25 Top picture books books like Phenomenal AOC: The Roots and Rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez by Anika Aldamuy Denise

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Phenomenal AOC: The Roots and Rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

By: Anika Aldamuy Denise

4.24

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

An inspiring biography of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from Pura Belpré Honor-winning cre…

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1. 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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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • juvenile
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2. 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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  • picture books
  • childrens
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3. Knight Owl (The Knight Owl Series, 1)

By: Christopher Denise

4.51

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

A Caldecott Honor Winner and  New York Times  Bestseller!  A determined Owl builds strength and … read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • juvenile
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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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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • juvenile
Cover of Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler by Ibi Zoboi

5. Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler

By: Ibi Zoboi

4.09

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist, a biography in verse a… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • nonfiction
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6. 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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  • biography
  • history
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  • nonfiction
Cover of Standing in the Need of Prayer: A Modern Retelling of the Classic Spiritual by Carole Boston Weatherford

7. Standing in the Need of Prayer: A Modern Retelling of the Classic Spiritual

By: Carole Boston Weatherford

4.46

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

A picture book based on the popular spiritual. The classic lyrics have been reworked to chronicle t… read more

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  • history
  • childrens
  • picture books
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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8. An American Story (Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner)

By: Kwame Alexander

4.63

Format: 56 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times Bestselling and award-winning author  of  The Undefeated , Kwame Alexander, pens … read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • childrens
  • picture books
  • middle grade
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
Cover of Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration by Elizabeth Partridge

9. 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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  • middle grade
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • childrens
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10. Frizzy

By: Claribel A. Ortega

4.48

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A middle grade graphic novel about Marlene, a young girl who stops straightening her hair and embra… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • juvenile
"We learn things from our parents, who learn things from their parents, who learned that from their parents. It doesn't make those things okay to believe..."

-Claribel A. Ortega, Frizzy

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11. From the Tops of the Trees

By: Kao Kalia Yang

4.25

Format: 40 pages, ebook

Father, is all of the world a refugee camp? Young Kalia has never known life beyond the fences o… read more

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  • biography
  • history
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  • nonfiction
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12. In Every Life

By: Marla Frazee

4.28

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

A simple and profound meditation on the many wonders of life from two-time Caldecott Honor recipien… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • juvenile
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13. The Word Collector

By: Peter H. Reynolds

4.38

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Some people collect stamps. Some people collect coins. Some people collect art. And Jerome? … read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
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14. Remember

By: Joy Harjo

4.42

Format: 40 pages, None

Michaela Goade, invites young readers to pause and reflect on the wonder of the world around them, … read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • juvenile
Cover of A Land of Books: Dreams of Young Mexihcah Word Painters by Duncan Tonatiuh

15. A Land of Books: Dreams of Young Mexihcah Word Painters

By: Duncan Tonatiuh

4.10

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author-illustrator Duncan Tonatiuh sheds light on the significance of Aztec manuscrip… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • picture books
  • history
  • childrens
Cover of Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice by Tommie Smith

16. Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice

By: Tommie Smith

4.46

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

On October 16, 1968, during the medal ceremony at the Mexico City Olympics, Tommie Smith, the gold … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
  • social justice
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17. Isla to Island

By: Alexis Castellanos

4.22

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

This stunning wordless graphic novel follows a young girl in the 1960s who immigrates from Cuba to … read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
Cover of Listen: How Evelyn Glennie, a Deaf Girl, Changed Percussion by Shannon Stocker

18. Listen: How Evelyn Glennie, a Deaf Girl, Changed Percussion

By: Shannon Stocker

4.50

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

This picture book tells the true story of world-famous deaf percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie. T… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • childrens
  • picture books
  • nonfiction
  • juvenile
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19. Love, Violet

By: Charlotte Sullivan Wild

4.28

Format: None pages, None

Perfect for Valentine's Day, a touching picture book about friendship and the courage it takes to s… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
Cover of Iveliz Explains It All by Andrea Beatriz Arango

20. Iveliz Explains It All

By: Andrea Beatriz Arango

4.19

Format: 272 pages, Library Binding

How do you speak up when it feels like no one is listening? One girl takes on seventh grade while f… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
"and it's important to stop, be kind to ourselves, and ask for help- ask for love."

