|
|
|
Multi-Cultural
Picture Books
|
|
Africa
JP Aardema |
The
Lonely Lioness and the Ostrich Chicks: A Masai
Tale |
JP
Bynum |
Jamari’s
Drum |
JP
Geraghty |
The
Hunter |
JP
Gershator |
The
Iroko-Man: A Yoruba Folktale |
JP
Gleeson |
Koi
and the Kola Nuts |
JP Gray |
A
Country Far Away |
JP
Hartmann |
One
Sun Rises: An African Wildlife Counting Book |
JP
Joosse |
Papa,
Do You Love Me? (Masai) |
JP
London |
What
the Animals Were Waiting For |
See
also other countries on the African continent: Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Morocco, Nigeria, South
Africa, Tanzania,
and Uganda. |
|
| |
|
African Americans
|
| JP Battle-Lavert |
The
Barber's Cutting Edge |
| JP
Cox |
My
Family Plays Music |
| JP
English |
Hot
Day on Abbot Avenue |
| JP
Greenfield |
Honey,
I Love |
| JP
Greenfield |
William
and the Good Old Days |
| JP
Grifalconi |
Kinda
Blue |
| JP
Harrington |
Going
North |
| JP
Hoffman |
Amazing
Grace |
| JP
Hopkinson |
Sweet
Clara and the Freedom Quilt |
| JP
Howard |
Flower
Girl Butterflies |
| JP
Johnson |
Daddy
Calls Me Man |
| JP
Johnson |
I
Dream of Trains |
| JP
Johnson |
Julius |
| JP
Joosse |
Hot
City |
| JP
Lyons |
Roy
Makes a Car |
| JP
McKissack |
Precious
and the Boo Hag |
| JP
Miller |
The
Bus Ride |
| JP
Miller |
Night
Golf |
| JP
Miller |
Rent
Party Jazz |
| JP
Miller |
Zora
Hurston and the Chinaberry Tree |
| JP
Mitchell |
Uncle
Jed’s Barbershop |
| JP
Perdomo |
Visiting
Langston |
| JP
Pinkney |
Shades
of Black: A Celebration of Our Children |
| JP
Pinkney |
The
Sunday Outing |
| JP
Raschka |
Charlie
Parker Played Be Bop |
| JP
Raven |
Circle
Unbroken: The Story of a Basket and Its People |
| JP
Ringgold |
Cassie's
Word Quilt |
| JP
Ringgold |
Dinner
at Aunt Connie's House |
| JP
Ringgold |
Tar
Beach |
| JP
Roberts |
Jazzy
Miz Mozetta |
| JP
Smith |
Brown
Sugar Babies |
| JP
Smothers |
Auntee
Edna |
| JP
Taylor |
Sweet
Music in Harlem |
| JP
Thomas |
Celebration! |
| JP
Vizurraga |
Miss
Opal's Auction |
| JP
Wiles |
Freedom
Summer |
| JP
Woodson |
Coming
on Home Soon |
| JP
Wyeth |
Always
My Dad |
|
| |
Australia
|
| JP
Crew |
Bright
Star |
| JP
Dumbleton |
Dial-a-Croc |
| JP
Fox |
Possum
Magic |
| JP
French |
Pete
the Sheep-Sheep |
| JP
Germein |
Big
Rain Coming |
| JP
Lester |
Are
We There Yet? : A Journey Around Australia |
| JP
Lester |
Ernie
Dances to the Didgeridoo: For the Children of Gunbalanya |
| JP
Morpurgo |
Wombat
Goes Walkabout |
| JP
Ormerod |
Lizzie
Nonsense |
| JP
Roth |
The
Biggest Frog in Australia |
| JP
Trinca |
One
Woolly Wombat |
| JP
Vaughan |
Snap! |
| JP
Ward |
Old
Shell, New Shell: A Coral Reef Tale |
|
|
Bangladesh
|
|
JP Howard |
A
Basket of Bangles: How a Business Begins |
|
JP Cheng |
Grandfather
