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Being You: A First Conversation About Gender
By Megan Madison, Jessica Ralli, and Anne/Andy Passchier (Illustrator)
Busy Fingers
By C. W. Bowie, Fred Willingham (Illustrator)
Button Up! Fall in Alaska*
By Angela Y. Gonzales
Bye-Bye Ice! Springtime in Alaska *
By Carla Snow
Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type
By Doreen Cronin, Betsy Lewin (Illustrator)
Every Body: A First Conversation About Bodies
By Megan Madison, Jessica Ralli, and Tequitia Andrews (Illustrator)
Feast for 10
By Cathryn Falwell
Goodbye: A First Conversation About Grief
By Megan Madison, Jessica Ralli, and Isabel Roxas (Illustrator)
Hands Are Not for Hitting
By Martine Agassi, Marieka Heinlen (Illustrator)
I Am Latino: The Beauty in Me
By Myles C. Pinkney, Sandra L. Pinkney
I Can, Can You?
By Marjorie W. Pitzer
I Love My Hair
By Natasha Anastasia Tarpley, E. B. Lewis (Illustrator)
Our Skin: A First Conversation
About Race *
By Megan Madison, Jessica Ralli, and Isabel Roxas (Illustrator)
Spanish edition: Nuestra Piel
Playground
By Debbie Bailey
Rest & Relax / Descansa y relájate
By Whitney Stewart and Rocio Alejandro (Illustrator)
Shades of Black: A Celebration of Our Children
By Sandra L. Pinkney, Myles C. Pinkney (Photographer)
Smile! (Baby Faces Board Book #2)
By Roberta Grobel Intrater
Sweetest Kulu
By Celina Kalluk, Alexandria Neonakis (Illustrator)
Together: A First Conversation About Love
By Megan Madison, Jessica Ralli, Anne/Andy Passchier (Illustrator)
Un Dia de Nieve / The Snowy Day *
By Ezra Jack Keats
English version is also available: The Snowy Day