Children’s books for resistance to climate of empowered bigotry

The current U.S. President, with his expressions of prejudice, uniquely empowers people to engage in bigoted behavior openly — and the worst and longest-lasting legacy of the “Bully-in-Chief” may be lessons in how-to-hate that adults are passing on to children. At Bustle, contributor Aisha Saeed recommends six picture books she is reading to her children to help them navigate current events.
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In her essay, Saeed describes taunts that her child had to endure from classmates because his skin was brown. “Until Kindergarten came with its cruel reality shock, I hoped to shield my children as best I could through the current events that haunt us, to have the tough conversations when they were older — but I learned the hard way our children live through these current events with us and so it is on me as a parent to help them navigate through it.”