| Celebrating
Diversity |
| Fox, Mem Whoever
You Are |
| Despite the differences between people around the world, there
are similarities that join us together, such as pain, joy, and
love. |
| Nikola-Lisa, W. Bein'
With You This Way |
| A little black girl rounds up her multi-ethnic friends to
celebrate the differences they can see all around them during
their day at the park. |
| Hamanaka, Sheila All
the Colors of the Earth |
| Reveals in verse that despite outward differences children
everywhere are essentially the same and all are lovable. |
| Hooks, Bell Skin Again |
| "The skin I'm in is just a covering. It cannot tell my story..." |
| Pinkney, Sandra L. A
Rainbow All Around Me |
| Photographs of children celebrate the feelings evoked by colours
and remind readers that "we ARE the rainbow, you and me!" |
| Interracial
Families |
| Adoff, Arnold Black
is Brown is Tan |
| Describes in verse a family with a brown-skinned mother, white-skinned
father, two children, and their various relatives. |
| Hodge, Deborah Emma's
story |
| In this story of international adoption, Emma learns about
how she was adopted from China and the many ways in which people
come together to form a family. |
| Katz, Karen Over
the Moon: An Adoption Story |
| A loving couple dream of a baby born far away and know that
this is the baby they have been waiting to adopt. |
| Lewis, Rose I
Love You Like Crazy Cakes |
| A woman describes how she went to China to adopt a special
baby girl. Based on the author's own experiences. |
| Okimoto, Jean Davies The
White Swan Express : A Story about Adoption |
| Across North America, people in four different
homes prepare for a special trip to China, while four baby girls
in China await their new adoptive parents. |
| Rosenberg, Liz We
Wanted You |
| Parents tell how they waited and prepared for the child that
they wanted so much. |
| Say, Allan Allison |
| When Allison realizes that she looks more like her favorite
doll than like her parents, she comes to terms with this unwelcomed
discovery through the help of a stray cat. |
