I am thrilled to be co-posting with Valarie Budayr of Jump Into A Book for the Book Across America blog tour. I was late to the sign up to my birth state of California was already taken, as well as Massachusetts where I now reside. No matter. Tennessee was open where Valarie lives so I…
Category: Best Books for Kids
Best picture books, chapter books, young adult books, graphic novels and non fiction for kids.
15 Books for Kids about Living in an Alcoholic Home
Today’s Picture Book of the Day comes from the Multicultural Children’s Book Day Twitter Party. We asked participants to tell us what inclusive, diversity and/or multicultural children’s books they having trouble finding. It’s a heartbreaking topic but kids who live in an alcoholic home were one such request. I researched and found these books at…
Top 10 Best Multicultural Easy Readers
It wasn’t easy finding great multicultural easy readers! My town library has about 49 cubic feet of easy readers — an entire wall — but about half have animal characters and most of the remaining books do NOT have characters of color. From my search that day, I’d say that about 2% of the square…
2014 Cybils Winners: Early Chapter Book and Easy Reader
It was so much fun to judge the final round of the Cybils for Best Easy Reader and Early Chapter Book. I felt like our committee really pondered long and hard to come up with the winners in a multi-step process: We procured the books, mostly from the library (copies were sent by publishers if…
20 Wonderful Multicultural Board Books for Babies and Toddlers
These multicultural board books for kids are perfect for babies, toddlers, and preschoolers! A fantastic selection of diverse books for storytime. Valarie from Jump Into a Book and I are starting a series of book lists to highlight our favorite multicultural children’s books. We plan to turn this into an eBook which we will give…
Easter Eggs Pysanky Style: Video, Picture Books and GIVEAWAY
In celebration of Easter, I wanted to share this video and two picture books about the Ukranian craft of egg painting called Pysanky A pysanky is a Ukrainian Easter egg, decorated with traditional Ukrainian folk designs using a wax-resist (batik) method. The word pysankacomes from the verb pysaty, “to write”, as the designs are not painted…
11 Best Multicultural Chapter Books and Kid Lit Blog Hop
This is Part 2 of the 2015 Notable Books for a Global Society Award, for middle grade readers ages 8 and up. I haven’t read all of these chapter books so I’ll use book jacket blurbs with age range to make this list more helpful for parents and teachers looking for books for kids. Many…