Sharing a couple of classic book corner favourites.
The Centre for Literacy in Primary Education has a great intersectional range of book lists.
More book lists that address representation and diversity can be found in the Anti-Racist School Setting Document. Full titles for our book corner classics can be viewed below.
A is For Activist
By Innosanto Nagara
Miles and Mia A to Z
by Mikaela Alexander and Illustrated by Sarah Crocker
9780993553905
Halala Means Welcome! A Book of Zulu Words
by Ken Wilson Max
1856022560
The HELLO Atlas
By Ben Handicott and illustrated by Kenard Pak
9781847808493
Akissi
By Marguerite Aboute and Matthieu Sapin
9781909263017
My Kicks- A Sneaker Story
By Susan Verde and Katie Kath
Maybe It’s A Tiger
By Kathleen Hersom and illustrated by Niki Daly
0333351665
Freddy and the Fairy
By Julia Donaldson and Katie George
Shahnameh The Persian Book of Kings
Retold by Elizabeth Laird and illustrated by Shirin Adl
Pass It On African American Poetry for children
Selected by Wade Hudson and illustrated by Floyd Cooper
The Missing Money Monsters
By Okeoma Moronu Schreiner and illustrated by Sandhya Prabhat.
Grandfather and I
By Helen E Buckley and Jan Ormerod
Grace and Family Sequel to Amazing Grace
By Mary Hoffman and Caroline Binch
This Is Our House
By Michael Rosen and Bob Graham
Gregory Cool
By Caroline Binch
Being With You This Way
By W Nikola-Lisa and illustrated by Michael Bryant
Night On Neighbourhood Street
By Eloise Greenfield and Jan Spivey Gilchrist.
One Smiling Grandma
By Anne Marie Linden and Lynne Russel
We’re Going On A Lion Hunt
David Axtell
Jamaica Tag Along
By Juanita Havel and illustrated by Anne Sisley
Hair, It’s A Family Affair
By Milo Freeman
So Much
By Trish Cooke and Helen Oxenbury
Look Up
By Nathan Bryon and illustrated by Dapo Adeola
At The Crossroads
By Rachel Isadora
Eve’s New Brother
By Sheju Adiyatiparambil-John and Judy Skidmore and illustrated by Anastasia Epishina
Noughts and Crosses (series)
By Malorie Blackman
Cloud Busting
By Malorie Blackman
The Last Last Day of Summer
By Lamar Giles and illustrated by Dapo Adeola
Sweet Pizza
By GR Gemin
Orange Boy
By Patrice Lawrence
Boy In The Tower
By Polly Ho-Yen
Oranges In No Man’s Land
By Elizabeth Laird
Refuge
By Anne Booth and Sam Usher
Not So Fast Songololo
By Niki Daly
Jambo Means Hello
A Swahili Alphabet Book
Passage To Freedom The Sugihara Story
By Ken Mochizuki
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