Resources to include everyone
- Search Find It@USC with words for an identity. Use the Location filter Columbia Cooper Juvenile to limit your search. Use Advanced Search and include words like: "juvenile fiction" OR "juvenile literature" OR "juvenile works" OR "picture books" OR picturebooks
- Take a look at the Award Winners section of this guide for links to searches of our juvenile collection, including Coretta Scott King, Pura Belpré and Tomás Rivera awards.
The links below encompass more than the collections in USC University Libraries and offer different ways to explore and identify diverse children's literature on many themes.
- Diverse BookFinder This link opens in a new windowFreely available database of recent multicultural picture books. Unique filters are immigration and religion.
- Diverse Families BookshelfSearch or browse categories for Family Relationships, LBGTQ+, Health & Disability, Race & Culture
- Diversity Resources (Cooperative Children's Book Center Univ of Madison Wisconsin)Links to CCBC diversity resources, and selected links to resources beyond the CCBC
- TeachingBooks This link opens in a new window
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You can identify books by "cultural experience."
Blogs addressing particular groups
Collections in Rare Books & Special Collections
You may be interested in these two specific collections. You'll need to make prior arrangements with the Irvin Department of Rare Books & Special Collections.
- Augusta Baker Collection of African-American Children's Literature & FolkloreThe Baker Collection brings to the library over 1600 children's books, together with papers and illustrative material reflecting her pivotal role in the field of children's librarianship.
- Little-Myerson Collection of Multi-Cultural Children’s LiteratureIncludes children’s books from and about northern Africa and the Middle East, Oceania, Asia, and the Pacific Rim, 19th and early 20th century books and periodicals, a significant number of geographic series books, books about the folk-lore and art of the countries represented, and a large collection of illustrated editions of The Arabian Nights.