Books by Nakia

Picture books that give kids the words.

Written and illustrated by Nakia Rivers, for readers ages 4–9.

Cover of It's Okay to Feel: a smiling young Black boy with locs in an olive jacket.

It's Okay to Feel

Happy. Sad. Mad. Scared. Every feeling gets a name — and every boy in the book looks like a boy you know.

Cover of Girls Can Dream Too: a smiling young Black girl with afro puffs and a yellow bow.

Girls Can Dream Too

Astronaut. Judge. Engineer. Chef. Eleven dreams, and a girl already doing every one of them.