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Our collection of picture books featuring Black and Indigenous people and People of Color (BIPOC) is available to the public. *Inclusion of a title in the collection DOES NOT EQUAL a recommendation.* Click here for more on book evaluation.

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Everywhere babies

2004

by Susan Meyers and Marla Frazee

Describes babies and the things they do from the time they are born until their first birthday

I love Saturdays y domingos

2004

by Alma Flor Ada and Elivia Savadier

A young girl enjoys the similarities and the differences between her English-speaking and Spanish-speaking grandparents

Two old potatoes and me

2013

by John Coy and Carolyn Fisher

After a young girl finds two old potatoes at her father's house, they plant and tend them to see if they will have new potatoes in September. Includes a recipe for mashed potatoes

Happy to be nappy

2017

by bell hooks and Christopher Raschka

Celebrates the joy and beauty of nappy hair

Much, much better

2008

by Chaim Kosofsky and Jessica Schiffman

When kind-hearted Shlomo and his wife Miriam share their sabbath meal with the prophet Elijah, disguised as an old man, the grateful visitor rewards the couple with a special gift

She doesn’t want the worms

2011

by Karl Beckstrand and David Hollenbach

Ella's very picky about which animals she likes, reserving a special distaste for insects and other non-mammals

King Jack and the dragon

2015

by Peter Bently and Helen Oxenbury

Jack, Zack, and Caspar build a castle fort, then spend a day fighting dragons and beasts, but at day's end giants carry away first Sir Zack, then Caspar, and King Jack is left to face night creatures alone

Kiki’s journey

2017

by Kristy Orona-Ramirez and Jonathan Warm Day

When eight-year-old Kiki travels to Taos Pueblo, the reservation where her parents grew up, she confronts her identity as both a Tiwa Indian and a big city girl.

Sweetest Kulu

2018

by Celina Kalluk and Alexandria Neonakis

Describes the gifts given to a newborn baby by all the animals of the Arctic. Lyrically and tenderly told by a mother speaking to her own little "Kulu," an Inuktitut term of endearment often bestowed upon babies and young children, this visually stunning book is infused with the traditional Inuit values of love and respect for the land and its animal inhabitants."--publisher

Grandma Panda’s China storybook