picture book recs (round 3)

Nibling turns 1 year old this Friday, and I know I'm not going to get any more picturebooks read between now and then, so am posting now. (Yes, I am on a 6-month posting schedule.)

I read ~150 picturebooks the first 6 months, ~50 the next 6 months, and ~83 this past 6 months (38 of which were over the winter holiday break week -- my most prime time for reading). Books are, as usual, listed in the order in which I read them.

Tier 1:

• Pablo Neruda: Poet of the People written by Monica Brown & illustrated by Julie Paschkis [Chilean]
• Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer written by Carole Boston Weatherford & illustrated by Ekua Holmes [African-American]
• My Night in the Planetarium: A true story about a child, a play, and the art of resistance by Innosanto Nagara [Indonesian]
• There Is a Flower at the Tip of My Nose Smelling Me written by Alice Walker & illustrated by Stefano Vitale [protagonist is a brown girl with what I suspect is African hair]
• Girl of Mine written by Jabari Asim & illustrated by LeUyen Pham [Black father and baby girl] (board book)

Tier 2:

• Doña Flor: A Tall Tale About a Giant Woman with a Great Big Heart written by Pat Mora & illustrated by Raúl Colón [Hispanic]
• The Invisible Princess by Faith Ringgold [slavery folktale]
• Little Night by Yuyi Morales [depicts a brown mother and black daughter]
• Max and the Tag-Along Moon by Floyd Cooper [depicts male characters of African ancestry]
• If You Were My Baby written by Fran Hodgkins & illustrated by Laura J. Bryant [NB: parent-child pair depicted on final page are white]
• Melena's Jubilee by Zetta Elliott [African-American protagonist]
• My First Book of Girl Power by Julie Merberg [DC comics; white, skinny, able-bodied superheroines] (board book)
• The Big Book of Girl Power by Julie Merberg [DC comics; various superheroines]

I didn't love any of the Chinese/Lunar New Year books I read, but probably my favorite that's About the holiday is The Next New Year written by Janet S. Wong & illustrated by Yangsook Choi. I also enjoyed:

• The Nian Monster written by Andrea Wang & illustrated by Alina Chau
• The Runaway Wok: A Chinese New Year Tale written by Ying Chang Compestine & illustrated by Sebastia Serra

And speaking of Chinese holidays, I also enjoyed (though again, not in love with) Thanking the Moon: Celebrating the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival by Grace Lin.