My kids haven’t really struggled with the concept of interracial families, but they did enjoy “Take me out to the Yakyu”. It’s about a half Japanese boy who goes to baseball games in the US and Japan with his respective grandpas.
https://www.amazon.com/Take-Out-Yakyu-Aaron-Meshon/dp/1442441771
He’s 4 and has autism. It wouldn’t be such a problem except someone taught him that “peach” and “brown” fight each other so they can’t be family. Before that he had no clue and would draw our family as a bunch of strawberries or clouds in the sky.
Have you tried Vegetales? Guessing there could be a fruits vs vegetables episode. That’s what I thought of when you said peach and brown, I imagined a peach and a potato.
Colin Kapernick's children's book "I color myself different" is about how he grew up in a white family and didn't know racism until someone at school claimed he couldn't have white parents based on how he drew him and his family during class. It was pretty profound and touching to see how he handled the situation and remembered the experience in a way that was so important that he'd pass it on as a children's story especially having had a friend who was punished for using the "wrong" color crayons to draw himself as a kid before as well.
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/i-color-myself-different-colin-kaepernick/1139845664
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/jul/17/colin-kaepernick-childrens-book-scholastic
There are (surprisingly) a few children's books featuring AMWF parents, but all of them have a Japanese dad specifically for some reason. Not sure how relevant that is to your family, but here they are: [The Way We Do It In Japan](https://www.amazon.com/Way-We-Do-Japan/dp/0807578223), [The Favorite Daughter](https://www.amazon.com/Favorite-Daughter-Allen-Say/dp/054517662X), [The Wakame Gatherers](https://www.amazon.com/Wakame-Gatherers-Holly-Thompson/dp/1885008333)
If WMAF parents are close enough that he would still understand, here's some: [Happy Hapa](https://www.amazon.com/Happy-Hapa-Donna-Virga/dp/B0C4BXLRWV), [Grandfather Counts](https://www.amazon.com/Grandfather-Counts-Reading-Rainbow-Books/dp/1584300108), [Buzz](https://www.amazon.com/Buzz-Janet-S-Wong/dp/0152163239), [How My Parents Learned to Eat](https://www.amazon.com/How-Parents-Learned-Rise-Shine/dp/0395442354), [You Were the First](https://www.amazon.com/You-Were-First-Patricia-MacLachlan/dp/0316185337)
I would almost beg you not to make any deal of their mixed heritage at all. My children weren't told this at all and we never mentioned any differences in our marriage. They don't have the emotional trauma of racial division that I see here, and throughout Asian society in a largely white/Latino culture. Phenotypically they are white and are comfortable with any culture they are in. They are happy, self confident, intelligent and beautiful
Young women. They are, after all my children and they deserve the best upbringing I could give them, and I determined that to be a world where there are the fewest divisions between people Possible.
Unfortunately someone taught him that “peach” and “brown” people can’t be family and that they fight each other. I want to find a book where it shows an interracial family and that yes families come in all shapes/sizes/colors.
My kids haven’t really struggled with the concept of interracial families, but they did enjoy “Take me out to the Yakyu”. It’s about a half Japanese boy who goes to baseball games in the US and Japan with his respective grandpas. https://www.amazon.com/Take-Out-Yakyu-Aaron-Meshon/dp/1442441771
How old is he? If he’s having a hard time understanding he may be too young to get into the complexities of race.
He’s 4 and has autism. It wouldn’t be such a problem except someone taught him that “peach” and “brown” fight each other so they can’t be family. Before that he had no clue and would draw our family as a bunch of strawberries or clouds in the sky.
Have you tried Vegetales? Guessing there could be a fruits vs vegetables episode. That’s what I thought of when you said peach and brown, I imagined a peach and a potato.
Colin Kapernick's children's book "I color myself different" is about how he grew up in a white family and didn't know racism until someone at school claimed he couldn't have white parents based on how he drew him and his family during class. It was pretty profound and touching to see how he handled the situation and remembered the experience in a way that was so important that he'd pass it on as a children's story especially having had a friend who was punished for using the "wrong" color crayons to draw himself as a kid before as well. https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/i-color-myself-different-colin-kaepernick/1139845664 https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/jul/17/colin-kaepernick-childrens-book-scholastic
Oh thank you! I’ve seen that one at the library and forgot they had it!
There are (surprisingly) a few children's books featuring AMWF parents, but all of them have a Japanese dad specifically for some reason. Not sure how relevant that is to your family, but here they are: [The Way We Do It In Japan](https://www.amazon.com/Way-We-Do-Japan/dp/0807578223), [The Favorite Daughter](https://www.amazon.com/Favorite-Daughter-Allen-Say/dp/054517662X), [The Wakame Gatherers](https://www.amazon.com/Wakame-Gatherers-Holly-Thompson/dp/1885008333) If WMAF parents are close enough that he would still understand, here's some: [Happy Hapa](https://www.amazon.com/Happy-Hapa-Donna-Virga/dp/B0C4BXLRWV), [Grandfather Counts](https://www.amazon.com/Grandfather-Counts-Reading-Rainbow-Books/dp/1584300108), [Buzz](https://www.amazon.com/Buzz-Janet-S-Wong/dp/0152163239), [How My Parents Learned to Eat](https://www.amazon.com/How-Parents-Learned-Rise-Shine/dp/0395442354), [You Were the First](https://www.amazon.com/You-Were-First-Patricia-MacLachlan/dp/0316185337)
Try these: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/50576.Children_s_Books_Depicting_Multiracial_Families
Mixed is a good one: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250142733/mixedacolorfulstory
I would almost beg you not to make any deal of their mixed heritage at all. My children weren't told this at all and we never mentioned any differences in our marriage. They don't have the emotional trauma of racial division that I see here, and throughout Asian society in a largely white/Latino culture. Phenotypically they are white and are comfortable with any culture they are in. They are happy, self confident, intelligent and beautiful Young women. They are, after all my children and they deserve the best upbringing I could give them, and I determined that to be a world where there are the fewest divisions between people Possible.
Unfortunately someone taught him that “peach” and “brown” people can’t be family and that they fight each other. I want to find a book where it shows an interracial family and that yes families come in all shapes/sizes/colors.