WNDB in the Classroom

Team's Mission

To bring diverse books and authors into economically disadvantaged schools.

Critical Statistics, Achievements, and Other Relevant Information

WNDB™ in the Classroom provides free books and author visits to schools around the country. This program was created to address the literacy gap that affects marginalized youth. By helping children find stories and authors that they can relate to, we can help foster in them a lifelong love of reading.

So far, WNDB in the Classroom have donated thousands of diverse books — over $75,000 worth since 2014 — to schoolchildren across the country. We have also created comprehensive discussion guides for Walter Award-Winning books like All American Boys and March: Book Three.

For information about WNDB™ in the Classroom, please contact us at classroom@diversebooks.org.

School kids read together during a WNDB in the Classroom presentation.

Author Tracey Baptiste talks about her writing at a WNDB in the Classroom event.

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We Need Diverse Books™ is a grassroots organization of children’s book lovers that advocates essential changes in the publishing industry to produce and promote literature that reflects and honors the lives of all young people.

WNDB in the Classroom

WNDB in the Classroom