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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 48 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book We Are All Neighbours by Alexandra Penfold, illustrated by Suzanne Kaufman
    We Are All Neighbours - by Alexandra Penfold, illustrated by Suzanne Kaufman

    £6.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781526657985 | ISBN 10: 1526657988

    A bright and uplifting celebration of cultural diversity, belonging and community, from the creators of the New York Times bestselling picture book, All Are Welcome.  'A celebration of a school community... Really uplifting, with bright simple dr ... more

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  • Cover image of book I Am Brown by Ashok Banker, illustrated by Sandhya Prabhat
    I Am Brown - by Ashok Banker, illustrated by Sandhya Prabhat

    £7.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781913747886 | ISBN 10: 1913747883

    I am brown. I am beautiful. I am perfect. I designed this computer. I ran this race. I won this prize. I wrote this book. I am brown. I am amazing. I am you.   A joyful celebration of the skin you're in - of being brown, of being amazing, of bei ... more

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  • Cover image of book Eyes That Speak to the Stars by Joanna Ho, illustrated by Dung Ho
    Eyes That Speak to the Stars - by Joanna Ho, illustrated by Dung Ho

    £12.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780063057753 | ISBN 10: 0063057751

    New York Times bestselling team Joanna Ho and Dung Ho present Eyes That Speak to the Stars, companion to the acclaimed Eyes That Kiss in the Corners.  "A brilliant treatise to love of self and heritage." -School Library Journal (starred review)  ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Skin, Your Skin: Let
    My Skin, Your Skin: Let's Talk About Race, Racism and Empowerment - by Laura Henry-Allain MBE, illustrated by Onyinye Iwu

    £8.99   hardback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780241512739 | ISBN 10: 0241512735

    My Skin, Your Skin is a powerful book to help children and adults have meaningful discussions about race and anti-racism. Most importantly, the book empowers children to be the best versions of themselves; to have self-love, self-esteem and self-wort ... more

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  • Cover image of book First Questions and Answers: What is Racism? (Board book) by Katie Daynes and Jordan Akpojaro, illustrated by Sandhya Prabhat
    First Questions and Answers: What is Racism? (Board book) - by Katie Daynes and Jordan Akpojaro, illustrated by Sandhya Prabhat

    £9.99   hardback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781474995795 | ISBN 10: 1474995799

    Answering young children's questions about racism is hard. This book gives both children and adults the language and sensitivity they need to talk about the topic. It gently explains what racism is, how it happens, why it is NEVER acceptable and what ... more

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  • Cover image of book Find Out About: Standing Up to Racism: A lift-the-flap board book about standing together by Dr Pragya Agarwal, illustrated by Louise Forshaw
    Find Out About: Standing Up to Racism: A lift-the-flap board book about standing together - by Dr Pragya Agarwal, illustrated by Louise Forshaw

    £6.99   hardback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781526383297 | ISBN 10: 1526383292

    An introduction to standing up to racism for young children and their families, with flaps to lift.  It's never too early to teach children to be antiracist, and this lift-the-flap book is a great toolkit for young children and their famili ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sulwe by Lupita Nyong
    Sulwe - by Lupita Nyong'o

    £7.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780241394335 | ISBN 10: 0241394333

    From Academy Award-winning actress Lupita Nyong'o comes a powerful, moving picture book about colourism, self-esteem and learning that true beauty comes from within.  Sulwe's skin is the colour of midnight. She's darker than everyone in her famil ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hey You! An Empowering Celebration of Growing Up Black by Dapo Adeola
    Hey You! An Empowering Celebration of Growing Up Black - by Dapo Adeola

    £7.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780241521946 | ISBN 10: 0241521947

    This groundbreaking picture book is a lyrical, inspirational exploration of growing up Black, written by award-winning illustrator Dapo Adeola, and brought to life by some of the most exciting Black illustration talents working today.   Remember ... more

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  • Cover image of book Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi, illustrated by Ashley Lukashevsky
    Antiracist Baby - by Ibram X. Kendi, illustrated by Ashley Lukashevsky

