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I’m Your Neighbor Books strives to build a stronger nation—one where immigrants are welcomed and http://www.welcominglibrary.org/

I'M YOUR NEIGHBOR BOOKS strives to build a stronger America, one where immigrants are welcomed and where first-through-third-generation Americans truly belong. We facilitate deep engagement with the children’s books that represent our New Arrival and New American communities. By curating, loaning, and gifting these diverse titles with educational materials, we:

* Start conversations on modern imm

igration
* Refute false narratives about communities of color
* Create emotional connections to a vast diversity of voices
* Share the joy and strength of immigrant kids and families
* Build the cultural competency of all readers
* Lay the groundwork for cross-cultural communication

OUR CULTURAL BOOK DATABASE sorts and features books by the culture represented allowing for schools, libraries, and organizations to best select and share books that represent their neighborhoods and the diversity of the nation. This site also offers lesson plans and event kits to facilitate engagement between neighbors. https://www.imyourneighborbooks.org

THE WELCOMING LIBRARY is a pop-up community conversation on immigration. That conversation is driven by a collection of acclaimed picture books featuring New Arrival and New American families. Readers of all ages “meet” these families on the page and explore the commonalities of all families with embedded discussion questions. The collection — with its pop-up display unit — packs into a crate and travels between schools, libraries, and community centers in a given region building an environment of Welcoming and Belonging.

08/22/2026

KIMCHI + KIDLIT

Join picture book creator Jill Lee & I'm Your Neighbor Books for a book reading, making demo & book signing all to celebrate—

LITTLE SUNNY MAKES KIMCHI WITH HALMI

**Saturday, 8/22/26**
MAINE NIGHT MARKET
Maine Tasting Center
Wisscassett, Maine

5:30-6:30 PM Reading + Kimchi
6:30-7:30 PM Book Signing
5:00-9:00 PM Night Market

Visit I’m Your Neighbor Books tent for 100+ books celebrating our Asian communities —all at 35% OFF!

Note: LITTLE SUNNY MAKES KIMCHI WITH HALMI will be full price to support the artist!

07/18/2026

In its 7th year! takes flight in September—in memory of Ashley Bryan!!

07/18/2026

We laid a book about a strong and loving Papi on the memorial for —a strong and loving Papi building a new and beautiful life in

What happened on this corner broke a family, a city, a state and may it break this nation into collective action.

Thank you author Melissa Seron Richardson & illustrator Edel Rodriguez for a book that shows a daughter’s love set against the unfathomable cruelty of country’s anti-immigrant racism.

Need a copy of this book? DM us if you need a free copy.

Can afford it? Buy link in the comments.

The book takes a frightening, but well executed turn. Be ready for it and the discussion that follows.

07/17/2026

I'm Your Neighbor Books will be at this rally for with books that share the impact of immigration enforcement and ICE on families. Come by to read or take a book for yourself or someone that needs it.

06/26/2026

I'm Your Neighbor Books is stricken by the Supreme Court's removal of (Temporary Protected Status) from and community members nationwide.

Every American has a story to tell and asylum seekers must be a part of the American story.

Raise a nation that believes that immigrants make America stronger. Talk to I'm Your Neighbor Books about how books about families transform immigrant belonging.

Images from the Haitian picture book BACK HOME: STORY TIME WITH MY FATHER by Arlene Elizabeth Casimir & illustrated by Ken Daley (Candlewick Press) and the Syrian picture book A PLACE IN THE WORLD by Rina Singh & illustrated by Christopher Pouler (Creative Editions).

06/21/2026

I'm Your Neighbor Books loves ANY chance to be in conversation with Amjambo Africa! Thank you, Eloge W***y Kaneza for this profile of our program.

By Eloge W***y Kaneza As immigration tensions continue to shape public debate across the United States, children’s books are increasingly becoming tools for emotional healing, cultural representation, and community belonging. In an exclusive interview with Amjambo Africa, Kirsten Cappy — a chi...

06/17/2026

Say by supporting the kids who have been separated from their fathers by ICE.

Every day I'm Your Neighbor Books packs up books like MY PAPI HAS A MOTORCYCLE or MI PAPI TIENE UNA MOTO by Isabel Quintero & illustrated by Zeke Peña for those kids.

are books carefully selected to provide sanctuary—a place to rest, heal, and hope.

MAKE A DONATION to in honor of your father—or someone who has been a father to you—and download a card (for print or email) with Zeke Peña's loving dad illustration on it. Thank you, Zeke!

Donation & Card links in—how to request a Sanctuary Story—are below.

03/30/2026

Author Sandra Cisneros once said, "We need books...in unkind times."*

I'm Your Neighbor Books offers a list of —books that help children, families & the broader community negotiate the trauma of ICE intimidation, detention & deportation.

recommends I WILL NOT BE SCARED by Jean-François Sénéchal and illustrated by Simone Rea (Milky Way Picture Books)

Know a family that needs these books? Contact

*After reading Ernesto Cisneros' EFRÉN DIVIDED/DIVIDIDO —a book about family separation.

03/24/2026

03/22/2026

may that cheeto turn to dust soon ♥

Digital illustration of a Latina squatting in front of a protest sign that reads, 'smex offenders can't live in government housing.'

Address

80 Bell Street, Suite 7
Portland, ME
04103

Website

http://imyourneighborbooks.org/

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