Please welcome my guest author/illustrator, Qing Zhuang. We are both in the Soaring 20s picture book group, and I remember meeting her in a workshop at Kweli years ago with Bryan Collier! It is a small world! She has a list today of 11 Children’s Books about an Asian Immigrant Family. We are giving away…
Category: Diverse Books for Kids
Diversity books for kids including authors and characters of color and diversity themes.
16 Children’s Books About Ghana
My kids studied Ghana in second grade and their teachers all wanted to find books that portrayed Ghana as a city because the kids all thought the Ghanaians lived in rural villages. This was more than 15 years ago, and I’m happy to see that there are few books depicting Accra, Ghana’s capital city. I’m…
Please Donate to our Auction for Read Your World celebrates Multicultural Children’s Book Day!
We are seeking auction items for our online auction for Read Your World celebrates Multicultural Children’s Book Day. Help us change the world one book at a time! Donate to our online auction here: https://buff.ly/3INy4el Our auction will run from May 1 through May 15. The link to bid on items…
Resources to Celebrate #WomensHistoryMonth
I wanted to pull together all my resources on one page in honor of Women’s History Month. Resources to Celebrate #WomensHistoryMonth Here are my book lists Picture Books About Strong, Independent Female Artists African-American Female Musicians Picture Books 31+ STEM Books to Inspire Girls Visiting the Little Women Home of Louisa May Alcott…
Food for the Future selected by dPICTUS as 100 Outstanding Picture Books of 2023
I’m excited to share that Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World was selected by dPICTUS for their list of 100 Outstanding Picture Books of 2023! An active community of international picturebook publishers and agents use the dPICTUS online platform to promote their titles, secure foreign rights deals, discover emerging talent, and make…
Multicultural Children’s Book Club: PLANTING STORIES
Please join us for our Multicultural Children’s Book Club. We host a FREE multicultural children’s picture book virtual book club on the first Thursday of every month from 7 pm to 8 pm EST. March’s event will be held on March 2nd and we are celebrating Women’s History Month using Planting Stories: The Life of…
The Very Best Sukkah: A Story from Uganda & Sydney Taylor Honor Book Award Blog Tour #STBA #JewishBooksAreDiverseBooks
I am thrilled today to be part of a blog tour to celebrate the Sydney Taylor Book Award Finalists. Each of us on the blog tour will be interviewing one award recipient. I am thrilled to be talking to Shoshana Nambi, author of The Very Best Sukkah: A Story from Uganda. I am also grateful…