The Way We Do It in Japan, by Geneva Cobb Iijima Years later, their daughter explains her family’s custom of eating with forks some days and eating with chopsticks on other days. How My Parents Learned to Eat, by Ina FriedmanĪn American sailor meets a young Japanese woman in while stationed in Japan. This story is told in both English and Spanish. She has decided that she wants a muumuu just like the ones that she has seen in photographs of her grandmother. Marina lives with her Mexican grandfather and Hawaiian grandmother. Marina’s Muumuu/El Muumuu del Marina, by Evangelina Vigil-Pinon Everyone is delighted by her special dessert. Hope brings a very…interesting dish that she explains is a family recipe from her father’s white family. Hope’s African-American relatives are getting together for a family reunion at her great aunt’s farm. Mai joins her mother as she takes an emotional journey to search for her birth parents in Viet Nam. Her mother is black, her father is white, but she is “just right!” A little girl tells readers all about her multiracial family. Helen resents the fact that she has to give up her bedroom for him, but he surprises her one day during her favorite activity, and she realizes that there is much they can learn from each other.īlack, White, Just Right!, by Marguerite Davol Helen’s grandfather has come from China to live with her family in the United States. This book features an African-American mother and a white father. But Grandmother manages to find the perfect solution. Molly is very excited about taking dance lessons, but she’s disappointed to learn that she will not be permitted to wear her grandmother’s silver dancing shoes to class. The Ahlbergs have managed to capture all of the energy and enthusiasm of this special occasion in their depiction of a multiracial kindergarten class. One of the most exciting days in a child’s life is the first day of kindergarten. Starting School, by Janet and Allan Ahlberg This delightful book was one of the first children’s books of its kind, offering readers a peek into a day in the life of a multiracial family.

Family by Isabell Monk