Counts |
Cambodia
JP
Lord |
Little
Sap and Monsieur Rodin |
JP
Minfong |
Brother
Rabbit: A Cambodian Tale |
JP
Bunting |
How
Many Days to America? A Thanksgiving Story |
JP
Gershator |
Rata-Pata-Scata-Fata:
A Caribbean Story |
JP
Gottlieb |
Where
Jamaica Go? |
JP
Isadora |
|
| See
also Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Puerto
Rico. |
| JP
Chang |
The
Cricket Warrior: A Chinese Tale |
| JP
Demi |
The
Artist and the Architect |
| JP
Demi |
The
Empty Pot |
| JP
Demi |
Liang
and the Magic Paintbrush |
| JP
Demi |
The
Magic Boat |
| JP
Handforth |
Mei
Li |
| JP
Hong |
How
the Ox Star Fell from Heaven |
| JP
Hong |
Two
of Everything: A Chinese Folktale |
| JP
Kimmel |
Ten
Suns: A Chinese Legend |
| JP
Lawson |
The
Dragon’s Pearl |
| JP
Leaf |
Eyes
of the Dragon |
| JP
Lee |
At
the Beach |
| JP
Lee |
In the Snow |
| JP
Lee |
Legend
of the Li River |
| JP
Louie |
Yeh-Shen |
| JP
McCully |
Beautiful
Warrior: The Legend of the Nun's Kung Fu |
| JP
Pittman |
A
Grain of Rice |
| JP
Poole |
How
the Rooster Got His Crown |
| JP
Porte |
Ma
Jiang and the Orange Ants |
| JP
Rumford |
The
Cloudmakers |
| JP
San Souci |
Fa
Mulan: The Story of a Woman Warrior |
| JP
Singer |
The
Painted Fan |
| JP
Tan |
The
Moon Lady |
| JP
Tompert |
Grandfather
Tang’s Story |
| JP
Torre |
The
Luminous Pearl: A Chinese Folktale |
| JP
Tsubakiyama |
Mei-Mei
Loves the Morning |
| JP
Wang |
The
Fourth Question: A Chinese Tale |
| JP
Yep |
The
Butterfly Boy |
| JP
Yep |
City
of Dragons |
| JP
Yep |
The
Junior Thunder Lord |
| JP
Yep |
The
Man Who Tricked a Ghost |
| JP
Yolen |
The
Emperor and the Kite |
| JP
Young |
Little
Plum |
| JP
Young |
Lon
Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China |
| JP
Young |
The
Lost Horse |
| JP
Young |
Night
Visitors |
| JP
Young |
Red
Thread |
Chinese
Americans |
| JP
Chinn |
Sam
and the Lucky Money |
| JP
Hall |
Henry
and the Kite Dragon |
| JP
Hoffman |
Meatball |
| JP
Lee |
Landed |
| JP
Lee |
Nim
and the War Effort |
| JP
Levine |
I
Hate English! |
| JP
Lewin |
Big
Jimmy's Kum Kau Chinese Take out |
| JP
Lin |
The
Ugly Vegetables |
| JP
Low |
Chinatown |
| JP
Nunes |
The
Last Dragon |
| JP
Partridge |
Oranges
on Golden Mountain |
| JP
Pomeranc |
The
American Wei |
| JP
Spalding |
Me
and Mr. Mah |
| JP
Thong |
One
Is a Drummer: A Book of Numbers |
| JP
Thong |
Red
Is A Dragon: A Book of Colors |
| JP
Wallace |
Chin
Chiang and the Dragon’s Dance |
| JP
Yee |
Roses
Sing on New Snow: A Delicious Tale |
| JP
Yin |
Coolies |
|
|
JP
Carling
|
Mama
and Papa Have a Store |
Dominican
Republic
JP
Gerrard
|
Croco’nile |
| JP
Heide |
The
Day of Ahmed's Secret |
| JP
Lewin |
What’s
the Matter, Habibi? |
| JP
Matze |
The
Stars in My Geddoh's Sky |
