|
Multi-Cultural Picture Books |
Afghanistan |
JP Williams |
Four Feet, Two Sandals |
Africa |
JP
Bynum |
Jamari’s Drum |
JP
Chocolate |
Imani in the Belly |
JP
Geraghty |
The
Hunter |
JP Gray |
A
Country Far Away |
JP
Joosse |
Papa,
Do You Love Me? (Masai) |
JP Knutson |
How the Guinea Fowl Got Her Spots: A Swahili Tale |
JP
London |
What
the Animals Were Waiting For |
JP
Olaleye |
Bitter Bananas |
| See
also other countries on the African continent: Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Morocco, Nigeria, South
Africa, Tanzania,
and Uganda. |
African Americans
|
JP Campbell |
Stompin' at the Savoy |
JP
Cox |
My
Family Plays Music |
JP
English |
Hot
Day on Abbot Avenue |
JP
Grifalconi |
Kinda
Blue |
JP
Harrington |
The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County |
JP
Harrington |
Going
North |
JP
Hoffman |
Amazing
Grace |
JP
Hopkinson |
Sweet
Clara and the Freedom Quilt |
JP
Howard |
Flower
Girl Butterflies |
JP
Johnson |
I
Dream of Trains |
JP
Johnson |
Julius |
JP
Johnson |
Wind Flyers |
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
Raven |
Circle
Unbroken: The Story of a Basket and Its People |
JP
Ringgold |
Cassie's
Word Quilt |
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
Vizurraga |
Miss
Opal's Auction |
JP
Weatherford |
Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-ins |
JP
Wiles |
Freedom
Summer |
JP
Woodson |
Coming
on Home Soon |
JP
Wyeth |
|
Australia
|
JP
Crew |
Bright
Star |
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 |
Belarus
|
JP Manushkin |
How Mama Brought the Spring |
Biracial
|
JP Cheng |
|
Cambodia
|
JP
Lipp |
The Caged Birds of Phnom Penh |
JP
Lipp |
Running Shoes |
JP
Lord |
Little
Sap and Monsieur Rodin |
JP
Minfong |
Brother
Rabbit: A Cambodian Tale |
Caribbean
|
|
How
Many Days to America? A Thanksgiving Story |
JP
Gottlieb |
Where
Jamaica Go? |
JP
Isadora |
|
JP Rahaman |
Divali Rose |
| See
also Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Puerto
Rico. |
Chile
|
JP
Foreman |
|
JP Rand |
A Pen Pal for Max |
China
|
JP
Demi |
The
Empty Pot |
JP
Demi |
Liang
and the Magic Paintbrush |
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 Krebs |
We're Riding on a Caravan: An Adventure on the Silk Road |
JP
Leaf |
Eyes
of the Dragon |
JP
Lee |
At
the Beach |
JP
Lee |
In the Leaves |
JP
Lee |
In the Snow |
JP
Louie |
Yeh-Shen |
JP
McCully |
Beautiful Warrior: The Legend of the Nun's Kung Fu |
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
Tsubakiyama |
Mei-Mei
Loves the Morning |
JP
Xiong |
The Little Stone Lion |
JP
Yang |
Homes |
JP
Yep |
The
Butterfly Boy |
JP
Yep |
The
Junior Thunder Lord |
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 |
|
Chinese Americans
|
JP
Cheng |
Goldfish and Chrysanthemums |
JP Cheng |
Grandfather Counts |
JP
Chinn |
Sam
and the Lucky Money |
JP
Hall |
Henry
and the Kite Dragon |
JP
Lee |
Landed |
JP
Lee |
Nim
and the War Effort |
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 |
Gai See: What You Can See in Chinatown |
JP
Thong |
One
Is a Drummer: A Book of Numbers |
JP
Thong |
Red
Is A Dragon: A Book of Colors |
JP
Yee |
Roses
Sing on New Snow: A Delicious Tale |
JP
Yin |
|
JP
Yin |
Brothers |
Chinese in Guatemala
|
JP
Carling
|
Mama
and Papa Have a Store |
JP
Carling |
Sawdust Carpets |
Cuba |
| JP Garcia |
The Dog Who Loved the Moon |
|
Dominican
Republic
|
JP Appelbaum
|
|
Egypt
|
JP Gerrard |
Croco’nile |
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 |
Erithea
|
JP Kurtz |
Trouble |
Ethiopia
|
JP Kurtz |
|
JP Kessler |
The Best Beekeeper of Lalibela: A Tale from Africa |
Ghana
|
JP
Chocolate |
Kente
Colors |
JP
Cumberbatch |
Can You Hear the Sea? |
JP
Milway |
One Hen |
JP
Musgrove |
The
Spider Weaver: A Legend of Kente Cloth |
Guatemala
|
JP Amado |
Tricycle |
JP Castaneda |
Abuela’s Weave |
JP
Ichikawa |
|
Haiti
|
JP Elvgren |
