This collection contains materials from the DIVerse Families bibliography organized by Picture Books format.
This collection contains materials from the DIVerse Families bibliography organized by format.
DIVerse Families is a comprehensive bibliography that demonstrates the growing diversity of families in the United States. This type of bibliography provides teachers, librarians, counselors, adoption agencies, children/young adults, and especially parents and grandparents needing to empower their children with materials that reflect their families.
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The Little Green Goose
Adele Sansone and J. Alison James
Mr. Goose finds an abandoned egg, hatches it, and raises a peculiar green-skinned long-tailed chick, who worries about his identity but comes to recognize that he has a loving parent.
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The Little Lame Prince
Rosemary Wells
Cruel Osvaldo rules El Cordoba - keeping the people poor and unhappy. The true heir to the throne, Francisco, has been banished to a tower. Orphaned and crippled when he was very young, Francisco grows up unaware that he should be king. But one day he discovers his true idenity.
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The Lost Treasures for the Orphans
Carol Blazer
This adventure is about Mason, his two dads & his grandma. The story begins with a young boy realizing how much he has. Through a reporter, the family learns about a local orphanage. These children neither have parents, grandparents, toys, or clothing of their own. Mason has an idea! He wants to share what he has with the orphans. Through this experience he learns the gift of giving.
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The Lunch Thief
Anne C. Bromley
Rafael is angry that a new student is stealing lunches, but he takes time to learn what the real problem is before acting.
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The Memory Coat
Elvira Woodruff
In the early 1900s, two cousins leave their Russian shtetl with the rest of their family to come to America, hopeful that they will all pass the dreaded inspection at Ellis Island.
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The Mirror in Mommy's House / The Mirror in Daddy's House
Luis Amavisca, Kim Griffin, and Ben Dawlatly
The child of divorced parents describes the enjoyable things to be found in each parent's house and how both houses share a magical mirror.
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The Mitten String
Jennifer Rosner
Ruthie Tober's family is known for the beautiful, warm mittens they knit so when she and her mother meet a deaf woman and her baby and give them shelter, Ruthie decides to design very special mittens for them.
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The Mulberry Bird: An Adoption Story
Anne Braff Brodzinsky
Although she loves her baby very much, a young mother bird gives him up for adoption because she is unable to give him the home which he needs.
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The New Goldilocks and the Three Bears: Mama Bear, Mommy Bear, and Baby Bear
Beth McMurray
The new Goldilocks and the Three Bears helps celebrate the diversity of loving families. This version follows Mama Bear, Mommy Bear, and Baby Bear as they encounter the timeless character of Goldilocks.
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The Newspaper Pirates
J. Wallace Skelton
When Anthony Bartholomew hears his dads grumble that Newspaper Pirates must be stealing their paper, he decides to solve the problem himself. Watching carefully, hunting for clues and laying traps, Anthony Bartholomew keeps at it until the mystery is solved and the newspaper secured.
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The Night Dad Went to Jail: What to Expect When Someone You Love Goes to Jail
Melissa Higgins
When someone you love goes to jail, you might feel lost, scared, and even mad. What do you do? No matter who your loved one is, this story can help you through the tough times.
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The Not-So-Only Child
Heather Jopling
Larissa is an only child, but she is not alone! See how big this only child's family is! This book shows that an only child can still have a very full family with different lifestyles and ethnicities represented in her world.
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The Only Boy in Ballet Class
Denise Gruska
Tucker Dohr loves ballet but is constantly teased by football players his age for being a sissy. However, they see him in a whole new light when circumstances place him in a position to help them win the football championship.
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The Other Side
Jacqueline Woodson
Two girls, one white and one black, gradually get to know each other as they sit on the fence that divides their town.
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The Pea That was Me: An Egg Donation Story
Kimberly Kluger-Bell
Explains egg donation through pictures and simple words.
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The People of Twelve Thousand Winters
Trinka Hakes Noble
Ten-year-old Walking Turtle, of the Lenni-Lenape tribe, is close to his younger cousin, Little Talk, who has difficulty walking and worries about what will become of him when the time comes for Walking Turtle to leave his childhood friends to begin training at warrior school.
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The Pirate of Kindergarden
Georgle Ella Lyon
Ginny's eyes play tricks on her, making her see everything double, but when she goes to vision screening at school and discovers that not everyone sees this way, she learns that her double vision can be cured.
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The Prince S.
Mikayla Spence
He dreamed of being a princess. He went out and did his best to reach his goal. Meet Prince S.
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The Princess and the Pony
Kate Beaton
Princess Pinecone would like a real war horse for her birthday, instead of which she gets a plump, cute pony--but sometimes cuteness can be a kind of weapon, especially in a fight with dodgeballs and spitballs and hairballs and squareballs.
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The Prince Who Was Just Himself
Silke Schnee
Lacking the athletic and reading skills of his older brothers, Prince Noah uses love and compassion to save the kingdom from the Black Knight.
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The Purim Superhero
Elisabeth Kushner
Nate wants to dress as an alien for Purim but his friend wants him to wear a superhero costume like the other boys, so Nate seeks guidance from his Daddy and Abba, who advise that being yourself makes you stronger.
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The Quiet Place
Sarah Stewart
When Isabel and her family move to the United States, Isabel misses all the things she left behind in Mexico, especially her aunt Lupita and hearing people speak Spanish. But she also experiences some wonderful new things -- her first snow storm and a teacher who does not speak Spanish but has a big smile. Even better, Papa and her brother Chavo help her turn a big box into her own quiet place, where she keeps her books and toys and writes letters to Aunt Lupita. As she decorates and adds more and more on to her quiet place, it is here that Isabel feels the most at home in her new country while she learns to adjust to the changes in her life.
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The Rainbow Cubby House
Brenna Harding and Vicki Harding
A girl, her two moms, her friend Jed and his two dads build a cubby house in the backyard.
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The Red Blanket
Eliza Thomas
Tells the story of a single woman who goes to China to adopt a baby. Based on the author's life.
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The Red Thread: An Adoption Fairy Tale
Grace Lin
A sad king and queen find joy and happiness after a mysterious red thread leads them to a baby waiting to be adopted.