    £7.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780241512388 | ISBN 10: 0241512387

    This is the #1 New York Times bestselling introduction to racism from award-winning author and academic, Ibram X. Kendi.   Take your first steps with Antiracist Baby! Or, rather, follow Antiracist Baby's nine easy steps for building a more equita ... more

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  • Cover image of book I Am Every Good Thing by Derrick Barnes and Gordon C James
    I Am Every Good Thing - by Derrick Barnes and Gordon C James

    £6.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780755502707 | ISBN 10: 0755502701

    Selected by Oprah Magazine as one of its ‘essential books for discussing racism with kids’.  I am a non-stop ball of energy. Powerful and full of light. I am a go-getter. A difference-maker. A leader.  Step inside the mind of the confid ... more

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  • Cover image of book All Because You Matter by Tami Charles, illustrated by Bryan Collier
    All Because You Matter - by Tami Charles, illustrated by Bryan Collier

    £17.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781338574852 | ISBN 10: 133857485x

    A lyrical, heart-lifting love letter to black and brown children everywhere.  Discover this poignant, timely and emotionally stirring picture book, an ode to black and brown children everywhere that is full of hope, assurance and love. Tami C ... more

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  • Cover image of book 500 Words: Black Lives Matter by Various authors
    500 Words: Black Lives Matter - by Various authors

    £6.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781787419605 | ISBN 10: 1787419606

    Almost 6,000 children, aged between 5-13, submitted stories expressing their personal experiences, tales of empathy, learning and respect, building on the international conversation around Black Lives Matter.  Originally devised by Chris Evans, ... more

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  • Cover image of book What is Race? Who are Racists? Why Does Skin Colour Matter? And Other Big Questions by Claire Heuchan and Nikesh Shukla
    What is Race? Who are Racists? Why Does Skin Colour Matter? And Other Big Questions - by Claire Heuchan and Nikesh Shukla

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781526303998 | ISBN 10: 152630399x

    An important and timely book on race and racism, encouraging children to think for themselves about the issues involved.  Talk about race is often discouraged, but this book aims to bring everyone into the conversation. It explores the history of r ... more

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  • Cover image of book We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices by Wade Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson (Editors)
    We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices - by Wade Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson (Editors)

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780525580454 | ISBN 10: 052558045x

    Fifty of the foremost diverse children's authors and illustrators--including Jason Reynolds, Jacqueline Woodson, and Kwame Alexander--share answers to the question, "In this divisive world, what shall we tell our children?" in this beautiful, full-co ... more

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  • Cover image of book Antiracist Baby (Board Book) by Ibram X. Kendi, illustrated by Ashley Lukashevsky
    Antiracist Baby (Board Book) - by Ibram X. Kendi, illustrated by Ashley Lukashevsky

    £6.99   hardback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780593110416 | ISBN 10: 0593110412

    From the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning and How to Be an Antiracist comes a fresh new board book that empowers parents and children to uproot racism in our society and in ourselves.   Take your first steps with An ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hands Up! by Breanna J McDaniel
    Hands Up! - by Breanna J McDaniel

    £12.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780525552314 | ISBN 10: 0525552316

    A young black girl lifts her baby hands up to greet the sun, reaches her hands up for a book on a high shelf, and raises her hands up in praise at a church service. She stretches her hands up high like a plane's wings and whizzes down a hill so fast ... more

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  • Cover image of book New Kid by Jerry Craft
    New Kid - by Jerry Craft

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780062691194 | ISBN 10: 0062691198

    Winner of the Newbery Medal, Coretta Scott King Author Award, and Kirkus Prize for Young Readers' Literature.   Perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier and Gene Luen Yang, New Kid is a timely, honest graphic novel about starting over at a new school ... more

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  • Cover image of book Questions and Feelings About: Racism by Anita Ganeri, illustrated by Ximena Jeria
    Questions and Feelings About: Racism - by Anita Ganeri, illustrated by Ximena Jeria

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781445164434 | ISBN 10: 1445164434

