Diversity books for kids including authors and characters of color and diversity themes.
I had such a great time meeting the folks at Candlewick Press at a lunch they hosted for P. J. Lynch. I asked them for some diversity books to celebrate Multicultural Children’s Book Day and they were kind enough to send me this collection. I hope these books inspire you too! Diversity Picture Books from…
Did you know that Tibetan Losar, the Mongolian Tsagaan Sar, and the Vietnamese Tết occur at the same time as the Chinese and Korean Lunar New Year holidays? Janet Wong shares a book list and Lunar New Year traditions over at Read Your World Blog here: I grew up celebrating the lunar new year mainly…
Our Multicultural Children’s Book Day illustrator is Robert Liu-Trujillo!! Get our FREE downloadable poster: Multicultural Children’s Book Day FREE Downloadable Poster. You can also download via Dropbox here. To learn more about Robert Liu-Trujillo, please go here. Follow PragmaticMom’s board Multicultural Books for Kids on Pinterest. Follow PragmaticMom’s board Children’s Book Activities on Pinterest. My books:…
My #4 post for 2015 is Multicultural Books for Children: 60+ Book Lists, another list of lists. I am trying to keep this list updated. I also posted Diversity Picture Book lists for 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade and 8th Grade in order to encourage teachers to sign up for a FREE…
I’m thrilled to be judging first-round Easy Readers and Early Chapter books for the Cybils! I’m joined by Katie Fitzgerald of Story Time Secrets, Jennifer Wharton of Library Thing, and Jean Little Library, Juliana Lee of Juliana Lee: Crafting Stories, Susan Murray of From Tots to Teens. The Easy Reader genre was my biggest challenge to find diverse,…
PickyKidPix is now in 8th grade but only less than halfway through. She tells me that her curriculum covers Colonial America, the Industrial Revolution in science, the American Revolution, the Civil War, the French and Indian War, the Constitution, and Racism. I’m creating multicultural picture book lists for middle school in hopes of helping teachers…
Our 7th grade curriculum includes the rise of civilizations, early humans, Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece, Mesopotamia, and Ancient Egypt. The science curriculum is focused on biology. What multicultural picture books should I add to this list? Thanks for sharing! p.s. Here are all the books in this series: Diversity Picture Books for 4th Grade Diversity…