Zazi's family is going to have a big dinner, but one part is missing-plantains. Zazi and her parents set out in search of plantains in their local market. None of the stalls have what they're looking for, but the owners share traditional foods from their own culture. By the time their search is done, Zazi has plantains and lots of other new and delicious foods to try. This book celebrates diversity through food and friendly interactions in the marketplace....

Henry Richards lives with his mother in Londonderry, England. It is 1940, and his father is away at war. On December 24th, the day before Christmas, he is walking to town with his mother when a scary situation brings him into contact with a primary school, its teachers, and its students. Henry will turn out to be the older boy in the class for the next eighteen hours. What can a fourteen-year-old boy do to help turn a scary Christmas Eve into a very...

Rebecca and her brother, Marcos, have just arrived in New York City from the United States' Caribbean territory of Puerto Rico. Not only are these two now English-language learners, but they are also novices to snow. What does a child experience when they first encounter snow? In this story, First Snow, Rebecca is in awe of what she sees out her window. When she and her brother are able to experience those first drops of snow on their faces, they...

All Things Equal is about two school-aged children, Serena and Tommy, being taught a life lesson by a beautiful butterfly that lures them to a magical garden. Serena and Tommy have a tendency to treat people who don't look like them negatively. The garden turns the table on them and makes them truly understand what it feels like to be judged.

Families dance. Families read. Families run outside. Families play hide-n-seek. There are so many ways families play. How does your family have fun? Nicole Gee advocates for and promotes representation and equity in publishing for and by children. She currently participates in a professional equity council and was a member of a social and emotional learning committee. Having received her Master of Arts in Children's Literature from Simmons University,...

Stanly Snail is excited to make friends on his first day of preschool. When his classmates try to make fun of Stanly for being different, he shows them how being different can be fun as he shows off his bright yellow shell with a blue swirl in the middle. "We're all just different in our own special way," Stanly tells his classmates. Will Stanly make new friends who love his long trail of goo as much as he does? Find out how he wins over his classmates...

Jaylynn's First Day Jitters is a story about a third grade student who is nervous about his first day of school. Jaylynn is nervous because he feels he is different due to his race. This book is a great way for elementary school students to calm anxiety about the first day of school.

Linsey Davis, autora best seller de libros infantiles, corresponsal ganadora de un Emmy y presentadora de ABC News, nos trae El puntito más chiquitito, un divertido y conmovedor libro ilustrado que celebra cómo todos formamos parte de la raza humana. Sólo el 0,1% de nuestros genes nos hace únicos. Somos en un 99,9% idénticos, parecidos, iguales. Este libro refleja al 100% esa verdad. Combinando un texto divertido y el atractivo arte de Lucy Fleming,...

You don't have to look very hard to see how different people are, especially those with disabilities or birth defects. It's much harder however to see how we are the same. This is a book on how to look past the outside appearance to find the person's true beauty within. Different but Not is the story of a village full of people who are beautiful on the outside, but sadly their insides were ugly. They needed to learn that true beauty comes from within....

Mary now has many friends and enjoys playing and learning with them. Her class has students from all over the world. To represent and showcase this diversity, a multicultural event was hosted by the third-grade teachers and the students were asked to bring food from their home countries. All students enjoyed tasting a variety of cuisines and many children and parents also wore their traditional clothes. The event provided an opportunity for students...