The Decolonised Children's Library by https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library Add childrens's books and stories that explore colonial history and themes to the trolly of inspiration or the shelf of contention! Inspired by Poetry Vs Colonialism and Roehampton University's Children's Literature MA. en-us 2022-06-09 15:35:21 UTC 2026-01-24 16:53:39 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4da.png lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2216487045 Strangers on Country 
  • Australian story about runaway convicts and Torres Strait Islanders 
https://cbca.org.au/book/strangers-on-country  
]]> 2022-06-09 15:55:18 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2216487045 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2216489231 The Pōrangi Boy, Published by: Huia Publishers, Written by Shilo Kino.

New Zealand Book Awards winner: https://www.nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-book-awards-for-children-and-young-adults/2021-awards/winners/   


]]> 2022-06-09 15:57:36 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2216489231 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2216490215 Grandad Mandela, Zazi Ziwelene & Zindzi Mandela, Lincoln Children’s Books: https://www.booktrust.org.uk/book/g/grandad-mandela/ ]]> 2022-06-09 15:58:37 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2216490215 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2216490988 Coming to England, Floella Benjamin, Macmillan Children's Books: https://www.booktrust.org.uk/book/c/coming-to-england2/ ]]> 2022-06-09 15:59:28 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2216490988 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2216492073  Trish Cooke, Puffin: https://www.booktrust.org.uk/book/t/tales-from-the-caribbean/ ]]> 2022-06-09 16:00:32 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2216492073 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2216493472 The Elephant's Friend and Other Tales from Ancient India, Marcia Williams, Walker Books: https://www.booktrust.org.uk/book/t/the-elephants-friend-and-other-tales-from-ancient-india/  ]]> 2022-06-09 16:02:05 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2216493472 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2216494650 Harriet Tubman: A Journey to Freedom, Sandra A. Agard, Little Tiger (Stripes): https://www.booktrust.org.uk/book/h/harriet-tubman-a-journey-to-freedom/ 



