Preschool & TK

Banner image from LIBERACIÓN A TRAVÉS DEL CONOCIMIENTO by Aurelio Diaz Tekpankali

The Berkeley Unified School District honors and celebrates the history, contemporary issues and culture of the Indigenous People of the Americas.  In November 2020, the BUSD Board of Education passed a resolution to annually recognize the month of November as Indigenous People’s Heritage Month.  


These reading lists, organized by grade level, represent books published in the last 5 years that are devoted to celebrating, representing, and affirming Indigenous heritage, featuring Indigenous authors, characters and the North American Indigenous experience.


All of these books are available through Berkeley school libraries as a physical and/or digital book. If an ebook is available through Sora, you can access it by clicking the cover of the book. For more information about any of these books, or to check one of them out, ask your school librarian.

Beautiful You, Beautiful Meby Tasha Spillet-Sumner
Benjamin's Thunderstormby Melanie Florence
Fry Breadby Kevin Noble Maillard
It's a Mitig!by Bridget George
Just Like Grandmaby Kim Rogers

We All Playby Julie Flett

We Belong to the Drum / mistikwaskihk kitipêyimikonawby Sandra Lamouche

When We Are Kind / Nihá’ádaahwiinít’íigoby Monique Gray Smith

Who Am I?by Julie Buhholz