Posted on: Sunday, May 27, 2001

Recommended reading

• Some ways to introduce children to other cultures
• Recommended reading

Some books for young children about diversity. Available through Deloris Guttman's Hawai'i Multicultural Resource Center at 1132 Bishop St., Suite 1404, 528-5037.

• "Cinderfella & Slamdunk" by M. Burton (Branden Books, $18.99, hardback)

• "The Empty Pot" by Demi (Henry Holt Publishers, $18.99, hardback)

• "What a Wonderful World" by George David Weiss and Bob Thiele (Atheneum Books, $17.99, hardback)

• "Abadeha, the Philippine Cinderella" by Myrna J. de la Paz (Shen's Books, $18.95, hardback)

• "Sukey and the Mermaid" by Robert D. San Souci (Four Winds Press, $17.99, hardback)

• "Nina Bonita" by Ana Maria Machado (Kane Miller Books, $16.99, hardback)

• "The Magic Bean Tree" by Nancy Van Laan (Houghton Miflin, $17.99, hardback)

• "The Talking Eggs" (an African American "Cinderella") by Robert D. San Souci (Dial Books, $17.99, hardback)

• "Jaha and Jamil Went Down the Hill," an African Mother Goose, by Virginia Kroll (Charlesbridge Publishers, $17.99, hardback)

• "Tar Beach" by Faith Ringgold (Crown Publishers, $19.95, hardback)