The Best Children’s Books About Fairness

Hare and Bear have three chairs, one tree full of pears, and a problem that equal numbers cannot solve.

The smaller half, the losing team, the earlier bedtime: somebody would like to file a complaint.

Duckling asks politely for a cookie and gets one. Pigeon has several objections, most of them loud.

The kangaroos outlaw noodles for everyone but kangaroos. Noodlephant responds with pasta-making machinery.

Two turtles find one magnificent hat, agree that neither should have it, and walk away very slowly.

Long before Ruth Bader Ginsburg sat on the Supreme Court, she was learning that disagreement could be a form of work.

A raja hoards the kingdom’s rice until one girl asks for a single grain, doubled every day.

’Tricia Ann crosses a segregated town alone, headed for the one public place that promises everybody is welcome.

Bear finds three mushrooms. Weasel cooks them. Both can prove, at length, who deserves the extra one.

Pablo is too small for every good thing at the market, so he imagines a day when Dad is the child instead.

Anna has four letters and always goes first. Elizabeth has nine letters and has had enough of alphabetical order.

Flat Stanley can float to the highest baseballs, and the other team would like the umpire to do something about it.

Brianna’s plan for a fifth-grade election is working until a rival appears with an embarrassing secret attached.

After six football losses, Austin’s team discovers a trick that finally works. It also happens to be cheating.