touching | Martha E.H. Rustad | Bodies | 3+ | Photos of diverse kids show how our senses work. | Race | 24 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3052852 | ||
| Who We Are!: All About Being the Same and Being Different | Robie H. Harris | Nadine Bernard Westcott | Bodies | 4+ | A book all about being the same and being different, from our bodies on the outside to our feelings on the inside. | Race | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3160099 | |
| My Big Fantastic Family | Adam Guillain and Charlotte Guillain | Ali Pye | Family | 4+ | Funny and heartfelt, this picture book follows Lily-May as she learns to embrace the positive aspects of her blended family after her parents get divorced, discovering just how many people love her! | Race, Family Make-Up | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3933717 | |
| Hooray for She, He, Ze, and They! | Lindz Amer | Kip Alizadeh | Self Pride | 4+ | In this joyous picture book exploration of gender euphoria, celebrated Queer Kid Stuff host Lindz Amer teaches kids about all the ways pronouns can be joyful, defining, and empowering. | Race, Gender Identity, LGBTQIA+ | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3949266 | |
| Challah Day! | Charlotte Offsay | Jason Kirschner | Food | 3+ | Baked with love! A family mixes, kneads, braids, and bakes bread for dinner with Grandma and Grandpa in this joyful, rhyming story. | Religion, Culture | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3902716 | |
| Still This Love Goes on | Buffy Sainte-Marie | Julie Flett | Seasons | 3+ | From Cree-Métis artist Julie Flett and Cree singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie comes a celebration of Indigenous community, and the enduring love we hold for the people and places we are far away from. | Culture, Language, Race | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3809373 | |
| Mommy's New Friend | Shelley Tougas | Sara Palacios | Family | 4+ | A heartfelt, lyrical story about accepting a new family member as a child of divorce, even if it’s not easy at first. | Family Make-Up, Race | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3938681 | |
| In the Woods: An Adventure for Your Senses | Mariona Tolosa Sisteré | Mariona Tolosa Sisteré | Summer, Bodies | 4+ | A family adventure in the local woods teaches readers how to plan ahead and use their senses to respectfully uncover natural wonders. | Race, Family Make-Up | 48 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3933758 | |
| A Gift for Nai Nai | Kim-Hoa Ung | Kim-Hoa Ung | Textiles | 3+ | Struggling to crochet a lucky hat for her beloved Nai Nai's birthday, Lyn Lyn learns that the best gift of all comes from within. | Race, Culture, Nationality, Age, Language | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3923425 | |
| Dancing the Tinikling | Bobbie Peyton | Diobelle Cerna | Dance | 4+ | Jojo's grandmother Lola invites him to join her in the rhythmic tinikling dance, and though he initially stumbles, Jojo finds his footing and joyfully embraces his American and Filipino heritages. | Race, Culture, Nationality, Age, Language | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3903343 | |
| One Sweet Song | Jyoti Rajan Gopal | Sonia Sanchez | Music, Neighborhood, Counting | 3+ | With a countdown from one to ten and back woven in, this celebration of music and community brings to life a shared moment in a diverse neighborhood where everyone comes together to make one sweet song. | Race, Culture | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3936770 | |
| What's New Daniel? | Micha Archer | Micha Archer | Spring | 3+ | On a trip to the park with his grandfather, Daniel talks to the animals about what is new in their world and his. | Race, Age | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3938690 | |
| Holi Colors | Rina Singh | Rina Singh | Colors, Celebrations | All | Experience the holiday of Holi with every color of the rainbow and photos of kids celebrating it in this board book. | Race, Culture, Nationality | 24 | English | none | |
| Holi Colors! | Deven Jatkar | Deven Jatkar | Colors, Celebrations | 4+ | Maya is looking forward to splashing and spraying colors with her friends and family on Holi. She falls on her head and wakes up in a black and white world with a chaos of colors. | Race, Culture, Nationality | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3871839 | |
| Every Color | Erin Eitter Kono | Erin Eitter Kono | World, Travel, Colors | 2+ | A polar bear who longs for color goes on a sailing journey around the world with a helpful guide. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3219704 | |
| Pink Is for Boys | Robb Pearlman | Eda Kaban | Colors | 2+ | A celebration of the colors of the rainbow and how they are all for every kid. | Race, Gender Expression, Gender Roles | 24 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3400960 | |
| Red is a Dragon: A Book of Colors | Roseanne Thong | Grace Lin | Colors | 2+ | A girl enjoys the rainbow of colors in her Chinese culture. | Race, Culture, Nationality | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3403604 | |
| What Color Is My Hijab? | Hudda Ibrahim | Meenal Patel | Colors | 2+ | A children's 'learn your colors' book where a Muslim girl chooses what color hijab she'll wear today. | Race, Culture, Religion | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3890207 | |
| The Many Colors of Harpreet Singh | Supriya Kelkar | Alea Marley | Friendship, Colors | 3+ | Harpreet expresses his emotions through the colors of his patkas. But when his family moves across the country he only wants to wear white. Making a friend changes everything. | Race, Culture, Religion | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3471558 | |
| Honeysmoke: A Story of Finding Your Color | Monique Fields | Yesenia Moises | Family, Colors | 3+ | Simone looks around her world to find her place in it and looks for a word to describe her skin color in relation to her multiracial family. | Race, Family Make-Up | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3428479 | |
| Red: A Crayon's Story | Michael Hall | Michael Hall | Colors | 3+ | A blue crayon with a red label struggles until a friend appreciates him for who he is. A metaphor for gender identity. | Gender Identity | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3064831 | |
| Sky Color | Peter H. Reynolds | Peter H. Reynolds | Visual Art, Colors | 3+ | Marisol wonders how she will paint the sky with no blue paint. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2809144 | |
| The Colors of Us | Karen Katz | Karen Katz | Bodies, Visual Art, Colors | 3+ | A girl looks at the skin colors of her friends and neighbors in order to paint them. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C1918550 | |
| Golden Domes and Silver Lanterns: A Muslim Book of Colors | Mehrdokht Amini | Mehrdokht Amini | Colors | 3+ | A girl shows the reader the practices of her Muslim family through colors and beautiful illustrations. | Race, Culture, Religion | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2802147 | |
| Black All Around! | Patricia Hubbell | Don Tate | Colors | 3+ | A girl names things in the world that are black. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3220866 | |
| Napi | Antonio Ramirez | Domi | Colors, World | 4+ | Napi likes to dream about the colors of the world around her in Oaxaca, Mexico. | Race, Nationality, Language | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2272545 | |
| Rainbow Boy | Taylor Rouanzion | Stacey Chomiak | Colors, Clothing | 4+ | A boy is having trouble answering which color he likes best. From his yellow baby doll, to his pink tutu and his orange basketball, every color is his favorite! | Gender Expression | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3628569 | |
| Round is a Mooncake: A Book of Shapes | Roseanne Thong | Grace Lin | Shapes | 2+ | A Chinese American girl notices the shapes in her home and neighborhood. | Race, Culture, Nationality | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3403606 | |
| Shape Space | Cathryn Falwell | Cathryn Falwell | Shapes | 2+ | A young gymnast dances her way among rectangles, triangles, circles, and squares for a lesson in geometry and just plain fun. | Race | 32 | English | none | |
| Sometimes I Cry | Jess Townes | Daniel Miyares | Emotions | 4+ | A boy shows the many emotions he feels that lead him (and even his grandfather) to cry. | Gender Expression, Age | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3922057 | |
| Next Door | Deborah Kerbel | Isaac Liang | Community, Friendship | 3+ | In this wordless picture book, a Deaf boy and his mother enjoy a walk through their community and he makes a friend. Includes some ASL. | Ability, Race, Religion, Language | 32 | ASL, English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3923308 | |
| Today | Gabi Snyder | Stephanie Graegin | Summer, Emotions | 3+ | This book teaches mindfulness through a child who anticipates a long-awaited day with cousins and grandparents. The child discovers every day is filled with surprises and joy, which can easily be lost if one is not present. | Race, Ability, Age | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3933973 | |
| Round is a Tortilla: A Book of Shapes | Roseanne Greenfield Thong | John Parra | Shapes | 3+ | A girl discovers the world of shapes around her in Mexico. Some Spanish. | Race, Culture, Language | 40 | Spanish, English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2884469 | |
| City Shapes | Diana Murray | Bryan Collier | Neighborhood, Shapes | 3+ | A young girl looks around the city to find shapes in her neighborhood. | Race | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3182614 | |
| All Around Us | Xelena Gonzalez | Adriana M. Garcia | Shapes | 4+ | Finding circles everywhere, a grandfather and his granddaughter meditate on the cycles of life and nature. Gorgeous illustrations. | Race, Culture, Age | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3296474 | |
| Where Wonder Grows | Xelena Gonzalez | Adriana M. Garcia | Geology | 4+ | Grandmother brings her girls to a special garden full of rocks, crystals, shells, and meteorites to see what marvels they have to show. | Race, Culture, Age | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3771870 | |
| Crescent Moons and Pointed Minarets: A Muslim Book of Shapes | Hena Khan | Mehrdokht Amini | Shapes | 3+ | From a square garden to an octagonal fountain, this book celebrates the shapes and traditions of the Muslim world. | Race, Culture, Religion | 36 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3346850 | |
| One Family | George Shannon | Blanca Gomez | Counting | All | A counting book that shows families of many sizes, configurations, and hues. | Race, Family Make-Up, LGBTQIA+ | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3097545 | |
| Ten Tiny Babies | Karen Katz | Karen Katz | Counting | All | Count the babies as they get ready for bed. | Race | 32 | English | none | |
| Ten, Nine, Eight | Molly Bang | Molly Bang | Counting | All | Count down to bedtime with a girl and her father. Also available in Spanish. | Race | 24 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C240131 | |
| Counting on Community | Innosanto Nagara | Innosanto Nagara | Counting | All | Count the fun ways we can live in community in this board book. | Race | 24 | English | none | |
| One Is a Drummer | Grace Lin | Grace Lin | Counting | All | A Chinese American girl counts items in her world. | Race, Culture, Nationality | 30 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2959527 | |
| How to Two | David Soman | David Soman | Counting | 2+ | Make new friends on the playground from one to ten and back again. | Race | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3435057 | |
| Counting Ovejas | Sarah Weeks | David Diaz | Counting | 2+ | Count sheep in English and Spanish with a girl who’s trying to go to sleep. | Race, Language | 40 | English | none | |
| Grandma’s Tiny House: A Counting Story | JaNay Brown-Wood | Priscilla Burris | Counting | 2+ | Count the festive foods, family, and friends at Grandma’s feast, but will they fit in the tiny house? | Race, Age | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3284090 | |
| Twenty Yawns | Jane Smiley | Lauren Castillo | Counting | 2+ | From the fun of the beach to the quiet of night at home, join Lucy and count the yawns in her evening. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3162198 | |
| Zero Is the Leaves on the Tree | Betsy Franco | Betsy Franco | Counting, Seasons | 3+ | How do you count zero? Find out how by following some kids through the seasons. | Race | 25 | English | none | |
| I Know Numbers! | Taro Gomi | Taro Gomi | Counting | 3+ | Discover the many ways that numbers help us in our lives. | Race | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3297295 | |
| The Runaway Tortilla | Eric Kimmel | Erik Brooks | Counting | 4+ | A long retelling of the gingerbread man starring a tortilla in Texas. Count the creatures chasing him. | Race, Culture | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3126820 | |
