A (Baker’s) Dozen of Great Multicultural Blogs

By Mitali Perkins, Guest Columnist

Looking to add ethnic and cultural diversity to your kids’ book choices? Here are thirteen great blogs that review and feature multicultural books:

• A Wrung Sponge

• American Indians in Children's Literature

• Brown Bookshelf

• Brown Paper

• Color Online

• Crazy Quilts

• Happy Nappy Bookseller

• Lee and Low

• PaperTigers

• Reading in Color

• Shen's Books

• Smithsonian's Book Dragon

• World of Words Currents

You may also browse the sidebar of blogs on my Fire Escape.

Mitali Perkins (www.mitaliperkins.com) lives and writes in Newton. Her newest book for middle-schoolers, Bamboo People (Charlesbridge), received starred reviews from School Library Journal and Publishers Weekly.