Multicultural Books for Literacy Programs

• Dictionaries, References, and Word Books
• Nonfiction Bilingual and Spanish Books
• Picture Storybooks
• Poetry, Rhyme, and Songs
• Reproducible Spanish and Bilingual Books
• Spanish and Bilingual Books for Young Children
• Spanish Books for Older Readers
• Videos, Software, Toys, and Games in Spanish

• The Coretta Scott King Award Book List from the American Library Association
• African American Interests: Themed Reviews by www.childrenslit.com

• Making Multicultural Connections Through Trade Books: Cultural Group Index
  The Program of Assessment, Diagnosis and Instruction (PADI) of the Montgomery County Public Schools has created an impressive data base of multicultural trade books for elementary aged children.
  
• Celebrating Cultural Diversity Through Children's Literature
  Robert F. Smith has written annotated bibliographies of interest to children from varying cultures. Links to other useful book lists are also provided.
  

• Arabic Children's Books
  The Olive Press also offers Dual Language Children’s Books in Albanian, Bengali, Chinese, Cree, Farsi, German, Gujarati, Italian, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Tamil, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese, and Yiddish.
  

Vandergrift's Children's Literature Page

• POWERFUL AFRICAN-AMERICAN IMAGES REVEALED IN PICTURE BOOKS
• POWERFUL ASIAN-AMERICAN IMAGES REVEALED IN PICTURE BOOKS
• POWERFUL HISPANIC AND LATIN-AMERICAN IMAGES REVEALED IN PICTURE BOOKS
• POWERFUL NATIVE-AMERICAN IMAGES REVEALED IN PICTURE BOOKS
• Kay E. Vandergrift has authored these outstanding pages and introduces them with these words: "All children deserve to see positive images of children like themselves in the books they read. For the youngest children who "read" pictures as adults share text, illustrations can have a powerful influence on their perceptions of the world. Strong visual images of those similar to themselves, their friends, and their families are life-affirming and can encourage children to reach beyond the boundaries of their immediate life experiences and consider a multitude of possibilities for their futures. I made a special effort to find realistic stories and images, rather than only folk tales and legends, not because I would diminish the traditional works but because we need to employ powerful images in order to increase self-esteem in our youngest children."

• Book Hive
• Themed Reviews by www.childrenslit.com