Children’s Books About Race and Diversity

Please comment below if you know of any other good books about diversity to add to the list. I would recommend that you also read children’s books by diverse authors (not necessarily about race) to expose your children to unfamiliar writers/ writers who don’t look like them.

1. Sister Anne’s Hands- Marybeth Lorbiecki

2. Teach Your Dragon about Diversity- Steve Herman

3. A Kids Book About Racism- Jelani Memory

4. Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation- Duncan Tonatiuh

5. Shades of People- Shelly Rotner and Sheila Kelly

6. The Other Side- Jacqueline Woodson

7.  We are the Change: Words of Inspiration from Civil Rights Leaders- Harry Belafonte

8. Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans- Kadir Nelson

9. The Proudest Blue: The Story of Hijab and Family- Ibtihaj Muhammad

10. Mixed: A Colorful Story- Arree Chung

11. Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness (Ordinary Terrible Things)- Anastasia Higginbotham

12. Ruth and the Green Book- Calvin Alexander Ramsey and Gwen Strauss

13. All Because You Matter-Tami Charles

14. Enough! 20 Protesters Who Changed America- Emily Easton

15. Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down- Andrea Davis Pinkney

16. God’s Dream- Desmond Tutu and Douglas Carlton Abrams 

17. Desmond and the Very Mean World- Desmond Tutu

18. The Arabic Quilt: An Immigrant Story- Aya Khalil

19. Skin Like Mine (Kids Like Mine)- LaTashia M. Perry

20. This Is How We Do It: One Day in the Lives of Seven Kids from Around the World- Matt Lamothe

21. I Am Enough- Grace Byers

22. Happy in Our Skin Paperback- Fran Manushkin

23. A Child’s Introduction to African American History: The Experiences, People, and Events That Shaped Our Country- Jabari Asim

24. Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story About Racial Injustice- Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, and Ann Hazzard
25. The Day You Begin- Jacqueline Woodson