**guest post from author, Judy Martialay** Foreign language skills will open doors for your child, regardless of his or her career choice. Language is about life. Wherever there is communication with people who speak another language, in our country or abroad, knowing another language is an asset or is required. This is why languages are one of...
Guest Post By Author Jesica Nkouaga So What Do Nature and Children Have in Common? They grow! They grow especially when they are nurtured and cared for by someone who loves them. Nature and children are two things that author Jesica Nkouaga loves. Jesica’s love for nature inspired her to draw pictures of the natural surroundings around her,...
I (Becky) can't remember what came first; me discovering a gorgeous book called The Length of String, or author Elissa Weissman reaching out to MCBD to share news of this novel with us. Either way, the moment I saw the cover and the summary of the story, I couldn't hit the "Buy" button fast enough. [caption id="attachment_8637" align="alignnone"...
Friends, we still have so much work to do! Here's some information from the CCBC about diversity in kidlit. In their analysis of picture books published in 2017: Of the approximately 3,700 books received at the CCBC in 2017, most from U.S. publishers, here's the breakdown: 340 had significant African or African American content/characters. 100 of these...
Sometimes the idea for a great diverse picture book for kids comes from the more genuine and authentic sources. That is exactly the case with Alex Asks About Auntie's Airplane Day by Carolyn Wilhelm. The idea for this book occurred to Carolyn when she saw her-2-year-old grandson watch his Auntie Betsy from South Korea, and seem...