| The Same but Different Too | Karl Newson | Kate Hindley | Opposites | 2+ | These children and animals are all very different to each other. But one thing's certain: they all love a good bedtime story! | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3613006 | |
| Up Up Up Down | Kimberly Gee | Kimberly Gee | Opposites | All | Illustrations and easy-to-read text follow a baby and father through a day filled with ups and downs, ons and offs, and plenty of fun. | Race | 26 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3447146 | |
| Big and Little: A Book of Opposites | Carolina Buzio | Carolina Buzio | Opposites | All | Learn all about opposites in a book that's indestructible. | Race | 12 | English | none | |
| Mine Mine Mine Yours! | Kimberly Gee | Kimberly Gee | Opposites | All | Three toddlers have a day of adventures full of opposites. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3684584 | |
| Lovely | Jess Hong | Jess Hong | Opposites | 2+ | Celebrate differences and how they make us all lovely. | Gender Expression, Gender Identity, Race, Ability, Body Type, Age | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3296507 | |
| Marta! Big & Small | Jen Arena | Angela Dominguez | Opposites | 2+ | As Marta explores the jungle, she compares herself to the animals using Spanish adjectives. | Race, Language | 20 | Spanish, English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3197677 | |
| Goodbye, Friend! Hello, Friend! | Cori Doerrfeld | Cori Doerrfeld | Opposites, Friendship | 3+ | Two friends navigate transitions and change, looking at the opposites in each situation, and learning how to deal with moving apart. | Race | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3455713 | |
| ABC for You and Me | Margaret Girnis | Shirley Leamon Green | Alphabet | All | Photographs show children with Down syndrome in activities with objects corresponding to the letters of the alphabet. | Ability, Race | 32 | English | none | |
| Sleepy ABC | Margaret Wise Brown | Karen Katz | Alphabet | All | Karen Katz illustrates this simple book about going to bed. | Race | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2624807 | |
| B Is for Baby | Atinuke | Angela Brooksbank | Alphabet | All | Baby sneaks a ride on her brother’s bicycle to visit their grandfather and learns lots of “B” words along the way. | Race, Nationality, Culture | 28 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3429667 | |
| D Is for Dress-Up: The ABC’s of What We Wear | Maria Carluccio | Maria Carluccio | Alphabet | 2+ | This playful fashion alphabet shares the fun of getting dressed up and simply getting dressed. | Race | 36 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3175788 | |
| Owls See Clearly at Night: A Michif Alphabet | Julie Flett | Julie Flett | Alphabet | 2+ | An introduction to the Michif language of the Metis people from Canada with beautiful illustrations of nature. | Race, Language, Culture | 56 | Michif, English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3247018 | |
| M is for Mohawk | Dr. Tamara Pizzoli | Howell Edwards Creative | Alphabet | 2+ | An alphabet of fresh hairstyles. | Race, Culture | 34 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3313086 | |
| Girls A to Z | Eve Bunting | Suzanne Bloom | Alphabet | 2+ | Celebrate the alphabet of things that girls can do as they are encouraged to be anything they want to be. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3004895 | |
| ABC A Family Alphabet Book | Bobbie Combs | Desiree & Brian Rappa | Family, Alphabet | 3+ | This book celebrates diverse families as it teaches the alphabet. | Race, Family Make-up, LGBTQIA+ | 32 | English | none | |
| C is for Chickasaw | Wiley Barnes | Aaron K. Long | Alphabet | 3+ | Explore the history, culture, and language of the Chickasaw people using the letters of the alphabet. | Race, Culture | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3298337 | |
| An ABC of Equality | Chana Ginelle Ewing | Paulina Morgan | Alphabet | 4+ | From A to Z, simple explanations accompanied by engaging artwork teach children about the world we live in and how to navigate our way through it. | Race, Ability, Religion | 56 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3833014 | |
| Love Makes a Family | Sophie Beer | Sophie Beer | Family | 2+ | This fun, inclusive board book celebrates the one thing that makes every family a family . . . and that's LOVE. | Race, Family Make-up, LGBTQIA+ | 26 | English | none | |
| Pond Babies | Cathryn Falwell | Cathryn Falwell | Marine Life | All | A mother and child look at all of the babies and parents at the pond. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2918376 | |
| Sandy Feet! Whose Feet?: Footprints at the Shore | Susan Wood | Steliyana Doneva | Marine Life | 2+ | When a family spends a day at the beach the children investigate various footprints to see what types of creatures live along the shoreline. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3448387 | |
| Trout Are Made of Trees | April Pulley Sayre | Kate Endle | Marine Life | 3+ | Simple prose follows the life cycle of trout from leaves that fall into streams to bears and people eating them. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2483693 | |
| Nerdy Babies: Ocean | Emmy Kastner | Emmy Kastner | Marine Life | 3+ | Join a diverse group of babies as they learn facts about the ocean and marine life. | Race | 22 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3469846 | |
| Nerdy Babies: Dinosaurs | Emmy Kastner | Emmy Kastner | Dinosaurs | 3+ | Join a diverse group of babies as they learn facts about dinosaurs. | Race | 22 | English | none | |
| Nerdy Babies: Insects | Emmy Kastner | Emmy Kastner | Insects | 3+ | Join a diverse group of babies as they learn facts about insects. | Race | 22 | English | none | |
| Nerdy Babies: Rocks | Emmy Kastner | Emmy Kastner | Geology | 3+ | Join a diverse group of babies as they learn facts about rocks. | Race | 22 | English | none | |
| Nerdy Babies: Transportation | Emmy Kastner | Emmy Kastner | Transportation | 3+ | Join a diverse group of babies as they learn facts about transportation. | Race | 22 | English | none | |
| Teeny Tiny Toady | Jill Esbaum | Keika Yamaguchi | Marine Life | 3+ | When Teeny’s mama gets trapped in a bucket, Teeny goes to her strong brothers for help. When they fall in, it’s up to Teeny to save them all. | Gender Roles | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3162195 | |
| Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean's Most Fearless Scientist | Jess Keating | Marta Álvarez Miguéns | Marine Life, History | 3+ | A look at the life of Eugenie Clark, the scientist who changed how the world viewed sharks. | Race, Gender Roles | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3264438 | |
| Over and Under the Pond | Kate Messner | Christopher Silas Neal | Birds, Marine Life | 3+ | A boy and his mother row through a pond, looking at the animals above and below the water. Has birds and mammals too. | Race | 48 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3259867 | |
| Over and Under the Waves | Kate Messner | Christopher Silas Neal | Birds, Marine Life | 3+ | A girl and her family paddle on the ocean, looking at the animals above and below the water. Has birds and mammals too. | Race | 56 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3823784 | |
| Noah’s Seal | Layn Marlow | Layn Marlow | Marine Life | 3+ | While Nana repairs their boat, Noah sculpts his own speckled seal out of sand and pebbles. But when a sudden storm rolls in, the seal is washed away… or is it? | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3684247 | |
| Oona | Kelly DiPucchio | Raissa Figueroa | Marine Life | 3+ | Oona and her best otter friend run into trouble as they hunt for treasure in the ocean, but stick to it and are well rewarded. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3627858 | |
| Oona and the Shark | Kelly DiPucchio | Raissa Figueroa | Marine Life | 3+ | Oona the mermaid is friends with everyone, but when her attempts to befriend a shark with sensory issues fail miserably she realizes what may be fun for her may be overwhelming for him. | Race, Neurodiversity | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3735138 | |
| Oona in the Arctic | Kelly DiPucchio | Raissa Figueroa | Marine Life | 3+ | A mermaid and her otter friend go on a journey to help a lost beluga whale return to the Arctic. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3853259 | |
| These Seas Count! | Alison Formento | Sarah Snow | Counting, Marine Life | 4+ | A class visits the beach, learns about the animals in the ocean, and the effects of litter on them. They count the animals and their trash bags as they clean up. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2872983 | |
| A Salmon for Simon | Betty Watertown | Ann Blades | Marine Life | 4+ | This is a story from Canada about an Indigenous boy who really wants to catch a salmon. | Race, Culture | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2121506 | |
| A Different Pond | Bao Phi | Thi Bui | Marine Life | 4+ | When a boy goes fishing with his father, he learns of the different pond in their homeland of Vietnam. | Race, Culture, Nationality, Socioeconomic | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3281978 | |
| Hand Over Hand | Alma Fullerton | Renné Benoit | Marine Life | 4+ | Nina is determined to go fishing with her grandfather even though it’s not something girls are supposed to do in their Filipino village. | Race, Culture, Nationality, Gender Roles | 24 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3259728 | |
| If Sharks Disappeared | Lily Williams | Lily Williams | Marine Life | 4+ | Learn about how important sharks are to our oceans and to us as a girl and her family enjoy a boat ride above them. | Race | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3271078 | |
| If Bees Disappeared | Lily Williams | Lily Williams | Insects | 4+ | Explores what would happen if bees became extinct, and how their extinction would effect not just bees' environment, but the world as a whole. | Race | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3682920 | |
| If Tigers Disappeared | Lily Williams | Lily Williams | Land Animals | 4+ | Join children as they track the devastating reality of what our world might look like without tigers. | Race | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3802438 | |
| If Elephants Disappeared | Lily Williams | Lily Williams | Land Animals | 4+ | Trace the repercussions of a world without elephants in this picture book about loss and conservation. | Race | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3476834 | |
| If Polar Bears Disappeared | Lily Williams | Lily Williams | Land Animals | 4+ | If Polar Bears Disappeared uses accessible, charming art to explore what would happen if the sea ice melts, causing the extinction of polar bears, and how it would affect environments around the globe. | Race | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3386855 | |
| My Mommy, My Mama, My Brother, and Me: These Are the Things We Found by the Sea | Natalie Meisner | Mathilde Cinq-Mars | Marine Life | 4+ | Two kids and their moms spend the day on the beach, sharing the creatures and objects they find, and the people they meet. | Race, Family Make-Up, LGBTQIA+ | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3480511 | |
| Hank’s Big Day: The Story of a Bug | Evan Kuhlman | Chuck Groenink | Insects | 3+ | Hank is a pillbug who goes on adventures with his human friend Amelia around her yard. | Race | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3207287 | |
| Dragonfly Kites / Pimithaagansa | Tomson Highway | Julie Flett | Insects | 4+ | Two Cree brothers play with the animals in nature around them. | Race, Culture, Language | 32 | Cree, English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3168781 | |
| Summer Birds: The Butterflies of Maria Merian | Margarita Engle | Julie Paschkis | Insects | 4+ | In the middle ages, Maria Merian studied caterpillars in secret because people believed insects were evil. | Gender Roles | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2646219 | |
| Bea’s Bees | Katherine Pryor | Ellie Peterson | Insects | 4+ | When the bees disappear from her favorite bumblebee nest, Beatrix goes on a research expedition to learn how to bring them back. | Race | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3447439 | |
| Maria Had a Little Llama (Maria Tenia una Llamita) | Angela Dominguez | Angela Dominguez | Land Animals | All | The traditional nursery rhyme about Mary is set in Peru with a mischievous llama. | Race, Culture, Nationality, Language | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2945573 | |
| I Like the Farm | Shelley Rotner | Shelley Rotner | Land Animals | All | Simple prose and pictures show diverse children with farm animals. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3274417 | |
| We All Play | Julie Flett | Julie Flett | Land Animals | 2+ | Come along on a joyful romp through nature with animals and humans who all play. | Race, Culture, Language | 48 | Cree, English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3682788 | |
