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Bee-Bim Bop! by Linda Sue Park, 2005 (Korea).Baya, Baya, Lulla-by-a by Megan McDonald, 2003 (India).Whose Knees are These by Jabari Asim, 2006.Whose Toes are Those by Jabari Asim, 2006.Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes by Mem Fox, 2008.Little You by Richard Van Camp, 2013 (One mom says "RVC has written some wonderful kids books too, really lovely board books too").Everywhere Babies by Susan Meyers, 2001.Two Canadian publishers working to put out more books with aboriginal kids in them: Strong Nations Publishing out of BC, which currently provides books to several school boards in western Canada and Good Minds, from Ontario.

Corduroy by Don Freeman, of course! That's him above, being loved by Lisa.fantasy The Chaos incorporates Caribbean folklore and is set in Canada.This is great: Nine Picture Books that celebrate mixed race families.writes fun fantasy #kidslit with mixed race characters.Asian-American kids books: Sam and the Lucky Money, Dumpling soup, Halmoni and The Picnic.Molly Bang's Ten, Nine, Eight More, More, More said the Baby When This Box is Full (kinda) Grace Lin's books.If you've got more, add them in the comments!Īfter the jump: a WHOLE BUNCH of multicultural books for babies, kids and teens (in absolutely no particular order): Thanks to everyone for their suggestions, most especially Amena Rajwani of the Toronto Public Library. I figured that compiling all of the suggested books into a handy list would be handy. last year, not even 500 have African-American or Latina protagonists-and pleased that it sparked some good convos on Twitter. So I was unhappy to see the stark stats in a recent New York Times piece about characters of colour in children's books-of thousands of books published in the U.S. I'm also a very new parent who wants my babe to love books, but avoid those icky feelings. I'm a former child bookworm who was hurt and confused by the racism in some of my favourites (I suppose Frances Hodgson Burnett was just "a product of her time").