Books like The Empty Pot
By Demi
For the kid learning that telling the truth can feel scarier than any punishment, Ping's empty pot is a lesson in courage disguised as a garden story. Quiet, contemplative, and gently suspenseful, with a payoff that feels earned rather than sweet.
A champion Italian cyclist who won the 1938 Tour de France secretly uses his bicycle and racing fame to help save Jewish lives during World War II, risking everything without ever telling a soul.
A picture-book biography follows a boy born in a Kentucky log cabin as he grows up in the wilderness of Indiana and the prairies of Illinois, teaches himself law, and rises to become President of the United States.
A girl starting her first day of school comes home discouraged when classmates mispronounce her name, then decides to go back and teach them to say it right — even if it takes a hundred tries.
A girl teased for having big hair and unusual tastes gets the chance to embarrass the boy who bullies her when he's stuck on the playground — and has to decide what kind of person she wants to be.
A young girl is separated from her mother at the last moment and must sail to America alone, only to discover the address for her family in New York has smudged into illegible ink.
A dressmaker's daughter sets out alone through a fierce snowstorm to deliver a duchess's ball gown, battling howling wind and deep drifts to complete her mother's errand.
Across generations, the women in one family pass down the art of quilting — from a seven-year-old girl sold away from her parents who sewed secret maps to freedom, to daughters who carried her knowledge through segregation and into the fight for literacy.
On his first day at a new school, a shy boy named Yefferson hears his name mispronounced again and again, until his family helps him find the courage to speak up for himself.
A timid squirrel afraid of thunder, hawks, and dark forest paths must carry soup through Buckthorn Forest to her sick Granny Oak, facing creatures who want to help — and some who want the soup.
A woman who loves the trees of her Kenyan homeland begins planting seeds one by one, teaching other women to do the same, until the whole country grows strong and green again.
A determined mountaineer dreams of climbing despite being told no by men, sponsors, and gear made only for men's hands — so she leads an all-women team up Everest, battling avalanches and icy crevasses along the way.
A young Japanese American artist grows up determined to draw, even as her family is sent to a WWII internment camp — and she goes on to create groundbreaking picture books that show children of every race together.
