Diversity Matters to UKLA
Books recommended by UKLA Members
3-6+
Sufiya Ahmed, illustrated by Reza Dalvand – Under the Great Plum Tree
Atinuke – Baby Goes to Market
Elizabeth Baguley – Just Like Brothers
Ashok Banker, illustrated by Sandhya Prabhat – I Am Brown
Andrea Beaty, illustrated by David Roberts – Sofia Valdez, Future Prez
Nathan Bryon, illustrated by Dapo Adeola – Look Up!
Arree Chung – Mixed
Joseph Coelho – If all the world were…
Joseph Coehlo, illustrated by Robyn Wilson – No Longer Alone
Niki Daly – Jamilla’s Dress
Saadia Faruqi illustrated by hatem Aly – Yasmin The Superhero
Mem Fox and Helen Oxenbury – Ten Little Fingers, Ten Little Toes
Sheila Hamanaka – All the Colors of the Earth
Sophie Henn – Super Duper You
Mary Hoffman – Amazing Grace
Pip Jones & Sara Ogilvie – Izzy Gizmo
Hannah Lee, illustrated by Allen Fatimarahan – My Hair
Patricia Maclachlan, illustrated by Francesca Sanna – My Friend Earth
Anna McQuinn and Rosalind Beardshaw – Lulu’s First Day
Lupita Nyong’o, illustrated by Vashti Harrison – Sulwe
Francesca Sanna – The Journey
Peter Sis – Madlenka
Chitra Soundar illustrated by Veronica Montoya – Manju’s Magic Wishes
7-10+
Kwame Alexander –The Crossover
Sophie Anderson, illustrated by Kathrin Honesta – The Girl Who Speaks Bear
Atinuke, illustrated Onyinye Iwu – Too Small Tola
Jasbinder Bilan – Tamarind and the Star of Ishta
Eve Bunting – One Green Apple
Catherine Bruton – No Ballet Shoes in Syria
Aisha Bushby – A Pocketful of Stars
Yangsook Choi – The Name Jar
Joseph Coehlo, illustrated by, Freya Hartas – Zombierella
Nizrana Farook – The Girl Who Stole an Elephant
Natasha Farrant, illustrated by Lydia Corry – Eight Princesses and a Magic Mirror
Jamila Gavin – Blackberry Blue
Kereen Getten – When Life Gives You mangoes
Catherine Johnson – Race to the Frozen North
SP K-Mushambi – Mysterious melody
Onjali Rauf – The Boy at the Back of the Class
Onjali Q Raúf – The Star Outside My Window
Jason Reynolds – Patina
Jason Reynolds – Sunny
Nic Stone – Clean Getaway
Information Books 3-14+
Kwame Alexander, illustrated by Kadir Nelson – The Undefeated
Atinuke, illustrated by Mouni Feddag – Africa, Amazing Africa
Helaine Becker, illustrated by Dow Phumiruk – Counting on Katherine
Jo Rippon – Rise Up! The Art of Protest
Suzanne Slade, illustrated by Cozbi Cabrera – Exquisite: The Life and Poetry of Gwendoline Brooks
Fernando Vilela, translated by Daniel Hahn – Along the Tapajós
David Olusoga – Black and British: A Short Essential History
Jamia Wilson, illustrated by Andrea Pippin – Big Ideas for Young Thinkers
Mireille Harper, illustrated by Lauren Quinn – Timelines from Black History
Yuval Zommer – Big Book of Blooms
Jamia Wilson – Young, Gifted and Black
YA
Elizabeth Acevedo’s – The Poet X
Elizabeth Acevedo – Clap When You Land
Arvin Ahmadi – How It All Blew Up
Samira Ahmed – Internment
Samira Ahmed – Love Hate and Other filters
Dean Atta illustrated by Anshika Khullar –The Black Flamingo
Bessora and Barroux – Alpha
Malorie Blackman – Crossfire
Malorie Blackman – Noughts and Crosses
SitaBrahmachari – When Secrets Set sail
Kathryn Erskine – Seeing Red
Ele Fountain – Boy 87
Candy Gourlay – Bone Talk
Liz Hyder – Bearmouth
Muhammed Khan – I Am Thunder
Muhammed Khan – Kick The Moon
Danielle Jawando – And the Stars Were Burning Brightly
Mitch Johnson – Kick
Anna Mainwaring – Tulip Taylor
Manjeet Mann – Run Rebel
Beverley Naidoo – Burn My heart
Beverley Naidoo – The Other side of Truth
Beverley Naidoo – Web of Lies
Louisa Reid – Gloves Off
Jason Reynolds – For Everyone
Jason Reynolds – Look Both Ways
Robin Talley – Lies We Tell Ourselves
Marcus Sedgwick – Saint Death
Nikesh Shukla – The Boxer
Nic Stone – Dear Justyce
Nic Stone – Dear Martin
Angie Thomas – The Hate You Give
Angie Thomas – On the Come Up
Jason Wallace – Out of the Shadows
Renee Watson – What Momma Left Me
Michael Williams – Now is the Time for Running
Lauren Wolk – Wolf Hollow
Benjamin Zephaniah – Refugee Boy
Ibi Zoboi & Yusef Salaam – Punching the Air
Adult
Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Dear Ijeawele
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Purple Hibiscus
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – The Thing Around Your Neck
Monica Ali – Brick Lane
Maya Angelou – I know why the Caged Bird Sings and her poem, Still I rise.
Dean Atta – The Black Flamingo
Candice Carty-Williams – Queenie
Angie Cruz – Dominicana
Tsi Tsi Dangarembga – Nervous Condition
Abi Daré – The Girl with the Louding Voice
Bernadine Evaristo – Mr Loverman
Bernadine Evaristo – The Emperor’s Babe
Bernadine Evaristo – Blonde Roots
Bernadine Evaristo – Girl, Woman, Other
Christy Lefteri – The Beekeeper of Aleppo
Andrea Levy – Small Island
Andrea Levy – Long Song
Toni Morrison – Beloved
Toni Morrison – The Bluest Eye
Olive Senior – The Pain Tree
Lemn Sissay – My Name is Why
Zadie Smith – White Teeth
Alice Walker – The Colour Purple
Alice Walker – Possessing the Secret of Joy
Benjamin Zephaniah – The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah
Information Books
Akala – Natives
Kehinde Andrews – Back to Black: Black Radicalism for the 21st Century
Ta-Nehisi Coates – Between the World and Me
Robin DiAngelo – White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism
Reni Eddo-Lodge – Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Fanon, Franz –Black Skin, White Masks
Marian Kahn – Its Not about the Burqa
Maldonado-Torres, Nelson – 10 Theses on Coloniality and Decoloniality
Mignolo, Walter – On Decoloniality
Nikesh Shukla – The Good Immigrant
Lemm Sissay – My Name is Why
Wa Thiongo, Ngugi – Decolonising the Mind
Gary Younge – Stranger in a Strange Land
Read Three ways for UK schools to improve their race relations now, by Sonia Thompson.
Read our resource: Developing a Culturally Inclusive Curriculum
Download below: CLPE’s Reflecting Realities – Survey of Ethnic Representation within UK Children’s Literature published 2020
