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Picture Books You'll Love For Read Across America and All Year Long!

Updated: Jan 2

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.


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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

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2. Jacob's New Dress by Sarah and Ian Hoffman

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3. We are Still Here! by Traci Sorell

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4. Sometimes All I Need Is Me by Juliana Perdomo

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5. The People's Painter by Cynthia Levinson

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6. A Song of Frutas by Margarita Engle

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7. In My Mosque by M.O. Yuksel

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8. Eyes That Kiss In The Corners by Joanna Ho

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9. You Can! by Alexandra Strick

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10. Song In The City by Daniel Bernstrom

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11. Change Sings by Amanda Gorman

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12. Curls by Ruth Forman

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13. More Than Words by Roz Maclean

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14. I Sang You Down From The Stars by Tasha Spillett-Sumner

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15. Planting Stories by Anika Aldamuy Denise

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16. The Boy With Big, Big, Feelings by Britney Winn Lee

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17. I Like This, You Like That by Linda Ashman

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18. Oona In The Arctic by Kelly DiPucchio

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19. Kapaemahu by Wong-Kalu, Hamer, & Wilson

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20. Powwow Day by Traci Sorell

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21. Wild For Winnie by Laura Marx Fitzgerald

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22. Something Spectacular by Carmela LaVigna Coyle

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23. My Rainbow by Trinity and DeShanna Neal

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24. Perfectly Imperfect Mira by Faith Pray

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25. Just Like Me by Louise Gooding

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26. Niko Draws A Feeling by Bob Raczka

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27. The Year We Learned To Fly by Jacqueline Woodson

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28. Not Done Yet by Tameka Fryer Brown

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29. Scroll by Hui Li

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30. Isabel and Her Colores Go To School by Alexandra Alessandri

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31. Rain! by Linda Ashman

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32. Sulwe by Lupita Nyongo

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33. My Fade is Fresh by Shauntay Grant

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34. The Molecules That Make You YOU by Robert E. Wells

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35. The Mexican Dreidel by Linda Elovitz Marshall & Ilan Stavans

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36. My City Speaks by Darren Lebeuf & Ashley Barron

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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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