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Web Resources on Diversity in Children's Literature
- American Indians in Children's Literature
American Indians in Children's Literature (AICL) provides critical analysis of Indigenous peoples in children's and young adult books.
- The Brown BookshelfThe Brown Bookshelf promotes books for young people by Black / African American authors and illustrators.
- CCBC Recommended Book SearchA searchable database of recent children's literature that can be filtered by various diversity categories.
- Disability in KidlitDisability in Kidlit provides articles, reviews, interviews, and discussions on the portrayal of disability in middle grade and young adult literature from the disabled perspective.
- Diverse BookFinderDiverse BookFinder is a collection of children's picture books featuring Black and Indigenous people and People of Color (BIPOC). The website includes a searchable database and real-time data about diversity in children's books.
- Hijabi LibrariansHijabi Librarians provides book reviews, author interviews, and discussions about children's and young adult books featuring Muslim characters.
- Latinxs in Kid LitLatinxs in Kid Lit provides articles, book reviews, and interviews on Latinx children’s, middle grade, and young adult books.
- The Open Book BlogA blog on race, diversity, education, and children's books from Lee & Low Books.
- Rainbow Book ListThe Rainbow Book List is an annual bibliography of quality books with significant and authentic LGBQTIA+ content recommended for people from birth through eighteen years of age
- Research on Diversity in Youth LiteratureResearch on Diversity in Youth Literature (RDYL) is a peer-reviewed, online, open-access journal providing scholarly articles on diversity in youth literature.
- Social Justice BooksSocial Justice Books offers carefully selected lists of books for children and educators, book reviews, and articles on social justice and multicultural children’s literature.
- Stonewall Book ListThe Stonewall Book List offers LGBTQ+ inclusive books for children and young people.
- We Need Diverse BooksWe Need Diverse Books (WNDB) is a non-profit organization that advocates for change in the publishing industry toward producing and promoting more literature featuring diverse characters.
Diversity in Children's Books Infographic
- Diversity in Children's Literature Infographic
Infographic demonstrating diversity in children's literature from 2018
Citation: Huyck, David and Sarah Park Dahlen. (2019 June 19). Diversity in Children’s Books 2018. sarahpark.com blog. Created in consultation with Edith Campbell, Molly Beth Griffin, K. T. Horning, Debbie Reese, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, and Madeline Tyner, with statistics compiled by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center, School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison: https://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/literature-resources/ccbc-diversity-statistics/books-by-about-poc-fnn/. Retrieved from https://readingspark.wordpress.com/2019/06/19/picture-this-diversity-in-childrens-books-2018-infographic/.
