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Resources Celebrating Diversity |
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Diversity Picture Book Finder Searchable Database of Picture Books focusing on diversity. This database also features helpful curated lists of diverse picture books focusing on frequently request subjects such as:
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The Colours of Us A fantastic site focused soley on Multicultural Children's Books. Lists of books are organized by age of target audience, from toddlers to teens, and ethnicity.
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From the "Read Aloud Revival" website. The Read-Aloud Revival team has put together a list of their favorite diverse picture books to celebrate the everyday. These are books that don’t shine a spotlight on historical events or racial tensions, but just show children of color doing everyday kinds of things. |
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Recognizes books for kids that highlight people of color, people in the LGBTQ community, people with disabilities and religious minorities, all with the goal of creating a “world in which all children can see themselves in the pages of a book.” |
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Embrace RaceFeaturing Kids of Color Being Themselves. Because that’s enough. An EmbraceRace community crowdsourced list that keeps growing. "EmbraceRace is a growing community of support for raising resilient kids of color and nurturing healthy racial sensibilities in all kids." |
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Rainbow Book ListCreated by the Rainbow Book List Committee of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table of the American Library Association. It presents an annual bibliography of quality books with significant and authentic GLBTQ content, which are recommended for people from birth through eighteen years of age.
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Schneider Family Book Award The Schneider Family Book Award honors an author or illustrator for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences.
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Ezra Jack Keats Book Award Celebratez up-and-coming authors and illustrators of picture books written in the tradition of Keats—that is, with original, well-told stories that reflect the universal qualities of childhood and the multicultural nature of our world.
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"Once Upon a World" Book Awards Honoring children's books, aimed at young readers (ages 6 - 10) and young adults (ages 11+), which deal with issues of tolerance, diversity, human understanding and social justice, thus inspiring readers to promote positive change in the world. Awarded from 1996-2014 by the Museum of Tolerance
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