WE NEED DIVERSE BOOKS
•Here's a list of picture books, middle grade and young adult novels, nonfiction, biographies and poetry published in 2016 and 2017 that feature diverse characters. Please feel free to suggest additions to this list: annebroyles@annebroyles.com.
BOOKS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH FEATURING DIVERSE CHARACTERS PUBLISHED IN 2016/2017 (A Sampling)
OTHER HELPFUL RESOURCES:
•COLORIN COLORADO
A bilingual site for educators and families of English language learners
•COOPERATIVE CHILDREN’S BOOK CENTER
CCBC is a unique and vital gathering place for books, ideas, and expertise in the field of children's and young adult literature. The CCBC is a noncirculating examination, study, and research library for Wisconsin school and public librarians, teachers, early childhood care providers, university students, and others interested in children's and young adult literature.
•CYNSATIONS
An award-winning children’s author writes about/compiles resources on publishing, diverse books, children’s-YA book news, conversations on writing.
•DIVERSE BOOK FINDER
This group's mission is to diversify and balance bookshelves everywhere, that all our children can find themselves reflected and celebrated in libraries, schools and homes across the nation.
•FIRST BOOK
First Book is a nonprofit social enterprise that provides new books, learning materials, and other essentials to children in need. Since our founding in 1992, First Book has distributed more than 170 million books and educational resources to programs and schools serving children from low-income families.
•LEE AND LOW BLOG
Lee & Low Books is the largest multicultural children's book publisher in the United States, committed to publishing diverse books that are about everyone, for everyone. We are dedicated to cultural authenticity, and we make a special effort to work with new authors and illustrators of color. Their blog is on race, diversity, education, and children's books.
•MULTICULTURALISM ROCKS
This blog celebrates cultural diversity in the arts, and in children's books in particular, as well as the people who make it happen.
•PRAGMATIC MOM
This blog covers "parenting, children's literature and education."
•SOCIAL JUSTICE BOOKS
Features more than 50 carefully selected lists of multicultural and social justice books for children, young adults, and educators.
•THE BROWN BOOKSHELF
The Brown Bookshelf is designed to push awareness of the myriad Black voices writing for young readers.
•WE NEED DIVERSE BOOKS
We Need Diverse Books™ is a grassroots organization of children’s book lovers that advocates essential changes in the publishing industry to produce and promote literature that reflects and honors the lives of all young people.
•WE READ TOO
With this app, one can discover hundreds of books written by authors of color featuring characters of color.
•WORLDS OF WORDS
Worlds of Words builds bridges across global cultures through children’s and adolescent literature.
FOR LIBRARIANS AND TEACHERS WHO WANT TO DIVERSIFY THEIR SCHOOL COLLECTIONS:
•DONOR CHOOSE
•TITLE WISH
HISTORICAL FICTION
•Here's a list of works of historical fiction that correspond to curriculum topics for Pre-K through high school that Kathleen Duble and I compiled.
A LIST OF HISTORICAL FICTION BOOKS
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE AUTHORS AND ILLUSTRATORS
•Please check out the links below to learn about other children's book writers and/or illustrators you may not yet have discovered. This is just a sampling of the amazing authors who are writing books you may want to read. Check with your local librarian or independent bookstore or just look on the shelves to find books that interest you.
Sarah Albee
Crystal Allen
Kwame Alexander
Laurie Halse Anderson
Ann Angel
Sarah Aronson
John Attanas
M. P. Barker
Ruth McNally Barshaw
Chris Barton
Nora Raleigh Baskin
Kelly Bennett
Carmen Bernier-Grand
Julie Berry
Elizabeth Bluemle
Allie Boniface
Sarah Brannen
Larry Dane Brimner
Waka T. Brown
Jen Bryant
Loree Griffin Burns
Christine Taylor Butler
Kristin Cashore
Nancy Castaldo
Cinda Williams Chima
Bryan Collier
Carolyn Digby Conahan
Sharon Creech
Paul Czajak
Katie Davis
Jacqueline Davies
Matt de la Peña
Erin Dionne
Margarita Engle
Debbi Michiko Florence
Christina Gonzalez
Nikki Grimes
Amy Guglielmo
Joyce Moyer Hofstetter
Kimberly Willis Holt
Gwendolyn Hooks
Ellen Howard
Mark Peter Hughes
Ann Jacobus
Liza Ketchum
Jo Knowles
Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Jane Kurtz
R. L. LaFevers
Kirby Larson
Brian Lies
Pamela Smith Hill
Susan Hill Long
Trudy Ludwig
Juana Medina
Cynthia Leitich Smith
Grace Lin
Sarah Darer Littman
Cynthia Lord
Susan Lubner
Kate Messner
Susan Meyer
Hazel Mitchell
Kelly Murphy
Kadir Nelson
Alexis O'Neill
Barbara O'Connor
Rosanne Parry
Darcy Pattison
Marge Pelligrino
Mitali Perkins
Dian Curtis Regan
Susanna Reich
Jason Reynolds
Anita Sanchez
Liz Garton Scanlon
Anna Staniszewski
Heidi Stemple
Laya Steinberg
Tanya Lee Stone
Marcia Strykowski
Tui T. Sutherland
Elly Pitasky Swartz
Don Tate
Christine Taylor-Butler
Chris Tebbetts
Kyra Teis
Eric Velasquez
Audrey Vernick
Carol Boston Weatherford
Nancy Werlin
Elizabeth Wein
Jacqueline Woodson
Jane Yolen
M.O. Yuskel
Jennifer Ziegler