I'm looking for suggestions for children's books for my son that are.. basically just not incredibly white-centric. We do have lots of books to start his library (the family really came through), lots of classics and such. Beatrix Potter and the Merry Meadows and Dr Seuss and Eric Carle and so on.
But I'd like for him to get a wider view of the world early on – I don't need him growing up like I did, in an extremely white community and having no experience of other cultures in any way.
What are some good classics or other kids books we could pick up for him? He's only five months so literally any age range is good, whatever is too old for him now we will just save for later.
We're Canadian so I'm definitely looking for suggestions on Indigenous reading, but ideally we would like to have a wide variety of cultures for him to see – but in the same fun way as all his other books, and not necessarily "educational" if that makes sense?
by glowingmember
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i grew up in a pretty white bubble too, and my 8th grade english teacher had us read “esperanza rising” and i still think about that book today. the characters and mexican setting were so vivid.