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Book List for Indigenous Peoples’ Day
Our Reach Out and Read San Diego program often discusses the importance of shared reading and the importance of offering diverse books as they can act as mirrors to our own lives and windows into the lives of others.
Beginning this year, AAP-CA3 is now offering Indigenous Peoples’ Day as a paid holiday, which gives us extra time to share a book with a loved one.
Here is a list of books to share with your little ones:
5 Books for Indigenous Peoples’ Day
My Heart Fills with Happiness
My Heart Fills with Happiness
Monique Gray Smith
Age group: 0-3
A board book that celebrates happiness and invites children to reflect on the little things in life that bring them joy.
https://www.fbmarketplace.org/my-heart-fills-with-happiness-board-book-118135
Little You
Little You
Richard Van Camp
Age group: 0-3
A poetic board book for babies and toddlers that celebrates every child, and the joy babies bring into the world.
We Are Water Protectors
We Are Water Protectors
Carole Lindstrom
Age group: 4-6 & 7-9
Told from the perspective of a Native American child, this bold and lyrical picture book written by Ojibwe/Métis author Carole Lindstrom and illustrated by Tlingit artist Michaela Goade is a powerful call to action to defend Earth's natural resources—inspired by the Dakota Access Pipeline protests and similar movements led by Indigenous tribes across North America.
https://www.fbmarketplace.org/we-are-water-protectors-120575
We Still Belong
We Still Belong
Christine Day
Age group: 7-9 & 10-12
A thoughtful and heartfelt middle grade novel by American Indian Youth Literature Honor–winning author Christine Day (Upper Skagit), about a girl whose hopeful plans for Indigenous Peoples’ Day (and asking her crush to the dance) go all wrong—until she finds herself surrounded by the love of her Indigenous family and community at the intertribal powwow.
My Powerful Hair
My Powerful Hair
Carole Lindstrom
Age group: 4-6 & 7-9
From the award-winning and bestselling author of We Are Water Protectors comes an empowering picture book about family history, self-expression, and reclaiming your identity.