Books like The Emperor's New Clothes by Joseph L., Jr. Graves

A tender picture book that follows the lifelong bond between a boy and a tree, exploring themes of love, generosity, and self‑less giving.

Four orphaned girls in Carthya are chosen for a deadly contest to impersonate the king’s lost son, a scheme that could avert civil war.

The Rainbow Fish, the most beautiful fish in the ocean, learns that true beauty lies in sharing and friendship.

Naomi Lewis’s retelling of the classic tale in which two wily weavers trick an emperor into believing he is wearing invisible garments; the story is revealed when a child calls his bluff during a royal parade.

Explores how the United States has defined and redefined race, showing how immigrant groups have been reshaped into the nation’s racial categories over time.

A critique of African American civil rights through the lens of race relations and racism in the United States.

THE MASTER PLAN is a groundbreaking history of a little known Nazi SS archeological research institute, the Ahnenerbe, and the key role it played in the Holocaust. The Ahnenerbe was the brainchild of Himmler, the Reichsfuhrer SS and architect of the Final Solution, who was intensely interested in Germany’s ancient past. His intent was not only to rewrite the history of what he and others termed the “Aryan Race,” but also to use that mythic past to shape a more glorious future for Germany. While attempting to prove that Aryans were responsible for all of civilization’s greatest achievements, he also hoped to use tall, blond-haired SS men as stock to breed future generations of Germans in a racially purer mold. In the tradition of Hitler’s Willing Executioners, THE MASTER PLAN is also an expose of the work of German scientists and scholars who allowed their research to be used to justify extermination, and who, in some cases, directly participated in the slaughter—many of whom resumed their academic positions at war’s end. Intensely compelling and exhaustively researched, THE MASTER PLAN is based on extensive personal interviews and previously ignored archival material.

Walt Disney Productions presents a playful retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s classic fairy tale, in which two deceitful weavers offer an emperor a magical, invisible outfit that only the honest believe can be seen.

Explores the ways science, politics, and large corporations affect race in the twenty-first century, discussing the efforts and results of the Human Genome Project, and describing how technology-driven science researchers are developing a genetic definition of race.