Shapes, Lines, and Light: My Grandfather's American Journey
By: Katie Yamasaki
4.25
Format: 56 pages, Hardcover
Katie Yamasaki’s newest picture book celebrates the life of her grandfather, the acclaimed Japanese…
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1. Maya Lin: Artist-Architect of Light and Lines
By: Dow Phumiruk , Jeanne Walker Harvey
4.15
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
As a child, Maya Lin loved to study the spaces around her. She explored the forest in her backyard,… read more
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2. Big
By: Vashti Harrison
4.66
Format: 60 pages, Kindle Edition
This deeply moving story shares valuable lessons about fitting in, standing out, and the beauty of … read more
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3. Hot Dog
By: Doug Salati
4.29
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
From a critically acclaimed creator comes this summery picture book featuring an overheated--and ov… read more
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4. Berry Song
By: Michaela Goade
4.43
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
Caldecott Medalist Michaela Goade's first self-authored picture book is a celebration of the land s… read more
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5. Finding My Dance
By: Ria Thundercloud
4.38
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
In her debut picture book, professional Indigenous dancer Ria Thundercloud tells the true story of … read more
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6. The Puppets of Spelhorst
By: Kate DiCamillo
4.19
Format: 149 pages, Hardcover
From master storyteller Kate DiCamillo comes an original fairy tale—with enchanting illustrations b… read more
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"The moon has no master," said the owl. "The moon is its own king." "Or queen," said the girl. The moon rose higher."-Kate DiCamillo, The Puppets of Spelhorst
7. The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
By: Nicholas Day
4.15
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A propulsive work of narrative nonfiction about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how t… read more
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- art
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- history
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"Leonard da Vinci had painted the Mona Lisa. But Vincenzo Perugia had turned it into The Mona Lisa."-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
"The Lourve, he concluded, with an insult designed to puncture French pride, "is less well protected than a Spanish museum."-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
"If the Mona Lisa is the most famous face in art history, Les Demoiselles is a hatchet thrown at it. It's not a pretty painting. Its brutal and uncomfortable."-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
"Word of his midnight activities gets out. 'The pope has found out that I have skinned three corpses,' Leonardo writes in his notebook. He gets off easy. He's simply told: please stop skinning corpses."-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
8. There Was a Party for Langston
By: Jason Reynolds
4.48
Format: 56 pages, ebook
New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Jason Reynolds’s debut picture book is a snappy… read more
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9. Love in the Library
By: Maggie Tokuda-Hall
4.47
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
Set in an internment camp where the United States cruelly detained Japanese Americans during WWII a… read more
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10. Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration
By: Elizabeth Partridge
4.53
Format: 132 pages, Hardcover
This important work of nonfiction features powerful images of the Japanese American incarceration c… read more
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11. We Are Water Protectors: (Caldecott Medal Winner)
By: Carole Lindstrom
4.51
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by the many Indigenous-led movements across North America, We Are Water Protectors issues … read more
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12. Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge: Intimate Confessions from a Happy Marriage
By: Helen Ellis
3.77
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Even twenty years into marriage, Helen Ellis’s husband still makes her heart pitter patter. The New… read more
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13. Shapes, Lines, and Light: My Grandfather's American Journey
By: Katie Yamasaki
4.25
Format: 56 pages, Hardcover
Katie Yamasaki’s newest picture book celebrates the life of her grandfather, the acclaimed Japanese… read more
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14. Gibberish
By: Young Vo
4.40
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
It's Dat's first day of school in a new country! Dat and his Mah made a long journey to get here, a… read more
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- asian literature
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15. The First Cat in Space Ate Pizza
By: Mac Barnett
4.12
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
As seen on The TODAY Show! New York Times bestselling Mac Barnett and Caldecott Honor award-winning… read more
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16. Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer
By: Traci Sorell
4.12
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Mary Golda Ross designed classified airplanes and spacecraft as Lockheed Aircraft Corporation's fir… read more
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17. Blue: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the Sky
By: Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond
4.42
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
Discover a world of creativity and tradition in this fascinating picture book that explores the his… read more
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18. What Happened to Rachel Riley?
By: Claire Swinarski
4.23
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An eighth grader uses social media posts, passed notes, and other clues to find out why a formerly … read more
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19. This Story Is Not About a Kitten
By: Carson Ellis
4.21
Format: 40 pages, Library Binding
A heartwarming picture book about a neighborhood coming together to help a kitten find a home, from… read more
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20. Hidden Hope: How a Toy and a Hero Saved Lives During the Holocaust
By: Elisa Boxer
4.47
Format: 48 pages, Hardcover
The remarkable true story of how a toy duck smuggled forged identity papers for Jewish refugees dur… read more
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21. Still This Love Goes On
By: Buffy Sainte-Marie
4.31
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
A love letter to Indigenous communities everywhere, this picture book gorgeously illustrated by Jul… read more
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22. Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement (Caldecott Honor Book)
By: Angela Joy
4.66
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
A picture book biography of the mother of Emmett Till, and how she channeled grief over her son's d… read more
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23. Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race
By: Margot Lee Shetterly
4.44
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden were good at math...really g… read more
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24. The Capybaras
By: Alfredo Soderguit
4.23
Format: 48 pages, Hardcover
Hens and their chicks are living safe and secure in their coop, or at least it seems that way. They… read more
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25. Vlad, the Fabulous Vampire (The World of Gustavo, #3)
By: Flavia Z. Drago
4.30
Format: 41 pages, Kindle Edition
From the acclaimed author-illustrator of Gustavo, the Shy Ghost comes a charmingly spooky celebrati… read more
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26. When You Can Swim
By: Jack Wong
4.15
Format: 48 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Picture Book Award A reverent celebration of learning to s… read more
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27. The Dubious Pranks of Shaindy Goodman
By: Mari Lowe
3.86
Format: 165 pages, Kindle Edition
SHAINDY is a twelve-year-old Orthodox Jewish girl who struggles in school and has no good friends. … read more
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28. Threads: Zlata’s Ukrainian Shirt
By: Lina Maslo
4.21
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
Threads is an inspiring picture book about a girl’s survival of the 1930s Ukrainian Famine-Genocide… read more
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29. Symphony for a Broken Orchestra: How Philadelphia Collected Sounds to Save Music
By: Amy Ignatow
3.77
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
What happens when musical instruments can’t make the sounds we expect them to make? Is music still … read more
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30. Erno Rubik and His Magic Cube
By: Kerry Aradhya
4.53
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
This first picture book biography of Erno Rubik, creator of the Rubik’s Cube, reveals the obsession… read more
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31. Nell & the Netherbeast
By: Adi Rule
4.00
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The Netherbeast, a slinking creature with an overwhelming stench, impossibly charms young Nell. Bef… read more
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