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Fairy tale features await you
All you need for easier homeschooling planning is now in one place. But this isn’t a fantasy; it’s real.
Living book lists
Pick from our ever-expanding universe of representative book recommendations, whether you’re using our catalog, organized book lists, or handpicked books of the month.
Homeschool resources
Discover a variety of curriculum, events, planning tools, podcasts, influential voices, and more to support your homeschooling needs.
Authors of color
Browse a gallery of the inspiring creators behind the majority of titles in our catalog.
Watchlist
Watch diverse movies and television that complement your children’s reading.
Figures in history
Find books about the historical figures who have most impacted the world in which we live.
Culture calendar
Celebrate months and holidays that honor diverse people, heritages, and cultures.
Homeschool help
Find answers, tips, and wisdom in support of your homeschooling.
Printable guides
Support your homeschooling efforts with practical, easy-to-follow, printable guides.
Charlotte Mason quotes
Hear what the philosopher had to say about diversity, reading, and home education.
The bigger your screen, the better
To use our most powerful book-finding features, we recommend you use a laptop or desktop. See why.
Smaller screens
While all book data is viewable on mobile devices, you can only see that data one title at a time, rather than comparing titles side-by-side in a grid using our very best features.
List views
Use lists when comparing book selections row-by-row, easy for scanning and even better on desktops.
Gallery views
Browse galleries for larger cover images and brief overviews, ideal for mobile devices.
Danielle said…
“When I first discovered how the database worked, my jaw literally dropped. This is truly an astounding resource!”
Be like Danielle and make the most of our best features. Watch a brief tutorial.
Bigger screens
The real power of our catalog is unlocked when you use our database filtering, sorting, and grouping features, which are only accessible on laptops and desktops.
Print views
Make your own lists out of our living book lists, saving your finds for viewing later or printing now.
Timeline views
Leverage timelines for a new look at stories by era and in the history cycle.
Hidden fields
Pare down the 25+ columns in each book list to more easily scan for the info you need.
Filters
Use advanced filters on any list to narrow down your search more quickly.
Grouped fields
Break down lists into books grouped by the catalog’s many fields and data points.
Sorting
Sort ascending or descending by one or more of the columns that matter most to you.
Row heights
Make it easy on your eyes by expanding or shrinking row heights to fit your ideal.
Keyword search
Conduct a quick search on any of the keywords you’re looking for in a given list.
Explore every data point you can use these tools on →
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First things first—you have to know the title. Browse, sort, or search them all.
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So long as you don’t judge books by their cover, you can still peruse them that way.
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Learn about each author and quickly access their other stories of color.
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A thumbs up will tell you if the book was written or illustrated by a person of color.
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Learn more about each title based on a description from the publisher.
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From form 0 (pre-K) to 6 (12th), find the books that are age appropriate for your kids.
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Explore titles by the major history cycles, from ancient civilization to present day.
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Search by over 40 diverse perspectives you can bring to life for your children.
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Filter by over 200 of the world’s nations, including Native and First Nations.
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Forget the plane and travel around the world with books from 10 global regions.
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Browse or filter by over 40 genres for all types of interests and specific needs.
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Search for your favorite book series, from reader editions to trilogies and everything in between.
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Whether your children prefer short or long books, look no further than the page count.
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True stories or not, sometimes stories of color are even stranger than fiction.
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If a picture is worth a thousand words, these books sure do say a lot.
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Discover each book’s illustrators and find more stories of color from each of them.
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Keep your eyes open for these stories to be appreciated by your ears.
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Immerse your children in new languages with these foreign and bilingual books.
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Browse titles based on the aggregate user reviews shared on Amazon.
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Search by the top awards received by all multicultural books in any list.
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Look for the green thumbs to find titles selected by our allies for books of the month.
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Look for the hearted titles to find books that speak life into your mama’s soul.
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If there’s something disturbing or worth knowing about a title, you’ll find it here.
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Whether you want a contemporary title or an older one, publication years will help.
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Discover whether a book is in print so you know to look for it either new or used.
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Use this number to find a specific version of each book's printed version.
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Find complementary productions from our watchlist to enhance your children's reading.
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Search for each book’s ISBN at your local libraries via WorldCat.
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Just tap the button and jump to where you can pickup your selection fast.
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Stay tuned for more by this author, similar books, curator favorites, historical figures, themes, local book store support, and more.
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FAQs about our features
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Stories of Color is a free, lovingly curated book catalog and resource for homeschooling families and educators on the pursuit to bring more diverse ideas and representative perspectives to life for their students.
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Currently, Stories of Color is absolutely free. As in zip, zilch, nada. $0.00.
We’re not a nonprofit. And we’re certainly not some profit-hungry enterprise. Stories of Color is a volunteer-led labor of love that has no revenue goal to speak of. It’s simply a gift that our founder and curator had hoped to find elsewhere, but couldn’t. So she did something about it.
In full disclosure, a few months after our launch, we did add affiliate codes to our Amazon links simply to contribute to the ongoing costs of maintaining the software we use. We’ve also now made it possible for readers to donate to our mission. In the future, we may also charge for certain features we make available, especially if there’s a hard cost to us, but we don’t have any definitive plans to do so.
Regardless of our future features, we can guarantee you one thing for certain: However Stories of Color may evolve, we will never charge for access to the living book lists which remain our core focus. Seriously—those will be free forever. We promise.
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Though it’s taken a decent amount of time and elbow grease to craft this product and its growing set of features, you should know that Stories of Color is built using software absolutely anybody could leverage. We’re not engineers by any means—we just knows how to cobble together some decent tools and resources.
If you want to get geeky with us and read about all the tools we use to operate, feel free to do so.
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We’re sorry, but there are limitations to our software for mobile devices. Watch a tutorial to learn all about our powerful book search functionality.
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Turn to our technical FAQs for help. for the answers and support you need. If that doesn’t work, you can always contact us, too.