JP
Yates
|
Ten
Little Mummies: An Egyptian Counting Book |
JP
Chocolate
|
Kente
Colors |
JP
Musgrove |
The
Spider Weaver: A Legend of Kente Cloth |
JP
Castaneda
|
Abuela’s
Weave |
JP
Ichikawa |
|
JP
Elvgren
|
Josias,
Hold the Book |
| JP
Williams |
Circles
of Hope |
JP
Shea
|
The
Whispering Cloth : A Refugee's Story |
JP
Lottridge
|
The
Little Rooster and the Diamond Button: A Hungarian Folktale |
India
|
JP
Arnold |
Heart
of a Tiger |
JP
Atkins |
Aani
and the Tree Huggers |
JP
Bannerman |
The
Story of Little Black Sambo |
JP
Heine |
Elephant
Dance: Memories of India |
JP
Jeyaveeran |
The
Road to Mumbai |
JP
Krishnaswami |
Monsoon |
JP
Lewin |
Sacred
River |
JP
Lillegard |
The
Poombah of Badoombah |
JP
McDonald |
Baya,
Baya, Lulla-by-a |
JP
Rumford |
Nine
Animals and the Well |
JP
Smith |
|
East Indian Americans
|
JP
Krishnaswami |
|
Indonesia
|
| JP
Sierra |
The
Dancing Pig |
JP
Balouch
|
The
King and Three Thieves: A Persian Tale |
| JP
DePaola |
The
Legend of the Persian Carpet |
| JP
Shepard |
Forty
Fortunes: A Tale of Iran |
| JP
Thompson |
One
Riddle, One Answer |
| JP
Baker |
The
Magic Fan |
| JP
Charles |
The
Crane Girl |
| P
Friedman |
How
My Parents Learned to Eat |
| JP
Garrison |
The
Dream Eater |
| JP
Gollub |
Ten
Oni Drummers |
| JP
Hamanaka |
Screen
of Frogs |
| JP
Hidaka |
Girl
from the Snow Country |
| JP
Iijima |
The
Way We Do It in Japan |
| JP
James |
The
Drums of Noto Hanto |
| JP
Johnson |
Kenji
and the Magic Geese |
| JP
Johnston |
The
Badger and the Magic Fan: A Japanese Folktale |
| JP
Kajikawa |
Yoshi’s
Feast |
| JP
Kimmel |
Three
Samurai Cats |
| JP
Little |
Yoshiko
and the Foreigner |
| JP
Matsuno |
A
Pair of Red Clogs |
| JP
Morimoto |
The
Two Bullies |
| JP
Namioka |
The
Hungriest Boy in the World |
| JP
Pirotta |
Turtle
Bay |
| JP
Say |
The
Bicycle Man |
JP
Say |
Grandfather's
Journey |
| JP
Say |
Kamishibai
Man |
| JP
Say |
Tea with Milk |
| JP
Say |
Tree
of Cranes |
| JP
Snyder |
The
Boy of the Three-Year Nap |
Japanese
Americans
|
JP
Mochizuki |
Baseball
Saved Us |
JP
Mochizuki |
Heroes |
JP
Say |
Grandfather's
Journey |
JP
Say |
Music
for Alice |
JP
Uchida |
Yoko |
JP
Uegaki |
Yoko's
Paper Cranes |
JP
Wells |
The
Bracelet |
JP
Wells |
|
JP
Goldin |
Just
Enough Is Plenty: A Hanukkah Tale |
JP
Hershenhorn |
Chicken
Soup by Heart |
JP
Hest |
The
Friday Nights of Nana |
JP
Kimmel |
A
Cloak for the Moon |
JP
Lanton |
Lots
of Latkes |
JP
Oberman |
Always
Prayer Shawl |
JP
Polacco |
The
Keeping Quilt |
JP
Swartz |
Bim
and Bom: A Shabbat Tale |
JP
Waldman |
The
Never-Ending Greenness |
JP
Weilerstein |
K’tonton”s
Sukkot Adventure |
JP
Woodruff |
The
Memory Coat |
JP
Yorinks |
Aruthur
Yorink's the Flying Latke |
JP
Zalben |
