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Children's Librarian Recommendations

Children's Literature Librarian Kendra Tyson recommended the following collection of resources to guide parents' conversations with their children about race. 

Children's Book Publishers

Just Us Books

Lee & Low

Versify

Instagram accounts 

@weneeddiversebooks

@theconscioukid

@hereweread

@girlsreadtheworld

@black_education_matters

Children's Book Reviewers

School Library Journal

Kirkus

Publisher's Weekly

Websites & Blogs

FREE (Families for Radical Education & Empowerment)

https://www.familiesforradedempower.org/

 

Raising Race Conscious Children

http://www.raceconscious.org/

 

Brightly

https://www.readbrightly.com/

 

Teaching Tolerance

https://www.tolerance.org/

 

Reading While White

http://readingwhilewhite.blogspot.com/

Books for Young Children
More, More, More said the Baby, by Vera B. Williams
Whose Toes Are Those?, written by Jabari Asim, illustrated by LeUyen Pham
Whose Knees Are These?, written by Jabari Asim, illustrated by LeUyen Pham
All the Colors We Are, written by Katie Kissinger, photographs by Chris Bohnholt
What's the Difference? Being Different Is Amazing, by Doyin Richards
A is for Activist, by Innosanto Nagara
Dream Big, Little One and Think Big, Little One, both by Vashti Harrison
Hands Up!, written by Breanna McDaniel, illustrated by Shane Evans
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