Skip to main content
 logo
  • Events
  • Locations
  • Contact Us
Give

Social Media Menu

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • YouTube
  • LinkedIn
Library Policies© 2022 Richland Library, Richland County, South Carolina
 logo
  • Events
  • Locations
  • Contact Us
Forgot your card number?
Forgot your PIN?
  • Reset your password

Get A Library Card

  • Print Documents
  • Reserve a Room
  • Social Work
  • Career Services
  • Community Resources
  • Library of Things
  • View All Services
  • Browse free online tools for researching and learning.
  • Most Popular
  • Articles, Journals & Resources
  • Auto Repair & DIY
  • Books & Literature
  • Business & Careers
  • Children
  • En Español
  • View All Research Categories
  • Browse Staff Picks
  • Get a Recommendation
  • Read Our Blog
  • About Us
  • Work With Us
  • Our Team
  • Locations
  • Our Work
  • Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
  • Library Policies
  • Friends and Foundation
  • Contact Us

Breadcrumb

  • Home  
  • Staff Picks  
  • Read All About It: Family History in Picture Books
List

Read All About It: Family History in Picture Books

  • Jocelyn T.
  • Friday, September 03, 2021

Collection

Learning about the people who came before you can be a fascinating, exciting, and emotional adventure. It helps you gain more knowledge about your family, as well as who you are. Below are wonderful picture books about different families and what makes them special and unique. 

Looking for even more good books?  Check out our personalized recommendations or call us at 803-799-9084. Find more resources on race, equity, and inclusion, here.

Alma and How She Got Her Name (read Along.

Alma and How She Got Her Name (read Along.

Published in 2019
1 online resource (1 video file (approximately 8 min.)) : sound, color
Find
Streaming Video
 
Fry Bread

Fry Bread

A Native American Family Story
Published in 2020
1 online resource (1 video file (approximately 36 min.)) : sd., col.
Find
Streaming Video
 
Going Down Home with Daddy (read Along.

Going Down Home with Daddy (read Along.

Published in 2020
1 online resource (1 video file (approximately 14 min.)) : sound, color
Find
Streaming Video
 
Grandfather's Journey.

Grandfather's Journey.

Published in 2019
1 online resource (streaming video file) (10 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Find
Streaming Video
 
I Remember

I Remember

Poems and Pictures of Heritage
Published in 2019
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Find
Book
 
This is the Rope.

This is the Rope.

Published in 2019
1 online resource (streaming video file) (7 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Find
Streaming Video
 
This is the Rope

This is the Rope

A Story from the Great Migration
Published in 2014
1 online resource (1 audio file (15 min.)) : digital.
Find
Eaudiobook
 
Where Are You From?

Where Are You From?

Published in 2016
1 online resource
Find
Ebook
 
Avram's Gift.

Avram's Gift.

Blumberg, Margie.
Published in 2010
1 online resource
Find
Ebook
 
Avram's Gift

Avram's Gift

Blumberg, Margie.
Published in 2003
48 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Find
Book
 
Islandborn

Islandborn

Díaz, Junot, 1968- author.
Published in 2018
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Find
Book
 
Islandborn

Islandborn

Diaz, Junot, author.
Published in 2019
1 Wonderbook
Find
Sound Recording
 
Where Are You From?

Where Are You From?

Fahrnbauer, Barbara.
Published in 2015
1 online resource
Find
Ebook
 
Grandparents Song

Grandparents Song

Hamanaka, Sheila.
Published in 2003
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Find
Book
 
Seven Brave Women

Seven Brave Women

Hearne, Betsy Gould.
Published in 1997
24 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Find
Book
 
Going Down Home with Daddy

Going Down Home with Daddy

Lyons, Kelly Starling, author.
Published in 2019
1 volume (unpaged) : color illutrations ; 28 cm
Find
Book
 
Fry Bread

Fry Bread

A Native American Family Story
Maillard, Kevin Noble, author.
Published in 2019
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color map ; 26 cm
Find
Book
 
Alma and How She Got Her Name

Alma and How She Got Her Name

Martinez-Neal, Juana, author, illustrator.
Published in 2018
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 25 cm
Find
Book
 
Stitchin' and Pullin'

Stitchin' and Pullin'

A Gee's Bend Quilt
McKissack, Pat, 1944-2017.
Published in 2008
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Find
Book
 
De Dónde Eres?

De Dónde Eres?

Méndez, Yamile Saied, author.
Published in 2019
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 27 cm
Find
Book
 
Where Are You From?

Where Are You From?

Méndez, Yamile Saied, author.
Published in 2019
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Find
Book
 
Grandma Francisca Remembers

Grandma Francisca Remembers

A Hispanic-American Family Story.
Morris, Ann, 1930-
Published in 2002
1 online resource.
Find
Ebook
 
Grandma Hekmatt Remembers

Grandma Hekmatt Remembers

An Arab-American Family Story
Morris, Ann, 1930-
Published in 2003
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 23 x 30 cm.
Find
Book
 
Grandma Lois Remembers

Grandma Lois Remembers

An African-American Family Story
Morris, Ann, 1930-
Published in 2002
30 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 x 30 cm.
Find
Book
 
Fry Bread

Fry Bread

Noble Maillard, Kevin.
Published in 2020
Find
Eaudiobook
 
My Family Tree and Me.

My Family Tree and Me.

Petričić, Dušan, author, illustrator.
Published in 2015
1 online resource
Find
Ebook
 
My Family Tree and Me

My Family Tree and Me

Petričić, Dušan, author, illustrator.
Published in 2015
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Find
Book
 
The Keeping Quilt

The Keeping Quilt

Polacco, Patricia.
Published in 1988
32 unnumbered pages : all illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 x 28 cm
Find
Book
 
See Where We Come From!

See Where We Come From!

A First Book of Family Heritage
Ritchie, Scot, author, illustrator.
Published in 2021
32 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 23 cm.
Find
Book
 
When We Were Alone

When We Were Alone

Robertson, David, 1977- author.
Published in 2016
1 volume unpaged : color illustrations ; 20 x 22 cm
Find
Book
 
Grandfather's Journey

Grandfather's Journey

Say, Allen.
Published in 2008
1 online resource (32 pages) : color illustrations
Find
Ebook
 
Grandfather's Journey.

Grandfather's Journey.

Say, Allen.
Published in 2008
1 online resource (1 audio file (10 min.)) : digital.
Find
Eaudiobook
 
Grandfather's Journey

Grandfather's Journey

Say, Allen.
Published in 1993
32 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Find
Book
 
Homeplace

Homeplace

Shelby, Anne.
Published in 1995
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Find
Book
 
This is the Rope

This is the Rope

A Story from the Great Migration
Woodson, Jacqueline.
Published in 2013
1 volume unpaged : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Find
Book
 
The Granddaughter Necklace

The Granddaughter Necklace

Wyeth, Sharon Dennis.
Published in 2013
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Find
Book
 
Author

Jocelyn T.

Children's Librarian

Footer Menu

  • About
  • Work With Us
  • Blog
Library Policies© 2022 Richland Library, Richland County, South Carolina
Give

Social Media Menu

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • YouTube
  • LinkedIn