Resources for Librarians

A resource for compiling and exchanging information related to Alaska Native knowledge systems and ways of knowing. There are activities, newsletters, teacher guides, etc.   

The children's book award was created as a way to identify and honor the very best writing and illustrations by and about American Indians. Awards given for picture book, middle school and young adult.

Children’s Book Press is a nonprofit independent publisher that promotes cooperation and understanding through multicultural and bilingual literature, offering children a sense of their culture, history and importance. 

In 2004, the Alaska Native Policy Center at First Alaskans Institute developed a research project to identify Pre-K through 3rd Grade literacy programs operating throughout Alaska.

The Alaska Native Knowledge Network houses and maintains this website which offers critical evaluations of books that portray Alaska Natives and other indigenous peoples.

Publisher and reviewer of books about Native Americans, particularly those aimed at schoolchildren. Oyate publishs Broken Flute, an excellent resource that evaluates children's and young adult books. There are also other resources on evaluating books, books to avoid and FAQ's.

An independent publisher of textbooks, children's picture books, reference books, and electronic media in Navajo and English.

Alaska State Library provides a great resource of books with annotations.

Informative site created by AILA member Elaine Cubbins.

National nonprofit trade association for children’s trade book publishers. Publishes a number of reading lists such Hot Off the Press, featuring forthcoming or recently published anticipated bestsellers, and with the International Reading Association, Children's Choice, a bibliography of the year's best books, selected by school children across the U.S.

Nonprofit association dedicated to promoting literacy worldwide. Includes a robust Resources section featuring links to lessons plans and booklists.

This wiki is meant for childcare workers, librarians, teachers and parents interested in reading and sharing picture books where people of color are featured prominently. This is not intended to be a comprehensive list of all people of color books. Rather, emphasis is placed on finding stories especially appropriate to share with groups of children, five years of age and younger, where people of color characters are shown in contemporary settings.

"Largest oral history project of its kind" that provides everyday Americans the opportunity to record, share, and preserve their stories. Since 2003, over 50,000 Americans have interviewed their friends and family through StoryCorps.

A gateway site to the digital collections of the Library of Congress, the National Archives, and other cultural institutions, featuring images, audio clips, videos, and more. 

This site offers a glimpse at properties listed in the National Register and National Park units focusing important aspects of the Asian and Pacific American experience in America.

Fantastic website by best-selling author Cynthia Leitech Smith, featuring bibliographies of selected books on Japanese Americans, Chinese Americans, Korean Americas, as well as multicultural, multiracial, and interracial themes.

A nonprofit organization with a mission to promote book publishing in Hawaii. Its members include major local publishers and distributors. 

Non-profit organization that organizes the Asian Festival of Children's Content (http://www.bookcouncil.sg/_publishing/publishing_about.php), which brings together writers, illustrators, publishers, librarians, and other industry players, and showcases and encourages the development of children's books and media with Asian content in all formats.  Features the Asian Children’s Writers and Illustrators Conference (ACWIC) as part of the festival.

Independent publisher of Asian American children's literature.

Age-appropriate books on the internment of Japanese Americans.

Active small-press publishers or producers of multicultural materials owned and operated by people of color. 

Fiction, nonfiction, folk tales, and reviews by SAWNET (South Asian Women's NETwork) members.