For Characters of Color
It's difficult to find books with African-American and Latino/a characters, esp in picture books. Some titles or series I've found to bring some color to the collection:
- Jump at the Sun or JATS - features fairy tales with black main characters, no twists, just traditional tales with black protagonists
- Dancing in the Wings by Debbie Allen
- Princess Cupcake Jones series by Ylleya Fields
- Rachel Isadora's fairy tales
- Sugar Plum Ballerinas by Whoppi Goldberg - Plum Fantastic is the first book
- Lola at the Library by Anna McQuinn - Lola series
- Firebird by Misty Copeland, Winner of the 2015 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award
Received the 2015 Ezra Jack Keats Book Award New Writer Honor, NPR Best Book of 2014 - Josephine: the dazzling life of Josephine Baker by Patricia Hruby Powell - Coretta Scot King Honor book
- Princeless: Save Yourself by Jeremy Whitley (GN), Amelia Bloomer Project Honor title (ALA)
- Queen of the Track: Alice Coachman, Olympic High Jump Champion by Heather Lang, Amelia Bloomer Project Honor title (ALA)
- King Peggy: An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny, and the Inspiring Story of How She Changed an African Village by Peggielene Bartels and Eleanor Herman Gr.9-up. Amelia Bloomer Project Honor title (ALA)
- In My Father’s Country: An Afghan Woman Defies Her Fate by Saima Wahab Publisher: Crown Publishers. Gr.10-up. Amelia Bloomer Project Honor title (ALA)
- Cendrillon: A Caribbean Cinderella by Robert de San Souci
Diversity in Science
Ada Twist Scientist by Andrea Beaty and Illustrated by David Roberts - female, African-American, girl in STEM
Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty - female STEM
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