These Olive Trees: A Palestinian Family’s Story by Aya Ghanameh (Viking Books for Young Readers, 2023, 40 pages, ages 4-8). When Oraib and her family are forced to leave their refugee camp, she plants an olive pit, promising to return one day to harvest the olives.

We Are Palestinian: A Celebration of Culture and Tradition by Reem Kassis, illustrated by Noha Eilouti (Crocodile Books, 2023, 112 pages, grades 3-7). This introduction to Palestine and Palestinian culture includes chapters on geography, cultural symbols, creative minds, agriculture, cuisine, performing arts, and history and religion. 

Sitti’s Bird: A Gaza Story by Malak Matar (Crocodile Books, 2022, 32 pages, ages 4-8). In this story of the 2014 airstrikes on Gaza, Malak, a young girl living there, endures weeks at home living in fear, and how her art helps her to keep going and find hope. Sitti, her grandmother, loses her home in the bombings, but her bird flies to Malak’s home and offers the whole family reassurance.

Everything Grows in Jiddo’s Garden by Jenan Matari, illustrated by Aya Ghanameh (Crocodile Books, 2025, 32 pages, ages 4-8). In rhyming text, the narrator learns about her family’s home in Palestine, which she hopes to visit someday, through Jiddo’s (grandfather’s) garden.

A Is for Arab by Aya Mobaydeen (Crocodile Books, 2025, 16 pages, ages 0-3). From Arab to Zeitoun, this alphabet book offers words and pictures from the Arab world. Most of the pages contain a few words, but P is for Palestine, at the center of the book, stands alone.

Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine by Hannah Moushabeck, illustrated by Reem Madooh (Chronicle Books, 2023, 40 pages, ages 4-8). Three siblings enjoy their father’s bedtime stories about his homeland, Palestine, a place they’ve never been. The rusty key he shows them belonged to his family’s home, and the children dream about Palestine when they fall asleep.

A Map for Falesteen: A Palestinian Child’s Search for Home by Maysa Odeh, illustrated by Aliaa Betawi (Henry Holt and Co., 2024, 40 pages, ages 4-8). When Falasteen can’t find her homeland, Palestine, on a map at school, she comes home and asks her family about it. Her grandparents and mother all give her different answers that help Falasteen understand more about her heritage. 

Young Palestinians Speak: Living Under Occupation by Anthony Robinson and Annemarie Young (Interlink Books, 2024 (updated edition), 118 pages, grades 5 and up). Originally published in 2107, this book is a collection of stories told by children and young people living in Palestine, sharing their dreams of freedom, safety, stability, and peace.