PICTURE BOOKS FOR THIRD CULTURE KIDS

This resource page suggests a range of picture books with themes and stories that will resonate with Third Culture Kids, and other children with experiences of mobility and/or multicultural engagement.

  • Life Without Nico

    Andrea Maturana (2016)

  • Johnny & Joshua

    E.J. Asare (2019)

  • This Is Not My Home

    Vivienne Chang, Eugenia Yoh (2023)

  • Here I Am

    Patti Kim (2015)

  • Half A World Away

    Libby Gleeson (2007)

  • Pixie's New Home

    Emmanuelle Payot Karpathakis (2012)

  • Double Happiness

    Nancy Tupper Ling (2015)

  • Moving Planet Isn’t Easy

    Catalina del Rio Faes (2012)

  • Ameya’s Two Worlds

    Aditi Wardhan Singh (2022)

  • The Way We Do It In Japan

    Geneva Cobb Iijima (2002)

  • Alexander, Who's Not Going to Move

    Judith Viorst (1998)

  • The Day You Begin

    Jacqueline Woodson (2018)

  • Clare's Goodbye

    Libby Gleeson (2018)

  • Ben Says Goodbye

    Sarah Ellis (2015)

  • When Africa Was Home

    Karen Lynn Williams (1994)

  • Bella and Stella Come Home

    Anika Denise (2010)

  • The Great Big Move

    Meghan Marie Geary (2018)

  • Moving Away Will Be Okay!

    Kellie Carte-Sears (2020)

  • Sparkles of Joy

    Aditi Wardhan Singh (2020)

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