Encourage your kids to be compassionate, thoughtful and inclusive with books! Reading books can introduce topics such as inclusivity, diversity, fairness and discrimination. It can expose your children to multicultural people, their stories and lives. Here are 10 excellent ones for young kids.
AGES 0-3. Babies love this sweet rhyming book, that happens to be about a brown skinned baby.
AGES 3+. A Children's Book of Alphabet Words to Inspire children to treat others and themselves, with compassion, kindness and positivity.
AGES 3+. Sweet and colorful book with diverse characters showing how precious mother daughter time is.
AGES 3+. We meet young Peter, a curious and brave little boy, as he spends time in the snowy city. He happens to be black.
AGES 3.5+. This bilingual book offers a simple scientifically accurate explanation about how our skin color is determined by our ancestors, the sun, and melanin.
AGES 3.5+. A simple, positive and affirming look at skin color, from an artist's perspective.
AGES 4+. A lovely story of self-confidence that shows the love between fathers and daughters. It features diverse characters, and teaches children about self love.
AGES 4+. This book is deliciously, uplifting, spirit-filling empowerment! It has a wonderful message of pure self love, for all children and grown up children too! It features multi-cultural and differently abled children.
AGES 4+. This book promotes children's feelings of empowerment and self worth. This story shows kids of different races and abilities, believing in themselves, even when things don't go their way! Great message for us all!
AGES 5+. This book explains what racism is in simple language.