Education

This page features various websites, affiliates, and educator/literature resources for finding Diverse books.
We Need Diverse Books™ is a 501(c)(3) non-profit and a grassroots organization of children’s book lovers that advocates essential changes in the publishing industry. Our aim is to help produce and promote literature that reflects and honors the lives of all young people.

From Brightly - Raising Kids Who Love to Read. #OwnVoices stemmed from a viral hashtag created by author and educator Corrine Duyvis (http://www.corinneduyvis.net/ownvoices/). Both a descriptor and its own publishing-multicultural representative movement, #OwnVoices is "a useful shorthand for books with diverse characters that are written by people who share those identities, and it’s been widely embraced within the kid lit community." Many believe that this movement in more equitable publishing representation of cross-cultural (race, ability, language, gender, nationality etc...) authors reflecting their characters is long overdue. #OwnVoices at large seeks to prioritize and credit authors of diverse backgrounds writing from their own experiences providing more richly nuanced and authentic narratives without tropes or stereotypes.

An Open Educational Resource, Pratham Books's StoryWeaver is designed to provide children with reading resources, StoryWeaver is a digital gateway to thousands of richly illustrated, open-licensed children's stories in mother tongue languages.There's more to StoryWeaver than just reading. It is also a first-of-its-kind platform that provides easy-to-use tools to create, adapt, and translate new stories for children. It's the ideal place for parents, educators, writers, translators, and illustrators to come together to weave new stories for children and help to create a pathway to nurture the next generation of readers!

Scholastic Book Wizard is a go-to classification tool that many public librarians use to help families fin the just-right "level" of books reflected in K-8 school settings. This tool allows the user to search and find adjacent books for different youth developmental maturities, literacy levels, and content.