AfA=African American

AsA=Asian American

H/L=Hispanic/Latino(a)

NA=Native American

M=Multicultural

I=International

A story poem about an interracial family (AfA/M)

A simple story of a young boy following the trail by the sea to find his family. (AfA)

Amelia Martinez, the daughter of migrant farm workers, dreams on a permanent home. (H/L)

Set during World War II, this is the story of Luz who creates farolitos (small lanterns) to help luminate Christmas in her New Mexican village. (H/L)

A powwow on Crow Reservation in Montana is represented through color photographs. (NA)

After crossing the Rio Grande into Texas with his mother, Joaquin makes friends with Prietita, a young Mexican American girl. (H/L)

A beautiful lullaby counting book depicting a father and his young daughter. (AfA)

Hoang breaks the lucky teapot given to him by his grandmother when he and his family flee Vietnam. (AsA)

The lives of children in eight different countries are highlighted in this book prepared by a collection of children’s book artists. Each set of pictures shows children’s activities at the same moment in time across time zones. (I)

As Francisco tries to help his Spanish speaking grandfather find work, he learns a valuable lesson about honesty. (H/L)

In the riot torn streets of Los Angeles, a young boy and his mother learn new things about the people in their community. (M)

A young girl of divorced parents shares special Saturdays with her father. (AFA)

Abuela learns to accept her birthmark as she and her grandmother sell huipiles and tapestries in a rural Guatemalan market (I: Guatamala)

Margarita tells her father about her first day of kindergarten. (H/L)

The life of the author and her family in their native Laos and their subsequent emigration to the United States is told through a Vietnamese story cloth. (AsA)

Poetic text reflects Pueblo life. (NA)

Two boys search for spring which is, supposedly, "just around the corner". (AfA)

Everett thinks about family numbers as his mother considers remarriage. (AfA)

The excitement of a young boy waiting for, and celebrating, Christmas. (AfA)

Everett hopes that his new neighbor will be a boy but instead finds a family of girls. (AfA)

The story of a child dealing with the death of his father. (AfA)

Everett Anderson and his family welcome a new baby. (AfA)

The story of Chang, a young boy who comes to the U.S. during the gold rush, and his desires for a pony of his own. (AsA)

This picture story book of the longer text, Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, recounts the story of a young girl’s attempt to survive the devastating effects of the bombing of Hiroshima. (I: Japan)

A young city girl learns from her grandmother the beauties of the desert in the American Southwest. (H/L)

A bilingual text evoking the childhood of a girl and her brother in a small Mexican town. (I: Mexico)

The recounting of a summer visit to grandmother’s house in Florida. (AfA)

Children face danger as they take a shortcut home, walking on the train tracks. (AfA)

A humorous story of young Harvey’s approach to cleaning his room. (AfA)

A young girl in an interracial family talks about the differences in her family - how they are "black, white, just right!" (AfA/M)

Young Ramon’s costume becomes torn as he parades through the streets during carnival time in Puerto Rico. (I: Puerto Rico)

A young girl imagines that she and her grandmother are flying over New York City. Spanish words and phrases are interspersed with the predominantly English text. (H/L)

Diego’s radio provides comfort and connects him to new places as his migrant family travels to harvest fruits and vegetables. (H/L)

Letters of the alphabet introduce Swahili words to young children. Stunning illustrations by the author. (I: Africa)

A counting book that is a fine companion piece to Feelings’ Swahili alphabet book. (I: Africa)

The quilt grandmother makes from old scraps tells stories from the lives of Tanya’s family. (AfA)

The author’s description of growing up in an Hispanic community in Texas (bilingual text). (H/L)

This sequel to Family Pictures recounts further experiences of the author’s early years in Kingsville, Texas. (H/L)

The children love Miss Tizzy who has plenty of time to play with them. They know what to do to cheer her up when she becomes ill. (AfA)

Tamika is frightened when she sees the mean face her grandpa makes as he is rehearsing for a play. (AfA)

Nathaniel’s life is reflected through Greenfield’s rhythmical raps and rhymes. (AfA)

Anna and her family prepare for the upcoming winter as they make their annual summer trek to a salmon fish camp. (NA)

Osa, a young girl in the Cameroon, learns from her grandmother about the folly of pride. (I: Africa)