Beni’s
First Wedding |
JP
Zalben |
|
|
JP
Cunnane |
For
You Are a Kenyan Child |
JP
Johnston |
|
Korea |
JP
Choi |
Peach
Heaven |
JP
Farley |
The
King's Secret. The Legend of King Sejong |
JP
Han |
Kongi
and Potgi: A Cinderella Story from Korea |
JP
Han |
Sir
Whong and the Golden Pig |
JP
Park |
Bee-Bim
Bop |
JP
Park |
|
Korean
Americans
|
JP
Bercaw |
Halmoni's
Day |
JP
Choi |
Halmoni
and the Picnic |
JP
Choi |
The
Name Jar |
JP
Pak |
Dear
Juno |
JP
Pak |
Sumi’s
First Day of School Ever |
JP
Park |
Good-bye,
382 Shin Dang Dong |
JP
Park |
The
Have a Good Day Café |
JP
Shin |
Cooper’s
Lesson |
JP
Williams |
The
Best Winds |
JP
Wong |
|
Lebanon |
JP
Heide |
Sami
and the Time of the Troubles |
Liberia |
JP
Gleeson |
Koi
and the Kola Nuts: A Tale from Libreria |
JP
Paye |
Head,
Body, Legs: A Story form Liberia |
JP
Diakite
|
The
Hatseller and the Monkeys : A West African Folktale
|
JP
Diakite |
|
JP
Ada |
Gathering
the Sun: An Alphabet in Spanish and English |
JP
Ada |
I Love Saturdays y Domingos |
JP
Anaya |
The
Farolitos of Christmas |
JP
Bunting |
A
Day’s Work |
JP
Ciavonne |
Carlos,
Light the Farolito |
JP
Cuyler |
From
Here to There |
JP
Dorros |
Abuela |
JP
Dorros |
Radio
Man = Don Radio: A Story in English and Spanish |
JP
Dorros |
When
the Pigs Took Over |
JP
Elya |
Home
at Last |
JP
Freschet |
Beto
and the Bone Dance |
JP
Gershator |
Bread
Is for Eating |
JP
Havill |
Treasure
Nap |
JP
Johnston |
Uncle
Rain Cloud |
JP
Lattimore |
Frida
Maria: A Story of the Old Southwest |
JP
Mora |
A
Birthday Basket for Tia |
JP
Mora |
Pablo’s
Tree |
JP
Mora |
The
Rainbow Tulip |
JP
Mora |
Tomas
and the Library Lady |
JP
O’Neill |
Estela’s
Swap |
JP
Perez |
First
Day in Grapes |
JP
Rosa-Casanova |
Mama
Provi and the Pot of Rice |
JP
Soto |
Big
Bushy Mustache |
JP
Soto |
Chato
and the Party Animals |
JP
Soto |
Snapshots
from the Wedding |
JP
Soto |
Too
Many Tamales |
JP
Torres |
The
Kite Festival |
JP
Thomas |
|
|
|
|
JP
Bunting |
Going
Home |
JP
Dorros |
Julio’s
Magic |
JP
Estes |
Manuela's
Gift |
JP
Flora |
The
Fabulous Firework Family |
JP
Johnston |
Day
of the Dead |
JP
Keep |
Clatter
Bash! : A Day of the Dead Celebration |
JP
Krull |
Maria
Molina and the Days of the Dead |
JP
Winter |
Josefina |
JP
Winter |
|
JP
Lewin
|
The
Storytellers |
JP
Barber |
Allie's
Basketball Dream |
JP
Cox |
Now
We Can Have a Wedding! |
JP
Hamanaka |
Grandparents
Song |
JP
Johnson |
Those
Building Men |
JP
Nobisso |
In English, Of Course |
JP
Pellegrini |
Families
Are Different |
JP
Raschka |
New
York Is English, Chattanooga Is Greek |
JP
Rockwell |
Show
and Tell Day |
JP
Shelby |
Potluck |
JP
Simon |
All
Families Are Special |
JP
Sis |
Madlenka |
JP
Steptoe |
Creativity |
JP
Wong |
|
|
JP
