Research Guides: Children's Literature: Race/Ethnicity

Africana

Coretta Scott King Awards
Given annually to outstanding African American authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults that demonstrate an appreciation of African American culture and universal human values.
Children’s Africana Book Awards
AFRICA -authors and illustrators of the best children’s and young adult books on Africa
#1000 Black Girl Books
Internet Archive collection of books with black girls as the main characters.

The Stuff of Stars

Standing in the Need of Prayer

A Few Red Drops

Trombone Shorty

The Snowy Day

The Old African

Seeds of Change

Talkin' about Bessie

Black Hands, White Sails

Bird

Something Beautiful

Asian

A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian Subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature
ASIAN/PACIFIC AMERICAN - The Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature is to honor and recognize individual work about Asian/Pacific Americans and their heritage, based on literary and artistic merit.
South Asia Book Award
SOUTH ASIA Up to three outstanding works of literature, from picture books to young adult novels, which accurately and skillfully portray the experience of individuals living in South Asia, or of South Asians living in other parts of the world.
Freeman Book Award
EAST AND SOUTHEAST ASIAN titles for Children and Young Adults

The Truth about Dragons

From the Tops of the Trees

Maizy Chen's Last Chance

Queen of Physics

Blackbird Fly

Heart of a Samurai

Wabi Sabi

Festival of Colors

The Thing about Luck

The Shark King

Tasty Baby Belly Buttons

Latine or Hispanic

A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race.

Pura Belpré Award
LATINX Presented annually to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth
Tomás Rivera Book Award
MEXICAN AMERICAN To honor authors and illustrators who create literature that depicts the Mexican American experience
Américas Book Award
LATINX Quality children's and young adult books that portray Latin America, the Caribbean, or Latinos in the United States

Mexikid

The Coquíes Still Sing

Soldier for Equality

Dreamers

The Poet X

Winner 2019

Niño

Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote

Enchanted Air

Say Hola to Spanish, Otra Vez (Again!)

Martin de Porres

Tomas and the Library Lady

Middle Eastern

Middle East Book Award
MIDDLE EAST -Recognizes quality books for children and young adults that contribute meaningfully to an understanding of the Middle East and its component societies and cultures.

Only This Beautiful Moment

The Turtle of Oman

The Librarian of Basra

Golem

The Stars in My Geddoh's Sky

One City, Two Brothers

Four Feet, Two Sandals

Native American

A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America) who maintains cultural identification through tribal affiliation or community attachment.