Diversity & Multicultural Books

The word "multicultural" has plenty of politically-correct baggage. We've understood it for years as a derivative of moral relativism and racism—basically nothing more than anti-Western culture and anti-capitalism. And as such, we've entirely avoided the idea of promoting it. But we have absolutely nothing against other cultures, per se, and think it's very important for us and our children to be introduced to them. 

So, in that sense—very simply as an introduction to the people and cultures around the world—we offer "multicultural books." While there are plenty of books that depict life in France, or Brazil, or South Africa, specifically, those are not the sort of books that you'll find here. All the books contained herein are much more broad, focusing on the wonderful diversity of people...and their food, culture, homes, stories, etc. from around the world.

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Africa Is Not A Country
by Margy Burns Knight
unknown from Millbrook Press
for 1st-3rd grade
in Africa (Location: HISMC-AFR)
Africa Is Not a Country
by Margy Burns Knight
from Millbrook Press
for 1st-3rd grade
in Africa (Location: HISMC-AFR)
All the Colors of the Earth
by Sheila Hamanaka
Reprint from HarperCollins
for Nursery-1st grade
in Diversity & Multicultural Books (Location: HISMC-MUL)
Alma and How She Got Her Name
by Juana Martine-Neal
from Candlewick Press
for Preschool-3rd grade
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
Bread, Bread, Bread
by Ann Morris
Reprint from HarperCollins
for Preschool-1st grade
in Food & Farming Around the World (Location: HISMC-FOOD)
Can You Say Peace?
by Karen Katz
Reprint from Square Fish Publishing
for Preschool-1st grade
in Diversity & Multicultural Books (Location: HISMC-MUL)
Children Around the World
by Donata Montanari
from Kids Can Press
for Preschool-1st grade
in Diversity & Multicultural Books (Location: HISMC-MUL)
Children from Australia to Zimbabwe
by Anna Rhesa Versola, Maya Ajmera
Revised ed. from Charlesbridge
for 1st-3rd grade
in Diversity & Multicultural Books (Location: HISMC-MUL)
$12.00 (1 in stock)
Children Just Like Me
by Anabel Kindersley, Barnabas Kindersley
from DK Publishing
for 1st-3rd grade
in Diversity & Multicultural Books (Location: HISMC-MUL)
$19.99 $8.00 (1 in stock)
Children of the Past
by Cecile & Billie Salway
from Garden City Books
for Kindergarten-2nd grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
Colors of Us
by Karen Katz
Reprint from Square Fish Publishing
for Preschool-1st grade
in Diversity & Multicultural Books (Location: HISMC-MUL)
Cool Drink of Water
by Barbara Kerley
1st edition from National Geographic
for Preschool-1st grade
in Diversity & Multicultural Books (Location: HISMC-MUL)
Dim Sum for Everyone!
by Grace Lin
Reprint from Dragonfly Books
for Preschool-1st grade
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
Dumpling Soup
by Jama Kim Rattigan & Lillian Hsu
Reprint from Little, Brown & Company
for Kindergarten-3rd grade
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
Eating the Alphabet
by Lois Ehlert
from Voyager Paperbacks
for Preschool-1st grade
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
Everybody Cooks Rice
from First Avenue Editions
for Nursery-1st grade
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Families Around the World
by Jo E. Moore
from Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
for Preschool-1st grade
in Diversity & Multicultural Books (Location: HISMC-MUL)
$3.00 (1 in stock)
Farm Animals
Usborne Beginners
by Katie Daynes
from Usborne
for 1st-2nd grade
in Usborne Beginners (Location: SCI-USBREA)
Follow That Map!
by Scot Ritchie
from Kids Can Press
for 1st-3rd grade
in Introductory Geography (Location: GEO-INTRO)
Food and Recipes of Westward Expansion
Cooking Throughout American History
by George Erdosh
1st edition from PowerKids Press
for 1st-4th grade
in Western Expansion (1800-1898) (Location: HISA-19WES)
$4.50 (1 in stock)
God’s Very Good Idea
by Trillia Newbell and Catalina Echeverri
from Good Book Company
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Diversity & Multicultural Books (Location: HISMC-MUL)
$16.99
Grandfather Counts
by Alfredo Schifini, Deborah J Short, Josefina Villamil Tinajero
Reprint from Lee & Low Books
for 1st-3rd grade
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World
by Marjorie Priceman
from Dragonfly Books
Humor for 1st-3rd grade
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
$8.99
If the World Were 100 People
by Jackie McCann, illustrated by Aaron Cushley
from Crown Books for Young Readers
for Kindergarten-6th grade
in Diversity & Multicultural Books (Location: HISMC-MUL)
$17.99
If the World Were a Village
by David J. Smith
1st edition from Kids Can Press
for Kindergarten-4th grade
in Diversity & Multicultural Books (Location: HISMC-MUL)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
If You Lived Here
by Giles Laroche
from HMH Books for Young Readers
