Diversity and Acceptance Book List

Ages 0-3

The cover of “Ten Tiny Babies,” by Karen Katz

“Ten Tiny Babies,” by Karen Katz YouTube Read Aloud

Ezra Jack Keats’s books about Peter (“The Snowy Day,” “A Letter to Amy,” “Hi, Cat!,” “Whistle for Willie”)

“A is for Activist,” by Innosanto Nagara YouTube Read Aloud

“Reach,” by Elizabeth Verdick and Marjorie Lisovskis

“More, More, More, Said the Baby,” by Vera B. Williams YouTube Read Aloud

“Love Makes a Family,” by Sophie Beer YouTube Read Aloud

The cover of “Love Makes a Family,” by Sophie Beer

“Families Belong,” by Dan Saks YouTube Read Aloud

“My Two Moms and Me,” by Michael Joosten YouTube Read Aloud

“My Two Dads and Me,” by Michael Joosten YouTube Read Aloud

“Mommy, Mama, and Me,” by Leslea Newman YouTube Read Aloud

“Daddy, Papa, and Me,” by Leslea Newman YouTube Read Aloud

 

Ages 3-5

The cover of “Happy In Our Skin,” by Fran Manushkin“Hair Love,” by Matthew A. Cherry YouTube Read Aloud

“The Colors of Us,” by Karen Katz YouTube Read Aloud

“All the Colors We Are,” by Katie Kissinger (written in both English and Spanish) YouTube Read Aloud

“Happy In Our Skin,” by Fran Manushkin YouTube Read Aloud

“Saturday,” by Oge Mora YouTube Read Aloud

“It’s Okay to Be Different,” by Todd Parr YouTube Read Aloud

“What’s the Difference?: Being Different Is Amazing,” by Doyin Richards YouTube Read Aloud

“The Skin You Live In,” by Michael Tyler YouTube Read Aloud

“Yoko,” by Rosemary Wells YouTube Read Aloud

“Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters,” by Barack Obama YouTube Read AloudThe cover of “Téo’s Tutu,” by Maryann Jacob Macias

“I Got the Rhythm,” by Connie Shoenfield-Morrison YouTube Read Aloud

“Téo’s Tutu,” by Maryann Jacob Macias

“Honey & Leon Take the High Road,” by Alan Cumming

 

Ages 5-9

Early Elementary LGBTQ Family-Friendly Books, a list from Family Equality

The cover of “I am Jackie Robinson,” by Brad Meltzer

“Ron’s Big Mission,” by Rose Blue and Corinne J. Naden YouTube Read Aloud

“Daddy, There’s A Noise Outside,” by Kenneth Braswell YouTube Read Aloud

“The Story of Ruby Bridges,” by Robert Coles YouTube Read Aloud

“Momma, Did You Hear the News?,” by Sanya Whittaker Gragg YouTube Read Aloud

“Black All Around,” by Patricia Hubbell YouTube Read Aloud

“Let’s Talk About Race,” by Julius Lester YouTube Read Aloud

“The Youngest Marcher,” by Cynthia Levinson YouTube Read Aloud

“Julián Is a Mermaid,” by Jessica Love YouTube Read Aloud

“Meet Viola Desmond,” by Elizabeth MacLeod YouTube Read Aloud

“I am Jackie Robinson,” by Brad Meltzer YouTube Read Aloud

“A Kids Book About Racism,” by Jelani Memory YouTube Read Aloud

“Viola Desmond Won’t Be Budged,” by Jody Nyasha YouTube Read Aloud

“The Stone Thrower,” by Jael Ealey Richardson YouTube Read Aloud

“Child of the Civil Rights Movement,” by Paula Young Shelton YouTube Read Aloud

“Secret of the Dance,” by Andrea Spalding and Alfred Scow

The cover of “Secret of the Dance,” by Andrea Spalding and Alfred Scow

“Each Kindness,” by Jacqueline Woodson YouTube Read Aloud

“The Other Side,” by Jacqueline Woodson YouTube Read Aloud

“Carter Reads the Newspaper,” by Deborah Hopkinson YouTube Read Aloud

“Martin’s Big Words,” by Doreen Rappaport YouTube Read Aloud

“Let the Children March,” by Monica Clark-Robinson YouTube Read Aloud

“Ida B. Wells: Let the Truth Be Told,” by Walter Dean Myers YouTube Read Aloud

“Frederick Douglass: Last Days of Slavery,” by William Miller YouTube Read Aloud

“Freedom on the Menu: the Greensboro Sit-ins,” by Carole Boston-Weatherford

“Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt,” by Deborah Hopkinson YouTube Read Aloud

“Moses: When Harriet Tubman led her People to Freedom,” by Carole Boston-Weatherford YouTube Read Aloud

“Pink, Blue, and You!,” by Elise Gravel with Mykaell Blais

“I Am Jazz,” by Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings YouTube Read AloudThe cover of “Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag,” by Rob Sanders

“Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag,” by Rob Sanders YouTube Read Aloud

“Stonewall: A Building, an Uprising, a Revolution,” by Rob Sanders YouTube Read Aloud

 

Ages 9-12

Middle Grades LGBTQ+ Family-Friendly Books, a list from Family Equality

“Fred Korematsu Speaks Up,” by Laura Atkins and Stan Yogi

“Resist: 35 Profiles of Ordinary People Who Rose Up Against Tyranny and Injustice,” by Veronica Chambers

“Elijah of Buxton,” by Christopher Paul Curtis

“I Am Not a Number,” by Jenny Kay Dupuis and Kathy Kacer YouTube Read Aloud

“Rosa,” by Nikki Giovanni YouTube Read Aloud

“Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness,” by Anastasia Higginbotham YouTube Read Aloud

“Hana’s Suitcase,” by Karen Levine

“Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story,” by Ken Mochizuki YouTube Read Aloud

“Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker,” by Patricia Hruby Powell

“The Grand Mosque of Paris: A Story of How Muslims Rescued Jews During the Holocaust,” by Karen Gray Ruelle

“Shannen and the Dream for a School,” by Janet Wilson

“Have I Ever Told You Black Lives Matter,” by Shani King YouTube Read Aloud

“Pride: An Inspirational History of the LGBTQ+ Movement,” by Stella Caldwell

 

Young Adult LGBTQ Family-Friendly Books, a list from Family Equality

“We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children’s March,” by Cynthia Levinson

“All American Boys,” by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely

“Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You” by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi