Multicultural Literature |
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Picture Books that
focus on cultures from around the world. |
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Aardema, Verna |
Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain: A Nandi
Tale (Africa) |
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Alakiji, Polly |
Catch That Goat! (Africa) |
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Armstrong, Jennifer |
Chin Yu Min and the Ginger Cat (China) |
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Atkins, Jeannine |
Aani and the Tree Huggers (India) |
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Braun, Lutz |
Faster than the Bull! (Spain) |
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Bunting, Eve |
I Have an Olive Tree (Greece) |
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Chamberlin, Mary |
Mama Panya's Pancakes (Africa) |
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Geraghty, Paul |
The Hunter (Africa) |
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Grant, Eva J. |
A Cow for Jaya (India) |
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Grifalconi, Ann |
Flyaway Girl (Africa) |
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Hoffman, Mary |
Boudless Grace (Africa) |
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Leiner, Katherine |
Mama Does the Mambo (Cuba) |
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Lester, Alison |
Are We There, Yet? A Journey Around Australia
(Australia) |
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Lester, Julius |
Shining (Africa) |
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Little, Mimi Otey |
Yoshiko and the Foreigner (Japan) |
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Krishnaswami, Uma |
Monsoon (India) |
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Nye, Naomi Shihab |
Sitti's Secrets (Israel) |
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Olaleye, Isaac |
Bitter Bananas (Africa) |
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Park, Frances |
Where on Earth is my Bagel? (Korea) |
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Pirotta, Saviour |
Turtle Bay (Japan) |
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Port, Barbara Ann |
Ma Jiang and the Orange Ants (China) |
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Raczek, Linda Theresa |
Rainy's Powwow (Native American) |
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Say, Allen |
Grandfather's Journey (Japan) |
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Scott, Ann Herbert |
On Mother's Lap (Native American) |
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Smith, Jeremy |
Lily's Garden of India (India) |
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Steiner, Barbara A |
Whale Brother (Native American) |
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Ward, Leila |
I Am Eyes - Ni Macho (Africa) |
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Williams, Karen Lynn |
Galimoto (Africa) |
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Young, Ed |
My Mei Mei (China) |
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Novels that focus
on cultures from around the world |
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Brooke, William J |
A Brush with Magic (China) |
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Buchac, Joseph |
Eagle Song (Native American) |
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Coldsmith, Don |
Winter Camp (Native American) |
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Danticat, Edwidge |
Behind the Mountains (Haiti) |
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Divakaurin, Chitra Banerjee |
The Conch Bearer (India) |
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Gregory, Kristiana |
Cleopatra VII, Daughter of the Nile
(Egypt) |
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Honey, Elizabeth |
Fiddleback (Australia) |
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Jacobs, Shannon K. |
Song of the Giraffe (Africa) |
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Kadohata, Cynthia |
Weedflower (Japan) |
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Kadohata, Cynthia |
Kira-Kira (Japan & US) |
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Kendall, Sarita |
Ransom for a River Dolphin (Columbia) |
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Lester, Alison |
Snow Pony (Australia) |
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Levine, Anna |
Running on Eggs (Israel) |
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Liu, Lesley |
Bird Boy (China) |
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Mead, Alice |
Crossing the Starlight Bridge (Native
American) |
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Meyer, Carolyn |
Anastasia, the Last Grand Duchess (Russia) |
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Mikaelson, Ben |
Countdown (US & Kenya) |
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Mwangi, Meja |
The Mzungu Boy (Africa) |
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Naidoo, Beverly |
The Other Side of the Truth (Nigeria) |
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Smith, Cynthia Leitich |
Indian Shoes (Native American) |
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Park, Linda Sue |
A Single Shard (Korea) |
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Smith, Roland |
Thunder Cave (Africa) |
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Talbot, Hudson |
Amazon Diary: Property of Alex Winters
(Venezuela) |
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Taylor, Theodore |
Ice Drift (Inuit) |
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Trevor, William |
Juliet's Story (Ireland) |
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Whelan, Gloria |
Homeless Bird (India) |
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Wilkenson, Carole |
Dragon Keeper (China) |
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Yumoto, Kazumi |
The Friends (Japan) |
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Authors who write
multicultural literature for children and young adults: |
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Arnold Adoff |
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James Lincoln Collier |
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Christopher Paul Curtis |
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Nikki Grimes |
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Virginia Hamilton |
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Julius Lester |
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Pat McKissack |
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Walter Dean Myers |
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Naomi Shihab Nye |
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