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…
Category: Diversity Books for Kids
Diversity books for kids including authors and characters of color and diversity themes.
#OwnVoices Children’s Books for Thanksgiving & 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 few years, these are the books that…
10 Middle Grade Books about Immigrant Families
Read these middle grade books about immigrant families! These chapter books about immigration sheds 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 to create a NCTE proposal for a sports-related panel. I had read her first book, a…
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?” ——- More Than A Moment: Working From Within The past few weeks have been a time of great…
Top 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…