| Sweetest Kulu | Celina Kalluk | Alexandria Neonakis | Land Animals | 2+ | An Indigenous Canadian mother tells her baby, Kulu, about all the animals visiting with their best wishes. | Race, Culture | 30 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3046439 | |
| How to Find a Fox | Nilah Magruder | Nilah Magruder | Land Animals | 2+ | A girl searches for a silly fox in the woods. | Race | 40 | English | none | |
| Neither | Airlie Anderson | Airlie Anderson | Animals | 2+ | In a land full of bunnies and birds, can a creature who is both find a place to fit in? | Gender Expression, Gender Identity | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3337923 | |
| Zoo Day: A My First Experience Book | Anne Rockwell | Lizzy Rockwell | Animals | 3+ | A family makes the most of their first trip to the zoo. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3226665 | |
| Sharing Our World: Animals of the Native Northwest Coast | Animals | 3+ | Artists from Coast Salish, Haida, Bella Bella, and many other Nations have contributed colorful images as well as cultural information about each creature. | Culture | 24 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2743683 | |||
| Never Ask a Dinosaur to Dinner | Gareth Edwards | Guy Parker-Rees | Animals | 3+ | This fun, rhyming read-aloud will guide you safely through your bedtime routine and the animals who may want to join you. | Race | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3097539 | ||
| Peek! A Thai Hide-and-Seek | Minfong Ho | Holly Meade | Animals | 3+ | Join a girl and her father in their noisy game of hide-and-seek in the jungle as they get help from all the animals around. | Race, Culture, Language | 40 | Thai, English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2270242 | |
| Zoe and the Fawn | Catherine Jameson | Julie Flett | Land Animals | 3+ | Zoe and her dad see a fawn curled under a tree and go on a quest to find her mother. Bilingual English and Okanagan (Indigenous). | Race, Culture, Language | 32 | Okanagan, English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3429704 | |
| Hush! A Thai Lullaby | Minfong Ho | Holly Meade | Animals | 3+ | A mother shushes the animals near their home as her baby sleeps. | Race, Culture, Language | 32 | Thai, English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3385558 | |
| The Girl and the Wolf | Katherena Vermette | Julie Flett | Land Animals | 3+ | In an Indigenous take on Little Red Riding Hood, the wolf helps a girl who is lost in the woods. | Race, Culture | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3429681 | |
| A Boy and a Jaguar | Alan Rabinowitz | Cátia Chien | Animals, History | 4+ | Follow the life of Alan, who stutters as a child, but loves talking to the animals at the zoo. He grows up to work on jaguar conservation. | Ability | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2988297 | |
| Joan Procter, Dragon Doctor: The Woman Who Loved Reptiles | Patricia Valdez | Felicita Sala | Land Animals, History | 4+ | Joan went from having tea parties with lizards to becoming the first female curator at the Reptile House at the London Zoo and befriending Komodo dragons. | Gender Roles | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3346369 | |
| And Tango Makes Three | Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell | Henry Cole | Birds | 3+ | Two male penguins hatch an egg together and raise their baby, Tango. | Family Make-Up, Gender Roles, LGBTQIA+ | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2298706 | |
| Harriet Gets Carried Away | Jessie Sima | Jessie Sima | Birds | 4+ | Harriet loves costumes, but a penguin costume at the store gets her a little carried away. Carried away by penguins while her dads wonder where she is! | Race, Family Make-Up, LGBTQIA+ | 48 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3343048 | |
| Silly Chicken | Rukhsana Khan | Yunmee Kyong | Birds | 4+ | A young girl in Pakistan thinks that her mother loves their chicken more than her, but when the chicken goes missing, Rani cares too. | Race, Culture, Nationality | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?query=Silly%20Chicken%20&searchType=smart | |
| My Beautiful Birds | Suzanne Del Rizzo | Suzane Del Rizzo | Birds | 4+ | Sami has to leave his home behind to live in a Syrian refugee camp. He is worried about his pet birds until new birds show up to be his friends. | Race, Culture, Nationality, Refugees | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3246870 | |
| Mango, Abuela, and Me | Meg Medina | Angela Dominguez | Birds | 4+ | Mia has trouble communicating with her Spanish-speaking grandmother, until a bird named Mango helps out. | Race, Culture, Nationality, Language, Age | 32 | Spanish, English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3116107 | |
| Here and There | Tamara Ellis Smith | Evelyn Daviddi | Birds, Music | 4+ | Ivan struggles with his Mama and Dad living in different houses, but finds comfort and connection in bird calls and singing. | Race, Family Make-Up | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3439448 | |
| Bird Boy | Matthew Burgess | Shahrzad Maydani | Birds, School, Self Pride | 4+ | Take flight in this heartwarming story about a boy who learns to be true to himself at school while following his love of nature and birds. | Race, Ability, Neurodiversity | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3686575 | |
| A House for Every Bird | Megan Maynor | Kaylani Juanita | Birds, Visual Art | 4+ | A young artist draws birds and a house to match each one, but soon she learns that you can’t always judge a bird by its feathers! | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3638320 | |
| We Love You, Rosie | Cynthia Rylant | Linda Davick | Pets | All | Wherever she goes and whatever she does, a dog’s family will always love her. | Race | 48 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3236715 | |
| Please Puppy Please | Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee | Kadir Nelson | Pets | All | A brother and sister chase their pet puppy as it gets into mischief. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2334054 | |
| Libby and Pearl: The Best of Friends | Lindsey Bonnice | Lindsey Bonnice | Pets | All | This photographic picture book shows a girl and her pet pig in adorable situations around their home. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3202201 | |
| Lola Gets a Cat | Anna McQuinn | Rosalind Beardshaw | Pets | 2+ | Lola learns all about caring for cats, prepares her home, and adopts a cat. | Race | 28 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3236698 | |
| Pet Show! | Ezra Jack Keats | Ezra Jack Keats | Pets | 3+ | When he can't find his cat to enter in the neighborhood pet show, Archie must do some fast thinking to win a prize. | Race | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3170864 | |
| Whistle for Willie | Ezra Jack Keats | Ezra Jack Keats | Pets | 3+ | Peter wants to learn to whistle to surprise his dog, Willie. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C70622 | |
| The Adventures of Honey and Leon | Alan Cumming | Grant Shaffer | Pets | 3+ | Honey and Leon follow their two dads on a big trip, protecting them along the way. | Family Make-up, LGBTQIA+ | 48 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3292501 | |
| Hello Goodbye Dog | Maria Gianferrari | Patrice Barton | Pets, School | 3+ | Zara’s dog loves to be by her side, helping her in her wheelchair. It causes problems at school and the library, but they find a solution that makes everyone happy. | Race, Ability | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3280491 | |
| Snow in Jerusalem | Deborah da Costa | Ying-Hwa Hu and Cornelius Van Wright | Pets, Winter | 4+ | Although they live in different quarters of Jerusalem, a Jewish boy and a Muslim boy are surprised to discover they have been caring for the same stray cat. | Race, Religion, Culture, Nationality | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2094177 | |
| Mister and Lady Day | Amy Novesky | Vanessa Brantley Newton | Pets, History | 4+ | Learn about Billie Holiday and the dog who loved her. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2877528 | |
| Lost and Found Cat | Doug Kuntz and Amy Shrodes | Sue Cornelison | Pets, History | 4+ | This true story follows a cat who gets separated from his refugee family. | Race, Culture, Religion, Nationality, Refugees | 48 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3246207 | |
| Not Norman: A Goldfish Story | Noah Z. Jones | Noah Z. Jones | Pets | 4+ | Norman wasn’t what this little boy had in mind, but the boy grows to love him. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2286039 | |
| Rescue and Jessica: A Life-Changing Friendship | Jessica Kensky and Patrick Downes | Scott Magoon | Pets | 4+ | When the doctors have to remove part of Jessica’s leg, she doesn’t know how she will do things on her own, but a service dog named Rescue shows her. | Ability | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3347340 | |
| Cece Loves Science | Kimberly Derting and Shelli R. Johannes | Vashti Harrison | Pets | 4+ | Cece and her friend conduct an experiment to see if her dog will eat vegetables. | Race | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3375418 | |
| Cece Loves Science and Adventure | Kimberly Derting and Shelli R. Johannes | Vashti Harrison | Summer | 4+ | When Cece and her Adventure Girls troop face a sudden thunderstorm, they use science, technology, engineering, and math to solve problems and make their way safely back to camp. | Race | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3452192 | |
| Dig Those Dinosaurs | Lori Haskins Houran | Francisca Marquez | Dinosaurs | 2+ | A diverse group of paleontologists dig up and display dinosaur bones. | Race | 24 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2863195 | |
| Bones, Bones, Dinosaur Bones | Byron Barton | Byron Barton | Dinosaurs | 2+ | Paleontologists show the steps it takes to get T-Rex bones on display in a museum. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C583597 | |
| Lizard from the Park | Mark Pett | Mark Pett | Dinosaurs | 3+ | Leonard’s pet lizard keeps growing and growing, but Leonard comes up with a solution. | Race | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3122939 | |
| If I Had a Raptor | George O’Connor | George O’Connor | Dinosaurs | 4+ | A girl brings a dinosaur home and shows the fun and challenges of having a pet raptor. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2987632 | |
| Dinosaurs Are Different | Aliki | Aliki | Dinosaurs | 4+ | Kids notice what makes dinosaurs different from other animals. | Race | 32 | English | none | |
| Fossils Tell of Long Ago | Aliki | Aliki | Dinosaurs, Geology | 4+ | Describes the formation of fossils and their role in revealing the nature of prehistoric life to scientists. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3769479 | |
| Dinosaur Bones | Aliki | Aliki | Dinosaurs | 4+ | A boy wonders how we know so much about dinosaurs when they lived so long ago. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2915712 | |
| Everybody Needs a Rock | Byrd Baylor | Peter Parnall | Geology | 3+ | A girl gives instructions for finding the perfect rock. | Race, Culture | 32 | English | none | |
| Magnets Push, Magnets Pull | David A. Adler | Anna Raff | Geology | 4+ | A boy and a girl explore the science of magnets around their home. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3236936 | |
| These Rocks Count | Alison Formento | Sarah Snow | Geology | 4+ | Follow a class on a field trip hike where they learn about the many uses of rocks. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2973289 | |
| Stepping Stones: A Refugee Family's Journey | Margriet Ruurs | Nizar Ali Badr | Geology | 4+ | Syrian artist Nizar Ali Badr’s stunning stone images illustrate the story of Rama and her family as they are forced to leave their home as refugees. | Race, Culture, Nationality, Language, Refugees | 28 | Arabic, English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3219725 | |
| Hello Autumn! | Shelley Rotner | Shelley Rotner | Fall | 2+ | Photographs explore diverse kids and nature in autumn. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3295750 | |
| Hello Spring! | Shelley Rotner | Shelley Rotner | Spring | 2+ | Photographs explore diverse kids and nature in spring. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3245833 | |
| Hello Winter! | Shelley Rotner | Shelley Rotner | Winter | 2+ | Photographs explore diverse kids and nature in winter. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3422388 | |
| Hello Summer! | Shelley Rotner | Shelley Rotner | Summer | 2+ | Photographs explore diverse kids and nature in summer. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3441141 | |
| My Autumn Book | Wong Herbert Yee | Wong Herbert Yee | Fall | 2+ | A young girl rushes outside when the air is crisp and the sky turns gray to observe all of the changes that autumn brings. | Race | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3111180 | ||
