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• Black is Brown is Tan by Arnold Adoff
• Maxwell’s Mountain by Shari Becker (buy)
• That’s My Mum by Henriette Barkow
• I am Living in 2 Homes by Garcelle Beauvais and Sebastian A. Jones
• I am Mixed by Garcelle Beauvais and Sebastian A. Jones
• Mira in the Preset Tense / Artichoke Hearts by Sita Brahmachari (YA Fiction)
• Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match / Marisol McDonald no Combina by Monica Brown
• Marisol McDonald and the Clash Bash by Monica Brown (buy)
• Friends by Eric Carle
• Mixed Me by Tiffany Catledge
• Grandfather Counts by Andrea Cheng
• Firebird by Misty Copeland (buy)
• Mixed Blessing by Marsha Cosman
• I Am a Ballerina by Valerie Coulman (buy)
• Black, White, Just Right by Marguerite W. Davol
• A Dance Like Starlight: One Ballerina’s Dream by Kristy Dempsy (buy)
• Mommy, Why is Your Skin So Brown? by Marianna Dragomirova (buy)
• An African Princess by Lyra Edmonds
• The Other Half of My Heart by Sundee T. Frazier
• My Basmati Bat Mitzvah by Paula J. Freedman (YA Fiction)
• How My Parents Learned to Eat by Ina R. Friedman
• Mixed: Portraits of Multiracial Kids by Kip Fulbeck
• Mixed Like Me by Gina Golliday-Cabell
• All the Colors of the Earth by Sheila Hamanaka
• Bluish by Virginia Hamilton (YA fiction)
• Sofie’s Role by Amy Heath
• The Toothless Tooth Fairy by Shanelle Hicks
• What A Family by Rachel Isadora
• The Hello, Goodbye Window by Norton Juster
• Gadget Girl by Suzanne Kamata (YA)
• little blue and little yellow by Leo Lionni
• Nina Bonita by Ana Maria Machado
• You Be Me, I’ll Be You by Pili Mandelbaum
• Molly Bannaky by Alice McGill
• Hope by Isabell Monk
• My Mom is a Foreigner but Not to Me by Julianne Moore
• Dream Dancer by Jill Newsome
• Mommy, Why’s Your Skin So Brown by Maria Leonard Olsen (buy)
• Shades of Black by Sandra L. Pinkney
• The Adventures of Harmony by Edward Rea
• Becoming Naomi Leon by Pam Munoz Ryan (YA fiction)
• The Favorite Daughter by Allen Say (buy)
• For My Family, Love, Allie by Ellen B. Senisi
• A Wild Cowboy by Dana Kessimalis Smith
• The Wakame Gatherers by Holly Thompson (buy)
• Happy Birthday, Lulu by Caroline Uff
• Perfect Lil Blends: A Reality Book That Celebrates the Diversity of Multicultural Children by Luke Whitehead (buy on MixedNation.com) (buy on Amazon.com)
• The Rabbits’ Wedding by Garth Williams
• More More More Said The Baby by Vera B. Williams
• Jalapeno Bagels by Natasha Wing
• Cinnamon Baby by Nicola Winstanley
• Buzz by Janet S. Wong

TV/Movies

TV Movie: A Country Christmas Story with Dolly Parton
Care Bears: Ups and Downs

Other Valuable Lists of Children’s Diversity Books

Multiracial Asian Families’ book list