Liberal feminism has guided almost all research by feminist social scientists of children’s books for more than 30 years. This study provides a multicultural feminist analysis of picture books for children by looking at the illustrations and listening carefully to themes of oppression and resistance in 33 picture books that focus on characters that are on the powerless side of some powerless/powerful social dichotomy. Books were pursued whose characters might reasonably be expected to be victims of one or more of the systems of oppression that have concerned multicultural feminists. The goal was to listen for individual accounts of oppression and resistance and spot patterns of those accounts. In addition, the analysis focused on the authors and illustrators of children’s picture books as individuals who create expressions that young children are particularly likely to hear and be affected by. The authors found many images that either depicted oppression or celebrated difference. This analysis found that authors and illustrators of children’s picture books dealing with oppressive situations sometimes employ resistance strategies of their own, sometimes show characters resisting, in organized and individual ways, and sometimes do all these things. The analysis assisted in understanding the variety of ways in which illustrators and authors of children’s picture books dealing with oppressed or potentially oppressed characters express their own resistance to oppression or advocate, through their stories, individual and collective resistance. Appendix and references