Diverse Children's Books

Similar to diverse toys, we also love to read diverse children’s books!  Here is a list of our favorites that we’ve discovered at the library. 

Cultural Stories 

• Bringing in the New Year by Grace Lin
• Dim Sum for Everyone! By Grace Lin
• Uncle Peter's Amazing Chinese Wedding by Lenore Look
• Mulan Lunar New Year by Natasha Yim
• Lion Dancer by Kate Waters
• Bee-Bim Bop! by Linda Sue Park
• Amy Wu and the Perfect Bao by Kat Zhang
• Drawn Together by Minh Lê
• No Kimchi For Me! by Aram Kim 
• Ruby's Chinese New Year - by Vickie Lee
• Chinese New Year by Judith Jango-Cohen
• My Dadima Wears a Sari by Kashmira Sheth
• Bilal Cooks Daal by Aisha Saeed

Fairy tales

• The Runaway Wok by Ying Chang Compestines
• The Chinese Emperor's New Clothes by Ying Chang Compestine
• The Empty Pot by Demi
• The Story of Kites By Ying Chang Compestine
• Feast of Peas by Kashmira Sheth
• Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale by John Steptoe
• Stone Soup by Jon J Muth

Stories of Diversity, Acceptance & Life Lessons

• A Normal Pig by K-Fai Steele
• Same, Same But Different by Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw
• The Invisible Boy by Trudy Ludwig
• The Proudest Blue by Ibtihaj Muhammad
• Ellie Makes a Friend by Mike Wu
• Those Shoes by Maribeth Boelts

Diverse Characters

• Izzy Gizmo by Pip Jones
• Jabari Jumps by Gaia Cornwall
• Ada Twist, Scientist by Andrea Beaty
• Sofia Valdez, Future Prez by Andrea Beaty
• Cherries and Cherry Pits by Vera Williams
• A Chair for My Mother by Vera Williams