Picture Books You'll Love For Read Across America and All Year Long!
Updated: May 26
As an inclusive early childhood or elementary educator, whether in the classroom or at home, you know that Read Across America week holds the potential to highlight children's literature from a diverse range of voices, perspectives, and places. Instead of highlighting the same few books by the same problematic author, all in the name of "tradition," encourage your students and school community to lean into the vibrant beauty of the unique and ever-diversifying American population.
Ready to ditch what doesn't affirm and represent all of our children, and instead check out a list of books I love for Read Across America (and all year long!)? Then I've got you covered below with my list of Books To Love For Read Across America!
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Books To Love for Read Across America 2024
1. We All Play by Julie Flett
2. Jacob's New Dress by Sarah and Ian Hoffman
3. We are Still Here! by Traci Sorell
4. Sometimes All I Need Is Me by Juliana Perdomo
5. The People's Painter by Cynthia Levinson
6. A Song of Frutas by Margarita Engle
7. In My Mosque by M.O. Yuksel
8. Eyes That Kiss In The Corners by Joanna Ho
9. You Can! by Alexandra Strick
10. Song In The City by Daniel Bernstrom
11. Change Sings by Amanda Gorman
12. Curls by Ruth Forman
13. More Than Words by Roz Maclean
14. I Sang You Down From The Stars by Tasha Spillett-Sumner
15. Planting Stories by Anika Aldamuy Denise
16. The Boy With Big, Big, Feelings by Britney Winn Lee
17. I Like This, You Like That by Linda Ashman
18. Oona In The Arctic by Kelly DiPucchio
19. Kapaemahu by Wong-Kalu, Hamer, & Wilson
20. Powwow Day by Traci Sorell
21. Wild For Winnie by Laura Marx Fitzgerald
22. Something Spectacular by Carmela LaVigna Coyle
23. My Rainbow by Trinity and DeShanna Neal
24. Perfectly Imperfect Mira by Faith Pray
25. Just Like Me by Louise Gooding
26. Niko Draws A Feeling by Bob Raczka
27. The Year We Learned To Fly by Jacqueline Woodson
28. Not Done Yet by Tameka Fryer Brown
29. Scroll by Hui Li
30. Isabel and Her Colores Go To School by Alexandra Alessandri
31. Rain! by Linda Ashman
32. Sulwe by Lupita Nyongo
33. My Fade is Fresh by Shauntay Grant
34. The Molecules That Make You YOU by Robert E. Wells
35. The Mexican Dreidel by Linda Elovitz Marshall & Ilan Stavans
36. My City Speaks by Darren Lebeuf & Ashley Barron
Looking for inclusive resources to use in your early childhood or elementary classroom or homeschool setting? Check out these educator favorites from Love and Excellence!
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