Diversity books for kids including authors and characters of color and diversity themes.
I’m creating the book list for Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2020 Classroom Kit: Understand and celebrate our differences. We’ve replaced our previous title, “Understanding and Celebrating People with Disabilities,” after learning that this isn’t correct language. I have children’s books and resource links for: ADHD Allergies Anxiety/Separation Anxiety Asthma Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Cancer Charcot…
Racism in the United States has existed since the colonial era, when white Americans were given legally or socially sanctioned privileges and rights while these same rights were denied to other races and minorities. from Wikipedia Today, with the help of Bethany Edwards, founder of Biracial Bookworms, and her daughter Havana, we are tackling…
Happy May! Hard to believe that we are into the 5th month of 2019 already. Where does time go? As the school year winds down for many parents, the focus begins to also shift to how to keep kids reading during the summer months. “Summer slide” is indeed a “thing,” and even Scholastic has acknowledged…
Pulitzer Prize author Alice Walker is believed to have coined the term “colorism” in 1982 to mean the “prejudicial or preferential treatment of same-race people based solely on their color.” It’s a term that defines racism in terms of skin color, favoring lighter toned skin, and it’s not limited to one race or one country….
Boston’s Chinatown is home to the third largest Chinese community in the U.S. The lion dances are a way to bring the community together in a ceremony that brings prosperity for business owners in the coming new year. The lion dancers go into each business. My kids said that patrons gave the lion dancers red…