Kids Book Index
Brendan Wenzel
Inside Cat watches the world beyond the windows and believes it has already seen everything there is to see. The cat’s view changes when the front door opens. With rhyming text and mixed-media illustrations, the book follows a curious indoor cat as it observes what lies outside and encounters a new possibility beyond its familiar windows.
This book appears on 2 reading lists across 1 edition from 2 organizations.
Our Skin: A First Conversation about RaceMegan Madison, Jessica RalliThis book introduces young children to skin color and race in clear, direct language. It includes questions intended to begin conversations. Part of the First Conversations series, it is based on research identifying race, gender, consent, and body positivity as subjects that can be discussed with toddlers and older children. The book focuses specifically on race and skin color while offering adults a way to start those discussions with children.Five to NineOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Bodies Are CoolTyler FederThis rhythmic, rhyming picture book celebrates the many ways human bodies can look. Its focus includes differing skin tones, body shapes, hair types, and other physical characteristics. Vibrant, detailed illustrations accompany a message of inclusion and acceptance, presenting every individual and every kind of body as part of the book’s wide-ranging celebration.Under FiveOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Interrupting Chicken: Cookies for BreakfastDavid Ezra Stein, illustrated by David Ezra SteinThe little red chicken wants cookies for breakfast and tries to persuade Papa to provide them. While they read nursery rhymes together, the chicken disrupts each one by inserting cookies and herself into the verses. This is the character’s third adventure, built around her hunger for treats and her repeated interruptions of the rhymes. Bright mixed-media illustrations accompany the father-and-child exchange as familiar nursery-rhyme patterns are repeatedly altered by the chicken’s cookie quest.Under FiveWord Count 658On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details