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Author: Valarie Budayr

On My Desk | New Diverse Kids’ Books to Consider

On My Desk Diverse Kids’ Books to Consider

Friday the 13th my butt! There’s nothing bad about a Friday, especially one filled with BOOKS.

A few weeks ago I shared that, because of my role as Project Manager, I get to enjoy the motherlode of amazing multicultural books for kids that are donated to our project.  And as a result, I wanted to find a fun way to share those books with the loyal folks who show up here to read every week and support this non-profit. I shared another batch of dandy diverse books for kids last week as well including a new graphic novel with a science theme that made my reluctant reader daughter positively GIDDY.

As the prep for MCBD2018 gets into full swing, I’d like to do something fun and different simply because so many of these books deserve as much visibility as we can offer. With that in mind, I’d like to start something new called On My Desk as a way to share some of the notable multicultural books for kids that cross my desk every week.  Here’s what the Mailman Book Fairy brought me this week in the way of New Diverse Kids’ Books to Consider:

Guest post from Bob Schroeder-LCBC Board of Directors – President Emeritus-Literacy Council of Benton County

 

“It is as important in America today to teach an adult to read as it is to teach a child.” John Corcoran – The Teacher Who Couldn’t Read

The Literacy Council of Benton County in Arkansas

The Literacy Council of Benton County in Arkansas

The Literacy Council of Benton County in Arkansas would like to invite everyone to help support our 11th Annual Scrabble Wars featuring an exclusive Scrabble tournament as well as a silent auction. Our group contains teachers, photographers, librarians, sports fans, clergy, philosophers, professors, lay scientists, theologians, scholars, history aficionados, businessmen, and voracious readers interested in a multitude of subjects, I know the bidding will be fierce.

On My Desk | New Diverse Kids’ Books to Consider

On My Desk | New Diverse Kids’ Books to Consider

This is shaping up to be one of my favorite blog posts to write for our MCBD blog!

Last week I shared that, because of my role as Project Manager, I get to enjoy the motherlode of amazing multicultural books for kids that are donated to our project.  And as a result, I wanted to find a fun way to share those books with the loyal folks who show up here to read every week and support this non-profit. You all are amaze-balls 🙂

As you may know, Multicultural Children’s Book Day (MCCBD) is a non-profit that works with authors to get their books reviewed during our online event and also works to get free diversity children’s books into the hands of young readers. Your readership and support is a gift that we deeply value.

Social media share impressions for Multicultural children's book day

As you may know, the online event/holiday takes place every January 27th and we are now in our 5th year. BUT this year, the official “day” falls on a Saturday. No biggee for most party-goers, but a bit of a style-cramper for educators and librarians.

So what are we doing about it? We’re whooping it up all week long of course!

So starting on January 22nd all the way until the Big Day (1/27/18) we will be encouraging young readers, caregivers, grandparents, parents, teachers and librarians to “party” the week leading up with their own gatherings, booklists, social media tweets and books reviews. Our own reviewers (300+ of them!) will be busy sharing their own multicultural books reviews online and we expect Authors and Sponsors will have some fun and goodies up their sleeves as well.

Multicultural Children’s Book Day ebook: Fundraising for Teachers and Readers

By now kids are back to school and teachers and librarians are beginning another year of sometimes one of the hardest jobs on earth.

MCBD has always worked very hard to support teachers with free resources, free classroom kits and free diverse books, but now we want to give YOU a way to help them as well! In 2017, MCBD published their first ever ebook filled with multicultural book resources and recommends.

 

Read Your World: A Guide to Multicultural Children’s Books for Parents and Educators is a “Best Of” list of diversity books lists for children contributed by 20 bloggers and 2 authors:

Alex Baugh of Randomly Reading

Amanda Boyarshinov of The Educators’ Spin On It

Valarie Budayr of Jump Into a Book

Erica Clark of What Do We Do All Day?

Rebecca Flansburg of Frantic Mommy

Anna Geiger of The Measured Mom

Svenja Gernand of Colours of Us

Michelle Goetzl of Books My Kids Read

Jennifer Hughes of The Jenny Evolution

MaryAnne Kochenderfer of Mama Smiles

Marie-Claude Leroux of Marie Pastiche

Katie Logonauts of The Logonauts

Stephanie Meade of InCultureParent

Katie Meadows of Youth Literature Reviews

Leanna Guillén Mora of All Done Monkey

Becky Morales of Kid World Citizen

Carrie Pericola of Crafty Moms Share

Jodie Rodriguez of Growing Book by Book

Melissa Taylor of Imagination Soup

Mia Wenjen of PragmaticMom 

 

Uma Krishnaswami, author

Elsa Marston, author