Josias, Hold the Book |
JP
Williams |
|
Hawaii
|
JP
Guback |
|
Hungary
|
JP Fowles
|
|
JP Lottridge |
The Little Rooster and the Diamond Button: A Hungarian Folktale |
Iceland |
JP McMillan |
How the Ladies Stopped the Wind |
India
|
|
|
|
Aani
and the Tree Huggers
|
|
The
Story of Little Black Sambo
|
JP Charles |
The Birdman |
|
Elephant
Dance: Memories of India
|
|
|
|
|
JP Kroll |
Selvakumar Knew Better |
|
|
|
|
JP Makhijani |
Mama's Saris |
|
|
JP McKibbon |
The Token Gift |
JP Noyes |
When I Met the Wolf Girls |
JP Rao |
My Mother's Sari |
|
Nine
Animals and the Well
|
|
|
East Indian Americans
|
|
|
JP
Krishnaswami |
Bringing Asha Home |
|
|
JP
Krishnaswami |
The Happiest Tree: A Yoga Story |
JP Sheth |
My Dadima Wears a Sari |
Indonesia
|
JP
MacDonald |
Go to Sleep, Gecko! : A Balinese Folktale |
JP
Scott |
The
Sacred Banana Leaf |
JP
Sierra |
|
Iran
|
JP
Balouch
|
The
King and Three Thieves: A Persian Tale |
JP
Balouch
|
Mystery Bottle |
JP
DePaola |
The
Legend of the Persian Carpet |
JP
Shepard |
Forty
Fortunes: A Tale of Iran |
JP
Thompson |
|
Iraq
|
JP Rumford |
|
|
Japan
|
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
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 Reed |
The Falling Flowers |
JP
Say |
The
Bicycle Man |
JP
Say |
Kamishibai
Man |
JP
Say |
Tea with Milk |
JP
Say |
Tree
of Cranes |
JP
Snyder |
The
Boy of the Three-Year Nap |
JP Tessler |
Yuki's Ride Home |
JP Whelan |
Yuki and the One Thousand Cranes |
JP Yashima |
The Crow Boy |
Japanese Americans
|
JP Barasch |
Hiromi's Hands |
JP Lee-Tai |
A Place Where Sunflowers Grow |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jewish People
|
|
Just
Enough Is Plenty: A Hanukkah Tale
|
JP Heller |
Castle on Hester Street |
|
|
JP Hoestlandt |
Star of Fear, Star of Hope |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
JP Shulevitz |
The Travels of Benjamin of Tudela |
|
Bim
and Bom: A Shabbat Tale
|
JP Taback |
Kibitzers and Fools: Tales My Zayda (Grandfather) Told Me |
|
The
Never-Ending Greenness
|
|
|
|
|
Kenya
|
JP
Cunnane |
For
You Are a Kenyan Child |
JP
Johnston |
|
Korea
|
JP Bae |
New Clothes for New Year's Day |
|
|
|
The
King's Secret. The Legend of King Sejong
|
|
Kongi
and Potgi: A Cinderella Story from Korea
|
|
Sir
Whong and the Golden Pig
|
JP Kwon |
My Cat Copies Me |
|
|
|
|
JP Yi |
Waiting for Mama |
Korean Americans
|
JP
Bercaw |
Halmoni's
Day |
| JP Choi |
Behind the Mask |
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 Patz |
Babies Can't Eat Kimchee! |
| JP Recorvits |
Yoon and the Christmas Mitten |
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 |
Mali |
JP
Diakité
|
The
Hatseller and the Monkeys : A West African Folktale |
JP
Diakité
|
I Lost My Tooth in Africa
|
JP
Diakité |
|
Mexican Americans
|
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 Cruise |
Little Mamá Forgets |
JP
Cuyler |
From
Here to There |
JP
Dorros |
Abuela |
| JP
Dorros |
Papa and Me |
JP
Dorros |
Radio
Man = Don Radio: A Story in English and Spanish |
JP
Dorros |
When
the Pigs Took Over |
| JP Elya |
Bebé Goes Shopping |
JP
Elya |
Home
at Last |
JP
Freschet |
Beto
and the Bone Dance |
JP
Gershator |
Bread
Is for Eating |
JP
Johnston |
Uncle
Rain Cloud |
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 Pinkney |
I am Latino: The Beauty in Me |
JP
Rosa-Casanova |
Mama
Provi and the Pot of Rice |
JP
Soto |
Big
Bushy Mustache |
| JP Soto |
Chato Goes Cruisin' |
JP
Soto |
My Little Car |
JP
Soto |
Snapshots
from the Wedding |
JP
Soto |
Too
Many Tamales |
JP
Torres |
|
Mexico
|
JP
Bunting |
Going
Home |
JP
Dorros |
Julio’s
Magic |
| JP Dorros |
Número Uno |
JP
Estes |
Manuela's
Gift |
| JP Fine |
Armando and the Blue Tarp School |
JP
Flora |
The
Fabulous Firework Family |
| JP Geeslin |
Clara & Señor Frog |
JP
Johnston |
Day
of the Dead |
JP
Keep |
Clatter
Bash! : A Day of the Dead Celebration |
