Picture books showing characters disrupting stereotypical gender binary roles, showing boys exhibiting emotional literacy, featuring female animals not coded with stereotypical clothing or behavior
Silent-e (also known as magic-e) words follow a pattern of vowel + consonant + e, such as the words lake, slide, and hope. The vowel makes its long sound and the e is silent.
Ready to move beyond the Reader section? Here are some books to try from juvenile fiction.
This list was made for a patron seeking suggestions of picture books about emotions. To have your own personalized list made go to www.multcolib.org/my-librarian
Illustrated biographies of artists, musicians, dancers, actors, writers, storytellers, and designers.
Fiction and nonfiction books by and about Indigenous peoples for early elementary ages.
This list was created for a young actress interested in children's books about performing. To have your own personalized list made go to www.multcolib.org/my-librarian
Practice vowel sounds with these picture books for preschoolers and early elementary ages.
Nonfiction for middle and high schoolers about the history of voting, political and social movements, and how to get involved.
These staff favorites are set in the Northwest, or are written by Northwest authors.
These stories for 5-9 year olds focus on empathetic and sensitive characters, and celebrate different ways of being.
Blends are two or three consonants that blend together, like /st/ in stop or /ck/ in rock. Each letter in the blend makes a sound.
Because it's fun to talk about books with everyone in the family, even if you can't read the same ones.
Love for family, friends, community and yourself are celebrated in these picture and board books for children.
Media Advisory: Books to Beats brings music, literacy tools to youth in detention
On the first day of school in Portland, join Multnomah County Library leadership, staff, youth, project partner and award-winning artist Esperanza Spalding to learn how beats, poetry and music support literacy at Donald E. Long Detention Center and preview other possible resources and offerings through the library’s space planning and expansion program.
Picture books with characters or the narrator who talk to and invite the reader to participate in the story.
Has a coyote howl awakened you in the middle of the night? Have you seen a raccoon amble across the street or listened to birds arriving in the spring? Discover our animal neighbors.
The books on this list are suggested for sharing aloud with many audiences, both in family settings with small numbers of children and with children in classrooms or other large groups.
Picture books that highlight single parent Kids and family with moms, and help Kids and family sort out emotions.
Books from the teen and adult sections about race and social justice.