Multicultural Book Lists

Multicultural Children's Literature

Celebrating cultural diversity through children?s literature

Multicultural children's books.

Children?s books from around the world

Multicultural Children's Literature-ncrel.org

The following Web sites offer listings and reviews of multicultural children's literature:

Multicultural Reading Bibliography

From CYALR: an annotated bibliography of some their favorite titles; great for curriculum building, collection diversification, and reading group planning. Featured in quick-print format for easy printing and distribution.

cynsations: The Humor in Multicultural Literature: A Bibliography

This selected bibliography represents a sample of humorous or light hearted picture books and fiction for children. Books selected for this list include multicultural and multi-racial literature. Stories with animals as main characters and folklore are not included.

Multicultural Book Reviews for K-12 Educators

This site allows teachers to submit reviews of multiculutral books.

MCReview

"Dedicated to a better understanding of ethnic, racial, and religious diversity." Features articles and book reviews. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. 

Early Childhood Research & Practice. Fall 2001. Examining Multicultural Picture Books for the Early Childhood Classroom: Possibilities and Pitfalls

Article:  Jean Mendoza and Debbie Reese raise potentially controversial issues in their discussion of multicultural picture books. The authors and the journal editors invite readers to be part of an ongoing electronic discussion of issues raised in this paper.