    Questions and Feelings About: Racism confronts the tough topic of racism in a gentle picture-book format. This is an informative picture book explaining what racism is and exploring the effects of racism. It aims to develop empathy and promote inclus ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dealing With Racism by Jane Lacey, illustrated by Venitia Dean
    Dealing With Racism - by Jane Lacey, illustrated by Venitia Dean

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781445157900 | ISBN 10: 144515790x

    This book helps young children find out about and understand racism. It features seven case studies from children who have a range of problems from a girl who is being left out because she is Muslim to the new boy in school from another country who i ... more

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  • Cover image of book How High The Moon by Karyn Parsons
    How High The Moon - by Karyn Parsons

    £6.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780241346891 | ISBN 10: 0241346894

    Boston was nothing like South Carolina. Up there, colored folks could go anywhere they wanted. Folks didn't wait for church to dress in their fancy clothes. Fancy was just life. Mama was a city girl... and now I was going to be one too.   It's 194 ... more

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  • Cover image of book All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold, illustrated by Suzanne Kaufman
    All Are Welcome - by Alexandra Penfold, illustrated by Suzanne Kaufman

    £6.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781526604071 | ISBN 10: 1526604078

    No matter how you start your day, What you wear when you play, Or if you come from far away, All are welcome here.   Follow a group of children through a day in their school, where everyone is welcome. A school where children in patkas, hijab ... more

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  • Cover image of book Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness by Anastasia Higginbotham
    Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness - by Anastasia Higginbotham

    £15.99   hardback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781948340007 | ISBN 10: 1948340003

    **A WHITE RAVEN 2019 SELECTION** NAMED ONE OF SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL'S BEST BOOKS OF 2018   Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness is a a picture book that invites white children and parents to become curious about racism, accept that it's real, an ... more

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  • Cover image of book Racism and Intolerance by Louise Spilsbury, illustrated by Hanane Kai
    Racism and Intolerance - by Louise Spilsbury, illustrated by Hanane Kai

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781526300539 | ISBN 10: 1526300532

    Sometimes we hear words in the news and it's hard to understand what they mean and how they affect us. Using beautiful artwork and clear explanations, Racism and Intolerance looks to answer our questions and reassure our concerns about these issues. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Colour of People by Mauricio Negro
    Colour of People - by Mauricio Negro

    £7.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781912417070 | ISBN 10: 1912417073

    People come in different colours. But no matter what they look like, people all eat when they’re hungry, shiver when they’re cold, smile when they’re happy.   Originally published in Brazil, this wordless picturebook takes a playful look ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Colors of Us by Karen Katz
    The Colors of Us - by Karen Katz

    £7.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780805071634 | ISBN 10: 0805071636

    A positive and affirming look at skin color, from an artist's perspective.   Seven-year-old Lena is going to paint a picture of herself. She wants to use brown paint for her skin. But when she and her mother take a walk through the neighborhoo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Passing for White by Tanya Landman
    Passing for White - by Tanya Landman

    £6.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781781126813 | ISBN 10: 178112681x

    It’s 1848 in the Deep South of America. Rosa is a slave but her owner is also her father and her fair skin means she can ‘pass for white’. With the help of Benjamin, her husband, she disguises herself as a young white man – and Benjamin’s m ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Land by Mildred D. Taylor
    The Land - by Mildred D. Taylor

    £6.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781101997567 | ISBN 10: 1101997567

    A stunning repackage of a companion to Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, with cover art by two-time Caldecott Honor Award winner Kadir Nelson!   The son of a prosperous landowner and a former slave, Paul-Edward Logan is unlik ... more

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  • Cover image of book No Turning Back by Beverley Naidoo
    No Turning Back - by Beverley Naidoo

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780141368900 | ISBN 10: 014136890x

    No Turning Back by Carnegie-medal winning author Beverley Naidoo is the powerful and moving story of Sipho and his struggle to survive on the city streets of Johannesburg in the 1990s. It is one of The Originals from Penguin - iconic, outspoken, firs ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Alien and Me by Smriti Prasadam-Halls, illustrated by Tom McLaughlin
    My Alien and Me - by Smriti Prasadam-Halls, illustrated by Tom McLaughlin

