Free ebook titles for children - "At Unite for Literacy, we picture a world where all children have access to an abundance of books that celebrate their languages and cultures and cultivate a lifelong love of reading."
Ebooks Minnesota is an online ebook collection for all Minnesotans. The collection covers a wide variety of subjects for readers of all ages, and features content from our state's independent publishers, including some of our best literature and nonfiction.
Free ebook collection for current classroom educators - "Epic is the leading digital reading platform—built on a collection of 40,000+ popular, high-quality books from 250+ of the world’s best publishers—that safely fuels curiosity and reading confidence for kids 12 and under."
Browse favorite picture book titles by age level, birth-Kindergarten. For Grades 1-6 books, visit here: https://www.hclib.org/browse/books/books-children
Books for Teens, visit here: https://www.hclib.org/browse/books/books-teen
From film kits and lesson plans to the building blocks of a customized Learning Plan—texts, student tasks and teaching strategies—our resources will help you bring relevance, rigor and social emotional learning into your classroom—all for FREE.
The Minnesota Humanities Center is excited to offer resources that have been developed and created in partnership with community organizations from across the state. These resources have been carefully curated to help educators increase classroom engagement through the amplification of absent narratives.
Browse birth-Kindergarten level picture book titles by genre and most recently published; ebook and hard-copies available across various Saint Paul Public Library branches.
"CCBC booklists feature CCBC-recommended books organized around a variety of themes and topics. Many of the lists feature books for readers across a range of ages and will be found in more than one of the categories below."
We Need Diverse Books™ is a 501(c)(3) non-profit and a grassroots organization of children’s book lovers that advocates essential changes in the publishing industry. Our aim is to help produce and promote literature that reflects and honors the lives of all young people.
Find a list of newly added, recently published multicultural children's book titles you may browse and check out from the Library's Curriculum Collection on the 2nd floor of the Library.
Apply search filters by Diversity Subject and Publication Year to do an initial search to gather relevant children's literature titles. Then, from your list, you try to locate copies by conducting title searches through Metro State Library's OneSearch tool or those the online catalogs of your local public library such as St. Paul Public Library, Hennepin County Libraries, etc.
This resource document has been created as a starting point for educators to incorporate American Indian literature, with a focus on Anishinaabe and Dakota, into their classes. (Minnesota Department of Education)
Select Books and Reference Sources on Multicultural Children's Literature
The Historical Childrens' Literature database chronicles by example the history of educational practice and reading, and the changing perceptions of gender, race and class and the role of religion in teaching. Both European and American books from the 18th to the 20th c. are represented in this collection
The ICDL Foundation promotes tolerance and respect for diverse cultures by providing access to the best of children's literature from around the world.
Library OneSearch: Find Books
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Diversity in Youth Literature by 
Multicultural and Ethnic Children's Literature in the United States by