These picture books deal with complex or mature themes. We recommend that very young readers read with a grown up!
All Different Now : Juneteenth, the First Day of Freedom by Angela Johnson
Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky by Faith Ringgold
The Ballot Box Battle by Emily Arnold McCully
The Cats in Krasinski Square by Karen Hesse
Fox by Margaret Wild
Girl on a Motorcycle by Amy Novesky
Goal! by Mina Javaherbin
John, Paul, George & Ben by Lane Smith
The Lion and the Unicorn by Shirley Hughes
The Lotus Seed by Sherry Garland
Love in the Library by Maggie Tokuda-Hall
Nour's Secret Library by Wafa Tarnowska
Otto : The Autobiography of a Teddy Bear by Tomi Ungerer
Paper Son : Lee's Journey to America by Helen Foster James
Players in Pigtails by Shana Corey
Playing War by Kathy Beckwith
Redcoats and Petticoats by Katherine Kirkpatrick
Sky Dogs by Jane Yolen
The Storyteller by Evan Turk
Thank You, Mr. Falker by Patricia Polacco
That Flag by Tameka Fryer Brown
This is the Rope : A Story From the Great Migration by Jacqueline Woodson
The Tree in the Courtyard: Looking Through Anne Frank's Window by Jeff Gottesfeld
The Whispering Town by Jennifer Riesmeyer Elvgren
Willy and Max: a Holocaust Story by Amy Littlesugar
Working Cotton by Sherley Anne Williams