Burstein |
The
Dancer = La Bailarina = Dansa |
JP
Conrad |
Animal
Lingo |
JP
Jocelyn |
ABC
x 3 : English, Espanol, Francais |
Muslims |
| JP
Mobin-Uddin |
My
Name Is Bilal |
|
Native
American
|
JP
Bruchac |
Many
Nations: An Alphabet of Native America |
Native
American: Abenaki Indian |
JP
Bruchac |
Raccoon’s
Last Race: A Traditional Abenaki Story |
Native
American: Californian Indian |
JP
Bierhorst |
The
People with Five Fingers: A Native Californian
Creation Tale |
Native
American: Cherokee Indian |
JP
Bruchac |
The
Story of the Milky Way: A Cherokee Tale |
|
Native
American: Choctaw Indian |
JP
Harrell |
How
Thunder and Lightning Came to Be: A Choctaw Legend |
|
Native
American: Chumash Indian |
JP
Wood |
The
Rainbow Bridge: Inspired by a Chumash Tale |
|
Native
American: Creek Indian |
JP
Bruchac |
The
Great Ball Game: A Muskogee Story |
|
Native
American: Dakota Indian |
JP
Nelson |
Gift
Horse: A Lakota Story |
|
Native
American: Inuit |
JP
Bania |
Kumak’s
Fish: A Tall Tale from the Far North |
JP
Devine |
Carry
Me, Mama |
JP
Edwardson |
Whale
Snow |
JP
George |
Arctic
Son |
JP
Joosse |
Mama,
Do You Love Me? |
JP
London |
Ice
Bear and Little Fox |
JP
Ulmer |
|
|
Native
American: Oglala Indian |
JP
Bruchac |
|
|
Native
American: Ojibwa Indian |
JP
Osofsky |
Dreamcatcher |
JP
Waboose |
|
|
Native
American: Plains Indian |
JP
Goble |
Iktomi
and the Ducks: A Plains Indian Story |
|
Native
American: Pueblo Indian |
JP
James |
The
Mud Family |
JP
McDermott |
Arrow to the Sun: A Pueblo Indian Tale |
|
Native
American: Seneca Indian |
JP
Bruchac |
Turtle’s
Race with Beaver: A Traditional Seneca Story |
|
Native
American: Shoshoni Indian |
JP
Scott |
|
|
Native
American: Wampanoag Indian |
JP
Bruchac |
Squanto’s
Journey: The Story of the First Thanksgiving |
Nepal |
JP
Tenzing |
Secret
of the Snow Leopard |
JP
Young |
I, Doko: The Tale of a Basket |
|
JP
Olaleye
|
Bikes
for Rent! |
JP
Olaleye |
Lake
of the Big Snake: An African Rain Forest Adventure |
JP
Onyefulu |
Chidi
Only Likes Blue: An African Book of Colors |
JP
Onyefulu |
Emeka's
Gift: An African Counting Story |
JP
Onyefulu |
A
Triangle for Adaora: An African Book of Shapes |
Norway
|
JP
Brett |
Who’s
That Knocking on Christmas Eve? |
JP
Emberley |
Welcome
Back, Sun |
JP
Myers |
Good
Babies: A Tale of Trolls, Humans, a Witch and a Switch |
|
JP
English |
Nadia's
Hands |
JP
Khan |
Ruler
of the Courtyard |
JP
Khan |
|
|
Peru
JP
Charles
|
Chancay
and the Secret of Fire: A Peruvian Folktale |
JP
Hickox |
Zorro
and Quwi |
JP
Tompert |
|
JP Hoffman |
Clever
Katya: A Fairy Tale from Old Russia |
JP
Schuch |
A
Symphony of Whales |
JP
Winthrop |
The
Little Humpbacked Horse: A Russian Tale |
JP
Best |
Three
