Read a Book

Read a book. In the story The Sneetches, written by Dr. Seuss, yellow bird-like creatures take readers on an adventure where green stars become the symbol of discrimination and privilege. A great book to read on your own or with your family to discuss tolerance.

Other Family Books that also teach tolerance:

The Crayon Box that Talked by Shane DeRolf

I Love My Hair! by Natasha Tarpley

All the Colors of the Earth (Mulberry Books) by Sheila Hamanaka

What I Like About Me! by Allia Zobel-Nolan

The Colors of Us by Karen Katz

The Skin You Live In by Michael Tyler (Author), David Lee Csicsko (Illustrator)

We’re Different, We’re the Same (Sesame Street) (Pictureback(R) ) by Bobbi Jane Kates

Whoever You Are (Reading Rainbow Books) by Mem Fox

Accept and Value Each Person (Learning to Get Along) by Cheri J. Meiners

Old Man Pouring Rain by Janet Davis

There’s a Skunk in My Bunk: Helping Children Learn Tolerance (Let’s Talk) by Joseph T. McCann

Just Kidding by Trudy Ludwig

Tolerance by Jordan Postlewait (Author), Walker Gable (Illustrator)

More reading suggestions for families here: http://www.tolerance.org/resources

Other more mature books – we are not necessarily recommending these books, just providing some options for books that help us understand other’s experience as an act of tolerance (perhaps, read reviews before reading for yourself):

Paradise by Toni Morrison

Monster by Walter Dean Myers

American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang

A Wish After Midnight by Zetta Elliott

Crossing by Andrew Fukuda

Elizabeth Street by Laurie Fabiano

Someone Knows My Name: A Novel by Lawrence Hill

The Yellow House: A Novel by Patricia Falvey

In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong by Amin Maalouf by Barbara Kingsolver, Barbara Fisher

The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow

Mudbound by Hillary Jordan by Sara Tuvel Bernstein, et al.

The Kitchen House: A Novel by Kathleen Grissom