"She said, 'Mommy why don't they show brown people in movies and books?'" A 7-year-old girl is determined to get multicultural crayons and books featuring diverse characters into California classrooms ...

Cynthia Shambry is the owner of Elda Reads, a child development program that promotes diversity by providing exposure to multicultural books and services. Elda Reads has a collection of books by Black ...

The books at MiJa Books stand on the shelves with the front covers facing out. Dozens of characters peer out as you walk by: An Aztec princess, a young Basquiat, a smiling Popo hugging her grandson, a ...

Commemorating its 10-year anniversary early next year, nonprofit literacy organization Multicultural Children's Book Day will be opening submissions to donate free children’s books starting September ...

Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2026 highlights the importance of inclusive storytelling and the role diverse books play in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Growing up in Texas, Eva Longoria and her sisters loved reading and thought the local library was “the funnest place in the world, ...

When Katrina Kerstetter left the United States in 2003 to teach English in South Korea, she told herself she would come back a year later. But life had other plans and the initial year-long endeavor ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — All Syracuse City School District elementary schools received a new multicultural library that includes at least 30 books. Each book shares stories of people from different ...

Are you looking for a read that features a main character that looks like your kid? It can be tough to find multicultural children’s books that feature characters of color that don’t completely ...

Three Alief ISD elementary schools have received a Little Yellow Library, a custom-designed bookshelf that provides 200 multicultural and bilingual books. The books come from a partnership between ...

Multicultural Books Las Vegas has a variety of different book genres to offer to patrons. On Nov. 5, the first Black-owned bookstore in over an entire decade opened up in Sin City. Tamara Shiloh ...

This hidden library connects people to multicultural picture books 📚 The new Koru Multicultural and Diverse Library started in South Korea and recently opened its second branch in Tucson Elvia ...