Join Sofia and her mom and dad as they spend Eid, the Islamic holiday celebrating the end of Ramadan, with her Mexican grandmother. Includes trilingual glossary.
While helping her family celebrate two extra-special harvest holidays--the Jewish holiday of Sukkot and the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival, Ruby realizes there's something missing to blend these two holidays together and must figure out what it is.
In a mix of Eastern and Western mythologies, a mother tells her child about two forests inhabited by different, but equally enchanting dragons that coexist within the child's heart.
On Multicultural Day at school, a young girl cannot decide whether to showcase her father's Indian heritage, her mother's German heritage, or her American identity, then realizes she can highlight all three.
When Rachel asks her Grandpa Nick why he is Christian when she is Jewish, he relates the biblical story of Jethro and his grandson Gershom, who loved one another very much despite their different religious beliefs.
A multicultural family celebrates the traditions of two New Years--the Jewish Rosh Hashanah in the autumn, and the Asian Lunar New Year several months later.
When Ming Da's Chinese grandpa comes to visit for Chinese New Year, he overcomes his initial embarrassment at his grandfather's traditions and begins to appreciate him, especially his practice of tai chi. Ming Da becomes serious about learning from his grandfather and even earns an important role in the Chinese New Year parade. Includes an author's note.
"A young biracial girl named Remy, encounters that intrusive question, "What are you?" during her first day at a new school, which sends her on a journey towards self-acceptance. Feeling confused about where she belongs, Remy learns about ethnicity and what it means to be biracial by doing her favorite activity with her mother: baking. When she then returns to school, Remy shares the importance and deliciousness of celebrating different backgrounds...
A girl explains how her parents are different in color, have different tastes in art, food, and pets, and how she herself is different too, but just right.
Dad has posted a list of chores for the family to do before grandma comes, including bathing the cat; but the cat does not want a bath, so she mixes up the instructions, and soon the family is mowing the floor, vacuuming the lawn, mopping the baby--and the house is in chaos.