| Goodbye Summer, Hello Autumn | Kenard Pak | Kenard Pak | Fall | 3+ | Join a young girl as she walks through forest and town, greeting the signs of the coming season. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3202197 | |
| Apple Picking Time | Michele Ben Slawson | Deborah Kogan Ray | Fall, History | 3+ | This quiet story is a celebration of family and community: taking time off from work and school, Anna’s entire family turns out to pick the fruit before it spoils. | Race | 32 | English | none | |
| Fall Leaves: Colorful and Crunchy | Martha E. H. Rustad | Amanda Enright | Fall, Plants, Seasons | 3+ | Look at the science of leaves through the seasons, but mostly fall. | Race | 24 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2737727 | |
| Fall Apples: Crisp and Juicy | Martha E. H. Rustad | Amanda Enright | Fall, Food | 3+ | Learn about how apples grow and how to use them. | Race | 24 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2737726 | |
| One Green Apple | Eve Bunting | Ted Lewin | Fall, Food | 4+ | While on a school field trip to an orchard to make cider, a young immigrant named Farah gains self-confidence. | Race, Religion, Culture, Nationality, | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2365840 | |
| Into the Snow | Yuki Kaneko | Masamitsu Saito | Winter | 2+ | A girl plays out in the snow and has hot chocolate with her mother. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3140549 | |
| First Snow | Nancy Viau | Talitha Shipman | Winter | 4+ | Friends gather outside to celebrate the first snowfall of the season with snowball fights, sledding, building igloos, drinking hot chocolate, and making the most of a windy, wintry day. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3396952 | |
| First Snow | Bomi Park | Bomi Park | Winter | 2+ | A young girl experiences the magic of the first snowfall. | Race | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3207281 | |
| When the Snow Falls | Linda Booth Sweeney | Jana Christy | Winter | 2+ | A sister and brother bundle up for an outdoor adventure in the snow with Grandma. | Race, Age | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3299043 | |
| Tracks in the Snow | Wong Herbert Yee | Wong Herbert Yee | Winter | 2+ | Help a girl solve the mystery of who the tracks in the snow belong to. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3374550 | |
| The Snowy Day | Ezra Jack Keats | Ezra Jack Keats | Winter | 2+ | A classic read-aloud about Peter exploring the snow in his neighborhood. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C69127 | |
| Big Snow | Jonathan Bean | Jonathan Bean | Winter | 3+ | While helping his mother with housecleaning, an antsy boy keeps a watchful eye on the progress of a winter storm. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2919428 | |
| Pup and Bear | Kate Banks | Naoko Stoop | Land Animals, Winter | 3+ | A polar bear adopts a wolf pup she finds in the snow and cares for him as her own. | Family Make-Up | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3296519 | |
| Thanks to the Animals | Allen Sockabasin | Rebekah Raye | Land Animals, Winter | 3+ | A Native American boy is helped by animals on the long journey from their summer home by the seashore to their winter home in the deep inland woods. | Race, Culture | 30 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3377404 | |
| Snow | Cynthia Rylant | Lauren Stringer | Winter | 4+ | Celebrates the beauty of a snowfall and its happy effects on children. | Race | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2532198 | |
| Rain! | Linda Ashman | Christian Robinson | Spring | 2+ | A boy cheers up a grumpy old man in his rainy urban neighborhood. | Race, Age | 30 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2882032 | |
| Who Likes Rain? | Wong Herbert Yee | Wong Herbert Yee | Spring | 2+ | Spring is here, and that means April showers as a girl explores the rainy day habits of the world around her. Good read aloud. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3758277 | |
| Rain Talk | Mary Serfozo | Keiko Narahashi | Spring | 3+ | A girl explores the sounds the rain makes in her rural neighborhood. | Race | 28 | English | none | |
| Sakura’s Cherry Blossoms | Robert Paul Weston | Misa Saburi | Spring | 4+ | Sakura misses her grandmother and cherry blossoms when she moves from Japan to America. | Race, Culture, Nationality, Age | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3343073 | |
| Leo Can Swim | Anna McQuinn | Ruth Hearson | Summer | All | Leo and his friends kick, splash, sing, and play at swim class. | Race | 24 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3171408 | |
| Summer Days and Nights | Wong Herbert Yee | Wong Herbert Yee | Summer | 2+ | Join an adventurous little girl as she sets out on a summer’s journey to explore the special world around her. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2795360 | |
| Summer Sun Risin’ | W. Nikola-Lisa | Don Tate | Summer | 3+ | The narrator tells us about a fine summer’s day on a hard-working farm where everyone is busy from sunup to sunset. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3255513 | |
| In The Meadow | Yukiko Kato | Komako Sakai | Summer, Insects | 3+ | A girl enjoys the sounds and insects in a field with grass as tall as she is. | Race, Nationality | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2718266 | |
| Come On, Rain | Karen Hesse | John J. Muth | Summer | 3+ | A girl waits for rain in the intense summer heat. | Race | 28 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C1881111 | |
| This Beach Is Loud! | Samantha Cotterill | Samantha Cotterill | Summer | 3+ | A boy is very excited to go to the beach with his dad, but the sounds and textures are too much for him. His dad helps him remember some tricks to help. | Race, Neurodiversity | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3455739 | |
| Can I Play Too? | Samantha Cotterill | Samantha Cotterill | Friendship | 3+ | Two boys' fun train-track-building project takes a turn when one of the boys obliviously insists on only doing things his way. | Race, Neurodiversity | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3521235 | |
| It Was Supposed to Be Sunny | Samantha Cotterill | Samantha Cotterill | Celebrations | 3+ | Laila feels like her sparkly sunshine birthday celebration is on the brink of ruin when it starts to storm. Changes in routine can be hard for any kid, but especially for kids on the autism spectrum. | Race, Neurodiversity | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3671011 | |
| The Not-So Great Outdoors | Madeline Kloepper | Madeline Kloepper | Summer | 3+ | At first, a girl is not enthusiastic about leaving the city to go camping with her family. But it grows on her. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3449663 | |
| Jabari Jumps | Gaia Cornwall | Gaia Cornwall | Summer | 4+ | A boy works up the courage to leap from the high dive with the help of his encouraging father. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3270029 | |
| The Hike | Alison Farrell | Alison Farrell | Summer, Plants, Land Animals | 4+ | Three intrepid explorers set out to conquer their forest, learning a lot about the plants and animals they see along the way. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3482275 | |
| We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga | Traci Sorell | Frane Lessac | Seasons, Celebrations | 3+ | Journey through the year with a Cherokee family and their tribal nation as they express thanks for celebrations big and small. | Race, Culture, Language | 32 | Cherokee, English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3395210 | |
| Fiesta Babies | Carmen Tafolla | Amy Cordova | Celebrations | All | Babies enjoy a colorful fiesta with singing, dancing, food, and rhyme. Some Spanish. | Race, Culture, Language | 24 | Spanish, English | none | |
| Thread of Love | Kabir Sehgal and Surishtha Sehgal | Zara Gonzalez Hoang | Celebrations | All | Explore the Indian holiday of Raksha Bandhan, a celebration of the thread of love that binds brothers and sisters. | Race, Culture, Nationality | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3399501 | |
| Celebrate with Zaza | Mylo Freeman | Mylo Freeman | Celebrations | 2+ | Zaza is having a party for her stuffy’s birthday. Celebrate and sing! | Race | 24 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3369999 | |
| Mitzi Tulane, Preschool Detective, in What’s That Smell? | Mylo Freeman | Debbie Ohi | Celebrations | 3+ | Mitzi must follow the clues- and her nose- to crack the case of whose birthday party her family is throwing. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3190941 | |
| Green Pants | Kenneth Kraegel | Kenneth Kraegel | Celebrations, Clothing | 3+ | Jameson always wears green pants, but he can’t wear them in his cousin’s wedding. He faces a difficult decision and shows he really can do anything in green pants. | Race | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3255729 | |
| Shante Keys and the New Years Peas | Gail Piernas-Davenport | Marion Eldridge | Celebrations | 3+ | An African American girl learns about her neighbor’s different New Year’s traditions when she searches for black-eyed peas for her family’s dinner. | Race, Culture | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2464758 | |
| Duck for Turkey Day | Jacqueline Jules | Kathryn Mitter | Celebrations | 3+ | Tuyet worries that her Vietnamese family isn’t following the rules of Thanksgiving when they have a duck for dinner. | Race, Culture, Nationality | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2611026 | |
| Gracias-Thanks | John Parra | John Parra | Celebrations | 3+ | A young multiracial boy celebrates family, friendship, and fun by telling about some of the everyday things for which he is thankful. | Race, Culture, Language, Family Make-Up | 32 | Spanish, English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2617514 | |
| Festival of Colors | Kabir Sehgal & Surishtha Sehgal | Vashti Harrison | Colors, Celebrations | 3+ | Chintoo and Mintoo prepare for the festival of Holi by picking flowers and making fine powders out of them to throw on each other. | Race, Culture, Nationality | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3330505 | |
| Too Many Tamales | Gary Soto | Too Many Tamales | Celebrations | 4+ | Maria loses her mother’s ring in the tamales for their Mexican Christmas celebration. | Race, Culture, Nationality | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C1329628 | |
| Between Us and Abuela: A Family Story from the Border | Mitali Perkins | Sara Palacios | Celebrations | 4+ | Maria, her mom, and her little brother go to the border wall to visit their grandmother to celebrate Las Posadas. But when the officers won’t let them put their gifts through the fence, Maria comes up with a high-flying solution. | Race, Culture, Nationality | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3489668 | |
| The Flower Girl Wore Celery | Holly Clifton-Brown | Holly Clifton-Brown | Celebrations | 4+ | Emma is going to be the flower girl in her cousin Hannah’s Jewish wedding, but nothing is as she expected. | Religion, Culture, Family Make-Up, LGBTQIA+ | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3208655 | |
| Over the River & Through the Wood: A Holiday Adventure | Linda Ashman | Kim Smith | Celebrations | 4+ | A multiracial family rushes through the snow to Grandma and Grandpa’s house for an unspecified winter holiday that looks like Thanksgiving. Good read aloud. | Race, Family Make-Up | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3125566 | ||
| Queen of the Hanukkah Dosas | Queen of the Hanukkah Dosas | Queen of the Hanukkah Dosas | Celebrations | 4+ | In a family that is Indian and Jewish it’s fun to make dosas for Hanukkah. | Race, Family Make-Up, Nationality, Religion | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3311041 | |
| The Nian Monster | Andrea Wang | Alina Chau | Celebrations | 4+ | Can Xingling find a way to outwit the monster and save Shanghai in time for the new year’s festivities? | Race, Culture, Nationality | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3209666 | |
| Sam and the Lucky Money | Karen Chinn | Cornelius Van Wright and Ying-Hwa Hu | Celebrations | 4+ | Sam is so excited to spend his lucky new year’s money. He struggles with the decision of where to spend it until he finds someone who needs it more than he does. | Race, Culture, Socioeconomic | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C1770154 | |
| Charlie Parker played be bop | Chris Raschka | Chris Raschka | Music | All | This lyrical read-aloud shares the music of a great jazz saxophone player. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C1269761 | |
| A Band of Babies | Carole Gerber | Jane Dyer | Music | All | On play group morning the babies start making music. Good read-aloud. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3272097 | |