]]> 2022-06-09 16:03:22 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2216494650 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2216495250 Tales from India, Bali Rai, Puffin: https://www.booktrust.org.uk/book/t/tales-from-india/ ]]> 2022-06-09 16:04:04 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2216495250 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2216496075 Nina and the Travelling Spice Shed, Madhvi Ramani, Tamarind Books: https://www.booktrust.org.uk/book/n/nina-and-the-travelling-spice-shed/  ]]> 2022-06-09 16:05:04 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2216496075 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2216496762 Not My Girl, 
  • Ages 6 - 9 
  • First Nations Canada
https://www.annickpress.com/Books/N/Not-My-Girl 
]]> 2022-06-09 16:05:51 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2216496762 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2216497341 Windrush child, Benjamin Zephaniah,   https://www.booktrust.org.uk/book/w/windrush-child/ ]]> 2022-06-09 16:06:28 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2216497341 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217297347 Now or Never: A Dunkirk Story, Bali Rai, Scholastic Children’s Books: https://www.booktrust.org.uk/book/n/now-or-never-a-dunkirk-story/ ]]> 2022-06-10 08:54:37 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217297347 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217298195 Two Sisters: A Story of Freedom, Kereen Getten, Scholastic Children’s Books: https://www.booktrust.org.uk/book/t/two-sisters-a-story-of-freedom/ ]]> 2022-06-10 08:55:42 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217298195 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217299484 Freedom (1783), Catherine Johnson, Scholastic: https://www.booktrust.org.uk/book/f/freedom-1783/]]> 2022-06-10 08:57:34 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217299484 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217300251 The Royal Rebel: The Life of Suffragette Princess Sophia Duleep Singh, Bali Rai, Barrington Stoke: https://www.booktrust.org.uk/book/t/the-royal-rebel/ ]]> 2022-06-10 08:58:42 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217300251 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217300898 Swordswoman! The Queen of Jhansi in the Indian Uprising of 1857, Devika Rangachari, Pushkin: https://www.booktrust.org.uk/book/s/swordswoman/ ]]> 2022-06-10 08:59:38 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217300898 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217302082 Queen of Freedom, Catherine Johnson, Pushkin Press: https://www.booktrust.org.uk/book/q/queen-of-freedom/ ]]> 2022-06-10 09:00:58 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217302082 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217303366 Divers Daughter, Patrice Lawrence: https://www.booktrust.org.uk/book/d/divers-daughter-a-tudor-story/ ]]> 2022-06-10 09:02:30 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217303366 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217304329 Ears, Tales and Common Sense: more stories from the Caribbean, Philip M Sherlock: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2962612-ears-and-tails-and-commonsense ]]> 2022-06-10 09:03:52 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217304329 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217305059 Irfan Master: A Beautiful Lie
https://www.booktrust.org.uk/book/a/a-beautiful-lie/]]> 2022-06-10 09:04:59 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217305059 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217306272 Bali Rai: City of Ghosts: https://www.booktrust.org.uk/book/c/city-of-ghosts/]]> 2022-06-10 09:06:08 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217306272 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217306810 Alex Wheatle: Cane Warriors
https://www.booktrust.org.uk/book/c/cane-warriors/ ]]> 2022-06-10 09:06:59 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217306810 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217307533 Jamila Gavin: Coram Boy
https://www.booktrust.org.uk/book/c/coram-boy/ ]]> 2022-06-10 09:08:06 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217307533 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217309339 The Lizzie and Belle Mysteries: Drama and Danger, J T Williams https://www.foyles.co.uk/witem/childrens/the-lizzie-and-belle-mysteries-book-1,joanna-williams-9780008485252 ]]> 2022-06-10 09:10:53 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217309339 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217312555 Caribbean Dozen: Poems from Thirteen Caribbean Poets, ]]> 2022-06-10 09:15:26 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217312555 YA poetry lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217313941 Malika Booker, Death of an overseer: https://www.poetryinternational.org/pi/poem/28092/auto/0/0/Malika-Booker/Death-of-an-Overseer/en/tile
Dorothea Smartt, Bringing it all back home: https://www.poetryinternational.org/pi/poem/22850/auto/0/0/Dorothea-Smartt/BRINGING-IT-ALL-BACK-HOME/en/tile
Cecile Nobrega, Bronze Woman: https://guyaneseonline.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/bronze-woman-by-cecile-nobrega.pdf
Martin Carter, Not I with this torn shirt: https://www.stabroeknews.com/2013/02/26/opinion/letters/how-would-they-have-reacted/
]]> 2022-06-10 09:17:14 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217313941 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217315184 Ladybird books! 
  • Particularly on ‘explorers’ Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Francis Drake, and the books on the continent of Africa
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-30709937 
]]> 2022-06-10 09:19:05 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217315184 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217315999 If you lived in colonial times, 
  • Non fiction (eg The Story of Cod leaving out the triangular trade)
  • US 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8NNx5-I7j0 
]]> 2022-06-10 09:20:08 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217315999 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217317090 The Magic Treehouse series 
https://www.magictreehouse.com/series/MT0/magic-tree-house-r 
]]> 2022-06-10 09:21:42 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217317090 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217322412 The treatment of race and colonialism in Burnett's popular children's books: 

  • The Secret Garden
  • A Little Princess

https://www.academia.edu/32266763/Children_s_Literature_and_the_British_Empire_Colonialism_and_Orientalism_in_F_H_Burnett_s_A_Little_Princess_1905_and_The_Secret_Garden_1911_
]]> 2022-06-10 09:28:56 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217322412 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217323566 The Little House on the Prairie, https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/what-should-be-done-about-racist-depictions-in-the-little-house-books/16587/ ]]> 2022-06-10 09:30:51 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217323566 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217324095 The Indian in the Cupboard, Lynne Reid Banks  

]]> 2022-06-10 09:31:41 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217324095 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217325284
  • Jungle Book 
  • Peter Pan 
  • Pocahontas

