Multicultural Books

The books below depict cultural differences. The English Language learners will feel appreciated by understanding that it is okay to be different.


What a Wonderful World, by Ashley Bryan

This book illustrates the beauty of the world and its natural features such as trees,
beach, land, mountains etc.

Abuela, by Arthur Dorros.

The story depict Abuela and her grandmother flying through out New York City. The words both reads in English and Spanish throughout it’s content. This book will help the ELL child to

I Am An American, by Charles R. Smith Jr.

The books shows different children who were born in America, but their cultural roots is from another culture, such as Chinese, African, Jamaican, Hispanic, Haitians, Asians etc. The book illustrates that even though we are of different cultural background we are all Americans.

All Kinds of Children, by Norman Simon.
The content of the book help children to understand that they all have the same basic needs even though they have cultural differences. It shows that all children within our community and around the world sleep, play, go to school and have families even though they are different.

The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle. Copyright secured 1977.

This books illustrates the Grouchy Ladybug who did not say please or thank you. He would not share, it thought it was bigger and more important than anyone else and he was always ready to pick a fight. This book will teach children how be nice to each other and the fact that we all needs friends.


Hands are Not for Hitting, by Martine Agrassi.

The first page of the books illustrates the hands of children from different culture. The words above the hands reads, Como estas, hello, etc. The pages that follow shows the different ways we can use our hands positively versus negatively. For instance, we don’t use our hands to grab toys or hit our friends. We use them to fix puzzle, write, and eat our food.


My Nose Your Nose by Melanie Walse.
On each page the book compares the difference between two children, for example. “ Agnes has blue eyes and Kits eyes are brown eyes but they both close their eyes when they go to sleep at night”.

The Family Book, by Todd Parr.

The book illustrate the different types of families and show even though each family may have different skin color and may speak a different language, they all have similar needs such as food, and a place to live. It also shows that it is ok to have a single parent family versus a family with both parents.


It’s Okay to be Different,by Todd Parr .

The illustration and content of this book shows children who are different in many ways such as, a child in a wheel chair, some children have big nose and some have small nose and some children are tall, while others are short.