In honor of the Festival of Lights, here are some books about the celebration of Diwali along with picture books and fiction by and about South Asian and South Asian American people.
Simanta Buch
Everyone deserves to be a main character.
This is the premise of Loving Little Minds Home Library Project, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that distributes monthly multicultural children’s books to families with kids aged 0-6 to battle systemic racism and empower kids to have constructive, open conversations around race and diversity.
My husband Brian and I founded this project last summer in the wake of the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, when the country was reckoning with its own relationship with race.
Like many others around us, we wanted to do something to help. As a kid, I loved reading and telling stories, often writing my own when I didn’t have my nose in a book.