Burns, Kylie. Cultural Traditions in Kenya. New York, NY: Crabtree Pub. Co., 2015.Celebrates a year of holidays and traditions representing Kenya's many cultural groups and presents the strong tradition of song and dance in Kenya and also how family occasions are celebrated. Part of the series Cultural Traditions in My World. (Ages 7-9.)

Deedy, Carmen Agra. Fourteen Cows for America. Atlanta, GA: Peachtree Publishers, 2016.
Presents an illustrated tale of a gift of fourteen cows given by the Maasai people of Kenya to the U.S. as a gesture of comfort and friendship in the wake of the attacks of September 11, 2001. (Ages 6-10.)

Kirk, Daniel. Rhino in the House. New York, NY: Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2017.
This is a nonfiction picture book for young children. It tells the true story of Anna Merz, a wildlife protector in Africa , and Samia, a black rhinoceros she saved after it was abandoned by its mother. Anna devoted her life to protecting the wildlife of the region, founding a reserve in Kenya called Lewa Downs to care for them (Ages 4-8.).

Nagara, Innosanto. A is for Activist. New York, NY: Seven Stories Press, 2016.
The alliteration, rhyming, and vibrant illustrations make the book exciting for children, while the issues it brings up resonate with their parents’ values of community, equality, and justice. This engaging little book carries huge messages as it inspires hope for the future, and calls children to action while teaching them a love for books. (Ages 3-7.)

Nagara, Innosanto. The Wedding Portrait. New York, NY: Seven Stories Press, 2017.Here are stories of direct action from around the world that are bookended by the author's wedding story. He and his bride led their wedding party to a protest, and were captured in a photo by the local newspaper kissing in front of a line of police just before being arrested. (Ages 6-9.)

Nivola, Claire A. Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai. New York, NY: Frances Foster Books, an imprint of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Macmillan Publishers, 2008.
Wangari Maathai, winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and founder of the Green Belt Movement, grew up in the highlands of Kenya, where fig trees cloaked the hills, fish filled the streams, and the people tended their bountiful gardens. But over many years, as more and more land was cleared, Kenya was transformed. When Wangari returned home from college in America, she found the village gardens dry, the people malnourished, and the trees gone. How could she alone bring back the trees and restore the gardens and the people? (Ages 5-9.)

Meyerowitz, Joel. Seeing Things: A Kid’s Guide to Looking at Photographs. New York, NY: Aperture Foundation, 2016.
Aimed at children between the ages of eight and twelve, Seeing Things is an introduction to photography that asks how photographers transform ordinary things into meaningful moments. In this book, photographer Joel Meyerowitz takes readers on a journey through the power and magic of photography: its abilities to freeze time, tell a story, combine several layers into one frame, and record life's fleeting and beautiful moments. The book features the work of masters such as William Eggleston, Mary Ellen Mark, Helen Levitt, and Walker Evans, among many others. Each picture is accompanied by a short commentary, encouraging readers to look closely and use their imagination to understand key ideas in photography such as light, gesture, composition-and, ultimately, how there is wonder all around us when viewed through the lens. (Ages 10-13.)