Resources For Educators

Multicultural Books
Teachers, tutors, parents, and other educators will find the following resources useful tools for implementing multicultural books into reading motivation programs.

Black Books Galore! Guide to Great African-American Children’s Books
Donna Rand, et al.
John Wiley & Sons, 1998

This book annotates 500 African American children’s books. The book features indexes organized by title, subject, and illustrator.

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Black Books Galore! Guide to Great African American Children’s Books About Girls
Donna Rand, et al.
John Wiley & Sons, 2000

Black Books Galore! Guide to Great African American Children’s Books About Boys
Donna Rand, et al.
John Wiley & Sons, 2000

The founders of Black Books Galore! share their advice on finding and choosing African-American children’s books for boys and girls. Board books, story and picture books, fiction, nonfiction, poetry, history, biographies, and fables are all included in these guides.

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Children’s Books from Other Countries
Carl M. Tomlinson, Editor
National Council for Teachers of English, 1998

This annotated bibliography contains hundreds of titles from 29 countries printed between 1950 and 1996.

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Connecting Cultures: A Guide to
Multicultural Literature for Children
Rebecca L. Thomas
R.R. Bowker, 1996

Rebecca Thomas provides information on more than 1,600 fiction, folk tales, poetry, and song books for children. The listings cover titles for children in preschool through sixth grade.

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Kaleidoscope: A Multicultural Booklist for Grades K-8, Second Edition, Covering Books Published from 1993-1995
Rosalinda B. Barrera, Verlinda D. Thompson, Mark Dressman, Editors,
National Council for Teachers of English, 1997

This list has annotations for almost 600 nonfiction and fiction literature for elementary and middle school students. The book focuses on African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos/Hispanic Americans, and Native Americans; however, chapters are organized by genre and theme to emphasize cultural diversities and similarities.

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The Multicultural Resource Series: Volume 1, Professional Development Guide for Educators
Gene-Tey Shin, Paul Gorski, and Martha Green, Editors
National Education Association, 1999

The first of two volumes in this series for educators is a guide to multicultural organizations, publications, videos, Web sites, and more.

The Multicultural Resource Series: Volume 2, Resources for a Multicultural Classroom
Martha Green, Joyce Blakley, Sybille Scott, Deborah Stuart, Gene-Tey Shin, and Paul Gorski, Editors,
National Education Association, 2000

This second volume in the Multicultural Resource Series contains "annotated print, film, video, and electronic resource lists to help you plan K-12 programs that tie the strengths of diversity and inclusion."

Teaching Reading with Multicultural Books Kids Love
Carol J. Fuhler,
Fulcrum, 2000

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