Take a Trip to Diverse City

A student and teacher favourite, this is an engaging and effective resource for schools, families, and communities, encouraging children to accept and celebrate racial and cultural diversity.

This special edition includes a CD soundtrack and Shawna Ray song book, and was produced with national recording artists and B5 narrating the book.

The main characters, inquisitive Jacob and friendly Zachary, lead their classmates on an imaginary trip to explore Diverse City.

Jacob and Zachary are two friends who happened to have different skin colours.

In the first grade, some kids told Jacob that he couldn't play because his skin was brown.

Zachary stood with his friend Jacob and went home to tell his Mom, Shawna Ray, what had happened.

She wrote her first children's book, Take a Trip to Diverse City, to help the kids at school embrace their differences while realising how much we are all alike and connected as one.