Happy New Year and welcome to #DiverseKidLit ! Please join us in sharing your diverse children’s book links and resources, as well as visiting other links to find great suggestions and recommendations.
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 serves as a resource for parents, teachers, librarians, publishers, and authors! Our next linkup will be Saturday, February 3rd and the first Saturday of each month.
Most Clicked Post from Last Time
The most-clicked post from the previous #diversekidlit was Nicholette’s post at Mixed Family Life announcing the publication of her first-ever book, Ibari’s Curls. This sounds like a great addition to any book collection seeking to celebrate children’s unique qualities. Congratulations, Nicholette!
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Gauri @ Kitaab World
an online bookstore for South Asian children’s books, toys and games
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Gayle Swift, Author of ABC, Adoption & Me
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BEST #OWNVOICES CHILDREN’S BOOKS: My Favorite Diversity Books for Kids Ages 1-12 is a book that I created to highlight books written by authors who share the same marginalized identity as the characters in their books.
Cool. This is a good start to let kids experience different things outside of what they are normally accustomed to.
Thanks for your support Matt!
As a recently “Indie” published author, I wanted to have a book that introduced the multi-cultural concepts right from birth. My research for this book was aimed at raising a successful child by starting to read to him or her from day one, as hearing is the earliest neurological development. But, I also wanted to give parents an opportunity to introduce diversity right from birth, too. My goal was to help children become a part of a global perspective. I’m getting feedback that “early reader” age children are reading it aloud to their new siblings, making it a family concept!
Your book sounds great Halina!