Please welcome Alice Pung today with her list of Favorite Diversity Children's Books. We are also giving away a copy of her book. Fill out the Rafflecopter at the bottom to enter. Favorite Diversity Children's Books from Alice Pung 1. The Tomorrow series by John Marsden This bestselling Australian series is a more realistic take on the Hunger Games,...
Nothing is better than when you can get input and thoughts from those who are "in the trenches." From the people who are "all in" on a topic or issue. This is the case (we feel) with parents, grandparents, caregivers, librarians and educators. We wanted to know what THEY were concerned with when it came to children's...
Please welcome Stacy McAnulty today with her list of picture books about true beauty. We are giving away a copy of her book, Beautiful. Please see the bottom of the post to enter. When creating my picture book BEAUTIFUL, my editor encouraged me to write my definition of the word. I came up with this: “True beauty...
“Daddy, daddy, look- I finally found one!” My daughter Savannah yelled to me in the middle of the Barnes and Noble bookstore. You see, a few months earlier my lovely wife and I decided that we were going to infuse Kwanzaa into our family holiday celebrations. The only problem was that we both grew up...
The 4th Multicultural Children's Book Day has come and gone and as expected, it was a HUGE success. We couldn't be more proud of our team, our sponsors, our reviewers, the young readers, moms, educators, librarians, authors, illustrators, publishers and organizations that help us continue to do what we do :) As you can imagine, there...