    £6.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780192736345 | ISBN 10: 0192736345

    Told from a little alien's perspective, this is a funny story that presents humans as the aliens!   A journey from hostility to friendship, the story contains lessons about how we look at strangers as 'aliens' and they look at us in the sam ... more

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  • Cover image of book Long Walk to Freedom: Illustrated Children by Nelson Mandela
    Long Walk to Freedom: Illustrated Children - by Nelson Mandela

    £7.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781447275541 | ISBN 10: 1447275543

    Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela is the amazing story of a true hero of our times. His famous biography has been specially adapted for children in a beautiful illustrated picture book format.  Discover how a little boy whose father called ... more

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  • Cover image of book Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuh
    Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation - by Duncan Tonatiuh

    £11.99   hardback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781419710544 | ISBN 10: 1419710540

    A 2015 Pura Belpre Illustrator Honor Book and a 2015 Robert F. Sibert Honor Book   Almost 10 years before Brown vs. Board of Education, Sylvia Mendez and her parents helped end school segregation in California.  An American citizen of Mexican ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece by Annabel Pitcher
    My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece - by Annabel Pitcher

    £7.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781780621869 | ISBN 10: 1780621868

    Narrated by ten year old Jamie, a stunning debut novel about the tragedy that tears apart his family after a terrorist attack, and how they rebuild their lives.  Ten-year-old Jamie Matthews has just moved to the Lake District with his Dad and his ... more

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  • Cover image of book Nelson Mandela by Kadir Nelson
    Nelson Mandela - by Kadir Nelson

    £6.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780062246363 | ISBN 10: 0062246364

    One day when Nelson Mandela was nine years old, his father died and he was sent from his village to a school far away from home, to another part of South Africa. In Johannesburg, the country's capital, Mandela saw fellow Africans who were poor and po ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Life of Stephen Lawrence by Verna Allette Wilkins
    The Life of Stephen Lawrence - by Verna Allette Wilkins

    £6.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781848531055 | ISBN 10: 1848531052

    Stephen Lawrence was a bright, athletic, young man with high hopes for the future. He lived in south-east London with his parents, younger brother and younger sister. On 22 April 1993, he was brutally murdered while he was waiting for the bus. He was ... more

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  • Cover image of book Something Else by Kathryn Cave and Chris Riddell
    Something Else - by Kathryn Cave and Chris Riddell

    £6.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780141338675 | ISBN 10: 0141338679

    A simple story, about a small creature who does his best to join in with the others. But he's different. No matter how he tries, he just doesn't belong.   Then Something turns up and wants to be friends. But Something Else isn't sure he ... more

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  • Cover image of book Out of Shadows by Jason Wallace
    Out of Shadows - by Jason Wallace

    £7.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781849390484 | ISBN 10: 1849390487

    If I stood you in front of a man, pressed a gun into your palm and told you to squeeze the trigger, would you do it?  'No, sir, no way!'  'What if I then told you we'd gone back in time and his name was Adolf Hitler? Would you do it then? ... more

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  • Cover image of book Journey to Jo
    Journey to Jo'burg - by Beverley Naidoo

    £6.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780007263509 | ISBN 10: 0007263503

    This is the story of love, commitment and the flowering of the human spirit against the background of South Africa's apartheid.  Frightened that their baby sister Dineo will die, thirteen-year-old Naledi and her younger brother Tiro run away from ... more

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  • Cover image of book Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman, illustrated by Caroline Binch
    Amazing Grace - by Mary Hoffman, illustrated by Caroline Binch

    £7.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781845077495 | ISBN 10: 1845077490

    Grace loves to act out stories. Sometimes she plays the leading part, sometimes she is 'a cast of thousands.'   When her school decides to perform Peter Pan, Grace is longing to play Peter, but her classmates say that Peter was a boy, and besides ... more

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  • Cover image of book Burn My Heart by Beverley Naidoo
    Burn My Heart - by Beverley Naidoo

    £6.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780141321240 | ISBN 10: 0141321245

