Anti-Bias Diversity Full List of Book Find Examples

Multi-Cultural/Culturally Responsive/Anti-Bias Book
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ECE: Social Studies, Art, Music, and Movement
Name: Michelle Coker

Book Title and Families by: Shelly Rotner and Shelia M. Kelly
Author:
Year of Publication: 2016
Focus Topic: Families
Summary of Book:
This book shows families of different structures. The vivid pictures show families enjoying
their time together. Its designed to start discussion amongst children and their own
families in the modern world.
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Name: Michelle Coker

Book Title and It’s OK to Be Different by: Todd Parr
Author:
Focus Topic: Acceptance of Differences
Summary of Book:
This book delivers on positive messages and celebrates differences. It encourages children
to accept themselves and others. The pictures are bright and colorful. The book also gives
examples of appropriate silly differences that are easier for children to understand.
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Name: Jessica Luke

Book Title and The Name Jar by Yangsook chio
Author:
Focus Topic: Being different
Summary of Book:
This book is about a young Korean girl who just moved to America. She is scared to be different
than the other children. she is scared they won’t like her name. Being the new kid was hard enough. Unhei
is anxious that American kids will like her. So instead of introducing herself on the first day of
school, she tells the class that she will choose a name by the following week. Her new classmates
are fascinated by this no-name girl and decide to help out by filling a glass jar with names for her
to pick from. But while Unhei practices being a Suzy, Laura, or Amanda, one of her classmates
comes to her neighborhood and discovers her real name and its special meaning. On the day of
her name choosing, the name jar has mysteriously disappeared. Encouraged by her new friends,
Unhei chooses her own Korean name and helps everyone pronounce it—Yoon-Hey.
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Name: Jessica Luke

Book Title and The color of Us by Karen Katz
Author:
Year of Publication: Oct 1, 2002
Focus Topic: Skin color
Summary of Book:
Lena a 7 year old girl is going to paint a picture of herself. She wants to use brown paint for her
skin. But when she and her mother take a walk through the neighborhood, Lena learns that brown
comes in many different shades.
Through the eyes of a little girl who begins to see her familiar world in a new way, this book
celebrates the differences and similarities that connect all people.
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Name: Tracy Jacobson

Book Title and
We Belong Together by Todd Parr
Author:
Year of 2007
Publication:
Focus Topic: Adoption
Summary of Book:
This book explains to children how families can be brought together by

adoption. Bright colors, few words and simple illustrations bring the topic of
adoption to a level that is easily understandable to all learners young or
old. Pet adoption is also included in the story.
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Name: Maria Sokup

Book Title and The Pout-Pout Fish By Deborah Disen
Author:
Focus Topic: Being different
Summary of Book: The pout-pout fish sees all his friends. All his friends
try to get him to smile, but he insists he can only pout. Then when he is
laying upside down a beautiful girl fish comes and kisses him. He then
realizes he can be more than a pout-pout fish. He can be a kiss-kiss fish
too. He then starts to smile and be happy.
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Name: Kellie Jensen

Book Title and Whose Hands Are These by Miranda Paul
Author:
Focus Topic: Community Helpers
Summary of Book: This is a picture book that is told in rhyming
riddles. The hands in this book and the people attached to them
do all sorts of jobs around a community. The children are able to
guess the jobs that the hands are doing.
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Name: Kellie Jensen

Book Title and The Family Book by Todd Parr
Author:
Focus Topic Family Dynamics
Summary: The family Book is a colorful book that has a strong

message about the importance of love that we feel for our family
and that there is a variety of families. Whether it would be two
moms or two dads or if you have a big family or a small family.
Every family is special.
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Name: Brooke Beede

Book Title and I Like Myself Karen Beaumount
Author:
Focus Topic: Liking yourself for who you are
Summary of Book:
Colorful, adventurous pictures, a lot of rhyming and rhythm, all about how you should like
yourself for who you are and you don’t need to change for anyone or anything
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Name: Kayla Newell

Book Title and Love makes a family by Sophie Beer
Author:
Focus Topic: Celebrating what makes a family, love!
Summary of Book:
This book is about how there can be many different kinds of families but all are made of
love!
This story demonstrates that families are important and that they can made of any one in
the family!
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Name: Kayla Newell

Book Title and I am Enough
Author:
Focus Topic: We are Enough
Summary of Book:
This story’s main message is to say that we are all here for a reason and that we are all
more than enough. This little girl in the story is talking about loving others, and being kind
to one another. It is a great story for everyone to read!
Name: Larissa Houtari

Book Title and Heather Has Two Mommies by Lesléa Newman (Author),
Author: Laura Cornell (Illustrator)
Year of Publication: 1989, 2000, 2009, 2015
Focus Topic: Families loving one another
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Summary of Book:
Heather’s favorite number is two. She has two arms, two legs, and two pets. And she also
has two mommies. When Heather goes to school for the first time, someone asks her
about her daddy, but Heather doesn’t have a daddy. Then something interesting happens.
When Heather and her classmates all draw pictures of their families, not one drawing is
the same. It doesn’t matter who makes up a family, the teacher says, because “the most
important thing about a family is that all the people in it love one another.”
Name: Larissa Houtari

Book Title and Bringing Asha Home by Uma Krishnaswami (Author), Jamel
Author: Akib (Illustrator)
Focus Topic: Adoption
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Summary of Book:
It's Rakhi, the Hindu holiday special to brothers and sisters, and Arun wishes he had a
sister with whom to celebrate. Soon it looks as if his wish will come true. His parents are
going to adopt a baby girl named Asha. She is coming all the way from India, where Arun's
dad was born. The family prepares for Asha's arrival, not knowing it will be almost a year
until they receive governmental approval to bring Asha home. Arun is impatient and
struggles to accept the long delay, but as time passes, he finds his own special ways to
build a bond with his sister, who is still halfway around the world. With warmth and
honesty, this tender story taps into the feelings of longing, love and joy that adoption
brings to many families.

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Multi-Cultural/Culturally Responsive/Anti-Bias Book

Name: Michelle Coker

Name: Michelle Coker

Name: Jessica Luke

Name: Jessica Luke

Name: Tracy Jacobson

This book explains to children how families can be brought together by

Name: Maria Sokup

Name: Kellie Jensen

Name: Kellie Jensen

Summary: The family Book is a colorful book that has a strong

Name: Brooke Beede

Name: Kayla Newell

Name: Kayla Newell

Name: Larissa Houtari

Name: Larissa Houtari

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