Noa the house-sprite can find just about anything—except a friend. With a hat, a sandwich, and boundless determination, he leaves to find a home with friends. Along the way, he meets a bear, a ferret, and a wolf; the quartet’s search... Read More

Inspired by a Chinese creation myth, this vibrant picture book demonstrates the power of connection. Nüwa is the only person on Earth; though she loves the plants and animals surrounding her, she grows lonely with no one to talk to.... Read More

Dynamic colored-pencil illustrations match the energy of their subject in this story of a green-thumbed grandmother. Feeding her hens and geese, composting, watering, weeding, and harvesting, it’s all in a day’s work for Granny as... Read More

Little Stripe the zebra cannot find his dad. “He has black and white stripes,” Little Stripe says to a monarch caterpillar who offers to help him look. They soon discover that more than just zebras fit that description. Watercolor... Read More

Vaunda Micheaux Nelson’s excellent book "Small Shoes, Great Strides" covers how, in November of 1960, Leona Tate, Gail Etienne, and Tessie Prevost made history by going to first grade—as the first Black students at a public school in... Read More

Bold black lines cut through tonal blues, pastel yellows, and orange accents in this charming picture book about parent-child negotiations. A little girl asks for 100 dogs; “But where would 100 dogs sleep?” her father replies. So... Read More

In a story set during WWII amid the internment of Japanese Canadians, a girl is magically transported back to familiar places in search of her father as her birthday looms. Mira and her imaginary friend Baku, a creature from Japanese... Read More

The fraught journeys of refugees—both along the way and long after arrival—are revealed through a girl and three bears in this touching picture book. At the suggestion of her bat friend, a girl takes in three traveling bears, the... Read More