Great Books to Diversify Your Library: For Younger Kids
It’s never too early to start creating a diverse library for your family. From the time our kids are little we can enrich their lives by exposing them to books with characters from different backgrounds. We can also read books that touch on things like cultural traditions; treating others with kindness; and appreciating similarities and differences between people.

Featuring collage images, this book wonders about the ways in which colors are the same all over the world.

With rhyming text & fun illustrations, this book will have you celebrating diversityThis word simply means differences. It generally refers to differences in things like race, gender, religion, language, culture, or appearance..

A book celebrating that no matter what we look like, where we live or what our families are like, all children have things in common.

Go beyond your typical ABC book and introduce your child to important concepts promoting social justice and activism.

This story reminds the reader that while raceWhen people are grouped based upon certain physical characteristics; most commonly skin color. matters, to truly know someone we have to go beyond skin color. We need to learn about people’s feelings and experiences…the things we cannot easily see.

Celebrate diversityThis word simply means differences. It generally refers to differences in things like race, gender, religion, language, culture, or appearance. by reading this book in which things like skin and hair color are described in beautiful poetry as parts of what makes up earth.

Full of colorful illustrations & quotes, this book introduces younger children to 5 remarkable African Americans.

Inspired by Mae Jemison, the first Black woman in space. Follow along on Mae’s journey to achieve her dream of seeing earth from space.

With adorable images and playful writing, this book shows that it’s never too early to start exposing kids to what it means to be antiracist.