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Thread: here are some books that can help in talking with children about race and diversity https://twitter.com/DrPragyaAgarwal/status/1159057375007035392
1/ Let’s talk about race @HarperCollins
2/A book about being your true self
3/The colours of us is a lovely book about different skin colour and taking pride in our own especially when you’re different from others around you
4/here’s a book with an African-American boy as the main character. It is important for children to see diversity in the books that they read
5/ this is the story of a boy who moves countries and is seen as ‘different’ It would be lovely to show children how to be kind and empathetic to those who look and feel different to them
6/All are welcome: a lovely book celebrating diversity and not just of race.
7/This has to be one of my favourites. So simple but so ‘lovely’
8/ I will continue to add to this thread as time permits. This is a good starting book especially for whole families to talk about white privilege. Has won many awards and is considered one of the very few that addresses this issue directly.
9/ The Skin I am in. It is a book about feeling confident within oneself no matter what the differences.
10/ a board book for younger children with a sweet story but an overall powerful messages of overcoming differences and how walls can become bridges
11/ another lovely book for younger children about freindship, harmony and diversity
12/ we just got this from the library and read it with our 3-year-olds. It is a lovely book where the message is to go beyond visible differences and try and understand other cultures
13/Book about Malcolm Little
14/ Book about segregation
15/This is a really lovely one about being comfortable in our own skin
16/Most of these books are for younger children. I am really looking forward to reading this one with my children
16/I absolutely love this one about a father learning to do their daughter’s hair for the first time (0-3 yrs)
18/ A great one for little activists aged 5-8 yrs about 9-year-old Audrey Faye Hendricks, taken from her family to spend a week behind bars during a Children’s March in 1963. Treated very sensitively.
