It's never too soon to start talking with your children about race.
Encourage your readers to ask questions as they learn more about the people around them. Developing racial cultural literacy will help your child to lift up and celebrate the diverse world around them. Here are just a few of our top picks to begin your diversity journey.
Books About Kindness, Inclusivity and Fairness
I Walk with Vanessa
Kerascoet
Be Kind
Pat Zietlow Miller
Don’t Touch My Hair
Sharee Miller
All Kinds of Friends
Shelley Rotner
The Teddy Bear
David McPhail
A Is for Activist
Innosanto Nagara
Open Book, Open Doors
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Wonderful, Diverse Books for Young Children
More, More, More Said the Baby
Vera B. Williams
A Family Is a Family Is a Family
Sara O’Leary
Jacob’s New Dress
Sarah Hoffman
We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga
Traci Sorrell
You Hold Me Up
Monique Gray Smith
Neither
Airlie Anderson
For Older Readers (But Worth Reading Yourself!)
Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness
Anastasia Higgenbotham
Why Am I Me?
Paige Britt
Something Happened In Our Town
Marianne Celano
Let's Talk About Race
Julius Lester
Most People
Michael Leannah
On the Playground:
Our First Talk About Prejudice
Jillian Roberts
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