Great Books for Our Kids

Great Books for Our Kids A community based organization that provides information on multicultural books, authors, bookstores

07/01/2016

Books that celebrate diversity teach girls that it is okay to self-express, identify, and create their own definition of Blackness, Black girlhood and Black womanhood in a society that often discourages Black girls from authoring their own narratives

07/17/2015

Reading Rainbow, the well-loved children’s brand, has launched a Web-based library of children's books and story-driven educational video field...

01/27/2015

Books that contain characters of color as well as characters that represent a minority point of view. Children need to “find themselves” within the pages of the books they read. Books that share ideas, stories and information about cultures, race, religion, language and traditions. Books that embrac…

12/11/2014

Great diverse Christmas books for kids!

12/11/2014

By: Viviana Hurtado, Ph.D. and Monica Olivera, L4LL Co-founders At the end of the year, “tastemakers” such as The New York Times, National Public Radio (NPR), and the Washington Post publish their “best of” lists. Unlike previous years when their selections featured few, if any Hispanic authors, we…

11/03/2014

Did you know that children begin their path to reading as babies when they hear and respond to the sound of a human voice? Literacy—the ability to comprehend and communicate through reading and writing—begins as babies understand your spoken words. Listening, talking, reading, and writing are all pa…

10/29/2014

Passion for something typically drives a person to succeed. Sherrie Young is passionate about literacy, especially in youth. When her mother worked for a publishing company while she was growing up, she brought books home for Sherrie and a career was born before her developmental years. Young, ...

10/15/2014

What's in your fall reading list?

07/31/2014

Hi! I'm Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, an assistant professor at Penn GSE who loves children's and YA literature, media, and culture. (I'm also a former classroom teacher, a current fangirl, and will always be a dreamer.)

07/18/2014

The main thing that parents can do is really twofold: First is to be active, encouraging, and involved.

07/08/2014

Don't bother taking away the iPad or setting minimum page counts. Instead, find sneaky ways to leave your children alone with books—and then see what happens.

02/25/2014

Children with disabilities & special needs - When children become good readers in the early grades, they are more likely to become better learners throughout their school years and beyond.

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