A beautifully-illustrated folktale combining two stories from Nahua myth, the rabbit in the moon and Lord Opossum who stole fire from the gods. This is a great option for supplementing folklore units and pairs well with Moon Pops by Heena Baek, Papa, Won't You Get the Moon for Me? by Eric Carle, Aesop's Fables and the Greek story of Prometheus. Also available in Spanish as Noche Antigua! Language | Spanish
A beautifully-illustrated folktale combining two stories from Nahua myth, the rabbit in the moon and Lord Opossum who stole fire from the gods. This is a great option for supplementing folklore units and pairs well with Moon Pops by Heena Baek, Papa, Won't You Get the Moon for Me? by Eric Carle, Aesop's Fables and the Greek story of Prometheus. Also available in Spanish as Noche Antigua!
Language | Spanish
Ravi's extended family gathers for the annual family beach trip, but his cousin Dhruv is approaching adolescence and seems a bit too cool and grown up to play with the little kids. Ravi is shy about approaching him until he has an opportunity to make their favorite dessert--banana ice cream--for the whole family. Maintaining relationships with siblings and cousins as they enter different stages of life is a common experience for lots of kids, and I love how sensitively Rajani Larocca handles a topic that can feel like a Big Deal to younger kids. Race & Ethnicity | Asian & Pacific Islander
Ravi's extended family gathers for the annual family beach trip, but his cousin Dhruv is approaching adolescence and seems a bit too cool and grown up to play with the little kids. Ravi is shy about approaching him until he has an opportunity to make their favorite dessert--banana ice cream--for the whole family. Maintaining relationships with siblings and cousins as they enter different stages of life is a common experience for lots of kids, and I love how sensitively Rajani Larocca handles a topic that can feel like a Big Deal to younger kids.
Race & Ethnicity | Asian & Pacific Islander
A family bakes a challah loaf for an unspecified Jewish holiday. This one makes a great conversation starter for special foods families make to celebrate special occasions and the step-by-step baking instructions serve as a mentor text for process writing assignments. Religion | Jewish
A family bakes a challah loaf for an unspecified Jewish holiday. This one makes a great conversation starter for special foods families make to celebrate special occasions and the step-by-step baking instructions serve as a mentor text for process writing assignments.
Religion | Jewish
A great STEM tie-in! The unnamed narrator's mommies do a great job of helping him break his dream of building a treehouse into individual steps and help him build it one step at a time. Gender Identity & Sexuality
A great STEM tie-in! The unnamed narrator's mommies do a great job of helping him break his dream of building a treehouse into individual steps and help him build it one step at a time.
Gender Identity & Sexuality
Inspired by a photo of Maya Angelou and Amiri Baraka dancing at the party the NYPL threw to honor the poet Langston Hughes, this illustrated poem by powerhouse Jason Reynolds and Jarrett & Jerome Pumphrey is a love letter to Hughes' influence on American literature and culture. A wonderful starting point for Black History Month lessons. Race & Ethnicity | Black
Inspired by a photo of Maya Angelou and Amiri Baraka dancing at the party the NYPL threw to honor the poet Langston Hughes, this illustrated poem by powerhouse Jason Reynolds and Jarrett & Jerome Pumphrey is a love letter to Hughes' influence on American literature and culture. A wonderful starting point for Black History Month lessons.
Race & Ethnicity | Black
Vivid, dynamic photos of all kinds of kids illustrate this book about the different ways our bodies work. One thing that makes this book stand out is the inclusion of invisible disabilities, like learning differences and asthma. A bonus afterward includes profiles of four activists who talk to kids about their own experiences having a disability as a child. Disability
Vivid, dynamic photos of all kinds of kids illustrate this book about the different ways our bodies work. One thing that makes this book stand out is the inclusion of invisible disabilities, like learning differences and asthma. A bonus afterward includes profiles of four activists who talk to kids about their own experiences having a disability as a child.
Disability
