Jack and the Red Beanstalk by Aphrodyi Antoine

Posey's New Glasses by Ted Kooser has a black boy who accompanies Mr. The second book takes place at Lola's house with her family as well. Susanah is white but her best friend, Lola, is black. These books are board books or more simply written books for the youngest of our children.ġ) Oh Susanah Series is a an easy reader chapter book by Carole P. And we will start with ones for babies or toddlers.

Picture Books We will start with our picture books. There are some separation within some of these genres as well. I have the books separated into picture books, fairy tales, chapter books/novels, and non-fiction/biographies. This will build their understanding and help them to grow and learn about race and culture and hopefully not be racist when they grow up. It is important that all of our kids read books that have people like them but it is also important that our kids read books with people who do not look like them. I will link reviews and activities whenever possible. Today I am going to share a round-up of books shared and some others I found (on Amazon).

I asked some fellow bloggers as well as authors that are part of the Multicultural Children's Book Day group for any books, activities, and reviews they had with black people as the main characters. Now I cannot change your neighborhood or their school but I hope I can change the books in your house and your library. Where we live, who our neighbors are, books we read/provide our kids, who our friends are, the diversity of the school we send our kids to all play a part in how our kids grow up and understand race relations. I recently read an article about how white people need to do more than talk to our kids about racism. She even commented how sometimes the group is made up of one person of different races like in The Start-Up Squad Series. The other day as I talked to Hazel about current events on our walk and was telling her my plans for Crafty Moms Share, she said, 'Did you ever notice that when there is a black person in a book there is just one in a group of white friends?' Oh, yes, we still have the token black person in our society of books and television shows.

Jack and the Red Beanstalk by Aphrodyi Antoine