ETHNIC AND MULTI-CULTURAL

Pat Mora (A) and Rafael Lopez (ILT)

List Price: $9.99 (Paperback – / Bi-Lingual / Book Celebration / Reading Enjoyment – 2009)

Description: This Pura Belpré Award–winning picture book is a bilingual ride through the joyous history of Children’s Day/El día de los niños.

Children’s Day/Book Day; El día de los niños/El día…

Nancy Luenn (A) and Mark Bender (ILT)

List Price: $17.99 (Hardcover – Highlights 12 Cultural Celebrations / Festivals / Spiritual and Religious – 1998)

Long ago, people found a way to light the darkness. They built fires to keep warm and cook their food. They lit torches to drive away danger. To help…

Trevor Noah (A) 

List Price: $9.99 (Paperback – Entertainer / BiRacial / Memoire – 2020)

The host of The Daily Show, Trevor Noah, shares his personal story and the injustices he faced while growing up half black, half white in South Africa under and after apartheid in this New York Times bestselling young readers’ adaptation of…

Samhita Arni (A) and Mona Chirakar (ILT) 

List Price: $24.95  (Hardcover –  India / Graphic Novel / War /  A  Woman’s Opinion -2011)

The Ramayana is an epic poem by the Hindu sage Valmiki, written in ancient Sanskrit sometime after 300 BC. It is an allegorical story that contains important Hindu teachings, and it…

Todd Parr (A and ILT) 

List Price: $18.99 (Hardcover – Tiny Mistakes – 2014)

In a tradition of Todd Parr’s fan-favorite It’s Okay to Be Different a book about embracing mistakes and the joy of happy accidents.

Todd Parr’s bestselling books have reminded kids to embrace differences, to be thankful, to love one another, and to be…

Isabel Quintero (A)and Zeke Pena (ILT) 

List Price: $18.99 (Hardcover – Father and Daughter Enjoy The Day -2019)

A celebration of the love between a father and daughter, and of a vibrant immigrant neighborhood, by an award-winning author and illustrator duo.

When Daisy Ramona zooms around her neighborhood with her papi…

Alice Walker (A) and Stefano Vitale (ILT)

List Price: $19.99 (Hardcover – Poetry / Consequences of War – 2007

Though War is Old It has not Become wise. Poet and activist Alice Walker personifies the power and wanton devastation of war in this evocative poem. Stefano Vitale?s…

The Best Multi-Cultural Mix and Perfect for Little Ones

Includes The Following 8 Board Books 

Babies on the Bus $9.99

The babies on the bus sing LA-LA-LA! LA-LA-LA! LA-LA-LA! Jump on the bus with Karen Katz’s adorable babies as they take a classic song for an all-new…

Monica Brown (A) and Rafael Lopez (ILT) 

List Price: $19.99 (Hardcover – Musician / Drummer – 2013)

In this vibrant bilingual picture book biography of musician Tito Puente, readers will dance along to the beat of this mambo king’s life. Tito Puente loved banging pots and pans as a child, but what he really…

The Perfect Little Spanish Bi-Lingual Bundle (Group B)

Includes the Following 6 Board Books

Around The World with / Alreadedor del mundo con Cantinflas / Geology $9.99

Inspired by one of the world’s most iconic comedians, Mario Moreno (better known as the inquisitive Cantinflas),…

Now a New York Times bestseller! Using child-friendly language, this playful picture book explains how genetics make each person unique and celebrates how we are more alike than different and are all part of the human race.

In The Smallest Spot of…

Veronica Chambers (A) and Julie Maren (ILT)

List Price: $8.99 (Paperback- Cuban Singer / Queen of Salsa – 2005)

Everyone knows the flamboyant, larger-than-life Celia Cruz, the extraordinary salsa singer who passed away in 2003, leaving millions of fans brokenhearted. indeed, there was a magical vibrancy to the Cuban salsa singer. to hear…

For me, brown is more than feeling proud.
It’s the color I see when I see me.

Zahra sees the world in vivid color. When she’s happy, she feels a razzle-dazzle pink in her hands. When she’s sad, she feels a deep blue behind her eyes. But she isn’t quite sure how…

Hena Khan (A) and Mehrdokht Amini (ILT) 

List Price:$7.99 (Paperback – Introduction to Islam for Kids – 2016) 

With breathtaking illustrations and informative text, Golden Domes and Silver Lanterns magnificently captures the world of Islam, celebrating its beauty and traditions for even the youngest readers. Sure to inspire questions and observations about world religions and…

Suzie Copozzi (A) and Erin Unten (ILT) 

List Price: $13.99 (Hardcover – Social Emotional Learning / Teaches Gratitude -2017)

It’s Thanksgiving Day, and there’s a lot to be done before turkey time! I Am Thankful follows a young boy through his busy holiday adventures, from running in the turkey trot to…

There are different ways to show and be who you are in this affirming photographic picture book that offers a celebratory and informative look at kids and their wide-ranging gender identities.