| I Got the Rhythm | Connie Schofield-Morrison | I Got the Rhythm | Music, Neighborhood | 2+ | A girl explores rhythm in her neighborhood, making fun music with her body. Great read aloud. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3004037 | |
| Sing, Don’t Cry | Angela Dominguez | Angela Dominguez | Music, Family | 2+ | Abuelo and his grandchildren sing through the bad times and the good as he plays his guitar and tells about his life. | Race, Culture, Nationality, Age | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3281992 | |
| Ben’s Trumpet | Rachel Isadora | Rachel Isadora | Music | 3+ | Ben wants to play the trumpet, but he doesn’t have one. | Race, Socioeconomic | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C122161 | |
| Because | Mo Willems | Amber Ren | Music | 3+ | This moving tale of a young girl’s journey to composing and conducting an orchestra explores the chance, persistence, and hard work required. | Race, Gender Roles | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3429670 | |
| Natsumi! | Susan Lendroth | Priscilla Burris | Music | 3+ | Natsumi does everything in a big way, which her parents don’t always appreciate. But her grandfather helps her discover that her talents are great for taiko drumming. | Race, Culture, Age | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3363377 | |
| Before John Was a Jazz Giant | Carole Boston Weatherford | Sean Qualls | Music, History | 3+ | Young John Coltrane was all ears, soaking in the sounds around him. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2485388 | |
| Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music | Margarita Engle | Rafael López | Music, History | 3+ | Based on a true story, a Chinese-African-Cuban girl breaks Cuba's traditional taboo against female drummers to follow her passion. | Race, Culture, Nationality, Gender Roles | 48 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3077994 | |
| Hana Hashimoto, Sixth Violin | Chieri Uegaki | Qin Leng | Music | 4+ | Hana practices and practices for the school talent show, remembering her grandfather who played violin in Japan. | Race, Culture, Nationality | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3019848 | |
| Moses Goes to a Concert | Isaac Millman | Isaac Millman | Music | 4+ | A story about a deaf boy going with his class to a symphony concert. It includes sign language. Good read aloud. | Ability, Language | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C1809270 | |
| Little Melba and Her Big Trombone | Katheryn Russell-Brown | Frank Morrison | Music, History | 4+ | This lively tribute follows the life of an unsung hero of jazz from her start as a little girl who chooses to play the trombone. | Race, Gender Roles | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3010995 | |
| B is for Breakdancing | Dr. Tamara Pizzoli | Howell Edwards Creative | Alphabet, Dance | 2+ | An ABC book of ways to shake what your momma gave you. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3313128 | |
| How Do You Dance? | Thyra Heder | Thyra Heder | Dance | 2+ | Explore dance in all of its creativity, humor, and joy, in a book that celebrates the diversity of personal expression through dance. | Race, Ability, Gender Expression | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3463095 | |
| Rap a Tap Tap: Here’s Bojangles - Think of That! | Leo Dillon & Diane Dillon | Leo Dillon & Diane Dillon | History, Dance | 2+ | In toe-tapping verse and joyful paintings, celebrate the spirit and exuberance of the legendary dancer Bojangles. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2142192 | |
| Brave Ballerina: The Story of Janet Collins | Michelle Meadows | Ebony Glenn | History, Dance | 3+ | This is the story of a remarkable pioneer, the first African American prima ballerina in the Metropolitan Opera House, shown in beautiful illustrations and poetry. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3432028 | |
| I Will Dance | Nancy Bo Flood | Julianna Swaney | Dance | 3+ | Eva longs to dance, but doesn’t know what dance looks like for someone who uses a wheelchair. Until she discovers a class for dancers of all abilities. | Race, Ability | 48 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3604874 | |
| Jingle Dancer | Cynthia Leitich Smith | Cornelius Van Wright and Ying-Hwa Hu | Dance | 4+ | The affirming story of how a contemporary Native American girl turns to her family and community to help her dance find a voice. | Race, Culture | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C1967826 | |
| The Cambodian Dancer: Sophany’s Gift of Hope | Daryn Reicherter | Christy Hale | Dance | 4+ | Dancing and sharing dance with others brings Sophany great joy, but she has to leave Cambodia and start a life in a new land. | Race, Culture, Nationality, Language | 32 | Khmer, English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3145485 | |
| A Dance Like Starlight: One Ballerina’s Dream | Kristy Dempsey | Floyd Cooper | History, Dance | 4+ | An African-American girl in the fifties dreams of being a ballerina even though only white girls are allowed to perform. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3084083 | |
| Ho’onani Hula Warrior | Heather Gale | Mika Song | Dance | 4+ | Ho’onani doesn’t see herself as a girl or boy. But she knows she wants to be in the performance of traditional hula chant, a traditionally all-male performance. | Race, Culture, Gender Expression, Gender Identity, Gender Roles | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3473375 | |
| Kite Flying | Grace Lin | Grace Lin | Visual Art | 2+ | A Chinese-American girl builds a dragon kite with her family and flies it in the park. | Race, Culture | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2131277 | |
| Viva Frida | Yuyi Morales | Tim O'Meara & Yuyi Morales | Visual Art, History | 2+ | With spare text and gorgeous illustrations, explore the imaginative life of Frida Kahlo. | Race, Culture, Nationality | 40 | Spanish, English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3021945 | |
| What If… | Samantha Berger | Michael Curato | Visual Art | 2+ | This gorgeous book celebrating creativity follows a girl with purple hair as she imagines the many ways she “will always create.” | Race | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3356859 | |
| Puddle | Hyewon Yum | Hyewon Yum | Visual Art | 3+ | A boy and his mother draw together on a rainy day. | Race | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3155026 | |
| Frida Kahlo (Little People, Big Dreams) | Isabel Sanchez Vegara | Gee Fan Eng | Visual Art, History | 3+ | A fantastic biography of the famous painter. | Race, Culture, Nationality | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3879234 | |
| Beyonce (Little People, Big Dreams) | Isabel Sanchez Vegara | Jade Orlando | Music, History | 3+ | A fantastic biography of the famous singer. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3949209 | |
| Leo Messi (Little People, Big Dreams) | Isabel Sanchez Vegara | Florencia Gavilán | History, Sports | 3+ | A fantastic biography of the famous athlete. | Race, Culture, Nationality | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3924339 | |
| Amanda Gorman (Little People, Big Dreams) | Isabel Sanchez Vegara | Queenbe Monyei | History, Writing/Poetry | 3+ | A fantastic biography of the famous poet. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3779768 | |
| Stevie Wonder (Little People, Big Dreams) | Isabel Sanchez Vegara | Melissa Lee Johnson | Music, History | 3+ | A fantastic biography of the famous singer. | Race, Ability | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3638830 | |
| Drawn Together | Minh Le | Dan Santat | Visual Art | 3+ | A boy and his grandfather have trouble communicating until they discover their shared love of drawing. | Race, Culture, Nationality, Age | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3367576 | |
| Ish | Peter H. Reynolds | Peter H. Reynolds | Visual Art | 3+ | Ramon feels self-conscious about his drawing until his little sister points out that art can look “ish”. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2263737 | |
| Maybe Something Beautiful: How Art Transformed a Neighborhood | F. Isabel Campoy and Theresa Howell | Rafael López | Visual Art, Neighborhood | 3+ | The story of how art transformed a neighborhood through the hands of a girl and her neighbors. | Race | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3231962 | |
| Parker Looks Up: An Extraordinary Moment | Parker Curry and Jessica Curry | Brittany Jackson | Visual Art, History | 3+ | Visit the National Portrait Gallery with Parker and share her moment of awe at Amy Sherald’s portrait of First Lady Michelle Obama. | Race | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3466922 | |
| David’s Drawings | Cathryn Falwell | Cathryn Falwell | Visual Art | 3+ | David draws a picture of a tree and his whole class wants to contribute to the drawing. When he gets home he makes another for himself. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2094184 | |
| Imagine! | Raúl Colón | Raúl Colón | Visual Art | 3+ | This wordless story of what happens when a boy visits The MOMA in New York is full of imagination and fun. | Race | 48 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3389467 | |
| Cherries and Cherry Pits | Vera B. Williams | Vera B. Williams | Visual Art, Neighborhood | 4+ | A girl draws pictures and tells stories about cherries and people in her neighborhood. | Race | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C769939 | |
| Jake Makes a World: Jacob Lawrence, a Young Artist in Harlem | Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts | Christopher Myers | Visual Art, History | 4+ | Learn about the childhood of Jacob Lawrence and how he found inspiration in everyday things. | Race | 44 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3138653 | |
| Henri’s Scissors | Jeanette Winter | Jeanette Winter | Visual Art, History | 4+ | See the art Henri Matisse was able to create when confined to his bed and a wheelchair. | Ability, Nationality | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2916749 | |
| Radiant Child | Javaka Steptoe | Javaka Steptoe | Visual Art, History | 4+ | The life of Jean-Michel Basquiat and how he became an artist in NYC. | Race, Socioeconomic | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3215660 | |
| The World is Not a Rectangle | Jeanette Winter | Jeanette Winter | Visual Art, History | 4+ | A portrait of Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid and her dreams of designing wild and beautiful cities based on nature. | Race, Culture, Nationality | 56 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3287454 | |
| A Life Made by Hand: The Story of Ruth Asawa | Andrea D’Aquino | Andrea D’Aquino | Visual Art, History | 4+ | A straightforward look at the life of a Japanese American artist whose woven wire sculptures bring beauty to the world. | Race | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3473198 | |
| Mission to Space | John Herrington | John Herrington | Outer Space, History | 3+ | Follow Chickasaw astronaut John Herrington on his mission to the International Space Station through photos. | Race, Culture, Language | 24 | Chickasaw, English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3243925 | |
| Hello,Star | Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic | Vashti Harrison | Outer Space | 3+ | A young girl becomes interested in astronomy when she learns about a dying star in the sky. It inspires her to become a scientist and astronaut. | Race | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3717295 | |
| Nerdy Babies: Space | Emmy Kastner | Emmy Kastner | Outer Space | 3+ | Join a diverse group of babies as they learn facts about space. | Race | 24 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3469854 | |
| Mae Among the Stars | Roda Ahmed | Stasia Burrington | Outer Space, History | 3+ | Little Mae Jemison wants to be an astronaut when she grows up, and though her teacher doesn’t think it’s possible, her mother believes in her. | Race, Gender Roles | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3337919 | |
| Busy People: Astronaut | Lucy M. George | AndoTwin | Outer Space | 3+ | Follow the adventures of three diverse astronauts on a space station. | Race | 24 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?query=Busy%20People&searchType=smart | |
| Gravity | Jason Chin | Jason Chin | Outer Space | 3+ | Learn about the ups and downs of the mysterious force that keeps us on the ground. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2983133 | |
| A Big Mooncake for Little Star | Grace Lin | Grace Lin | Outer Space, Food | 3+ | Little Star can’t resist nibbling on the mooncake that she bakes with her mama, leading to it gradually getting smaller, just like the actual moon. | Race, Culture | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3379060 | |
| Small World | Ishta Mercurio | Jen Corace | Outer Space | 3+ | As Nanda grows, her world grows too, until she’s the one in space looking down on planet Earth. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3459882 | |
