#DiverseKidLit: Neurodiversity In Kid Lit

Welcome to #DiverseKidLit ! Please join us in sharing your diverse children’s book links and resources, as well as visiting other links to find great suggestions and recommendations.

What Is #DiverseKidLit?

Diverse Children’s Books is a book-sharing meme designed to promote the reading and writing of children’s books that feature diverse characters. This community embraces all kinds of diversity including (and certainly not limited to) diverse, inclusive, multicultural, and global books for children of all backgrounds.

We encourage everyone who shares to support this blogging community by visiting and leaving comments for at least three others. Please also consider following the hosts on at least one of their social media outlets. Spread the word using #diversekidlit and/or adding our button to your site and your diverse posts.

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We hope this community serves as a resource for parents, teachers, librarians, publishers, and authors! Our next linkup will be Saturday, May 5th and the first Saturday of each month.

NeuroDiversity In Kid Lit

A very hot topic in the children’s literature world is diverse books. However, neurodiversity representation needs to be a part of that conversation.

While the definition of neurodiversity is evolving, the term can mean that the identification of autism, OCD, ADD and others are natural variations or neurological differences.

They are not diseases or reasons for shame and pity. In many ways, children with these differences have a gift. However, without real connections to children with these differences, most children will see the differences as something negative.

Teaching empathy must be an explicit discussion in the early years; we cannot afford to teach it “later” or risk passing on implicit bias to young children through the books they read (or don’t read). Read on how to Celebrate Autism Awareness Month In Kid Lit with a new book: Stewie Boom and Princess Penelope:Handprints, Snowflakes and Play-Dates.

For a free resource on how to find online therapy, please check out this great advice from Better Help.

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