Diversity books for kids including authors and characters of color and diversity themes.
Read these middle grade books about immigrant families! These chapter books about immigration shed 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 in creating an NCTE proposal for a sports-related panel. I had read her first book, a…
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?” p.s. Related posts: Multicultural Children’s Book Day NEW Classroom Kit on Structural Racism! A Unit on Skin…
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…
I’m extra excited to announce our newest Multicultural Children’s Book Day Classroom Kit on Activism and Activists! You can get it here. There’s something more … I illustrated the poster this year! Now, I didn’t set out to illustrate anything! I had been working on my drawing skills, taking figure and portrait classes recently. I…
“Chink!” “Jap!” “Where are you from?” “Do you eat dog?” “Why don’t you go back to where you came from?” “Do you know Kung-Fu?” From the racist to the innocuous, issues of culture, ethnicity, and discrimination are prevalent themes for Asian minorities in the United States. The Asian desire to be “American” and fit into mainstream society in the U.S. can be challenging as…
I think I have been asked “Where am I from?” a lot since I was a child. It was a question that always felt a little uncomfortable, even if the person expressed a genuine curiosity. If I deflected from the implied question and answered that I was from California, or Southern California, or Seal Beach…
I first discovered Niki Nakayama through the NetFlix show Chef’s Table which my oldest child gushed about and insisted that I watch. I love food documentaries in general, but Chef’s Table is my favorite because it shows how adversity plays a huge role in each person’s story. Niki Nakayama’s story is no different. She had…