| How to Be on the Moon | Viviane Schwarz | Viviane Schwarz | Outer Space | 4+ | Anna and Crocodile build a rocket and prepare for a trip to the moon. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3459863 | |
| You Should Meet Mae Jemison | Laurie Calkhoven | Monique Dong | Outer Space, History | 4+ | The life of Mae Jemison, the first African American female astronaut. | Race | 48 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3194866 | |
| To the Stars!: The First American Woman to Walk in Space | Camella Van Fleet and Dr. Kathy Sullivan | Nicole Wong | Outer Space, History | 4+ | The life of Kathy Sullivan, the first American woman to walk in space. | Gender Roles | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3552392 | |
| Imani’s Moon | JaNay Brown-Wood | Hazel Mitchell | Outer Space | 4+ | Imani wants to touch the moon so she can achieve something great, just like the heroes in the Kenyan folk stories Mama tells her. But how will she do it? | Race, Culture, Nationality | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3037175 | |
| Jake at Gymnastics | Rachel Isadora | Rachel Isadora | Sports | 2+ | Jake and his toddler classmates tumble through gymnastics class. | Race, Gender Roles | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2987633 | |
| The Field | Baptiste Paul | Jacqueline Alcántara | Sports | 2+ | Kids in a Caribbean town take over a field for a passionate game of pick-up soccer. Will the rain get in their way? Creole words interspersed. | Race, Nationality, Language | 32 | Creole, English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3343046 | |
| She’s Got This | Laurie Hernandez | Niña Mata | Sports | 3+ | Zoe wants to fly like the gymnasts on TV, but when she falls off the balance beam she wants to give up. Her family convinces her to keep trying. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3429989 | |
| Sisters: Venus and Serena Williams | Jeanette Winter | Jeanette Winter | Sports, History | 3+ | Follow Venus and Serena from their childhood in Compton to dominating the world of tennis. | Race, Socioeconomic | 48 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3448388 | |
| Luke Goes to Bat | Rachel Isadora | Rachel Isadora | Sports | 4+ | Luke is not very good at baseball, but his grandmother and sports star Jackie Robinson encourage him to keep trying. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2287549 | |
| JoJo’s Flying Side Kick | Brian Pinkney | Brian Pinkney | Sports | 4+ | Everyone gives JoJo advice on how to perform in order to earn her yellow belt in tae kwon do class, but in the end she figures it out for herself. | Race, Gender Roles | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C1646419 | |
| Allie’s Basketball Dream | Barbara E. Barber | Darryl Ligasan | Sports | 4+ | Allie is so excited to practice with the new basketball her father gave her, but other kids keep telling her that basketball is for boys. Allie finally convinces one boy that girls can shoot hoops too and with each shot she improves. | Race, Gender Roles | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3259386 | |
| The William Hoy Story | Nancy Churnin | Jez Tuya | Sports, History | 4+ | William Hoy was one of the greatest and most beloved players of his time. He was also deaf. | Ability | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3165368 | |
| The Quickest Kid in Clarksville | Pat Zietlow Miller | Frank Morrison | Sports, History | 4+ | Gold medalist Wilma Rudolph comes home to Clarksville and inspires a young runner to reach for her dreams. | Race, Socioeconomic | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3162186 | |
| The Soccer Fence | Phil Bildner | Jesse Joshua Watson | Sports, History | 4+ | A story of friendship, hope and apartheid in South Africa follows a boy who wants to play soccer on the clean, grass-covered pitch that the white boys play on. | Race, Nationality, Socioeconomic | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3243089 | |
| The Stone Thrower | Jael Ealey Richardson | Matt James | Sports, History | 4+ | Learn the story of Chuck Ealey and his journey from growing up very poor in a segregated neighborhood in Ohio to football fame. | Race, Socioeconomic | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3170494 | |
| Born Ready:The True Story of a Boy Named Penelope | Jodie Patterson | Born Ready:The True Story of a Boy Named Penelope | Sports | 4+ | Penelope loves skateboarding and karate and is about to go on a journey of coming out to his family as a boy. | Race, Gender Identity, LGBTQIA+ | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3636617 | |
| The Bus is for Us! | Michael Rosen | Gillian Tyler | Transportation | All | This playful rhyme shows why many different kids love riding the bus. Good read aloud. | Race | 32 | English | none | |
| The Bus For Us | Suzanne Bloom | Suzanne Bloom | Transportation | 2+ | Waiting at the bus stop with her older friend Gus, Tess eagerly asks, “Is this the bus for us, Gus?” as each vehicle passes by. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2073454 | |
| Subway | Anastasia Suen | Karen Katz | Transportation | All | Colorful illustrations by Karen Katz follow a girl on a subway trip with her mother. Good read aloud. | Race, Socioeconomic | 24 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?query=subway&searchType=smart | |
| Up! Up! Up! Skyscraper | Anastasia Suen | Ryan O'Rourke | Construction | 3+ | Snappy rhymes invite young readers to watch workers dig, pour, pound, and bolt a skyscraper into existence. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3278893 | |
| I Really Want to See You, Grandma | Taro Gomi | Taro Gomi | Transportation | 2+ | Yumi and her grandmother take many different modes of transportation to visit one another, but they keep missing each other! Great read-aloud. | Race, Age | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3364760 | |
| The Wheels on the Bus | Stella Blackstone | Melanie Williamson | Transportation | 2+ | In a twist on the classic tune, follow a chicken bus on its way to town in Guatemala. Comes with a CD of the music. | Race, Culture, Nationality | 24 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3086335 | |
| Whose Truck? | Toni Buzzeo | Jim Datz | Transportation | 2+ | From snow plows to cranes, guess who the trucks belong to. Board book. | Race, Gender Roles | 16 | English | none | |
| Max Speed | Stephen Shaskan | Stephen Shaskan | Transportation | 2+ | Max is a fearless daredevil from cars to jet packs to volcanoes. Great read aloud. | Race | 32 | English | none | |
| Dig Dig Digging | Margaret Mayo | Alex Ayliffe | Transportation | 2+ | This bright, noise-filled book brings together the vehicles that children adore. | Race | 24 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3036803 | |
| The Princess and the Pit Stop | Tom Angleberger | Dan Santat | Transportation | 3+ | A plucky princess races against a gaggle of fairy-tale and nursery rhyme characters in this epic car race with illustrations full of action. | Race, Gender Roles | 48 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3370023 | |
| The Airport Book | Lisa Brown | Lisa Brown | Transportation | 3+ | Follow a multiracial family on their airplane trip and learn about the steps in their adventure. | Race, Family Make-Up | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3170478 | |
| Emergency! | Gail Gibbons | Gail Gibbons | Transportation | 3+ | See what people do in an emergency to help using special vehicles and equipment. | Race | 32 | English | none | |
| All the Way to Havana | Margarita Engle | Mike Curato | Transportation | 3+ | A boy and his parents drive to Havana, Cuba, experiencing the sites and sounds of the city and its vintage cars. | Race, Culture, Nationality | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3286567 | |
| A Fire Engine for Ruthie | Lesléa Newman | Cyd Moore | Transportation | 4+ | Ruthie loves to visit Nana, but Nana doesn’t have the vehicle toys that Ruthie loves to play with, so she creates her own. | Gender Expression | 32 | English | none | |
| My Papi Has a Motorcycle | Isabel Quintero | Zeke Peña | Transportation | 4+ | When Daisy zooms around her neighborhood with Papi on his motorcycle, she sees the people and places in her Southern California neighborhood. | Race, Culture | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3448547 | |
| Fly, Girl, Fly: Shaesta Waiz Soars Around the World | Nancy Roe Pimm | Alexandra Bye | Transportation, History | 4+ | Shaesta Waiz is a refugee from Afghanistan who overcame gender stereotypes to be the youngest woman to fly around the globe by herself in a single engine aircraft. | Race, Nationality, Gender Expression, Refugees | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3597532 | |
| Flying Free: How Bessie Coleman's Dreams Took Flight | Karyn Parsons | R. Gregory Christie | Transportation | 4+ | The story of Bessie Coleman, the first African American pilot to fight for her right to fly. | Race, Gender Roles | 48 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3668586 | |
| Building a House | Byron Barton | Byron Barton | Construction | All | From a hill to a house and all the steps in between. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C753932 | |
| Kitten and the Night Watchman | John Sullivan | Taeeun Yoo | Construction | 2+ | The night watchman hugs his wife and kids and drives to work at the construction site. All night he is alone, until he meets a kitten. | Race | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3396968 | |
| Fix it! A Reparar! | Georgie Birkett | Georgie Birkett | Construction | 2+ | A girl and her parents fix things around the house. Biligual English and Spanish. | Race | 24 | Spanish, English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3205048 | |
| Whose Tools? | Toni Buzzeo | Jim Datz | Construction | 2+ | From carpenters to masons, guess who the tools belong to. Board book. | Race, Gender Roles | 16 | English | none | |
| My Friend Robot! | Sunny Scribens | Hui Skipp | Construction | 2+ | Join a lively crew of children and a robot as they build a tree house. Great read/sing aloud. Comes with a CD of the music. | Race | 32 | English | none | |
| Blocks | Irene Dickson | Irene Dickson | Construction | 2+ | A boy and girl build, argue, and resolve their differences. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3171396 | |
| Road Builders | B. G. Hennessy | Simms Taback | Construction | 2+ | See the steps a diverse crew takes to build a road. | Race, Gender Roles | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3735240 | |
| Construction | Sally Sutton | Brian Lovelock | Construction | 2+ | A rhythmic read-aloud full of bustling illustrations and sound words about the construction of a library. | Race, Gender Roles | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3026073 | |
| Roadwork | Sally Sutton | Brian Lovelock | Construction | 2+ | A rhythmic read-aloud full of bustling illustrations and sound words about the construction of a road. | Race, Gender Roles | 28 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2513160 | |
| The Construction Crew | Lynn Meltzer | Carrie Eko-Burgess | Construction | 2+ | Watch the crew tear down an old building and lay the foundation for a new home using all kinds of trucks and tools. | Race, Gender Roles | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2743323 | |
| Someone Builds the Dream | Lisa Wheeler | Loren Long | Construction | 3+ | We often celebrate architects, engineers, and designers, but what about the people who build their creations? Diverse crews build everything from bridges, to fountains to books. | Race, Gender Roles | 48 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3667646 | |
| Boxitects | Kim Smith | Kim Smith | Construction | 3+ | Meg is a brilliant and creative box architect. But the new kid, Simone, is too. Can they find a way to push past their rivalry and join creative forces? | Race, Gender Roles | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3505783 | |
| Dreaming Up: A Celebration of Building | Christy Hale | Christy Hale | Construction | 3+ | A unique celebration of children’s playtime explorations and the surprising way they find expression in the works of innovative architects. | Race | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2850149 | |
| Jabari Tries | Gaia Cornwall | Gaia Cornwall | Construction | 3+ | Jabari is inventing a machine that will fly all the way across the yard! But making it go from CRASH to WHOOSH will take grit, patience, and a little help from his sister. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3607418 | |
| Melia and Jo | Billy Aronson | Jennifer Oxley | Construction | 4+ | Melia is an inventor; Jo is an artist. Melia realizes that Jo’s very different way of seeing things can make her inventions better and a friendship is born. | Race, Gender Roles | 48 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3381073 | |
| Fire Engine No. 9 | Mike Austin | Mike Austin | Firefighters | All | Follows a fire engine and its crew through a very busy day, using mainly sound words. | Race | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3125391 | ||
