These are recommended picture books, fiction, non-fiction, and graphic novels for children for Native American Heritage Month.
![Book cover for All Around Us](https://lapl.org./sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2021/a2ecc9963273e5fc7c8e7a1696e3f030.jpg?itok=5-x825FY)
All Around Us
![Book cover for Arrow to the Sun: A Pueblo Indian Tale](https://lapl.org./sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/875eabf6e1a988312bc57c4478768d67.jpg?itok=pWJfCDY3)
Arrow to the Sun: A Pueblo Indian Tale
K – Gr. 4. An adaptation of the Pueblo Indian myth which explains how the spirit of the Lord of the Sun was brought to the world of men. Caldecott Award winner, 1975.
![Book cover for The Barren Grounds](https://lapl.org./sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2022/c83a0d57e863f53d765873ff2d7c8090.jpg?itok=Dci91dR_)
The Barren Grounds
![Book cover for The birchbark house](https://lapl.org./sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/662fa6c855c04a66e7171f57455e4bd4.jpg?itok=3OU-36z3)
The birchbark house
Gr. 2-5. Omakayas, a seven-year-old Native American girl of the Ojibwa tribe, lives through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847.
![Book cover for Birdsong](https://lapl.org./sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2021/6a5e873d126a4ff4f4a97b5997391c01.jpg?itok=u9lMyfJs)
Birdsong
![Book cover for Blue Jay Girl](https://lapl.org./sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/e398ec29e8fe77277c11caa40e5873ed.jpg?itok=ZX0fKLtd)
Blue Jay Girl
Gr. 2 – 5. In long-ago California in the area populated by the various tribes of the Yokuts group, a young Yaudanchi girl who is troubled because of her impetuous nature turns to the tribe's shaman for advice on how to be less like a blue jay and more like a quail. Includes a glossary and facts about the Indians of the Tule River Indian Reservation.
![Book cover for Bowwow Powwow: bagosenjige-niimi'idim](https://lapl.org./sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2021/ca959e710c71d07ad02ffbc8295ad275.jpg?itok=IuhVk8Te)
Bowwow Powwow: bagosenjige-niimi'idim
![Book cover for Buffalo Bird Girl: A Hidatsa Story](https://lapl.org./sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/1f9f1e54dc18a9cea39471d6aaeb301f.jpg?itok=tOdIikF2)
Buffalo Bird Girl: A Hidatsa Story
K – Gr. 3. Traces the childhood, friendships and dangers experienced by Buffalo Bird Woman, a Hidatsa Indian born in 1839, whose community along the Missouri River in the Dakotas transitioned from hunting to agriculture.
![Book cover for The Christmas coat : memories of my Sioux childhood](https://lapl.org./sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/307b0484aaf8ea85bc95739db9842d19.jpg?itok=_1iHMWJH)
The Christmas coat : memories of my Sioux childhood
Gr. K – 3. Virginia and her brother are never allowed to pick first from the donation boxes at church because their father is the priest, and she is heartbroken when another girl gets the beautiful coat that she covets. Based on the author's memories of life on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota.
![Book cover for Chukfi Rabbit's Big, Bad Bellyache: A Trickster Tale](https://lapl.org./sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/52cbb0040202d9b1dfb0bad860964da4.jpg?itok=XJJMLnqX)
Chukfi Rabbit's Big, Bad Bellyache: A Trickster Tale
K – Gr. 3. Bear, Turtle, Fox, and Beaver agree to build Ms. Possum a new house, but Chukfi Rabbit says he is too busy to help until he hears there will be a Chocktaw feast afterwards and helps himself to a treat while the work is being done.
![Book cover for Cowboy up! : ride the Navajo rodeo](https://lapl.org./sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/12d8d82dde992f88d0286c7bf8ee3893.jpg?itok=yc8MBoFC)
Cowboy up! : ride the Navajo rodeo
Gr. 1 – 5. Text and photographs present a close-up view at a Navajo rodeo.
