Most children’s books published in the U.S. feature a white protagonist. Here is just a small selection of books, new and old, that will help expand your child’s reading experience.
Skin You Live In
By Michael Tyler
We ALL Love Pancakes
By Jennifer Mailey Greevy
The Colors of Us
By Karen Katz
Be Kind
By Pat Zietlow Miller
Last Stop on Market Street
By Matt de la Pena
Chocolate Me!
By Taye Diggs
Dad, Who Will I Be?
By G. Todd Taylor
We’re Different, We’re All the Same
By Bobbi Jane Kates
Whoever You Are
By Mem Fox
I’m Like You, You’re Like Me
By Cindy Gainer
She Persisted Around the World
By Chelsea Clinton
Mixed Blessing
By Marsha Cosman
Can I Touch Your Hair
By Irene Latham
I Am Enough
By Grace Byers
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History
By Vashti Harrison
Of Thee I Sing; A Letter to my Daughters
By Barack Obama
This Is The Rope
By Jacqueline Woodson
Freedom Over Me
By Ashley Bryan
Thunder Boy Junior
By Sherman Alexie
Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote
By Duncan Tonatiuh
A Piece of Home
By Jeri Watts
The Birchbark House
By Lousie Erdrich
The Crossover
By Kwame Alexander
American Born Chinese
By Gene Luen Yang
One Crazy Summer
By Rita Williams-Gracia
Ghost
By Jason Reynolds
Cuba 15
By Nancy Osa
The Thing About Luck
By Cynthia Kadohata
Brown Girl Dreaming
By Jacqueline Woodson
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian
By Sherman Alexie
The Latte Rebellion
By Sarah Jamila Stevenson
Wonder
By R.J. Palacio
The Boy on The Wooden Box
By Leon Leyson
A Kids Book About Racism
By Jelani Memory
Henry’s Freedom Box: A True Story About from the Underground Railroad
By Ellen Levine
The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family
By Ibtihaj Muhammad with S. K. Ali
I am Perfectly Designed
By Henry Holt
Everybody Counts
By Kristin Roscifte
Jabari Jumps
By Gaia Cornwall
Those Shoes
By Maribeth Boelts
Just Ask
By Sonia Sotomayor
Islandborn
By Junot Diaz
All Are Welcome
By Alexandra Penfold
The Day You Begin
By Jacqueline Woodson
Be You!
By Peter H. Reynolds
One Big Heart: A Celebration of Being MOre Alike Than Different
By Linsey Davis
Malala’s Magic Pencil
By Malala Yousafzai
Shaking Things Up: 14 Young Women Who Changed the World
By Susan Hood
Say Something!
By Peter H. Reynolds
I Like Myself!
By Karen Beaumont
Look At Me! (New Baby)
By Rachel Fuller
I Walk With Vanessa
By Kerascoët
Let’s Talk about Race
By Julius Lester
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