Monica Brown (A) and Raul Colon (ILT)

List Price: $15.95 (Hardcover – Award Winning Writer  – 2007)

Can you imagine a shipwrecked sailor living on air and seaweed for eight days? Can you imagine a trail of yellow butterflies fluttering their wings to songs of love? Once, there was a little boy…

Mem Fox (A) and Leslie Staub (ILT)

List Price: $9.99 (Board Book – Bi-Lingual / Children / Unity / Similarities – 2002)

Mem Fox’s touching tale of what bonds us all. Little one, whoever you are, she explains, there are children all over the world who may look different,…

Sonia Nazario (A)

List Price: $11.99 (Paperback – Multicultural Bilingual – 2014)

Adapted for young people, this edition of Enrique’s Journey is written by Sonia Nazario and based on the adult book of the same name. It is the true story of Enrique, a teenager from Honduras, who sets out…

From beloved African American folklorist Zora Neale Hurston comes a moving adaptation by National Book Award winner and #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist and Antiracist Baby, Ibram X. Kendi. 

Magnolia Flower follows…

Karen Katz (A and ILT)

List Price: $8.99 (Paperback – Multi-Cultural / Friends – 2002)

My name is Lena and I am seven. I am the color of cinnamon. Mom says she could eat me up.

Lena is going to paint a picture of herself. She wants to use brown paint for her…

There’s lots for baby to explore in See, Touch, Feel: A First Sensory Book. This sturdy board book, with bright photographs of happy babies, is specially designed to stimulate curiosity through sensory play.

Each page has a colorful picture activity that invites baby to touch and explore. There are raised textures…

Bob Marley’s songs are known the world over for their powerful message of love, peace, and harmony. Now a whole new generation can discover one of his most joyous songs in this reassuring picture book adaptation written by his daughter Cedella and exuberantly illustrated by Vanessa Brantley-Newton.

This upbeat story reminds children that the sun…

Sheila Hamanaka (Author, Illustrator)(A and ILT)

List Price: $8.99 (Paperback – Friendship / Ethnic Diversity / Self-Esteem – 1999)

Celebrate the colors of children and the colors of love—not…

Deloris Jordan (A), Roslyn ME. Jordan (A)) and Kadir Nelson (ILT)

List Price: $17.99 (Hardcover – Sports / Baseball /Teamwork / Friendship – 2007)

Ive learned it takes heart to come out a winner every time, whether you win or lose. — Michael Jordan Jonathan wants to win more than…

Based on the research that race, gender, consent,…

Carmen T. Bernier-Grad (A) & Alyssa Bermudez

List Price: $17.99 (Hardcover – Multicultural / Similarities – 2021)

Six kids are ready to play: three speak English. Y tres hablan español [and three speak Spanish]. But all of them laugh alike and together! This clever playground adventure weaves together bilingual Spanish and English conversations, so…

Harry Knill (A)

List Price: $4.95 (Paperback – Multicultural Bilingual – 1981)

We all know the stories of the great Indians of the Plains, but California also had totally different cultures with fearless leaders who fought to the death trying to preserve them. (48 pgs) Ages 9 – 12

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Karen Beaumont (A) and David Catrow (ILT) and (A)

List Price: $19.99  (Board Book – Self Esteem – 2004)

 A confident curly haired little girl shouts out to the world all the many ways and…

John Steptoe (A) Clarita Kohen (ILT)

List Price: $7.99 (Paperback – African Folklore / Two Sisters / Spanish Edition – 1997)

Mufaro has two beautiful daughters. Nyasha is kind and considerate, but Manyara is selfish and spoiled. When the king decides to choose a bride from among The Most Worthy…

Adapted from one of Bob Marley most beloved songs, One Love brings the joyful spirit and unforgettable lyrics of his music to life for a new generation.

