Diversity books for kids including authors and characters of color and diversity themes.
Welcome to #DiverseKidLit ! Please join us in sharing your diverse children’s book links and resources, as well as visiting other links to find great suggestions and recommendations. What Is #DiverseKidLit? Diverse Children’s Books is a book-sharing meme designed to promote the reading and writing of children’s books that feature diverse characters. This community embraces all kinds of…
It was so fun to meet Susan Tan at her author event at Newtonville Books. Her latest book, Cilla Lee-Jenkins: This Book Is A Classic is a hilarious middle grade book about a mixed protagonist with a big personality. In this book, she is now a big sister and is excited to be participating in…
Please welcome my guest author today, illustrator Suzanne Kaufman, who talks about her inspiration for All Are Welcome in response to President Trump’s travel ban. She wanted to do something positive, so she offered her skills as an illustrator to create a poster and the book was born of this effort. All Are Welcome by Alexandra…
Welcome to #DiverseKidLit ! Please join us in sharing your diverse children’s book links and resources, as well as visiting other links to find great suggestions and recommendations. What Is #DiverseKidLit? Diverse Children’s Books is a book-sharing meme designed to promote the reading and writing of children’s books that feature diverse characters. This community embraces all kinds of…
Apple Pie 4th of July by Janet Wong Because her parents cook Chinese food to sell at their store on the 4th of July, their 2nd grade daughter thinks that her parents “don’t get it.” No one wants Chinese food on the 4th of July! This story depicts the struggle that second-generation children feel in…
Thank you to Nothing But the Truth for sponsoring this post. I’m trying something new today. This is my first sponsored post for a publisher. What I am promising is an honest review of their books. What they get by sponsoring is that I will read and review their books in a timely way. Typically,…
Welcome to #DiverseKidLit! Please join us in sharing your diverse children’s book links and resources, as well as visiting other links to find great suggestions and recommendations. What Is #DiverseKidLit? Diverse Children’s Books is a book-sharing meme designed to promote the reading and writing of children’s books that feature diverse characters. This community embraces all kinds of…
It was great to celebrate Japanese holiday, Girls Day or Hinamatsuri, with Debbi Michiko Florence at Newtonville Books! Debbi and I have been doing a blog series on Japanese culture so I wanted to add in this Japanese holiday that also involves mochi! Hinamatsuri, also called Doll’s Day or Girls’ Day, is a special day in Japan. Celebrated each year…
To celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, I am going to give a shout out to all the AAPI children’s book authors and illustrators that I can think of with a book published in the last 18 months. I will be listing them by book genre in the hopes that you, my readers,…