Inclusive Books

Audit & Analyze Your Collection

• Conducting a Library Collection Audit

• Data Collection on Diversity in Picture Books

• A Guide to Thinking Critically about Books for your Classroom Library & Curriculum

• Diversity Auditing 101: How to Evaluate Your Collection

• Research reports & journal articles about diverse collections

• Research on Diversity in Youth Literature

• Diversity in Children's Books - Research

What messages about race do the books in your collection give?

• What races of people do you see most often?

• What races of people do you NOT see often in these books?

• How are different races shown in these picture books?

• What roles are certain races of people in most often in these picture books?

• What commonalities do you notice between the way different races are portrayed?

• What messages are all of these observations sending about race?

Activity for analyzing picturebooks.

Disrupt White Supremacy; Decolonize Your Library/Classroom

• Disrupt Texts

• What Does Your Protest Look Like? Protest with with Read Woke Movement Webinar by Cicely Lewis

• 10 Criteria for Choosing Diverse Texts for Your Classroom

• Diversifying Your Classroom Book Collections? Avoid these 7 Pitfalls