children’s books
in order of age range
Shades of People by Shelley Rotner
All the Colors We Are: The story of how we got our skin color by Katie Kissinger
Chocolate Me! by Taye Diggs
Skin Again by bell hooks
Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman
The Colors Of Us by Karen Katz
The Youngest Marcher by Cynthia Levinson
The Skin I’m in: A First Look at Racism by psychotherapist Pat Thomas
Who Belongs Here? — An American Story by Margy Burns Knight
Something Happened in Our Town: A Child's Story about Racial Injustice by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collin, and Ann Hazzard
Saturday by Oge Mora
Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry
“Each Kindness, by Jacqueline Woodson
The Dead Bird by Margaret Wise Brown
The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles
Resist: 35 Profiles of Ordinary People Who Rose Up Against Tyranny and Injustice by Veronica Chambers
Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness by Anastasia Higginbotham
Firebird by Misty Copeland
My Name is Bilal by Asma Mobin-Uddin
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
The Watsons Go To Birmingham — 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
Additional resources at We Need Diverse Books
SEE ALSO:
The Conscious Kid book lists:
Teaching for Change’s also has an amazing multicultural children’s book guide for all ages, from elementary school age to high school, broken into the following categories:
Books featuring Afro-Latinx
On activism, organizing, and making change
(see also this list on Organizing for older kids)
On the Reconstruction era (the period immediately following the Civil War)