Carlos delights his mother when he turns the crack in the wall in his small apartment into a thing of beauty as he creates a mural of a tree. (H/L)

On a hot summer day a young girl listens to the story of how her great great grandmother came to the United States from Mexico. (H/L)

Ahmed’s special secret must wait until the end of his busy day in the bustling city of Cairo, Egypt. (I: Egypt)

The story of young Sami and his days in war-torn Beirut. (I: Lebanon)

The story of Minho, a Korean-American boy, and his mother, experiences the everyday sights and sounds of New York city. (AsA)

A beautifully written and illustrated story of a young boy’s experiences as a migrant farmworker in California (H/L)

A mother’s rhyming lullaby puts everyone to sleep except the baby! (I: Thailand)

A "black girl" can’t be Peter Pan in the school play, Grace’s classmates tell her. But talented young Grace proves them wrong. (AfA)

In this sequel to Amazing Grace, a young girl visits her father and his new family in Africa. (AfA)

Sarah and Susan spend Sunday afternoons with Aunt Flossie. As they try on her collection of hats, they hear stories of long ago. (AfA)

Depicts Felicita’s daily activities which include preparing for the rodeo as well as activities typical to most American children. (NA)

A portrait of Reggie, an Inupiat Eskimo from Alaska, whose family balances traditional ways with modern life. (NA)

A photographic depiction of an African-American family celebrating Kwanzaa that includes information about the origins and significance of the holiday. (AfA)

The life of Bridget, a typically modern girl living in Oklahoma who celebrates her Cherokee heritage and is studying her native language. (NA)

Twins, Ximena and Azucena, celebrate the traditional Mexican Day of the Dead with their relatives. (H/L)

Young April lives in the Cochiti Indian Pueblo near Santa Fe with her grandparents who make traditional storyteller figurines. (NA)

Eleven-year-old Ricky spends his summer months as a migrant farmer in Texas. (H/L)

The daily life of Hoang Anh Chau, a Vietnamese refugee living in California is depicted through photographs and first-person text. (AsA)

A Tsimshian boy tells about his father’s carving of a totem pole and tribal celebrations. (NA)

Young children eagerly await the return of their fathers who have been away working in the mines of South Africa for ten long months. (I: South Africa)

A simple universal story of a young girl imitating the actions of her older sister, Kyla. (AfA)

A young child imagines being old with grandpa and talks about what they will do "when I am old with you." (AfA)

Kari discovers that her beloved papa’s stories from their evening reading ritual are ones he is making up because he cannot read. (AfA)

Peter and his father paint his chair pink when his new baby sister arrives. (AfA)

A young boy’s adventures in the snow. (AfA)

Peter learns to whistle. (AfA)

A photographic biography of the life of a young boy in an ancient Pueblo village in New Mexico. (NA)

This resource book offers photographs and texts about children from more than 30 countries. (I)

Walls around the world are explored and they are used to introduce children to different cultures. An instructional manual can be purchased for this book. (I)

The true story of Shin, a young boy who was killed by the bombing of Hiroshima. His beloved tricycle, which was buried with him, now stands in the Hiroshima Peace Museum. (I: Japan)

Young Willie, who improvises rhythms with found objects, unexpectedly becomes the drummer at a Kwanzaa festival. (AfA)

Three children describe the family customs that have emerged from their different heritages (African-American, Asian-American, and Hispanic-American). Each has at least one parent who grew up outside the United States. (M: AfA, AsA, H/L)

Xiao Ming’s mother teaches him how to write Chinese characters in the sand. (I: China)

The author pays tribute to his childhood in New York’s Chinatown through this story of a boy and his grandmother experiencing the Chinese New Year. (AsA)

The devastating experiences of Mii and her family when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. (I: Japan)

Mirandy wants to capture Brother Wind to help her win her first cakewalk. (AfA)

A father and his young daughter discuss the contributions made by Africans and African Americans to the development of civilization. (AfA/I: Africa)

Annie tries to stop her mother’s weaving when told by her grandmother that grandmother will return to Mother Earth when the weaving completed. (NA)

A young Japanese boy learns to play baseball whild in an internment camp during World War II. (AsA)

Donnie, a young Japanese American boy is stigmatized by his classmates at the onset of the Vietnam War. (AsA)

