Finding Books on Global Awareness
Multicultural children's books can often act as books that help to build global awareness.
"...Global awareness is a conceptual understanding of global and cultural perspectives with social, political, economic, cultural and environmental components. Global awareness is key to the understanding of commonalities and differences among people." [Source]
To discover books that help students build global awareness:
1. Start with a keyword search using terms like:
- "multicultural"
- "Cross-cultural"
- "Manners and customs"
- "Customs and Practices"
- multiculturalism
- religion
- multicultural education
- food habits
- festivals/celebrations
2. You can also isolate a specific aspect of a culture that you would like to explore, or you can search more broadly with a keyword search for a country, ethnicity, or geographic region (keyword search for Japan or Japanese, Vietnam/Vietnamese for example).
Always remember to limit your search to the TMC
Watch this video to find out how
3. If you find a book that you like, look at the subject headings that are used in the catalog and click on them for more books within that subject.
Examples of Global Awareness Children's Books
Home for Grace
TMC Easy WHI
The Artivist
TMC Easy SMI
TMC Easy BON
What to Bring
TMC Easy SCH
Luli and the Language of Tea
TMC Easy WAN
Food for Hope
TMC 362.5 GOT
Our Favorite Day of the Year
TMC Easy ALI
Black Beach
TMC 363.7 STI
I Like, I Don't Like
TMC Easy BAC
Dreamers
TMC 921 MOR
The Day War Came
TMC Easy DAV
The One with the Scraggly Beard
TMC Easy WIT
Rocket Says Clean Up!
TMC Easy BRY
We Are Better Together
TMC Easy MCK
Lubna and Pebble
TMC Easy MEd
An Invitation to Passover
TMC Easy OLI
A Garden in My Hands
TMC Easy SRI
Spicy Spicy Hot
TMC Easy WEN
Forever our home = kâkikê kîkinaw
TMC Easy SIM
Food for the Future
TMC 338.1 WEN
Grandmother School
TMC Easy SIN
May Your Life be Deliciosa
TMC Easy GEN
We Are Water Protectors
TMC Easy LIN
Like the Moon Loves the Sky
TMC Easy KHA
The Water Lady
TMC Easy MCG
Berry Song
TMC Easy GOA
Diwali in My New Home
TMC Easy KAU
Bindu's Bindis
TMC Easy KEL
Drawn Together
TMC Easy Le
Nana, Nenek & Nina
TMC Easy FER
Our World Out of Balance
TMC 363.738 MIN
Eyes that Speak to the Stars
TMC Easy HO
Where Three Oceans Meet
TMC Easy LAR
Hats of Faith
323.44 COH
Amira's Picture Day
TMC Easy FAR
Powwow Day
TMC Fiction SOR
On This Airplane
TMC Easy HEU
A Sari for Ammi
TMC Easy NAI
Sumo Joe
TMC Easy WEN
A Hundred Thousand Welcomes
TMC Easy DON
Goodnight Racism
TMC Easy KEN
Hot Pot Night
TMC Easy CHE
Love Is Powerful
TMC Easy BRE
That Flag
TMC Easy BRO
Yusra Swims
TMC 921 MAR
Night on the Sand
TMC Easy MAY
Water Day
TMC Easy ENG
The Last Straw : kids vs. plastics
TMC 363.72 HOO
The night before Eid : a Muslim family story
TMC Easy KHA
My Two Border Towns
TMC Easy BOW
Kimchi Kimchi Every Day
TMC Easy KIM
This Is How We Do It
TMC 305.23 LAM
Kalamata's Kitchen
TMC Easy THO
In My Mosque
TMC Easy YUK
All of Us
TMC Easy ERK
We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga
TMC 970.3 CHE
Indigo Dreaming
TMC Easy JOH
Seven Special Somethings : a Nowruz Story
TMC Easy KHO
It's Diwali!
TMC 394.264 SEH
Grandpa Grumps
TMC Easy MOO
The Proudest Blue
TMC Easy MUH
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
TMC 921 KAM
Malala: Activist for Girls' Education
TMC 921 YOU
Examples of Global Awareness Young Adult Books
We Are Displaced
TMC 362.87 YOU
Black Boy Joy
TMC 808.3 BLA
Finding Home
TMC 304.8 LEE
The Story of More (Adapted for Young Adults)
TMC 363.738 JAH
Better Than We Found It
TMC 320 JOS
Unequal : a story of America
TMC 323.1196 DYS
Stamped: For Kids
TMC 305.8009 CHE
Other Words for Home
TMC Fiction WAR
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Boy
TMC 305.8 ACH
When the World Runs Dry
TMC 363.739 CAS
Mill Town : reckoning with what remains
TMC 974.1 ARS
Better Than We Found It
TMC 320 JOS
Dear America : the story of an undocumented citizen
TMC 304.8 VAR
Hungry Hearts : 13 tales of food & love
TMC 808.3 HUN
While I Was Away
TMC 305.895 BRO
Trashing the Planet : examining our global garbage glut
TMC 363.72 KAL
Poisoned water
TMC 615.9 COO
Girl rising : Changing the World One Girl at a Time
TMC 371.822 STO
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
TMC 921 KAM
Daring to Drive : a Saudi woman's awakening
TMC 305.42 SHA
Halal if you hear me
TMC 811.008 HAL
Plasticus Maritimus : an invasive species
TMC 363.738 PEG
