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Our comprehensive collection of children's picture books featuring Black and Indigenous people and People of Color (BIPOC) is available to the public. You can use the search tool below to find titles. *Note: Inclusion of a title in the collection DOES NOT EQUAL recommendation. See our related readings page for suggested tools for evaluating books.

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A day I remember

2015

by Prodeepta Das

This is a day that Swayam will always remember: he's going to be "Markundi", the boy who keeps the bridegroom (his uncle) company through the wedding preparations

A day with my aunts / Un día con mis tías

2006

by Anilú Bernardo and Christina Rodriguez

Isabel visits her aunts on Saturdays. They dance, dress up, and make empanadas. Isabel visita a sus tías los sábados. Bailan, se engalanan, y hacen empanadas.

A day with Yayah

2018

by Nicola I. Campbell and Julie Flett

On an outing in Nicola Valley, British Columbia, a First Nations family forages for herbs and mushrooms while the grandmother passes down her language and knowledge to her young grandchildren. Includes glossary.

A day without sugar

2012

by Diane De Anda, Janet Montecalvo and Gabriela Baeza Ventura

Because ten-year-old Tito is at risk of developing diabetes like some of his relatives, Tía Sofía spends a day teaching him and his cousins about healthy, low-sugar or sugar-free treats

A different pond

2017

by Bao Phi and Thi Bui

"As a young boy, Bao Phi awoke early, hours before his father's long workday began, to fish on the shores of a small pond in Minneapolis. Unlike many other anglers, Bao and his father fished for food, not recreation. Between hope-filled casts, Bao's father told him about a different pond in their homeland of Vietnam"--|cProvided by publisher

A dog named Haku

2018

by Margarita Engle, Ruth Jeyaveeran, Amish Karanjit and Nicole Karanjit

During a Hindu festival in Kathmandu, Nepal, brothers Alu and Bhalu search for a dog they can honor with food and gratitude. Includes glossary of Nepali words and suggested activities.

A dragon on the doorstep

2012

by Stella Blackstone, Debbie Harter and Fred Penner

Easy-to-read, rhyming text describes a game of hide-and- seek among the animals in a child's home

A drop of the sea

2018

by Ingrid Chabbert and Raúl Nieto Guridi

When Ali's aged great-grandmother, with whom he lives, tells him the one thing she wishes for that she never did was to see the sea, two days walk away across the desert, he sets out with a pail to make the journey for her.

A family is a family is a family

2016

by Sara O'Leary and Qin Leng

When a teacher asks the children in her class to think about what makes their families special, the answers are all different in many ways -- but the same in the one way that matters most of all. One child, with a foster mother, is worried that her family is just too different to explain, but listens as her classmates talk about what makes their families special. One is raised by a grandmother, and another has two dads. One is full of step-siblings, and another has a new baby. As one by one, her classmates describe who they live with and who loves them -- family of every shape, size and every kind of relation -- the child realizes that as long as her family is full of caring people, her family is special.--Publisher

A farmer’s life for me

2013

by Jan Dobbins and Laura Huliska-Beith

Spend a day out in the fields and find out what farmers do.

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