![Book cover for Crazy Horse's vision](https://lapl.org./sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/0419b0af2b924148ef63dd6238d91815.jpg?itok=OUqPXDCZ)
Crazy Horse's vision
Gr. K – 3. A story based on the life of the dedicated young Lakota boy who grew up to be one of the bravest defenders of his people.
![Book cover for Fall in Line, Holden!](https://lapl.org./sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2021/de77eb241cf931f26c50f07e348beefb.jpg?itok=iDxGvUKK)
"Fall in Line, Holden!"
![Book cover for Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story](https://lapl.org./sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2023/7be8d33d539faad5207b40e522a3bda7.jpg?itok=K0JYZsDt)
Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story
![Book cover for Ghost Hawk](https://lapl.org./sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/295fec133b2b3282bf9a7924bda76d42.jpg?itok=sbqAHluA)
Ghost Hawk
Gr. 4 & up. At the end of a winter-long journey into manhood, Little Hawk returns to find his village decimated by a white man's plague and soon, despite a fresh start, Little Hawk dies violently but his spirit remains trapped, seeing how his world changes.
![Book cover for How I Became a Ghost: A Choctaw Trail of Tears Story](https://lapl.org./sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/069f072a83a06687988760021eff4e47.jpg?itok=JR6QNUFj)
How I Became a Ghost: A Choctaw Trail of Tears Story
Gr. 5 & up. A Choctaw boy tells the story of his tribe's removal from the only land its people had ever known, and how their journey to Oklahoma led him to become a ghost--one with the ability to help those he left behind.
![Book cover for Indian no More](https://lapl.org./sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2023/43202f9e6c8baa31e66f9cc554f91c11.jpg?itok=2fpXc16h)
Indian no More
![Book cover for Jingle Dancer](https://lapl.org./sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/8fd496424ba189bac7d311b17408bf0b.jpg?itok=xUp0NDGq)
Jingle Dancer
Gr. K – 3. Jenna, a member of the Muscogee, or Creek, Nation, borrows jingles from the dresses of several friends and relatives so that she can perform the jingle dance at the powwow. Includes a note about the jingle dance tradition and its regalia.
![Book cover for Molly of Denali: Crane Song](https://lapl.org./sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2021/06b139da45130a8edaf6c26ebf4eae9e.jpg?itok=LMfNXoWT)
Molly of Denali: Crane Song
![Book cover for Sharice's Big Voice: A Native Kid Becomes a Congresswoman](https://lapl.org./sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2021/1d462a9ba36515c110788c85a7377271.jpg?itok=b77laOxZ)
Sharice's Big Voice: A Native Kid Becomes a Congresswoman
![Book cover for Sisters of the Neversea](https://lapl.org./sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2021/6eba1f38ac90008ce64722025db3a696_1.jpg?itok=eKSkP__A)
Sisters of the Neversea
![Book cover for Swift Fox All Along](https://lapl.org./sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2021/9afafad9aca3d2eeff3506d73d56624f.jpg?itok=0kvOlb03)
Swift Fox All Along
![Book cover for Trickster: Native American tales: a graphic collection](https://lapl.org./sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/0bd836cc3ce17392a4aa234bb66523ce.jpg?itok=suDbzGwH)
Trickster: Native American tales: a graphic collection
Gr. 5 & up. More than twenty Native American tales, cleverly adapted into comic form.
![Book cover for We are Grateful: Otsaliheliga](https://lapl.org./sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/1623e96a4f09e27cbf6b4553f7c4c914.jpg?itok=yOl3dyxt)
We are Grateful: Otsaliheliga
![Book cover for We Are Water Protectors](https://lapl.org./sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2021/waterpro.jpg?itok=dXzibsak)
We Are Water Protectors
![Book cover for Weaving a California tradition : a Native American basketmaker](https://lapl.org./sites/default/files/styles/staff_recommends_x97w/public/items/2020/141c3499ee498784c02a2fc617ea6b70.jpg?itok=c5JPi3Cz)
Weaving a California tradition : a Native American basketmaker
Gr. 3 – 6. Follows an eleven-year-old Western Mono Indian, as she and her relatives prepare materials needed for basketweaving, make the baskets, and attend the California Indian Basketweavers Association's annual gathering.