Cover of Girls Can Dream Too: a smiling young Black girl with afro puffs and a yellow bow, in denim overalls, against a pink and gold sky.

A picture book for ages 4–9

Girls Can Dream Too

written and illustrated by Nakia Rivers

Eleven dreams. Every single one of them hers.

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What's inside

Three things every girl should hear.

She has to see it

Every page shows a girl already doing the job. Not someday. Right there, flying the plane and running the room.

No dream is too big

Nobody has to shrink a dream to make it fit. The big ones are allowed. So are the ones nobody expected.

The work is the fun part

Building bridges. Asking why. Solving the case. This book shows the doing, not just the title on the door.

Try it together

Pick a dream.

Tap a job and meet the girl doing it. Then ask her which one she would pick.

Watch

See it move.

Listen

Press play.

Girls Can Dream Too — the song that goes with the book. Play it in the car, at bedtime, or while you read together.

Add an .mp3 to this folder and list it in MEDIA near the bottom of this file.

For the grown-ups

She believes what she sees.

A girl who never sees a woman flying the plane, holding the gavel, or running the meeting has to work twice as hard to picture herself there. This book does that work for her. It puts the picture in her head early, while it is still easy to believe.

Read it on a regular afternoon. Then the picture is already there, long before anybody tells her she cannot.

Show her she belongs there.