-Andrea Beatriz Arango, Iveliz Explains It All

"But you have to be somewhere I can find. You understand? Somewhere I can find. I nod, because I know what he is saying and what he is not saying. He can't find me if I'm not here. (p. 113 of the hard…"

-Andrea Beatriz Arango, Iveliz Explains It All

"I am not okay, and sometimes I wish people wouldn't believe me when I say I am. I wish they would ask, just one more time, and I wish they wouldn't tiptoe around me like I'm a poem, so I could show t…"

-Andrea Beatriz Arango, Iveliz Explains It All

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21. The Tower of Life: How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt Her Town in Stories and Photographs: How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt Her Town in Stories and Photographs

By: Chana Stiefel

4.63

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

A picture book biography of the woman who created The Tower of Faces, an exhibit at the US Holocaus… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • childrens
  • picture books
  • nonfiction
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22. The Talk

By: Alicia D. Williams

4.58

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

As a little boy grows into a bigger boy, ready to take on the world, he first must have that very d… read more

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  • social justice
  • picture books
  • childrens
Cover of I Did It! (I Like to Read Comics) by Michael Emberley

23. I Did It! (I Like to Read Comics)

By: Michael Emberley

3.75

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Learning to ride a bike is hard. Can I do it? Yes, I can! A fun comic that kindergarteners and firs… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
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Cover of Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement (Caldecott Honor Book) by Angela Joy

24. 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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  • biography
  • history
  • childrens
  • picture books
  • middle grade
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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25. In the Night Garden

By: Carin Berger

4.07

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

A gentle, collage-illustrated bedtime read about the often mysterious and always beautiful experien… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
  • juvenile
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26. Kapaemahu

By: Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu

4.42

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

An Indigenous legend about how four extraordinary individuals of dual male and female spirit, or Ma… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • picture books
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  • childrens
Cover of Me and the Boss: A Story About Mending and Love by Michelle Edwards

27. Me and the Boss: A Story About Mending and Love

By: Michelle Edwards

3.96

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

All the highs and lows of having a bossy, protective, and loving older sibling are depicted in this… read more

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  • picture books
  • childrens
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Cover of The Coquíes Still Sing: A Story of Home, Hope, and Rebuilding by Karina Nicole Gonzalez

28. The Coquíes Still Sing: A Story of Home, Hope, and Rebuilding

By: Karina Nicole Gonzalez

4.31

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

A story about home, community, and hope, inspired by the rebuilding of Puerto Rico following Hurric… read more

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  • childrens
  • juvenile
Cover of Sweet Justice: Georgia Gilmore and the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Mara Rockliff

29. Sweet Justice: Georgia Gilmore and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

By: Mara Rockliff

4.44

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

A picture book about the woman whose cooking helped feed and fund the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 195… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • childrens
  • picture books
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Notebook Keeper: A Story of Kindness from the Border by Stephen Briseño

30. The Notebook Keeper: A Story of Kindness from the Border

By: Stephen Briseño

4.38

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Based on true events, this inspiring story follows a mama and her daughter who are denied entry at … read more

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  • social justice
  • picture books
  • childrens
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Cover of Phenomenal AOC: The Roots and Rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez by Anika Aldamuy Denise

31. Phenomenal AOC: The Roots and Rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

By: Anika Aldamuy Denise

4.24

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

An inspiring biography of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from Pura Belpré Honor-winning cre… read more

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14 best-selling history books like Phenomenal AOC: The Roots and Rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez by Anika Aldamuy Denise

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Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler

Ibi Zoboi

4.09

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Jason Reynolds

4.48

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Carole Boston Weatherford

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8 Best history books like A Land of Books: Dreams of Young Mexihcah Word Painters by Duncan Tonatiuh

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There Was a Party for Langston

Jason Reynolds

4.48

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Standing in the Need of Prayer: A Modern Retelling of the Classic Spiritual

Carole Boston Weatherford

4.46

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An American Story (Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner)

Kwame Alexander

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