Cheers for Catherine the Great! |
JP
Broyles |
Shy
Mama’s Halloween |
JP
Cohen |
Molly's
Pilgrim |
JP
Kalman |
Tchaikovsky
Discovers America |
JP
Polacco |
Uncle
Vova’s Tree |
JP
Pryor |
|
South
Africa
JP
Daly |
Jamela's
Dress |
JP
Daly |
Where’s
Jamela? |
JP
Daly |
Once
Upon a Time |
JP
Isadora |
At
the Crossroads |
JP
Isadora |
Over
the Green Hills |
JP
Isadora |
A
South African Night |
JP
Lewin |
Jafta
and the Wedding |
JP
Lewin |
Jafta--the
Homecoming |
JP
Mennen |
Somewhere
in Africa |
JP
Sisulu |
The
Day Gogo Went to Vote: South Africa, April 1994 |
JP
Stock |
Armien’s
Fishing Trip |
JP
Winter |
|
|
JP
Campoy |
Rosa
Raposa |
JP
Torres |
|
| See
also other countries on the South American continent: Chile and Peru. |
JP
Shah |
The
Clever Boy and the Terrible, Dangerous Animal |
JP
Shah |
The
Farmer’s Wife |
JP
Shah |
The
Silly Chicken |
JP Young |
|
Taino
Indian, West Indies
|
JP
Krebs |
We
All Went on Safari: A Counting Journey through
Tanzania |
JP
Mollel |
Kele’s
Secret |
JP
Mollel |
My
Rows and Piles of Coins |
JP
Stuve-Bodeen |
Elizabeti’s
Doll |
JP
Stuve-Bodeen |
|
|
Thailand
| JP
Ho |
Hush!
A Thai Lullaby |
| JP
Ho |
Peek!
: A Thai Hide-and-Seek |
| JP
MacDonald |
The
Girl Who Wore Too Much: A Folktale from Thailand |
JP
Demi
|
The
Donkey and the Rock |
JP
Gerstein |
|
Uganda
|
JP
McBrier |
|
Vietnam |
JP
Garland |
The
Lotus Seed |
JP
Lee |
Ba-Nam |
JP
Mckay |
|
West
Indies |
JP
Carlstrom |
|
|
|
JP |
|
Baer |
This
is the Way We Eat Our Lunch. A Book about Children around
the World |
|
JP |
|
Baer |
This
is the Way We Go to School. A Book about Children around
the World |
|
JP |
|
De
Zutter |
Who
Says a Dog Goes Bow-Wow? |
|
JP |
|
Dooley |
Everybody
Bakes Bread |
|
JP |
|
Dooley |
Everybody
Cooks Rice |
|
JP |
|
Hamanaka |
All
the Colors of the Earth |
|
JP |
|
Harshman |
All
the Way to Morning |
|
JP |
|
McDonald |
My
House Has Stars |
|
JP |
|
Miller |
We
All Sing with the Same Voice |
|
JP |
|
Morris |
Bread,
Bread, Bread |
|
JP |
|
Morris |
Hats,
Hats, Hats |
|
JP |
|
Morris |
Houses
and Homes |
|
JP |
|
Morris |
Shoes,
Shoes, Shoes |
|
JP |
|
Sanders |
What's
Your Name? From Ariel to Zoe |
|
JP |
|
Schuett |
Somewhere
in the World Right Now |
|
JP |
|
Singer |
On the Same Day in March: A tour of the World's Weather |
|
JP |
|
Singer |
Nine
O'clock Lullaby |
|
JP |
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Van
Laan |
Sleep,
Sleep, Sleep: A Lullaby for Little Ones around the World |
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JP |
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Weiss |
The
World Turns Round and Round |
Compiled
by Jean Nei
Children's Services
October, 2006 |
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