Why Not You?

Along with Brown-Wood, celebrity couple Ciara and Russell Wilson advocate for self-acceptance and empowerment in this peppy rhyming volume, which shares a name with their foundation. Emphatically hopeful lines discuss following one’s dreams despite obstacles: “Why not you? Why not you?/ You are great! You have the stuff!/ You can drop your doubts and worries./ You’re perfection. You’re enough.” Providing an idealized complement, Gibson’s lively digital illustrations portray children of varying abilities and skin tones cheering each other as they attempt skills such as confronting a climbing wall, swinging across the monkey bars, venturing down a twisty slide, and soaring beneath a rainbow. An authors’ note concludes. Ages 4–8. (Mar.)