WEBSITES
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We Need Diverse Books™ is a non-profit and a grassroots organization of children’s book lovers that advocates essential changes in the publishing industry. Our aim is to help produce and promote literature that reflects and honors the lives of all young people.
Check out the titles on the “Where to Find Diverse Books” page of this website for suggestions. The goal of Diversity Book Finder is to move the diverse books discussion beyond a focus simply on the lack of numbers to a much more nuanced exploration of who (which groups) are represented in recent American children's picture books and how (what themes predominate for each group), and what that communicates about how members of each group are perceived in contemporary America. Our current focus is on depictions of racial and cultural diversity.
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The Brown Bookshelf is designed to push awareness of the myriad Black voices writing for young readers. Our flagship initiative is 28 Days Later, a month-long showcase of the best in Picture Books, Middle Grade, and Young Adult novels written and illustrated by Black creators.
EyeSee Me is an African American Children's Bookstore that was created in order to help bridge the cultural divide, so that African American children can benefit from exposure to literature that respectfully mirrors themselves, their culture and their families. They believe that competent, caring, and properly supported teachers and parents are essential to student learning. EyeSeeMe is here to help provide that support.
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At Here Wee Read, Charnaie finds and shares the very best diverse and non-diverse books that she reads aloud with her two children. She is dedicated to shaping her family culture around books and a love for shared reading.
This is a personal blog - check out Charnaie’s 2018 Ultimate List of Diverse Children’s Books. NEA established this page to help educators integrate multicultural and diversity education into the K - 12 classroom experience. These resources consist of NEA Web pages with information about multicultural and diversity education, books for multicultural educators, and web sites containing multicultural education curriculum.
Established in 2006, American Indians in Children's Literature (AICL) provides critical perspectives and analysis of indigenous peoples in children's and young adult books, the school curriculum, popular culture, and society. Scroll down for links to book reviews, Native media, and more.
A collection of book lists on a variety of topics compiled by the National Council of Teachers of English.
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Diversity in YA was founded in 2011 by authors Cindy Pon and Malinda Lo as a website and book tour. While the tour is over, we revived the website on Tumblr in February 2013, and we relaunched DiversityinYA.com in January 2014. We celebrate young adult books about all kinds of diversity, from race to sexual orientation to gender identity and disability. Our goal is to bring attention to books and authors that might fall outside the mainstream, and to bring the margin to the center.
Note: this website is no longer being updated. Rich in Color is dedicated to reading, reviewing, talking about, and otherwise promoting young adult fiction starring or written by people of color or people from First/Native Nations. They believe that teens (and adults!) should be able to find themselves in the kinds of books they love to read. At Rich in Color, they want to showcase a wide variety of multicultural books so that kids will be able to see themselves as more than just the sassy best friend, the very special lesson, or the extra in the background.
Lee & Low Books is the largest multicultural children's book publisher in the country. They are also one of the few minority-owned publishing companies in the United States. Lee & Low Books is committed to publishing diverse books that are about everyone, for everyone. They are dedicated to cultural authenticity, and make a special effort to work with new authors and illustrators of color.
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Awards
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The Pura Belpré Award, established in 1996, is presented to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth.
Designed to commemorate the life and works of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and to honor Mrs. Coretta Scott King for her courage and determination to continue the work for peace, the Coretta Scott King Book Awards annually recognize outstanding books for young adults and children by African American authors and illustrators that reflect the African American experience. Further, the Award encourages the artistic expression of the black experience via literature and the graphic arts in biographical, social, and historical treatments by African American authors and illustrators.
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This award is given to encourage, recognize and commend outstanding achievement in Jewish literature. Note: this is not a children’s book award.
The award is established to affirm new talent and to offer visibility to excellence in writing and/or illustration which otherwise might be formally unacknowledged within a given year within the structure of the two awards given annually by the Coretta Scott King Book Awards Committee.
These books affirm new talent and offer visibility to excellence in writing or illustration at the beginning of a career as a published book creator. |
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The Rainbow Project Book List is list of recommended books dealing with gay, lesbian, bisexual, trangendered and questioning issues and situations for children up to age 18.
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The Schneider Family Book Awards honor 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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Stonewall Book Awards
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The Barbara Gittings Literature Award and the Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award are presented to English language books that have exceptional merit relating to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender experience.
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The Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s & Young Adult Literature Award is presented to English language books that have exceptional merit relating to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender experience.
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