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| Other WPL reading lists may be helpful: African-Americans: Honoring the Past; Gay and Lesbian Books for Young People; Getting Along with Others; Native American Folklore; Spanish-English Bilingual Materials; and Special Needs. | |
Picture Books (JE)
| Adoff | Black Is Brown Is Tan |
| Agell | Dancing Feet |
| Anno | All in a Day |
| Baer | This Is the Way We Go to School : A Book about Children around the World |
| Board Book | Global Babies |
| Bunting | One Green Apple |
| Chamberlin | Mama Panya's Pancakes : A Village Tale from Kenya |
| Friedman | How My Parents Learned to Eat |
| Fries | A Pig Is Moving In! |
| Hall | Henry and the Kite Dragon |
| Hamanaka | Grandparents Song |
| Hoffman | Amazing Grace |
| Hooks | Skin Again |
| Jungman | The Most Magnificent Mosque |
| Knight | Welcoming Babies |
| Levine | I Hate English! |
| Mayhew | Miranda the Explorer |
| McGinty | Thank You, World |
| McQuinn | My Friend Jamal |
| Miller | We All Sing with the Same Voice |
| Nikola-Lisa | Bein' With You This Way |
| Nobisso | In English, Of Course |
| Parr | It's Okay to Be Different |
| Raschka | Yo! Yes? |
| Reiser | Margaret and Margarita, Margarita y Margaret |
| Tyler | The Skin You Live In |
| Weeks | Two Eggs, Please |
| Weiss | The World Turns Round and Round |
| Winans | Colorful World |
| Wong | Apple Pie 4th of July |
| Woodson | The Other Side |
| Yang | Hannah Is My Name |
Children’s Fiction (J)
| Brown | Little Cricket |
| Chen | Peiling and the Chicken-fried Christmas |
| Cheng | Honeysuckle House |
| Cohen | Molly's Pilgrim |
| Fleischman | Seedfolks |
| McGraw | The Moorchild |
| Myers | Wings |
| Nelson | Mayfield Crossing |
| Taylor | Mississippi Bridge |
| Whelan | Night of the Full Moon |
Junior High Fiction (Y)
| Frost | Keesha's House |
| Kent | Kimchi & Calamari |
| Philbrick | Freak the Mighty |
| Wolff | Bat 6 |
Nonfiction, Folktales & Poetry
| J Ref 011.62 Kaleidoscope | Kaleidoscope: A Multicultural Booklist for Grades K-8 (Edited by Barrera, et al.) |
| J Ref 011.62 Kruse | Multicultural Literature for Children and Young Adults, Vol. 2 |
| J Ref 016 Lind | Multicultural Children's Literature: An Annotated Bibliography, Grades K-8 |
| J Ref 016 Steiner | Promoting a Global Community Through Multicultural Children's Literature |
| J291.2 Hamilton | In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World |
| J305.23 Copsey | Children Just Like Me |
| J305.8 Kuklin | How My Family Lives in America |
| J305.892 Cohn | The Christmas Menorahs: How a Town Fought Hate |
| J398.2 Beeler | Throw Your Tooth on the Roof : Tooth Traditions from Around the World |
| J641.59 Cook | The Kids' Multicultural Cookbook: Food & Fun Around the World |
| J641.6 Dooley | Everybody Cooks Rice |
| J728 White | Welcome Home! |
| J745.5 Press | Around-the-World Art Activities: Visiting the 7 Continents Through Craft Fun |
| J910 Scillian | P Is for Passport: A World Alphabet |
| JE305.23 Montanari | Children Around the World |
| JE305.23 Smith | I Am America |
| JE390 Hollyer | Wake Up, World! A Day in the Life of Children Around the World |
| JE551.5 Singer | On the Same Day in March |
| JE728 Dorros | This Is My House |
| JE793.2 Feldman | Birthdays! Celebrating Life Around the World |
| JE811 Come | Come and Play : Children of our World Having Fun : Poems by Children (Edited by Lowe) |
Parent/Teacher Collection
| PT/J011.62 World | The World Through Children's Books (Edited by Stan. Also J Ref 001.62 WO.) |
| PT/J306 Milord | Hands Around the World: 365 Creative Ways to Build Cultural Awareness & Global Respect |
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Wilmette Public Library Youth Department
www.wilmettelibrary.info/kids Last Updated 5/13 |