    Mathew and Mugo.   Two boys living on the same Kenyan farm but they share an uneasy friendship. They live in a time when white and black means rich and poor - and a secret society, called the Mau Mau, want their land and freedom back. No-on ... more

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  • Cover image of book Shades of Black: A Celebration of Our Children by Sandra L Pinkney, with photographs by Myles C Pinkney
    Shades of Black: A Celebration of Our Children - by Sandra L Pinkney, with photographs by Myles C Pinkney

    £7.99   hardback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780439802512 | ISBN 10: 0439802512

    Using poetic language and stunning photographs, the Pinkneys create a remarkable affirmation of the beauty and diversity of African-American children in this board book edition of their bestselling picture book.  Full color. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Checkmate (Noughts and Crosses, Book 3) by Malorie Blackman
    Checkmate (Noughts and Crosses, Book 3) - by Malorie Blackman

    £7.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780552551946 | ISBN 10: 0552551945

    Can the future ever erase the past?   Rose has a Cross mother and a nought father in a society where the pale-skinned noughts are treated as inferiors and those with dual heritage face a life-long battle against deep-rooted prejudices. Sephy, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Knife Edge (Noughts and Crosses, Book 2) by Malorie Blackman
    Knife Edge (Noughts and Crosses, Book 2) - by Malorie Blackman

    £7.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780552548922 | ISBN 10: 0552548928

    Sephy is a Cross, one of the privileged in a society where the ruling Crosses treat the pale-skinned noughts as inferiors. But her baby daughter has a nought father...Jude is a Nought. Eaten up with bitterness, he blames Sephy for the terrible losses ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Whisperer by Nick Butterworth
    The Whisperer - by Nick Butterworth

    £6.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780007120185 | ISBN 10: 0007120184

    Two gangs of cats live in a scrap yard on the edge of a city. When they're not eating or sleeping, they're fighting, and that's just how The Whisperer likes it. He's a rat, and if he can keep the cats going after each other, the'll leave him and his ... more

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  • Cover image of book I Love My Hair! by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley, illustrated by E. B. Lewis
    I Love My Hair! - by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley, illustrated by E. B. Lewis

    £5.99   hardback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780316525589 | ISBN 10: 0316525588

    First published in hardcover in 1998, and then in paperback in 2001, I Love My Hair! has sold remarkably well, and proved that there was indeed a demand for African-American children's books. Now in board book to reach an even younger audience! Now b ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Sneetches and Other Stories by Dr. Seuss
    The Sneetches and Other Stories - by Dr. Seuss

    £5.99   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780007158508 | ISBN 10: 0007158505

    The Star-Bellied Sneetches have bellies with Stars, but the Plain-Bellied Sneetches have none upon thars!   Rivalries rocket when Sylvester McMonkey McBean steps in to prey on their prejudices, but in the end we realise that prejudice is ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Civil Rights Movement for Kids: A History with 21 Activities by Mary C. Turck
    The Civil Rights Movement for Kids: A History with 21 Activities - by Mary C. Turck

    £14.99   paperback   (2000) - ISBN 13: 9781556523700 | ISBN 10: 155652370x

    Surprisingly, kids were some of the key instigators in the Civil Rights Movement, for example, Barbara Johns, who held a rally in her elementary school gym that eventually led to the Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court school desegregation dec ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Same Old Story Every Year by Anne Fine
    The Same Old Story Every Year - by Anne Fine

    £4.99   paperback   (1999) - ISBN 13: 9780141302751 | ISBN 10: 0141302755

    "I have a surprise . . . this class is going to do the Christmas play!"   Maya longs to be in Mr Kelly's play! She can already see herself on the stage, waving her arms around and saying her words so loudly everyone at the back can hear. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bein
    Bein' With You This Way - by W Nikola-Lisa & Michael Bryant

    £8.99   paperback   (1994) - ISBN 13: 9781880000267 | ISBN 10: 1880000261

    A beautifully illustrated exuberant rap on the differences between us (straight hair, curly hair; brown eyes, blue eyes; light skin, dark skin, etc). American publication but sentiments applicable anywhere. ... more

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