Kids and Families

Celebrating Differences: Multicultural Books for Children

Preschool - Grade 3 | Grades 3 - 6

Preschool - Grade 3

• Grandfather Counts by Andrea Cheng
• On the Day I Was Born by Debbi Chocolate
• Abuela by Arthur Dorris
• All the Colors of the Earth by Sheila Hamanaka
• The Good Luck Cat by Joy Harjo
• Celebrating Families by Rosmarie Hausherr
• One Afternoon by Yumi Heo
• Grandmother's Nursery Rhymes / Las Nanas de Abuelita by Nelly Palacio Jaramillo
• Bein' with You This Way by W. Nikola-Lisa
• Shades of Black: A Celebration of Our Children by Sandra Pinkney
• Giving Thanks: A Native American Good Morning Message by Jake Swamp
• I Love My Hair! by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley
• What a Wonderful World! by George David Weiss and Bob Thiele
• Where Did You Get Your Moccasins? by Bernelda Wheeler
• Do You Know What I'll Do? by Charlotte Zolotow

Grades 3 - 6

• Under the Royal Palms: A Childhood in Cuba by Alma Flor Ada
• Tae's Sonata by Haemi Balgassi
• Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
• The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich
• Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman
• The Lotus Seed by Sherry Garland
• The People Could Fly by Virginia Hamilton
• Maples in the Mist: Poems for Children from the Tang Dynasty by Mingfong Ho
• Celebrating Chinese New Year by Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith
• Oh, Freedom! Kids Talk About the Civil Rights Movement with the People Who Made It Happen by Casey King and Linda Barrett Osborne
• Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki
• Powwow Summer: A Family Celebrates the Circle of Life by Marcie Rendon
• Esperanza Rising by Pam Muoz Ryan
• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor
• The Rainbow People by Lawrence Yep