Diversity books for kids including authors and characters of color and diversity themes.
We are getting ready for winter fun! While Jasmine Toguchi hasn’t played in snow yet, Debbi Michiko Florence and I thought we’d introduce our readers to Japanese culture with winter in mind: Explore: Sapporo Japan’s Snow Festival (Yukimatsuri) & Boston’s First Night Ice Sculptures Recipe: Tea Ceremony Activity: Snow (or sand or dirt) Statues Book…
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…
Thank you to Cheap Essays for sponsoring this post. We want our children to be kind. In a cultural melting pot like Singapore, there’s no ‘one-size fits all’. To encourage empathy and acceptance, there is no better way to introduce children to diversity, and than by reading a good book. Try these books suggestions from Cheap…
Please welcome author Sandra Neil Wallace with her 10 True Kidlit Immigration Stories book list. She was my guest earlier for her book Between the Lines: How Ernie Barnes Went from the Football Field to the Art Gallery and her book list on 10 Diverse Picture Books on Fine Artists. I’m thrilled to have her back! Her…
I was asked on social media to create a physical disabilities book list, and I want to start by pointing my readers to an excellent blog that covers all kinds of disabilities in KidLit, aptly named Disability in KidLit. It’s my go-to for understanding if authors get it right when it comes to this topic….