“Here, we talk about children as objects of protection rather than people with rights.” The United States remains the only eligible country that has failed to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which marks its 30th anniversary in November, noted Taft. “The Convention has given children in other countries the ability…
Category: Diverse Books for Kids
Diversity books for kids including authors and characters of color and diversity themes.
Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2021 SPONSORSHIPS!
Sign Up for Free Diverse Children’s Books! Authors, illustrators, and publishers! Multicultural Children’s Book Day sponsorships are available! What does this mean? Celebrated annually on the last Friday in January, our global non-profit offers a plethora of free resources, teaching tools, booklists, downloads, and a year-round initiative to get multicultural and diverse books into the…
Free Diverse Children’s Books through Multicultural Children’s Book Day!
This is our 8th year celebrating Multicultural Children’s Book Day! We will be holding our event this year on Friday, January 29, 2021. To celebrate, we will be giving away FREE diverse children’s and YA books for you to review and share on a social media channel such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, YouTube, or…
5 Children’s Books for Indigenous Peoples Day
It comes up every year: what are the “good” books for Thanksgiving and Indigenous Peoples Day? It’s not simply a question of #OwnVoices but historical accuracy from multiple points of view. It’s much easier to celebrate a narrative that eliminates conflict and genocide. In searching for books over the past few years, these are the…
10 Middle Grade Books about Immigrant Families
Read these middle grade books about immigrant families! These chapter books about immigration shed light on life for many of our kids. I met Laura Shovan through social media and I got to know her when she included me in creating an NCTE proposal for a sports-related panel. I had read her first book, a…
29 Antiracist Books for Kids, Teens, and Adults
Please welcome my guest today, Lisa Stringfellow, Co-Chair of the Inclusion and Diversity Committee for NESCBWI, who asks “… what can we do on an individual level to educate ourselves about issues of equity and social justice?” p.s. Related posts: Multicultural Children’s Book Day NEW Classroom Kit on Structural Racism! A Unit on Skin…
Top 4 Children’s Books to Help You Address the Diversity of Human Race
With recent unsettling events occurring in the United States, various themes about how the Black American minority is seen were brought to light once again. With various online platforms going as far as deleting some movies from their content that allegedly were racist, it’s safe to say that racism remains an important issue in today’s…