Mixed Race Families in Picture Books

If You Were a Dog by Jamie Swenson

• Pub Date: 2014
• See also: Imagination, Animal Attributes
• The reader is invited to imagine life as various animals. At the end a child is shown with their parents, who are mixed race.

Away by Emil Sher

• Pub Date: 2017
• A mother (white) and child (POC) exchange notes about summer camp.

I Love Saturdays y Domingos by Alma Flor Ada 

• Pub Date: 2002
• A girl compares her English-speaking and Spanish-speaking grandparents.

The Hello Goodbye Window by Norton Juster 

• Pub Date: 2005
• A little girl visits her Nana and Poppy, a mixed race couple.

One Word From Sophia by Jim Averbeck

• Pub Date: 2015
• See also: POC on the cover 
• Sophia tries to convince her family to let her get a pet giraffe. 

Twenty Yawns by Jane Smiley

• Pub Date: 2016 

Little Blue Chair by Cary Fagan

• Pub Date: 2017
• At the end of the book a man who is white refinishes a little chair he finds for his daughter, a person of color. 

Out! by Arree Chung 

• Pub Date: 2017
• See also: POC on the Cover, Mischief Makers 
• A toddler escapes his crib at bedtime and makes a mess. 

Chicken Soup, Chicken Soup by Pamela Mayer

• Pub Date: 2016
• See also: Grandparents, Cooking 
• Includes recipe 
• Sophie, of Jewish and Chinese heritage, brings her grandmothers together with soup. 

My Good Morning by Kim Crockett Corson

• Pub Date: 2017
• See also: POC on the Cover, Optimism
• A little girl gets ready in the morning.

Honeysmoke by Monique Fields

• Pub Date: 2019
• A little girl in a mixed race family wants a color of her own.