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Author: Valarie Budayr

Read Your World / Articles posted by Valarie Budayr (Page 78)

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Guest Posts
May 5, 2016

“MCCBD is a wonderful idea whose time has come!

By Lisa Dugan for Child’s Play Books

In the past few years a groundswell of belief has been building that every child should be able to “Read Their World.” Here at Child’s Play, we are committed to publishing books that fully reflect our diverse society in terms of heritage, disability, gender and family. These issues have been at the heart of our mission for over 40 years, driving us to create innovative, award-winning books for children from 0-7 years that promote learning through play.

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Guest Posts, Special Donations
April 14, 2016

Special Delivery: OK Messages Project Serving Children of Incarcerated Parents

Guest post by Cheri Fuller, Executive Director

www.okmessages.org

(See Video on Home Page of children watching their moms’ DVDs)

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When a four-year-old boy’s mom was put in prison, he was scared she was in a cage all day and night. Until he got the package with his mommy’s DVD and a Dr. Seuss book she read. Then he saw she was safe and not in a cage, and when he missed her he put the video in and read along—feeling like she was there with him.

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Special Donations
April 12, 2016

MCCBD’s mission is, and will always be, to get diversity children’s books into the hands of young readers. It is especially important for kids to be able to “see themselves” in the pages of a book, but family reading time is also a critical piece of this literacy puzzle.

MCCBD has had the honor of working with several important non-profits who share a similar vision and one such organization is the Oklahoma Messages Project. Thanks to the outreach of OK Messages Project Director, Cheri Fuller, MCCBD donated a big box of multicultural books for children and their incarcerated parents to create memories with.

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Author Visits, Giveaway
April 5, 2016

The Monkey King’s Daughter®

By Todd DeBonis

The Monkey King's Daughter

The Monkey King’s Daughter® is the powerful, heartwarming, coming-of-age story of Meilin, a contemporary Chinese-American teenage girl, tightly wrapped in high adventure and fantastic Chinese mythological settings.

The Monkey Kings Daughter

Steeped in the universal tenants of Compassion, Humility, Loyalty, Balance and Honor, The Monkey King’s Daughter® delivers solid family core-values and a new female action hero & role model for a multicultural world.

The Monkey King’s Daughter® is all about empowerment through the realization of self-worth, deed and valor. It’s Meilin’s journey of personal growth, amid the trials of extraordinary circumstance and adversity, that drives each adventure.

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Author Visits, Guest Posts
March 12, 2016

{guest post from author Charlotte Riggle}

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If you hop into your favorite bookstore this time of year, you’ll see shelves and displays full of picture books that feature bunnies and baskets and eggs. The books tend to be brightly colored, shiny, and sweet, like the foil-wrapped candies that fill so many Easter baskets. And I find the books, like the candies, insipid and ultimately unsatisfying.

What do I want in an Easter picture book? Start with people. It’s not that there’s anything wrong with books about rabbits and ducks and chicks and lambs. I have more than a few of them in my collection.

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