Diversity books for kids including authors and characters of color and diversity themes.
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…
These are the Young Adult books from the 2015 Notable Books for a Global Society. Part I from the list of picture books is here and Part II of middle grade books is here. Best Multicultural Young Adult Books for Teens Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal by Margarita Engle Did you know that there was…
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…
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…
This is a really great multicultural/diversity/inclusion book list for kids: 2015 Notable Books for a Global Society Award. I haven’t read them all 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. I am splitting this list into three parts. Today I…
Please welcome my guest poster today, author Elsa Marston who is my resident Middle Eastern Children’s literature go to! She has a list of recommended books for kids and teens at the bottom of the post. ———— Lately, we’ve been reading about terrorist actions by Muslims in Europe and other places, events that have again…
The Jewish Book Council announced this week the winners of the Louis Posner Memorial Award for Illustrated Children’s Book and The Sydney Taylor Book Awards for 2015 are out! Louis Posner Memorial Award for Illustrated Children’s Book Winner The Patchwork Torah by Allison Ofanansky, illustrated by Elsa Oriol Fragments of damaged and rescued Torahs from several…