5/13/2023 0 Comments Lovely by Jess Hong![]() ![]() ![]() (If I have left your favourite off the list, please do comment below and share it with us all!). ![]() Here are my personal favourite children’s books that celebrate diversity. Not only can these messages help children value the people around them, they also send a strong signal about their own personal value as uniquely different individuals, helping to build self-esteem and confidence as well as friendship and emotional skills. This has huge advantages in terms of being able to organise information efficiently in their brains but it can throw up some very direct questions (“ What’s wrong with that boy’s hand?“) and some incorrect assumptions (“ Amrita’s skin is brown because her mummy stayed out in the sun too long.“) while they try to work through it all.Ĭhildren’s books that celebrate diversity in an active and warm way are hugely helpful for talking to children about diversity issues and for promoting an inclusive mindset. To do that, they use a lot of categorical thinking in which they allocate people or things into groups. Young children have to make sense of the world in a very short space of time. Children’s books that celebrate diversityĭifferences really matter to children. ![]()
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