Recommended Picture Books
Featuring Interracial Families
Compiled by Kathleen T. Horning© 2006, 1996 Cooperative Children's Book Center
This listing of picture books featuring interracial families is updated periodically.
Click on underlined book titles to see the CCBC review of the book, and/or the cover image.
Adoff, Arnold. Black is Brown is Tan. Illustrated by Emily Arnold McCully. Amistad/HarperCollins, 2002. Ages 3 - 7
Adoff, Arnold. Hard to be Six. Illustrated by Cheryl Hanna. Lothrop, 1991. Ages 4 - 6
Bang, Molly. In My Heart. Little, Brown, 2006. 32 pages. Ages 1-4
Becker, Shari. Maxwell's Mountain. Illustrated by Nicole Wong. Charlesbridge, 2006. 32 pages. Ages 4-7
Benjamin, Floella . My Two Grannies. Illustrated by Margaret Chamberlain. Frances Lincoln, 2008. 24 pages. Ages 3-6
Bradman, Tony. Through My Window. Illustrated by Eileen Browne. U.S. edition: Silver Burdett, 1987.
Cheng, Andrea. Grandfather Counts. Illustrated by Ange Zhang. Lee & Low, 2000. Ages 4 - 8
Cisneros, Sandra. Hairs/Pelitos. Illustrated by Terry Ybånez. Knopf, 1994. Ages 3 - 7
Friedman, Ina R. . How My Parents Learned to Eat. Illustrated by Allen Say. Houghton Mifflin, 1984.
Garland, Sarah. Billy and Belle. U.S. edition: Viking, 1992. Ages 3 - 6
Graham, Bob. Oscar’s Half Birthday. Candlewick Press, 2005. 32 pages. Ages 3-6
Heath, Amy. Sofie's Role. Illustrated by Sheila Hamanaka. Four Winds Press, 1992. Ages 4 - 8
Hoffman, Mary. Nancy No-Size. Illustrated by Jennifer Northway. U.S. edition: Oxford, 1987. Ages 3 - 7
Igus, Toyomi. Two Mrs. Gibsons. Illustrated by Daryl Wells. Children's Book Press, 1996. Ages 3 - 7
Jonas, Ann. The Quilt. Greenwillow, 1984. Ages 3 - 6
Jukes, Mavis. You're a Bear. Illustrated by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher. Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. 32 pages. Ages 3-6
Juster, Norton. The Hello, Goodbye Window. Illustrated by Chris Raschka. Michael di Capua Books / Hyperion, 2005. 32 pages. Ages 3-7
Mills, Claudia. A Visit to Amy-Claire. Illustrated by Sheila Hamanaka. Macmillan, 1992. Ages 4 - 7
Spohn, David. Winter Wood. Lothrop, 1991.
Straight, Susan. Bear E. Bear. Illustrated by Marisabina Russo. Hyperion, 1995. Ages 3 - 5
Updike, John. A Child's Calendar. Illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman. New edition: Holiday House, 1999. Ages 5 - 11
Williams, Vera B.. More, More, More, Said the Baby: Three Love Stories. Greenwillow, 1990.
Wong, Janet S.. Buzz. Illustrated by Margaret Chodos-Irvine. Harcourt, 2000. Ages 2 - 4
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