GRADE K BOOKS
This Rising Voices Library offers fiction and informational texts that celebrate the identities and abilities of girls of color. By fostering a classroom community that supports positive representation and equity, children of all backgrounds will benefit as they build respect and understanding. Your Grade K library includes 50 books in all: two copies of each theme’s anchor text, plus two copies of each of the additional titles listed below. †
Lily Brown’s Paintings by Angela Johnson* and illustrated by E. B. Lewis*
SOMEONE LIKE ME/MEMORABLE CHARACTERS
As Lily paints, she is transported to a world of her own making, with funny fruits that talk, upside-down people, and lounging animals. Her imagination runs wild, and she creates paintings that make the whole family proud.
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Usha and the Big Digger by Amitha Jagannath Knight* and illustrated by Sandhya Prabhat*
As the two sisters look up at the night sky, Aarti sees the Big Dipper, but Usha sees the Big Digger. The two disagree and show the constellation to their cousin, Gloria. When Gloria offers yet another name, the three girls learn that they can all be right!
isters Usha and Aarti look up at the n stars, they see different things. Aarti sees the , but Usha sees the Big DIGGER! And cousin the Big Kite! What’s going on?
agannath Knight grew up in Texas and Arkansas rgazes with her family in Massachusetts. This is her
HEROES AND ROLE MODELS
Prabhat has illustrated more than a dozen picture nally from India, she now lives in the Bay Area of
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Your Name Is a Song by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow* and illustrated by Luisa Uribe*
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A Birthday Basket for Tía by Pat Mora* and illustrated by Cecily Lang
Kora-Jalimuso has a name that no one in her class understands or knows how to pronounce—even her teacher. Her mom tells her how beautiful and wonderful her name is, and how every name is a song. Her mother’s words allow Kora-Jalimuso
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to be confident in telling the class how to pronounce her name in a way that makes it sound just as beautiful as it is: through song. Soon enough, she is leading the whole class in singing their names.
Hello Goodbye Dog by Maria Gianferrari and illustrated by Patrice Barton
Danbi Leads the School Parade by Anna Kim*
Meet Moose, Zara’s dog, wants to spend the whole day with her at school. He makes several attempts to stay by Zara’s side, but each of his plans is foiled. The two then come up with an idea that lets them stay together all day long.
Danbi is going to school in America for the first time. She’s unsure at first, because she is new and knows no English. She doesn’t understand the games the other students play, their dances, or how they write their names. However, at lunch time everyone is fascinated with Danbi’s
, the new girl at school!
by Anna Kim
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If I Had a Raptor by George O’Connor
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food and how she eats it. When she teaches the other students, they learn to play together in a way they all understand, resulting in Danbi leading her classmates in a joyful parade.
A young girl yearns for a prehistoric pet. As she imagines in detail how special having a raptor would be, her excitement grows. How would the raptor eat? How would it sleep? How would it play? Her imagination runs wild thinking up all the possibilities!
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