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Resources Celebrating Diversity
 

Diversity Picture Book Finder 

Searchable Database of Picture Books focusing on diversity. 
This database also features helpful curated lists of diverse picture books focusing on frequently request subjects such as:
  • Adoption
  • Immigrants and Refugees
  • Multiracial Families
  • Skin Tone
The Colours of Us

A fantastic site focused soley on Multicultural Children's Books. Lists of books are organized by age of target audience, from toddlers to teens,  and ethnicity.
Diverse Picture Books to Celebrate the Everyday
 
From the "Read Aloud Revival" website. The Read-Aloud Revival team has put together a list of their favorite diverse picture books to celebrate the everyday. These are books that don’t shine a spotlight on historical events or racial tensions, but just show children of color doing everyday kinds of things.
We Need Diverse Books:
Where to Find Diverse Books
Recognizes books for kids that highlight people of color, people in the LGBTQ community, people with disabilities and religious minorities, all with the goal of creating a “world in which all children can see themselves in the pages of a book.”
Embrace Race

Featuring Kids of Color Being Themselves. Because that’s enough. An EmbraceRace community crowdsourced list that keeps growing.
"EmbraceRace is a growing community of support for raising resilient kids of color and nurturing healthy racial sensibilities in all kids."
Database of Award Winning Children's Literature

Search only award-winning books, by the following categories: ethnicity, multicultural, language, setting. For groups not covered in these categories, search by keyword.
Rainbow Book List

Created by the Rainbow Book List Committee of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table of the American Library Association. It presents an annual bibliography of quality books with significant and authentic GLBTQ content, which are recommended for people from birth through eighteen years of age.
Schneider Family Book Award  

 The Schneider Family Book Award honors an author or illustrator for a book that embodies an artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences.
Ezra Jack Keats Book Award
Celebratez up-and-coming authors and illustrators of picture books written in the tradition of Keats­—that is, with original, well-told stories that reflect the universal qualities of childhood and the multicultural nature of our world.
"Once Upon a World" Book Awards

Honoring children's books, aimed at young readers (ages 6 - 10) and young adults (ages 11+), which deal with issues of tolerance, diversity, human understanding and social justice, thus inspiring readers to promote positive change in the world. Awarded from 1996-2014 by the Museum of Tolerance
 
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