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Multicultural Stories

  • Mama’s Sleeping Scarf

  • Old to Joy

  • Major Taylor: World Cycling Champion

  • Jayylen’s Christmas Wish (Little Golden Book)

  • Invincible: Fathers and Mothers of Black America

  • The Walk (A Stroll to the Poll): A Picture Book (Abrams Books for Young Readers)

  • Black Girls: A celebration of you!

  • Flying High: The Story of Gymnastics Champion Simone Biles (Who Did It First?)

  • A Place of Our Own (Ava Murray Writes the World, 2)

  • Brown Sugar Baby Christmas Joy Board Book – Beautiful Holiday Story for Mothers and Newborns, Ages 0-3

  • A Child’s Introduction to Hip-Hop: The Beats, Rhymes, and Roots of a Musical Revolution (A Child’s Introduction Series)

  • Rooting for Plants: The Unstoppable Charles S. Parker, Black Botanist and Collector

  • Rocket Says Speak Up!

  • Love Is All Around: A Brown Baby Parade Book

  • She Persisted: Dorothy Height

  • Rock, Rosetta, Rock! Roll, Rosetta, Roll!: Presenting Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Godmother of Rock & Roll

  • Sugar Pie Lullaby: The Soul of Motown in a Song of Love

  • Stella and the Mystery of the Missing Tooth

  • The Making of Butterflies

  • Like Lava In My Veins

  • I Am a Triathlete

  • Keisha the Kind in My Little Sister Situation (Team Supercrew Series): A children’s book about emotions, kindness, family, and sibling rivalry.

  • What My Daddy Loves

  • The Night Before Freedom: A Juneteenth Story

  • Juneteenth: A Picture Book for Kids Celebrating Black Joy

  • Granny Came Here on the Empire Windrush

  • Joy Takes Root

  • Ketanji: Justice Jackson’s Journey to the U.S. Supreme Court

  • Words of Wonder from Z to A

  • The Coolest Beard

  • Daddy & Me, Side by Side

  • The History of Juneteenth: A History Book for New Readers (The History of: A History Series for New Readers)

  • The Juneteenth Story: Celebrating the End of Slavery in the United States

  • Jayylen’s Juneteenth Surprise (Little Golden Book)

  • All Different Now: Juneteenth, the First Day of Freedom

  • Repeat After Me: Big Things to Say Every Day

  • My Rainbow

  • Dear Me

  • Black Boy Hair Joy: A Rhyming Book that Teaches Black Boys Self Love

  • Grandma’s ABC’s of Growing Up: African American grandma shares her wisdom with children about life lessons and experiences through alphabets and poetry.