Books For Children
1000 Black Girl Books: A Resource Guide
Carnegie Library Booklist: The titles here explore and celebrate the lives and history of African Americans.
Association for Library Service to Children (ASLC)
Tough Topics Booklists
Read or read to your child about different cultures: Use a Bingo Sheet like this one to expand your child’s worldview and read about other cultures and perspectives
Booklists with Links to the Library Catalog, Overdrive & Hoopla
- Race Relations, Justice, & Activism ages 0-12: booklist
- Race, Justice, & Activism for tweens & teens booklist
Resources for Parents and Teachers
- What do we tell our Children? (USA Today)
- Improving Mental Health for Children & Families in Massachusetts (Parent Professional Advocacy League)
- How Parents Can use Media to Raise Anti-Racist Kids.. (Common Sense Media)
- How to Talk to Your White Children About George Floyd (Ramshackle Glam)
- Our Trauma Shall Be Viral No More (Medium.com)
- George Floyd, Minneapolis Protests, Ahmaud Arbery, & Amy Cooper (Trevor Noah)
- How Do I Make Sure I’m Not Raising the Next Amy Cooper (CNN)
- Avoiding Racial Equity Detours (Ed Change)
- Bearing Witness: The Death of George Floyd (Facing History & Ourselves)
- Why We Can’t Afford Whitewashing Social-Emotional Learning (ASCD)
- Systemic Racism Explained video
- The Unequal Opportunity Race video
- Redesigning for an Anti-Racist Classroom Blog Series
- Anti-Racism for School & Youth: This guide is intended to be a resource for anti-racism education and learning. Resources had been compiled from school and public library staff from across the state.
PBS:Tools for Anti-Racist Teaching
In this four-part series, explore tools for anti-racist teaching and consider the ways in which we can use media and media literacy to deepen our understanding of systemic racism.
Series
When Bad Things Happen
For Children
For Parents & Teachers
- Contentious Elections & the Peaceful Transition of Power
- Lessons & resources including Constitutional mechanisms; exploring previous presidential races
- Fact or Fiction
- Help students sort through misinformation using a lesson from PBS
- Hidden History
- A history of a North Carolina Coup
War in Ukraine
- Explaining War to Kids as Russia Invades Ukraine
- Choices Program – Brown University – The Ukraine Crisis
- For Teachers – Teaching About Ukraine
- Talking and Teaching about the refugee crisis in Ukraine
- Talking to Children about Ukraine – segment from Good Morning America
- How to Talk to Children about Russian Invasion of Ukraine – Article from Associated Press
Help kids navigate our sometimes-violent world.- When Bad things Happen
- When bad things are Happening
- Difficult Dialogues
- Restorative Community Partnerships Guide
- How to Talk to Kids about difficult subjects
- Explaining the News to our Kids
- Responding to a Crisis: Resources for Schools and Families
- 7 ways to calm a young brain in trauma
- 12 things equity-focused teachers can say
Other Resources for Teachers
- Days after the attack on the capitol
- Teaching in the wake of violence
- Supporting students with trauma
Diversity Books Read Aloud on You Tube.
- The Colors of Me by Brynne Barnes and Annika M. Nelson
- The Skin you Live In by Michael Tyler
- Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Pena and Christian Robinson
- My Name is Yoon by Helen Recorvits and Gabi Swiatkowska
- One Family by George Shannon and Blanca Gomez
- Children Around the World by Donata Montanari
Inclusion in the list may not be interpreted as the library’s endorsement.