for 1st-3rd grade
in Houses & Homes (Location: HISMC-HH)
Let's Eat
by Beatrice Hollyer
1st edition from Henry Holt and Company
for 1st-3rd grade
in Culture of Food (Location: COOK-CUL)
Let's Find Out About Ice Cream
by Mary Ebeltoft Reid, photographs by John Williams
from Scholastic Inc.
for Preschool-1st grade
in Food & Farming Around the World (Location: HISMC-FOOD)
$2.50 (4 in stock)
Lion Dancer
by Kate Waters & Madeline Slovenz-Low, photographs by Martha Cooper
from Scholastic Inc.
for Preschool-2nd grade
in China (Location: HISMC-CHI)
$3.50 (1 in stock)
Little Humans
by Brandon Stanton
1st edition
for Preschool-1st grade
in Diversity & Multicultural Books (Location: HISMC-MUL)
Maps & Globes
by Jack Knowlton, Harriett Barton
from HarperCollins
for 1st-3rd grade
in Cartography & Mapping Resources (Location: GEO-MAP)
$7.99 $4.00 (6 in stock)
Me on the Map
by Joan Sweeney & Annette Cable
from Dragonfly Books
for Kindergarten-3rd grade
in Introductory Geography (Location: GEO-INTRO)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Me on the Map
by Joan Sweeney, Illustrated by Qin Leng
from Dragonfly Books
for Kindergarten-3rd grade
in Introductory Geography (Location: GEO-INTRO)
$7.99
Me on the Map
by Joan Sweeney, Illustrated by Qin Leng
from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
for Kindergarten-3rd grade
in Introductory Geography (Location: GEO-INTRO)
$6.50 (1 in stock)
My Librarian Is a Camel
by Margriet Ruurs
from Boyds Mill Press
for 1st-3rd grade
in Diversity & Multicultural Books (Location: HISMC-MUL)
$9.00 (1 in stock)
National Geographic Kids Beginner's World Atlas
by National Geographic
4th edition from National Geographic
for 1st-3rd grade
in World & U.S. Atlases (Location: GEO-ATLAS)
On the Same Day in March
by Marilyn Singer
from HarperFestival
for 1st-3rd grade
in Meteorology (Weather & Climate) (Location: SCI-WEA)
One World, One Day
by Barbara Kerley
from National Geographic
for Preschool-1st grade
in Diversity & Multicultural Books (Location: HISMC-MUL)
Over the Hills and Far Away
by Elizabeth Hammill
from Candlewick Press
for Nursery-1st grade
in Short Story Anthologies for Kids (Location: FIC-ANTH)
P is for Passport
Discover the World
by Devin Scillian
from Sleeping Bear Press
for 1st-3rd grade
in Alphabet & Counting Books (Location: PIC-ALPH)
Peace Book
by Todd Parr
Reprint from Little, Brown & Company
for Preschool-1st grade
in Diversity & Multicultural Books (Location: HISMC-MUL)
People
by Peter Spier
from Dell Publishing
Non-fiction for Kindergarten-4th grade
in Oversized Picture Books (Location: PIC-OVER)
$12.95
Red Book
by Barbara Lehman
1st edition from HMH Books for Young Readers
for Preschool-1st grade
2005 Caldecott Honor Book
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
Same, Same But Different
by Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw
from Henry Holt and Company
for Preschool-1st grade
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
School Like Mine
from DK Children
for 1st-3rd grade
in Diversity & Multicultural Books (Location: HISMC-MUL)
Shades of Black: A Celebration of Our Children
by Sandra L. Pinkney, Myles C. Pinkney
from Scholastic Inc.
for Preschool-1st grade
in Diversity & Multicultural Books (Location: HISMC-MUL)
Somewhere in the World Right Now
by Stacey Schuett
Reprint from Dragonfly Books
for Preschool-1st grade
in Diversity & Multicultural Books (Location: HISMC-MUL)
Sugaring Time
by Kathryn Lasky
from Aladdin Paperbacks
for Preschool-3rd grade
1984 Newbery Honor Book
in Food & Farming Around the World (Location: HISMC-FOOD)
$9.99
Sugaring Time
by Kathryn Lasky
from Macmillan
for Preschool-3rd grade
1984 Newbery Honor Book
in Food & Farming Around the World (Location: HISMC-FOOD)
This Is the Way We Go to School
by Edith Baer
Reprint from Scholastic Reference
for Preschool-1st grade
in Diversity & Multicultural Books (Location: HISMC-MUL)
Throw Your Tooth on the Roof
by Selby Beeler
from HMH Books for Young Readers
for 1st-3rd grade
in Diversity & Multicultural Books (Location: HISMC-MUL)
$4.50 (1 in stock)
To Be a Kid
by John D. Ivanko & Maya Ajmera
from Charlesbridge
for Preschool-1st grade
in Diversity & Multicultural Books (Location: HISMC-MUL)
Usborne Book of Peoples of the World
by Roma Trundle
from Usborne
for 1st-3rd grade
in Diversity & Multicultural Books (Location: HISMC-MUL)
$2.00 (4 in stock)
What We Wear
by Cynthia Pon, Elise Hofer Derstine, Maya Ajmera
from Charlesbridge
for Preschool-1st grade
Where Do I Live?
by Neil Chesanow
from Barron's
for 1st-3rd grade
in Diversity & Multicultural Books (Location: HISMC-MUL)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Whoever You Are
by Mem Fox
1st edition from HMH Books for Young Readers
for Preschool-1st grade
in Diversity & Multicultural Books (Location: HISMC-MUL)
You and Me Together
Barbara Kerley Photo Inspirations
by Barbara Kerley
1st edition from National Geographic
for Preschool-1st grade
in Diversity & Multicultural Books (Location: HISMC-MUL)