Our theme for today’s Diverse Children’s Books linkup is Diverse Book(s) Featuring a Character with a Disability. (Need ideas? Check out past winners of the Schneider Family Book Awards.) (The theme is only a suggestion. Diverse posts on alternate topics are always welcome.)
What Is #DiverseKidLit?
Diverse Children’s Books is a book-sharing meme designed to promote the reading and writing of children’s books that feature diverse characters. This community embraces all kinds of diversity including (and certainly not limited to) diverse, inclusive, multicultural, and global books for children of all backgrounds.
We encourage everyone who shares to support this blogging community by visiting and leaving comments for at least three others. Please also consider following the hosts on at least one of their social media outlets. Spread the word using #diversekidlit and/or adding our button to your site and your diverse posts.
We hope this community will grow into a great resource for parents, teachers, librarians, publishers, and authors! Our next linkup will be Saturday, September 17th and on the first and third Saturdays of every month.
Upcoming Themes
Our theme for the current linkup is Diverse Book(s) Featuring a Character with a Disability.. Themes are a suggestion only; all diverse book posts are welcome. If you’re interested, you can start planning now for our upcoming themes …
- September 17th linkup: Favorite Bilingual Book(s). Think about your favorite book or books that are published in bilingual (or multiple language) editions.
Most Clicked Post from Last Time
Our most clicked post from the previous #diversekidlit is ADA’S VIOLIN: THE STORY OF THE RECYCLED ORCHESTRA OF PARAGUAY from Linda at The Reader and the Book. This story is based on the true origins of the Cateura orchestra in Paraguay, and Linda’s post contains a great summary of the book as well as additional information about the author, illustrator, and real-life orchestra!
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We Sing from the Heart: How the Slants® Took Their Fight for Free Speech to the Supreme Court
- ALSC Notable Children’s Book
- Orbis Pictus Recommended Book for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children
- California Eureka Non-Fiction Award Honor Book
- Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People Winner (from National Council for the Social Studies and Children’s Book Council)
- Junior Library Guild Gold Selection
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Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World
- ⭐ Starred review from School Library Journal!
- Junior Library Guild Gold selection
- Massachusetts Book Award Long List
- dPICTUS 100 Outstanding Picture Books of 2023
- Chicago Library’s Best of the Best
- 2023 INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist
- Green Earth Book Award Long List
- Nautilus Silver Winner, Nonfiction Children’s Picture Book
- Imagination Soup’s 35 Best Nonfiction Books of 2023 for Kids
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Bank Street College’s The Best Children’s Books of the Year
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JG’s by M.D. Marrone has a character who is deaf…Perfect for kids 9-12…Your kid will REALLY like it if involved with Junior Lifeguards…find it on Amazon for under $6…enjoy!
Thanks so much for sharing Maria! My niece and nephew do Junior Lifeguards in Southern California and they are the perfect age. I’ll tell my sister.
Just read & loved Ada’s Violin, Mia :)!
I have a picture book coming out in July 2017 which features an MC named Zara who just happens to be in a wheelchair. I did a cover reveal on FB, and I absolutely LOVE Patrice Barton’s art for it!
I absolutely love Emmanuel’s Dream as well as Lynda Mullaly Hunt’s Fish in a Tree, both of which won a Schneider award this year. Susan Vaught’s Footer Davis Probably is Crazy also features a character with cerebral palsy. It’s funny & touching.
And then there is of course Rules, by Cynthia Lord and I love Francisco X. Stork’s Marcelo in the Real World. It’s one of my favorites!!
Thanks for that great book recommendation! I will add it to my wheelchair book list once I find it! Love all your book recs!
You’re welcome, Mia!! I’ll keep you posted about it!
Thank you so much for “resharing” Ada’ Violin due to it being the “most clicked upon.” That is great as the story is wonderful! I loved the book and the fact that the story is a true one!! Thanks to all of you who have reposted it through your blogs. : )
Hi Linda,
I need to read it! Thanks for your great review!
Maxi’s Secrets, which I reviewed on my blog last month, features a girl who is blind and other students with disabilities. It is a spectacular middle grade fiction book.
Hi MaryAnne,
Thanks for your great book suggestion!!! It sounds wonderful!
This linkup is a fabulous idea. It is sad how some great books get lost for lack of promotion. Sharing one such book by a small Indian NGO.
Thanks so much for sharing Obsessive Mom!! Yes, I think promotion is the key to get more great diversity books published. We have to share the ones we love and spread the word so that they are commercially successful to pave the way. Thanks for doing your part!
Thanks for linking these books. Now I know what to read to my kids next.
Hi Matthew,
I’m go glad you find this linky helpful! That is what we were hoping!
Oh Mia! I had no idea about this! Just signed up for the alert. I see the linky is open for a few days. I’d love to participate. 🙂 Hugs!
Thanks so much much Vidya and for all your support of my blog on your social media. Big hugs back!!!