Thank You, Omu!
10 best books like Thank You, Omu! (Oge Mora): We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga, Dreamers, Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré, Another, Drawn Together, Alma and How She Got Her Name, A Big Mooncake for Little Star, The Day You Begin, My Papi Has a Motorcycle, Hello Lighthouse
We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga
| Author | Traci Sorell |
| ISBN | 1632896338 |
The word otsaliheliga (oh-jah-LEE-hay-lee-gah) is used by members of the Cherokee Nation to express gratitude. Beginning in the fall with the new year and ending in summer, follow a full Cherokee year of celebrations...
| Author | Yuyi Morales |
| ISBN | 0823440559 |
In 1994, Yuyi Morales left her home in Xalapa, Mexico and came to the US with her infant son. She left behind nearly everything she owned, but she didn't come empty-handed.
She...
Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré
| Author | Anika Aldamuy Denise |
| ISBN | 0062748688 |
When she came to America in 1921, Pura carried the cuentos folklóricos of her Puerto Rican homeland. Finding a new home at the New York Public Library as a bilingual assistant, she turned her popular stories...
Another
| Author | Christian Robinson |
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019!
In his eagerly anticipated debut as author-illustrator, Caldecott and Coretta Scott King honoree Christian Robinson brings young readers on a playful, imaginative...
Drawn Together
| Author | Minh Lê |
| ISBN | 1484767608 |
Alma and How She Got Her Name
| Author | Juana Martinez-Neal |
| ISBN | 0763693553 |
If you ask her, Alma Sofia Esperanza José Pura Candela has way too many names: six! How did such a small person wind up with such a large name? Alma turns to Daddy for...
A Big Mooncake for Little Star
| Author | Grace Lin |
| ISBN | 0316404489 |
Pat, pat, pat...
Little Star's soft feet tiptoed to the Big Mooncake.
Little Star loves the delicious Mooncake that she...
The Day You Begin
| Author | Jacqueline Woodson |
| ISBN | 0399246533 |
There will be times when you walk into a room
and...
My Papi Has a Motorcycle
| Author | Isabel Quintero |
When Daisy Ramona zooms around her neighborhood with her papi on his motorcycle, she sees the people and places she's always known. She also sees...
Hello Lighthouse
| Author | Sophie Blackall |
| ISBN | 0316362387 |
at the edge of the world stands a lighthouse.
It is built to last forever. Sending its light out to sea.
The fog rolls in, and the fog rolls out.
The waves rise and crash. The wind blows and blows...
This beautiful picture book caught my eye on the Goodreads...
| Author | Marion Dane Bauer |
Before the universe was formed, before time and space existed, there was . . . nothing. But then . . . BANG! Stars caught fire and burned...
Blue
| Author | Laura Vaccaro Seeger |
| ISBN | 1626720665 |
There’s the soft blue of a baby’s cherished blanket, the ocean blue of a romp in the waves, the chilly blue of a cold winter’s walk in the snow, and the true blue of the bond that exists between children and animals.
In this simple, sumptuously illustrated...
The Wall in the Middle of the Book
| Author | Jon Agee |
| ISBN | 0525555455 |
There's a wall in the middle of the book, and our hero—a young knight—is sure that the wall protects his side of the book from the dangers of the other side—like an angry tiger and giant rhino, and...
The Rough Patch
| Author | Brian Lies |
| ISBN | 0062671278 |