    • ]]>     2022-06-10 09:33:34 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217325284     lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217327419 Underground to Canada ]]> 2022-06-10 09:36:49 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217327419 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217327983 Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer]]> 2022-06-10 09:37:44 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217327983 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217328719 Dr Doolittle, Hugh Lofting ]]> 2022-06-10 09:38:57 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217328719 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217329443 Enid Blyton's Noddy books, gollywog books, and The Little Black Doll. ]]> 2022-06-10 09:40:12 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217329443 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217330033 Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and his own autobiography. ]]> 2022-06-10 09:41:13 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217330033 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217331060 Billy Bunter Comics ]]> 2022-06-10 09:42:57 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217331060 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217331893 Asterix and Obilix ]]> 2022-06-10 09:44:20 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217331893 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217332772 Tintin ]]> 2022-06-10 09:45:33 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217332772 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217334139 ‘Sinterklaas’ and ‘Zwarte Piet’ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/15/will-dutch-library-ban-on-black-pete-books-spell-end-for-racist-christmas-tradition   ]]> 2022-06-10 09:47:28 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217334139 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217334535 Tarzan stories ]]> 2022-06-10 09:48:06 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217334535 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217335674 Little Black 🤬 ]]> 2022-06-10 09:49:34 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217335674 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217336690 American Indian Youth Literature prize: https://ailanet.org/activities/american-indian-youth-literature-award/ ]]> 2022-06-10 09:51:02 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217336690 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217338042 Indian children's literature prizes: http://sahitya-akademi.org.in/?page_id=5871  ]]> 2022-06-10 09:52:56 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217338042 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217338571 Children's book council of Australia: https://cbca.org.au/  ]]> 2022-06-10 09:53:44 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217338571 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217338768 New Zealand Children’s Book Awards: https://www.nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-book-awards-for-children-and-young-adults  ]]> 2022-06-10 09:54:06 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217338768 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217339265 Caribbean Children’s Literature Prize:  Bocas Lit Fest Children’s Book Prize  ]]> 2022-06-10 09:54:45 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217339265 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217339614 Little Rebel, UK children's book awards ]]> 2022-06-10 09:55:19 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217339614 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217339883 Jhalak Prize for Global Majority writers for children  Children’s & YA Winner 2022 Danny Chung does not do Maths by Maisie Chan]]> 2022-06-10 09:55:46 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217339883 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217340420 Woke babies: wokebabies.co.uk]]> 2022-06-10 09:56:34 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217340420 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217340658 The Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals]]> 2022-06-10 09:56:55 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217340658 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217341325 Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize]]> 2022-06-10 09:58:04 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217341325 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217341652 Waterstones Children’s Book Prize]]> 2022-06-10 09:58:35 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217341652 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217342416
  • Red House Children’s Book Award
  • The British Book Award (Nibbies)
  • The Costa Children’s Book Award
  • Smarties Book Prize
  • Blue Peter Award

    • ]]>     2022-06-10 09:59:36 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217342416     lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217343114 Diverse Books Award - Best Children’s Book - Windrush Child by Benjamin Zephaniah]]> 2022-06-10 10:00:32 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217343114 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217343870 CLiPPA - The CLPE Poetry Award ]]> 2022-06-10 10:01:40 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217343870 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217344198 Nottinhagham Children’s Book]]> 2022-06-10 10:02:16 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217344198 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217344447 John Newbery Medal]]> 2022-06-10 10:02:40 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217344447 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217344877 Caldecott Medal]]> 2022-06-10 10:03:27 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217344877 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217345182 National Asociation of Writers in Education ]]> 2022-06-10 10:03:59 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217345182 lailanadia https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217345570 Spread the Word ]]> 2022-06-10 10:04:41 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217345570 https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217798424 2022-06-10 19:55:47 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217798424 https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217798800 2022-06-10 19:56:40 UTC https://padlet.com/lailanadia/library/wish/2217798800