| Fire Drill | Paul DuBois Jacobs and Jennifer Swender | Huy Voun Lee | Firefighters | 2+ | When loud bells ring the children in this class know what to do for a fire drill! | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2656254 | |
| Busy People: Firefighter | Lucy M. George | AndoTwin | Firefighters | 3+ | Firefighter Frank and his crew put out a fire at a school. | Race | 24 | English | none | |
| A Day in the Life of a Firefighter | Linda Hayward | Linda Hayward | Firefighters | 3+ | A photo illustrated book about a fire fighter’s day with a diverse crew. | Race | 32 | English | none | |
| My Mom is a Firefighter | Lois G. Grambling | Jane Manning | Firefighters | 4+ | Billy tells us all about his mom’s job and how he helps out at the station. | Gender Roles | 32 | English | none | |
| Molly, By Golly! | Dianne Ochiltree | Kathleen Kemly | Firefighters, History | 4+ | The Legend of Molly Williams, America's First Female Firefighter. | Race, Gender Roles | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2841664 | |
| Rainbow Stew | Cathryn Falwell | Cathryn Falwell | Plants/Gardening, Colors | 2+ | Looking for something to do on a rainy summer day, some kids and their grandfather harvest veggies from his garden to make a colorful stew. Great read-aloud. | Race, Age | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2884448 | |
| Lola Plants a Garden | Anna McQuinn | Rosalind Beardshaw | Plants/Gardening | 2+ | Lola and her mother plant a garden and invite friends for a harvest party. | Race | 28 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3023102 | |
| Flower Garden | Eve Bunting | Kathryn Hewitt | Plants/Gardening | 2+ | A girl and her father buy garden supplies, take them home on the bus, and plant them in their window box for her mother. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C1349667 | |
| Grow! Raise! Catch!: How We Get Our Food | Shelley Rotner | Shelley Rotner | Plants/Gardening, Food | 3+ | Photos of kids and farmers show where our food comes from. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3181659 | |
| Harlem Grown: How One Big Idea Transformed a Neighborhood | Tony Hillery | Jessie Hartland | Plants/Gardening, Neighborhood, History | 3+ | A true story about a man with a big idea to replace vacant lot with a farm and the kids who wanted to help. | Race | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3599376 | |
| The Ugly Vegetables | Grace Lin | Grace Lin | Plants/Gardening | 4+ | A story about a girl whose family grows ugly Chinese vegetables instead of beautiful flowers like their neighbors. | Race, Culture, Nationality | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C1914800 | |
| How Does My Garden Grow? | Gerda Muller | Gerda Muller | Plants/Gardening | 4+ | A girl visits her grandparents’ farm and helps through all the seasons. Very detailed illustrations of garden plants. | Race, Age | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?query=How%20Does%20My%20Garden%20Grow%3F&searchType=smart | |
| Fall Pumpkins: Orange and Plump | Martha E. H. Rustad | Amanda Enright | Plants/Gardening, Fall | 4+ | Learn how to plant, grow and harvest pumpkins with an enthusiastic boy. | Race | 24 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2737725 | |
| The Empty Pot | Demi | Demi | Plants/Gardening | 4+ | A long time ago in China, a boy named Ping tried to grow a flower for the Emperor, but nothing grows. He must return with an empty pot. | Race, Culture, Nationality | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3298328 | |
| Under the Lemon Moon | Edith Hope Fine | Rene King Moreno | Plants/Gardening | 4+ | Rosalinda tries to save her sick lemon tree after someone steals the lemons from it. After receiving help from La Anciana, she learns how to heal the tree and to forgive. | Race, Culture | 32 | English | none | |
| Joseph had a Little Overcoat | Simms Taback | Simms Taback | Textiles/Clothing | All | A traditional Yiddish folk song about Joseph using the fabric from his coat to make new items. | Culture, Religion, Socioeconomic | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C1928264 | |
| What Can You Do with a Rebozo? Que Puedes Hacer Con Un Rebozo? | Carmen Tafolla | Amy Cordova | Textiles/Clothing | 3+ | A girl explores all the things she can do with her traditional Mexican shawl. | Culture, Race, Nationality, Language | Spanish, English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3286259 | ||
| The Twins’ Blanket | Hyewon Yum | Hyewon Yum | Textiles/Clothing | 3+ | These twins have grown out of the blanket they’ve had since they were born, but when they have two beds and two blankets, they miss sharing. | Race | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2721956 | |
| Mommy’s Khimar | Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow | Ebony Glenn | Textiles/Clothing | 3+ | Beautiful illustrations show a girl’s vivid imagination of who and what she can be when she wears her mother’s yellow khimar (hijab). | Race, Religion, Culture | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3356850 | |
| The Keeping Quilt | Patricia Polacco | Patricia Polacco | Textiles/Clothing | 4+ | Anna and her family make a quilt out of their worn out clothing from Russia and it gets passed down through generations of their Jewish family. | Religion | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3949264 | |
| Made by Raffi | Craig Pomranz | Margaret Chamberlain | Textiles/Clothing | 4+ | When Raffi discovers knitting and sewing, at first kids make fun of him, but soon they see what great things he can make. | Gender Expression | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3303087 | |
| One Plastic Bag | Miranda Paul | Elizabeth Zunon | Textiles/Clothing | 4+ | Isatou Ceesay and the recycling women of the Gambia turn plastic bags into purses. | Race, Nationality, Culture, Socieconomic | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3065239 | |
| Maya’s Blanket: La Manta de Maya | Monica Brown | David Diaz | Textiles/Clothing | 4+ | Maya Morales loves her blanket very much and creates new clothing items from it as it wears out. Bilingual English and Spanish. | Race, Culture, Language | 32 | Spanish, English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3160263 | |
| I Love My Purse | Belle DeMont | Sonja Wimmer | Textiles/Clothing | 4+ | Charlie loves his bright red purse, even when everyone else tells him that boys don’t carry purses. Doing what he loves inspires others to do the same. | Race, Gender Expression | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3292517 | |
| The Nesting Quilt | Cathryn Falwell | Cathryn Falwell | Textiles/Clothing, New Baby | 4+ | Maya wants to make a nest for the new baby coming to her family, so she and her grandmother make a quilt. | Race, Age | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3296512 | |
| Abuela’s Weave | Omar S. Castaneda | Enrique O. Sanchez | Textiles/Clothing | 4+ | Esperanza and her grandmother go to the market to sell their traditional Guatemalan fabrics. | Race, Age, Culture, Nationality, Socioeconomic | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C1338322 | |
| Sewing Stories | Barbara Herkert | Vanessa Brantley-Newton | Textiles/Clothing, History | 4+ | Harriet Powers’ journey from enslaved child to free fiber artist shows her life of making quilts. | Race, Socioeconomic | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3138652 | |
| Deep in the Sahara | Kelly Cunnane | Hoda Hadadi | Textiles/Clothing | 4+ | Lalla wants to wear a malafa like all the women around her in Mauritania, Muslim West Africa. | Race, Culture, Nationality, Religion | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2939770 | |
| Leo Loves Baby Time | Anna McQuinn | Ruth Hearson | School | All | Follow Leo as he goes to play group with his baby friends. | Race | 24 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2967208 | |
| Think Big | Liz Garton Scanlon | Vanessa Newton | School | All | Kids use all different types of arts and crafts to imagine their future professions. | Race | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2805124 | ||
| Rosie Goes to Preschool | Karen Katz | Karen Katz | School | 2+ | Rosie shows you what her preschool is like. | Race | 34 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3104228 | |
| Ming Goes to School | Deirdre Sullivan | Maja Löfdahl | School | 2+ | Ming is curious and ready for adventure as she starts school, but even she gets scared of new things sometimes. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3190951 | |
| Lola Goes to School | Anna McQuinn | Rosalind Beardshaw | School | 2+ | Lola gets ready for and attends her first day of school. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3463106 | |
| I’m New Here | Anne Sibley O’Brien | Anne Sibley O’Brien | School | 3+ | Follow three recent immigrants as they start at their new school. | Race, Culture, Nationality | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3111174 | |
| Sumi’s First Day of School Ever | Soyung Pak | Joung Un Kim | School | 3+ | A young Korean girl has a difficult first day at her new school, but things turn around by the end of the day. | Race, Nationality | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2203716 | |
| Mom, It’s My First Day of Kindergarten | Hyewon Yum | Hyewon Yum | School | 3+ | A boy is headed to his first day at the new school, but it seems his mom is less ready than he is. | Race | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?query=Hyewon%20Yum&searchType=smart&page=2 | |
| The Day You Begin | Jacqueline Woodson | Rafael López | School | 3+ | This gorgeous book is perfect for the beginning of school. It celebrates the bravery it takes to be yourself even when you feel like an outsider in a new place. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3393879 | |
| Same Way Ben | Maryann Cocca-Leffler | Maryann Cocca-Leffler | School | 3+ | Ben likes things to be the same every day, until one day when a new teacher starts changing everything. What will Ben do? | Race, Neurodiversity | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3486235 | |
| Suki’s Kimono | Chieri Uegaki | Stéphane Jorisch | School | 4+ | Suki wants to wear her kimono to the first day of school even though her sisters tell her not to. Suki is proud to be an individual and tell the class what is important to her. | Race, Culture, Nationality | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2213992 | |
| My Name is Sangoel | Karen Lynn Williams and Khandra Mohammed | Catherine Stock | School | 4+ | When Sangoel leaves Sudan for the U.S., he is unhappy that no one at his new school can pronounce his name correctly, but he comes up with a creative solution. | Race, Nationality, Refugees | 36 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2602327 | |
| Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match | Monica Brown | Sara Palacios | School | 4+ | In a world where everyone tries to put this Peruvian-Scottish-American girl into a box, Marisol McDonald loves things that don’t match. Bilingual Spanish and English. | Race, Family Make-Up, Nationality | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2857970 | |
| The Name Jar | Yangsook Choi | Yangsook Choi | School, Friendship | 4+ | Having just arrived from Korea with her family, Unhei is anxious about making friends and worried that no one can pronounce her name. | Race, Nationality | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?query=The%20Name%20Jar&searchType=smart | |
| The King of Kindergarten | Derrick Barnes | Vanessa Brantley-Newton | School | 4+ | A boy imagines his first day of kindergarten and the royal treatment he’ll receive as he faces this new challenge. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3463103 | |
| The Arabic Quilt: An Immigrant Story | Aya Khalil | Anait Semirdzhyan | School | 4+ | Kanzi’s family has moved from Egypt to America and she wants more than anything to fit in at her new school. Soon her most treasured reminder of her old home will provide a pathway for acceptance in her new one. | Race, Culture, Nationality | 36 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3513637 | |
| The Smallest Girl in the Smallest Grade | Justin Roberts | Christian Robinson | School, Bullying | 3+ | Sally stands up against bullying at her school even though people don’t notice her. | Race | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3023092 | |
| Noni Speaks Up | Heather Hartt-Sussman | Geneviève Côté | School, Bullying | 3+ | Noni doesn’t know how to help her classmate who is being bullied, but doing nothing doesn’t feel good either. Will Noni be brave enough to speak up? | Race | 24 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3164284 | |
| My Voice is a Trumpet | Jimmie Allen | Cathy Ann Johnson | Bullying | 3+ | This lyrical book shows that all voices can make change happen. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3686590 | |