Tommy and his father help slaves escape to Canada through the underground railroad. (AfA)

Depicts, through color photographs, the many kinds of bread enjoyed around the world. (M/I)

Photographs show different hats worn around the world. (M/I)

This sophisticated alphabet book describes customs from a variety of African cultures. (I:Africa)

A young boy gets help repairing an old ten-man dragon he has found in a shop while spending his summer in Chinatown. (AsA)

This counting story, centered on what a young boy might take to his granny as a gift, contains beautiful photographs from a village in Nigeria. (I: Africa)

Ten-year-old Maria Cristina visits her grandfather in northern New Mexico to learn the family’s tradition of weaving. (H/L)

A dreamcatcher protects a young Ojibway infant from bad dreams. (NA)

A simple picture storybook which presents the making of tortillas - from seeds, to plants, to the factory, to the kitchens. (H/L)

Marisa, who lives on the Hawaiian Islands, is finally old enough to make the dumplings for grandma’s special New Year’s soup. (AsA)

A bilingual text showing Margaret, who speaks only English, and Margarita, who speaks only Spanish, as they meet in the park and enjoy playing with each other despite their different languages. (H/L)

Cassie dreams of flying over her home in Harlem and claims the sights as her own. (AfA)

A bilingual Spanish/English text that shows a young boy’s admiration for his older brother. (H/L)

A young girl loves both pairs of shoes she receives for her birthday - a pair of black patent leather shoes and a pair of moccasins. (NA)

The true story of a Chinese boy who grew up in the American Southwest and became the first Chinese bullfighter in Spain. (AsA)

Grandfather’s love for two different countries is reflected through the words of his Japanese American grandson. (AsA)

By decorating a Christmas tree with paper cranes, a Japanese mother shares her childhood in America with her son. (I: Japan)

American-born TJ travels back to Vietnam with his mother who had escaped the war-torn country as a young child in the 1970’s. (AsA)

A young girl in a refugee camp in Thailand observes the Hmong women stitch story cloths and finds a story of her own to stitch. (I: Hmong)

Along with his friend, Chato the cat prepares a fine feast to entice the "ratoncitos", the little mice who have moved into the barrio. (H/L)

Flower girl, Maya, captures snapshots of touching and humourous moments of a family wedding. (H/L)

Maria believes that she has dropped her mother’s ring in the tamale mixture as the family gathers to celebrate Christmas. (H/L)

Big brother and baby learn how to get along. (AfA)

This story by Steptoe, published posthumously, recounts how Charles, and African-American boy, helps Hector make the transition from his recent home in Puerto Rico to his new home in the U.S. (L/AfA)

A single father raising his children sometimes becomes a "monster". (AfA)

After Stevie leaves, Robert realizes he misses the little boy who stayed at their house and who was always causing trouble. (AfA)

An interracial adoption story told by a young Asian boy who came to America from a distant land. (AsA)

Emi, a young Japanese-American girl sent with her family to an internment camp, loses her special bracelet, a parting gift from her best friend. (AsA)

An alphabetic representation of Japanese culture is offered in this book that reads from back to front. (I: Japan)

A young boy describes to his curious classmates how his grandmother made his moccasins. (NA)

Young Peter and his family move from Africa to the USA and find that they miss their life in Africa so they eventually return "home". (I: Africa)

Migrant life in the California cotton fields is told through the story of a young black girl. (AfA)

A mother, grandmother, and father give playful attention to their babies. (M)

A simple biography that recounts the childhood of Mexican artist, Diego Rivera. (H/L)

Disappointed that she doesn’t have an instant playmate when her baby sister arrives, Martha eventually finds herself lucky to have a sister "just like me". (AfA)

The traditional practice of "jumping the broom" is depicted in this recounting of a wedding in the slave quarters. (AfA)

Mama and Great-Grammaw weave cornrow patterns into their children’s hair. (AfA)

Chano, a Lakota boy hears legends from his grandfather. (NA)

Leaving home at dawn to walk to school, and returning at sunset, Chibi learns the voices of crows. (I: Japan)

A Taino boy on the island of San Salvador recounts the landing of Columbus. (NA/I: San Salvador)

Seventeen countries are represented in this collection of children’s chants, counting rhymes, jump-rope jingles, and verbal play. (I)