Kids Book Index
Brenda Maier
Ruby spots blueberries across a creek and asks her brothers to come pick them. Santiago blocks the bridge and demands snacks before allowing anyone to cross. Her brothers pass through by promising that another sibling has a better snack. Ruby refuses to submit to the bully and devises another way over the creek. This retelling of “Billy Goats Gruff” features a young Latina using ingenuity.
This book appears on 1 reading list across 1 edition.
The Me I Choose to BeNatasha Anastasia TarpleyThis book uses creatively altered photographic images of Black children as they explore their potential. It focuses on possibility, self-discovery, and empowerment, presenting children as they consider what they may become and the paths open to them. The visual approach centers Black children while the book’s subject is their boundless potential.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
The Little OneKiyo Tanaka, illustrated by Kiyo Tanaka, David BoydOn her way home, a young Japanese girl meets a little figure visible only to her. She spends the afternoon playing with this mysterious, magical creature before she meets her father. The encounter unfolds within a single afternoon between the girl’s journey home and her reunion with him. Delicate black-and-white copperplate etchings depict the girl and the creature.Under FiveOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details