A rapturous tribute to the "first Black American, first woman, and first South Asian American vice president in American history.â€Mirchandani confines this celebratory biographical sketch largely to a set of highlight-reel glimpses of times when Kamala Harris figuratively raised her hand, an act that the author defines expansively as "showing everyone-and yourself-that your voice is power. And that you are powerful." So, having learned about the gesture on Civil Rights marches with her parents, she "stood up" to a bully in kindergarten (though precisely what this entailed is never made clear), wrote anti-war letters to President Nixon, organized a children's protest when she was 12, and went on to law school. Later, she stood for various political offices, including, as a tacked-on finale notes, "when America needed a president-and Americans needed hope," in the summer of 2024. In textured cloth and cut-paper collage scenes, Kelkar shows Harris raising her hand as a child, in court, on the campaign trail, and while taking an oath of office; a final scene shows her waving to a silhouetted crowd that's waving back. "You aren't just the future," the author writes, addressing readers in a personal afterword; "you are the present, too." She closes with a photo of her own young daughter, hand raised, dressed in a "Kamala" shirt.High on inspirational language, somewhat vague on specific facts; still, demand will be brisk. (author's and illustrator's notes)(Picture-book biography. 6-8)