Multiracial Families
Picture Books That Focus on Multiracial Families
I Love Saturdays y Domingos
Alma Flor Ada, 2002
A girl spends time on her birthday with her Caucasian
grandparents and her Mexican-American grandparents.
E / ADA
Black is Brown is Tan
Arnold Adoff, 1973
This classic about a biracial family is told in a
rhyming voice.
E / ADOFF
Grandfather Counts
Andrea Cheng, 2000
This is a sweet story of a Chinese grandfather who
arrives to live in the United States with his
daughter, her Caucasian husband, and their three
children, and about their struggle to communicate.
E / CHENG
Black, White, Just Right
Marguerite Davol, 1993
A young girl lovingly relates how she is a mix of the personalities and looks of her African-American mother and Caucasian father.
E / DAVOL
All the Colors of the Earth
Sheila Hamanaka, 1994
Kids of all hues play together.
E / HAMANAKA
Two Mrs. Gibsons
Toyomi Igus, 1996
In this warm family book, a girl describes her African-American grandmother and her Japanese mother.
E / IGUS
Hope
Isabell Monk, 1999
When Hope, goes to visit her aunt, a woman asks her aunt if the girl is “mixed.” Hope’s aunt explains the origin of Hope’s name and how she is just right just the way she is.
E / MONK
Shades of Black: A Celebration of Our Children
Sandra Pinkney, 2000
A beautifully photographed book that features a range of African-American children celebrating their beauty and diversity.
E / PINKNEY
Picture Books That Include Multi Racial Families
All of Me: A Book of Thanks
Molly Bang, 2009
A biracial little girl discusses why she is thankful for each part of her body.
E / BANG
Maxwell’s Mountain
Shari Becker, 2006
With the support of his Caucasian mother and Asian-American father, Maxwell decides to scale a hill in a park near their house.
E / BECKER
An African Princess
Lyra Edmonds, 2004
Lyra is told she is an African princess, but doubts it until she visits her aunt in the Caribbean. She has stories about Lyra’s ancestors and tells her to be proud of her heritage.
E / EDMONDS
The Hello Goodbye Window
Norton Juster, 2005
This award-winning story is about an imaginative girl and her African-American grandmother and Caucasian grandfather.
E / JUSTER
Bringing Asha Home
Uma Krishnaswami, 2006
A boy with an Indian-American father and Caucasian mother waits impatiently for his newly adopted sister to be allowed out of India to join their family.
E / KRISHNASWAMI
Family
Isabell Monk, 2001
Hope travels with her African-American mother and Caucasian father to visit family at her aunt’s farm in the country in this sequel to the book Hope.
E / MONK
The Mommy Book
Todd Park, 2002
This is one of a series of books with colorful illustrations, which include Moms of ethnicities that are different from their kids.
E / PARR
Five for a Little One
Chris Raschka, 2006
A bicolored bunny, whose father is a black bunny and mother is a white bunny, discusses the five senses.
E / RASCHKA
Hello, Lulu
Caroline Uff, 1999
Big bright pictures and simple sentences describe Lulu’s multiracial family. This is the first in a series of books featuring Lulu.
E / UFF
More More More Said the Baby
Vera B. Williams, 1990
A story with bouncy repetition that is told in three parts by three family members who are playing with three babies. One of the families is multiracial.
E / WILLIAMS
A Child’s Calendar
John Updike, 1999
Beautiful illustrations by Trina Schart Hyman complement this series of poems about the months of the year from a child’s perspective.
J / 811.54 / UPD
J / 811.54 / BOOK & CD / UPD
Tickle, Tickle
Helen Oxenbury, 1987
This board book features a very diverse group of adorable toddlers and babies being lovingly cared for by an equally diverse group of adults.
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