| Speak Up, Molly Lou Melon | Patty Lovell | David Catrow | School, Bullying | 3+ | Molly Lou’s mother taught her to use her big voice for good, so when a bully begins teasing others, including a new student, Molly Lou knows just what to do. | Race | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3601455 | |
| Lila and the Crow | Gabrielle Grimard | Gabrielle Grimard | School, Bullying | 4+ | Lila has just moved to a new town and the kids at school make fun of her, saying she looks like a crow. She is ashamed until she realizes how beautiful crows are. | Race, Culture | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3213553 | |
| The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family | Ibtihaj Muhammad and S. K. Ali | Hatem Aly | School, Bullying | 4+ | Faizah is proud of her older sister on her first day of hijab on the first day of school. Her sister faces mean words from other students, but Faizah supports her through it. | Race, Culture, Religion | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3460288 | |
| The Song of Delphine | Kenneth Kraegel | Kenneth Kraegel | Bullying | 4+ | Delphine is a servant in the Queen’s palace in the savannah, but the new princess is not nice to her. Her songs bring her comfort and giraffe visitors. | Race, Culture, Nationality | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3082808 | |
| From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea | kai cheng thom | Wai-Yant Li and Kai Yun Ching | Bullying | 4+ | Mui Lan couldn’t decide what to be- boy or girl? Bird or fish? Tree or star? So they (gender neutral, singular pronoun) looked like everything and kids weren’t kind at school. Mui Lin’s mother assures them that she will love them no matter what. | Race, Gender Identity, LGBTQIA+ | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3299010 | |
| King for a Day | Rukhsana Khan | Christiane Krömer | Bullying | 4+ | During the Pakistani spring kite festival of Basant, Malik realizes his dream of being King of the festival with the help of his homemade kite and his siblings, despite a neighborhood bully. | Race, Ability, Culture, Socioeconomic, Nationality | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2945289 | |
| Jacob’s New Dress | Sarah Hoffman and Ian Hoffman | Chris Case | School, Bullying | 4+ | Jacob loves to be the princess during dress up and decides he wants to wear a dress to school. Mom and Dad support him, but some kids at school don’t. | Gender Expression | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2979609 | |
| Not Quite Snow White | Ashley Franklin | Ebony Glenn | School, Bullying | 4+ | Tameika loves to sing and dance, but before she auditions for the Snow White musical, she is discouraged by hearing kids say she doesn’t look enough like the princess. With her parents’ help, she regains her confidence and shines in her audition. | Race, Body Type | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3459873 | |
| Book Fiesta! | Pat Mora | Rafael Lopez | Books/Library, Celebrations | 2+ | Celebrate children’s book day with fun kids and their imaginations. Bilingual Spanish and English. | Race, Ability, Language | 40 | Spanish, English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2627162 | |
| Lola at the Library | Anna McQuinn | Rosalind Beardshaw | Books/Library | 2+ | Lola loves going to the library with her mom. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2372076 | |
| Lola Loves Stories | Anna McQuinn | Rosalind Beardshaw | Books/Library | 2+ | Lola reads stories with her parents and imagines herself as the characters. | Race | 28 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2663171 | |
| Do Not Bring Your Dragon to the Library | Julie Gassman | Andy Elkerton | Books/Library | 3+ | Learn library etiquette with a boy and his dragon. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3296486 | |
| Busy People: Librarian | Lucy M. George | Ando Twin | Books/Library | 3+ | Follow Rita on a day as a librarian, with a special surprise. | Race | 24 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3245837 | |
| Biblioburro: A True Story from Colombia | Jeanette Winter | Jeanette Winter | Books/Library, History | 3+ | Join Luis and his trusty burros as they travel to bring treasured books to eager children in the remote villages of rural Colombia. | Race, Culture, Nationality | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2655420 | |
| The Library Book | Tom Chapin and Michael Mark | Chuck Groenink | Books/Library | 3+ | A girl sings a song about the wonderful characters she meets at the library. Great read-aloud. | Race | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3291730 | |
| Please, Louise | Toni Morrison & Slade Morrison | Shadra Strickland | Books/Library | 3+ | Louise starts the day lonely and sad, but a visit to the library opens the world for her. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2969604 | |
| Dreamers | Yuyi Morales | Yuyi Morales | Books/Library | 3+ | Gorgeous illustrations accompany this autobiographical account of the author/illustrator immigrating to the U.S. and discovering the public library. | Race, Culture, Nationality | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3386858 | |
| Ron’s Big Mission | Rose Blue and Corinne J. Naden | Don Tate | Books/Library, History | 4+ | Based on a story about Ron McNair, the pilot and astronaut, a boy wants to check out plane books from the library, but it’s against the law in segregated South Carolina. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2564597 | |
| The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read | Rita Lorraine Hubbard | Oge Mora | Books/Library, History | 4+ | The remarkable true story of the nation’s oldest student, who, at age 116, proved that you’re never too old to learn something new | Race, Age | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3513755 | |
| my people | Langston Hughes | Charles R. Smith Jr. | Writing/Poetry | All | Hughes’s tribute to his people is accompanied by vivid portrait photography. | Race | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2551803 | |
| Yum! Mmmm! Que Rico! Americas’ Sproutings | Pat Mora | Rafael Lopez | Writing/Poetry | 2+ | Food haikus celebrate Indigenous foods of the Americas. From corn to papaya, feast on the colorful illustrations and quick poems. Older kids may like the added details in the sidebars. | Race, Culture, Language | 32 | Spanish, English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2456910 | |
| Daniel Finds a Poem | Micha Archer | Micha Archer | Writing/Poetry | 3+ | Daniel discovers a poem after spending time with his animal friends in the park. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3146742 | |
| A Stick is an Excellent Thing | Marilyn Singer | LeUyen Pham | Writing/Poetry | 4+ | Poems celebrating outdoor play. | Race | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C2750466 | |
| The Word Collector | Peter H. Reynolds | Peter H. Reynolds | Writing/Poetry | 4+ | Jerome collects words and realizes how useful they are. | Race | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3330532 | |
| Dear Primo: A Letter to My Cousin | Duncan Tonatiuh | Duncan Tonatiuh | Writing/Poetry | 4+ | Two cousins write letters to each other describing their lives in their home countries of Mexico and the U.S., thus inviting readers to compare and contrast the different experiences. | Race, Culture, Nationality | 32 | Spanish, English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3154093 | |
| Something, Someday | Amanda Gorman | Christian Robinson | Writing/Poetry | 3+ | Sometimes the world feels broken. And problems seem too big to fix. But somehow, we all have the power to make a difference. With a little faith, and maybe the help of a friend, together we can find beauty and create change. | Race | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3901358 | |
| A Squiggly Story | Andrew Larsen | Mike Lowery | Writing/Poetry | 4+ | A boy writes his first story with the help of his older sister even though he doesn’t know how to write many words. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3202208 | |
| Corduroy Writes a Letter | Alison Inches | Allan Eitzen | Writing/Poetry | 4+ | Lisa and Corduroy learn the power of writing letters to give feedback about something. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3729421 | |
| Poetree | Shauna LaVoy Reynolds | Shahrzad Maydani | Writing/Poetry | 4+ | Sylvia loves sharing poetry with her favorite tree. Imagine her surprise when the poetree writes back! | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3435071 | |
| Just Like Me | Vanessa Brantley-Newton | Vanessa Brantley-Newton | Writing/Poetry | 4+ | With bright portraits in vibrant colors, this book invites girls to find themselves within the pages of empowering poems. | Race | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3516338 | |
| Missing Daddy | Mariame Kaba | bria royal | Writing/Poetry | 4+ | A girl who misses her father because he’s away in prison shares how his absence affects different parts of her life. In the end we see that she is older, reciting this poem for class. | Race, Family Make-Up | 36 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3465913 | |
| These Olive Trees | Aya Ghanameh | Aya Ghanameh | Plants | 4+ | The story of a Palestinian family’s ties to the land, and how one young girl finds a way to care for her home, even as she says goodbye. | Race, Culture, Nationality, Refugees | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3908843 | |
| Halal Hot Dogs | Susannah Aziz | Parwinder Singh | Food | 4+ | Musa has the perfect idea for his special Jummah treat, but things don't go according to plan. Will Musa be able to get a yummy Jummah treat for his family? | Race, Culture, Religion | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3665462 | |
| Loujain Dreams of Sunflowers | Uma Mishra-Newbery and Lina Al-Hathloul | Rebecca Green | Plants | 4+ | Loujain wants to see the field of sunflowers her baba told her about, but she's not allowed to fly because she's a girl. | Race, Gender Roles | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3767635 | |
| Kiyoshi's Walk | Mark Karlins | Nicole Wong | Writing/Poetry | 4+ | Kiyoshi asks his grandfather, the wise poet Eto, where poems come from after reading his Haiku, and Eto takes him on a walk through the city to seek an answer. | Race, Culture, Age | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3665467 | |
| Brilliant Bea | Shaina Rudolph and Mary Vukadinovich | Fiona Lee | Writing/Poetry | 4+ | Despite her struggles with reading and writing, Beatrice is a natural and brilliant storyteller. Her teacher helps her use a tape recorder to assist. | Race, Ability, Gender Expression | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3750323 | |
| A Library | Nikki Giovanni | Erin K. Robinson | Books/Library | 3+ | This ode to libraries is a celebration for everyone who loves stories. | Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3809368 | |
| Awesomely Emma | Amy Webb | Merrilee Liddiard | Visual Art, School, Self Pride | 4+ | Emma has limb differences and has to go to the back door on the school field trip to the art museum because there isn't a ramp in front. She writes the museum a letter in response. | Ability, Race | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3683111 | |
| Imagine | Juan Felipe Herrera | Lauren Castillo | Writing/Poetry | 4+ | With this illustrated poem of endless possibilities, follow the author from his rural childhood and challenges learning English in school, to becoming U.S. Poet Laureate. | Race, Culture, Socioeconomic | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3401827 | |
| Powwow Day | Madelyn Goodnight | Madelyn Goodnight | Dance, Celebrations | 4+ | In this uplifting, contemporary Native American story, River is recovering from illness and can't dance at the powwow this year. Will she ever dance again? | Race, Culture, Ability | 32 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3761768 | |
| ABC and You and Me | ABC and You and Me | ABC and You and Me | Alphabet, Dance | 2+ | In this original ABC book that encourages readers to sit up and move, kids and grownups use their bodies to make the shapes of each letter (and observant readers will notice details on each page that represent those letters). | Race, Ability, Body Type, Religion | 48 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3897608 | |
| Soul Food Sunday | C. G. Esperanza | C. G. Esperanza | Food, Family | 4+ | Granny teaches her grandson to cook the family meal in this loving celebration of food, traditions, and gathering together at the table. | Race, Culture, Age | 48 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3750614 | |
| The Coquíes Still Sing: A Story of Home, Hope, and Rebuilding | Karina Nicole González | Karina Nicole González | Plants, Land Animals, History | 4+ | Inspired by the rebuilding of Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria in 2017, Elena worries about the plants and animals around her house during and after the hurricane. | Race, Culture, Nationality, Socioeconomic | 40 | English | https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S30C3804661 | |