Picture books

By Tasha Spillett-Sumner, illustrated by Michaela Goade | Little, Brown, $18.99, ages 4-8, in stores April 6.

Inniniwak (Cree) and Trinidadian writer Tasha Spillett-Sumner draws on her Native heritage to tell a loving story of a mother and infant. “I loved you before I met you,” she says. As the baby grows inside of her, the mother gathers significant objects — a feather, a pebble, a quilt — to give to her child.

By Joyce Sidman, illustrated by Miren Asiain Lora

Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, $18.99, ages 5-9

By Ludwig Bemelmans

Thames and Hudson, $18.95, ages 3 and up

By Meg Medina, illustrated by Sonia Sánchez

Candlewick Press, $17.99, ages 5-7

By Kelly Bennett, illustrated by Noah Z. Jones

Candlewick Press, $16.99, ages 4-8

By Margaret Sturton

Andersen Press, $17.99,

By Gustavo Roldan, translated from Spanish by Robert Croll

Archipelago Books, $22, ages 3 and up, May 4

By Alexandria Giardino and Anna and Elena Balbusso

Creative Editions, 18.99, ages 6 and up

By Kao Kalia Yang, illustrated by Billy Thao

University of Minnesota Press, $16.95, ages 5 and up, April 13

By Marsha Diane Arnold and Susan Reagan

Creative Editions, $18.99, ages 6 and up