| JP Krebs |
Off We Go to Mexico! An Adventure in the Sun |
JP
Krull |
Maria
Molina and the Days of the Dead |
| JP Meunier |
Bravo, Tavo! |
| JP Ramirez |
Napí Goes to the Mountain |
| JP Ryan |
Mice and Beans |
JP Stanton |
Papi's Gift |
JP
Winter |
Josefina |
JP
Winter |
|
Morocco
|
JP Alalou
|
The Butter Man |
JP
Lewin
|
The
Storytellers |
JP
London
|
|
|
Multi-Ethnic |
JP
Barber |
Allie's
Basketball Dream |
JP
Cox |
Now
We Can Have a Wedding! |
JP
Hamanaka |
Grandparents
Song |
JP
Johnson |
Those
Building Men |
| JP Michelson |
Across the Alley |
JP
Nobisso |
In English, Of Course |
JP
Raschka |
New
York Is English, Chattanooga Is Greek |
JP
Simon |
All
Families Are Special |
JP
Sis |
Madlenka |
JP
Steptoe |
Creativity |
JP
Wong |
|
Multi-Lingual
|
JP
Jocelyn |
ABC
x 3 : English, Español, Français |
Muslims
|
| JP
Mobin-Uddin |
The Best Eid Holiday Ever |
| JP
Mobin-Uddin |
My
Name Is Bilal |
Native Americans
|
JP
Bruchac |
Many
Nations: An Alphabet of Native America |
| JP Harjo |
The Good Luck Cat |
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 |
| JP Tingle |
Crossing Bok Chitto : A Choctaw Tale of Friendship & Freedom |
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: Kalispel
|
JP Bruchac |
|
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
Stryer |
Kami and the Yaks |
JP
Tenzing |
Secret
of the Snow Leopard |
JP
Young |
I, Doko: The Tale of a Basket |
Nigeria
|
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 |
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 |
Pakistan
|
JP
English |
Nadia's
Hands |
JP
Khan |
|
JP
Khan |
Silly
Chicken
|
Panama
|
| JP MacDonald |
Conejito : A Folktale from Panama |
Peru
|
JP
Hickox |
Zorro
and Quwi |
JP
Tompert |
|
Puerto Rico
|
JP
Velasquez
|
|
Romania
|
JP
Rascol |
|
Russia
|
JP Hoffman |
Clever
Katya: A Fairy Tale from Old Russia |
| JP Ransome |
Little Daughter of the Snow |
JP
Schuch |
A
Symphony of Whales |
JP
Winthrop |
The
Little Humpbacked Horse: A Russian Tale |
Russian
Americans
|
| JP Atwell |
The Thanksgiving Door |
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 |
Happy Birthday,
Jamela! |
JP
Daly |
Once Upon a Time |
JP
Daly |
Where’s
Jamela? |
JP
Isadora |
At
the Crossroads |
JP
Isadora |
A
South African Night |
JP
Sisulu |
The
Day Gogo Went to Vote: South Africa, April 1994 |
JP
Winter |
|
South America
|
JP
Campoy |
|
| See
also other countries on the South American continent: Chile and Peru. |
Sufis,
Middle East
|
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
Yolen
|
|
Tanzania
|
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 Bridges |
The Umbrella Queen |
| JP
Ho |
Hush!
A Thai Lullaby |
| JP
Ho |
Peek!
: A Thai Hide-and-Seek |
Tibet
|
JP
Demi
|
|
Uganda
|
JP
McBrier |
|
Vietnam
|
JP
Garland |
|
Zimbabwe
|
| JP Stock |
Gugu's House |
| |
|
The World |
| JP Ajmera |
To Be a Kid |
| 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 DeZutter |
Who Says a Dog Goes Bow-Wow? |
| JP Dooley |
Everybody Bakes Bread |
| JP Dooley |
Everybody Cooks Rice |
| JP Fox |
Whoever You Are |
| 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 |
Families |
| JP Morris |
Hats, Hats, Hats |
| JP Morris |
Houses and Homes |
| JP Morris |
Loving |
| JP Morris |
On the Go |
| JP Morris |
Play |
| JP Morris |
Shoes, Shoes, Shoes |
| JP Morris |
Tools |
| JP Rotner |
Lots of Dads |
| 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 Lulluby |
| JP Van Laan |
Sleep, Sleep, Sleep: A Lullaby for Little Ones Around the World |
| JP Vyner |
World Team |
| JP Weiss |
The World Turns Round and Round |
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Click here to see our Children of the World booklist for more titles about children and cultures around the world! |
Compiled by Jean Nei
Children's Services
December, 2009 |
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