Books like The Crayon Box that Talked
By Shane DeRolf
For families navigating sibling squabbles or playground spats about who's better than whom, this one turns bickering into a gentle lesson about getting along. Gentle, rhyming, and quietly hopeful.
A boy named Dennis expresses everything through mime — silent, expressive, entirely his own way — until loneliness gives way to friendship when he meets a girl named Joy.
A parent looks at a child and wonders aloud, in rhyme, about all the different people they might grow up to be — brave, clever, silly, wise — no matter what.
A poem-portrait of one family — brown-skinned mama, white-skinned daddy, and their two children — celebrates every skin tone between them as simply, joyfully theirs.
A spider too big to join the Itsy-Bitsy Spider's water spout games gets left out by his smaller friends — until a sudden rainstorm gives his huge size a purpose.
A rhyming, day-in-the-life look at a school where kids from every background arrive, share their traditions and talents, and are welcomed exactly as they are.
A young reindeer with a glowing red nose is teased and left out by the other reindeer, until a foggy Christmas Eve gives Santa a reason to need him most.
A small boy is invited to tea at the palace and always asks the same question — may he bring a friend? — and each time, a surprising animal guest shows up beautifully behaved.
The true story of Jack Baker and Michael McConnell, who fought through Minnesota courts and the U.S. Supreme Court to become the first legally married same-sex couple in America, on September 3, 1971.
An introduction to gender identity for young readers, explaining that some people are boys, some are girls, and some are both, neither, or somewhere in between.
A big, scary-looking fish longs for friends in the wide blue sea, but the little fish keep swimming away — until a fisherman's net traps them all and Big Al gets his chance to help.
A dragon, a princess, and a knight team up as flying doctors to heal sick animals across the kingdom, until the king locks the princess away for wanting more than a royal title.
A celebration told through many young voices, each one honoring the beauty of their own brown skin and finding themselves reflected in the natural world around them.