Readers will delight in dancing to the beat and feeling the positive groove of change when one girl enlists her community to help transform her neighborhood for…

Maya Christina Gonzalez (A) and (ILT)

List Price: $11.95 (Paperback – Colors / Bi-lingual – 2007)

Little Maya longs to find brilliant, beautiful, inspiring color in her world. But Mayas world, the Mojave Desert, seems to be filled with nothing but sand. With the help of a feathered friend, she searches everywhere to…

James Buckley (A), Ted Hammond (ILT) and Nancy Buckley (ILT)

Joanna Ho (A) and Dung Ho (ILT)

 List Price: $17.99 (Hardcover – Multicultural Bilingual – 2021)

This lyrical, stunning picture book tells a story about learning to love and celebrate your Asian-shaped eyes, in the spirit of Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry, and is a celebration of diversity.

A young…

Vashti Harrison (A and ILT) 

From the author of Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History comes the highly anticipated follow-up, a beautifully illustrated collectible detailing the lives of women creators around the world.

Featuring the true…

A stunning, poetic debut picture book from Pasha Westbrook about honoring one’s roots and the unbreakable bond of familial love, brought to life with enchanting illustrations by Madelyn Goodnight.

Father braids my hair, just like his,

scented of coconut oil, the familiar tug of fingers on my scalp,

love in every twist…

As a young…

Todd Parr (A)

List Price: $8.99 (Paperback – Virtues of Reading – 2009)

Reading makes you feel good because…
You can imagine you are a scary dinosaur,
You can make someone feel better when they are sick,
And you can do it anywhere!

Description: Reading Makes You Feel Good will inspire and encourage…

Dana Meachen Rau (A)

List Price: $6.99 (Paperback – Caesar Chavez Bio / Activist Leader – 2017)

When he was young, Cesar and his Mexican American family toiled in the fields as migrant farm workers. He knew all too well the hardships farm workers faced. His public-relations approach to unionism and aggressive…

Alma Flor Ada (A) and Simon Silva (ILT)

List Price: $7.99 (Paperback – Bi-‘Lingual / ABC / Fruits and Vegetable – 2001)

In simple words and sun-drenched paintings, Alma Flor Ada and Simon Silva take us into the fields and orchards, and into the lives of the people who work them.…

Marianne Celano (A) Marietta Collins (A) Ann Hazzard (A) and Jennifer Zivoin (ILT) 

List Price: $16.99 (Hardcover – A Police Shooting / Discussing Racism with Children – 2018)

A NEW YORK TIMES AND #1 INDIEBOUND BEST SELLER

A Little Free Library Action Book Club Selection

National Parenting Product Award Winner (NAPPA)

Emma and Josh heard that something happened in…

What makes a great juice that keeps everyone healthy? Art and his dad discover it takes carrots … collards … cayenne … and community!

When Art’s father can’t get over a cold, Art knows exactly what his daddy needs: some delicious sick-fighting juice! After looking through the fridge and cupboards,…

Yangsook Choi (A and ILT)

List Price: $8.99 (Paperback – New School / Friendship – 2003)

The new kid in school needs a new name! Or does she?
Being the new kid in school is hard enough, but what about when nobody can pronounce…

Gene Luen Yang (A) and (ILT)

List Price: $14.99 (Paperback – Youth – Culture / Race, Identity, Self Acceptance / Three Asian Students – 2021)

A tour-de-force by rising indy comics star Gene Yang, American Born Chinese tells the story of three apparently unrelated characters: Jin Wang, who moves to a new neighborhood…

Arune Gandhi (A), Bethany Hegedus (A) and Evan Turk (ILT)

List Price: $18.99 (Hardcover – India / Being Present / Wastefulness – 2016)

In this breathtaking companion to the award-winning Grandfather Gandhi, Arun Gandhi, with Bethany Hegedus, tells a poignant, personal story of the damage of wastefulness, gorgeuously illustrated by Evan Turk.

At…

Lulu Delacre (A & ILT)

List Price: $9.99 (Paperback – Non-Fiction Spanish Bilingual -2019)

“Beautifully written with candor, honesty, and perfect brevity. A collection not to be missed.” (Booklist starred review) This middle grade novel is an excellent choice for tween readers in grades 7 to 8, especially during homeschooling. It’s…

Uma Krishnaswami (A) and Soumya Sitaraman (ILT)

List Price: $11.95 (Paperback – India and Pakistan / Family / Storytelling – 2003)

Chachaji’s Cup is a gentle tale of family love and the power of memory, brought to life with richly hued paintings. Neel loves listening to Chachaji’s stories over steaming cups of tea.…

Michale Mahin (A) and Jose Ramirez (ILT) 

List Price: $17.99 (Hardcover – Legendary Rock Musician  – 2018)

Winner of a Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor and a Robert F. Sibert Honor!

Celebrate music icon Carlos Santana in this vibrant, rhythmic picture book from the author of the New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Book Muddy: The Story…