Christian Robinson
1) You matter
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Illustrations and easy-to-read text remind the reader that no matter what happens or how one feels, he or she matters.
2) Another
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Comfy Cozy: Feel-Good Books for All Children
Every Child Ready to Read
Tomas 2025
Wordless Picture Books for Picture Walks/Libros sin palabras para caminar por las ilustraciones (BBTL)
Every Child Ready to Read
Tomas 2025
Wordless Picture Books for Picture Walks/Libros sin palabras para caminar por las ilustraciones (BBTL)
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"A young girl and her cat take an imaginative journey into another world"-- Provided by publisher.
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"Not all questions have answers. Some have more than one answer. And others have endless answers, unfolding out to the edges of the world. In this spare yet expansive narrative, acclaimed author Mac Barnett poses twenty questions both playful and profound. Some make us giggle. Others challenge our assumptions. The result is a quirky, wandering exploration of where the best questions lead -- to stories. Intriguing, richly interactive, and brought to...
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Frederick Douglass Elementary is a brand-new school, and the school feels just as nervous on its first day as the rest of the children do. During the day, the school meets lots of new kids, teachers, and a kind janitor who helps the school stay clean and happy.
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La La La 2024
VSBA 2024-2025 -- Primary Nominees
We’re All in This Together: Using Picture Books to Talk About Collective Trauma
VSBA 2024-2025 -- Primary Nominees
We’re All in This Together: Using Picture Books to Talk About Collective Trauma
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Reveals how even the smallest gesture can have a lasting impact on the world's biggest problems.
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Banned and Challenged Children's Books of the 2020's
Diverse Books - African American/ Black Experience in the U.S.
Diverse Books - Celebrating Diversity
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Diverse Books - African American/ Black Experience in the U.S.
Diverse Books - Celebrating Diversity
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While Milo and his sister travel to a detention center to visit their incarcerated mother, he observes strangers on the subway and draws what he imagines their lives to be.
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Diverse Books - Latino/Latinx, Hispanic, and Latin American Children
La La La 2024
Let's Celebrate Hispanic Heritage!
Picture Books in Both English and Spanish/Libros ilustrados en ingles y español
La La La 2024
Let's Celebrate Hispanic Heritage!
Picture Books in Both English and Spanish/Libros ilustrados en ingles y español
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Carmela, finally old enough to run errands with her brother, tries to think of the perfect birthday wish, while his wish seems to be that she stayed home.
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Diverse Books - Latino/Latinx, Hispanic, and Latin American Children
Gratitude and Thanksgiving
Picture Books in Both English and Spanish/Libros ilustrados en ingles y español
Gratitude and Thanksgiving
Picture Books in Both English and Spanish/Libros ilustrados en ingles y español
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A young boy, CJ, rides the bus across town with his grandmother and learns to appreciate the beauty in everyday things.
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In exuberant verse and stirring pictures, Patricia Hruby Powell and Christian Robinson create an extraordinary portrait of the passionate performer and civil rights advocate Josephine Baker, the woman who worked her way from the slums of St. Louis to the grandest stages in the world. Meticulously researched by both author and artist, Josephine's powerful story of struggle and triumph is an inspiration and a spectacle, just like the legend herself....
12) Gaston
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A proper bulldog raised in a poodle family and a tough poodle raised in a bulldog family meet one day in the park.
13) The bench
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"Evoking a deep sense of warmth, connection, and compassion, The Bench gives readers a window into shared and enduring moments between a diverse group of fathers and sons--moments of peace and reflection, trust and belief, discovery and learning, and lasting comfort"-- Provided by publisher.
14) Little penguins
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"During the first snowy day of winter, five little penguins bundle up and venture outside to play"-- Provided by publisher.
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HERstory
June Is African American Music Appreciation Month
Picture Books for Black History Month
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June Is African American Music Appreciation Month
Picture Books for Black History Month
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"A biography of Nina Simone, an acclaimed singer whose music gave voice to the struggle for racial equality during the Civil Rights Movement"-- Provided by publisher.
17) Antoinette
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"Raised in a family of talented bulldogs, Antoinette the poodle wonders what makes her special. She gets the chance to prove herself and find what she's good at when puppy Ooh-la-la goes missing"-- Provided by publisher.
18) The dead bird
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Dealing with Grief: Children's Books
Friends with Feelings: Puppet Talking with Friends
We’re All in This Together: Using Picture Books to Talk About Collective Trauma
Friends with Feelings: Puppet Talking with Friends
We’re All in This Together: Using Picture Books to Talk About Collective Trauma
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When they find a dead bird, a group of children bury it in the woods, sing a song to it, and put flowers on the grave.
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Bullyproof : Books for Kids
We’re All in This Together: Using Picture Books to Talk About Collective Trauma
We’re All in This Together: Using Picture Books to Talk About Collective Trauma
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Sally McCabe is a very little girl, and nobody notices her, although she notices everything that goes on around her--but when she speaks out about the unkindness she sees, people start to pay attention.
20) Rain!
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As an old man grumbles his way through a rainy morning, spreading gloom, his neighbor, a young child, spreads cheer while hopping through puddles in frog-themed rainwear.