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Author: Valarie Budayr

Read Your World / Articles posted by Valarie Budayr (Page 91)

Welcome Silver Sponsor Lee and Low Books!

Lee and Low books

Here’s a little info to help you get to know them better.

LEE & LOW BOOKS is an independent, family-run children’s book publisher focusing on diversity. It is the company’s mission to meet the need for stories that all children can identify with and enjoy. The company publishes books for children of all ages under several imprints, including leveled books for beginning readers (Bebop Books), bilingual books (Children’s Book Press), and speculative fiction for middle grade and young adult readers (Tu Books).

Welcome MCCBD Silver Sponsor Capstone Young Readers!

Capstone Young Readers

Inspired by imagination and curiosity, Capstone Young Readers creates entertaining and informative reading experiences that generate excitement and love for reading. Our publishing program contains board books, innovative fiction, drawing and how-to books, graphic novels, and nonfiction books that bring family, history, and the global community to life for learners from toddler to young adult.

We are thrilled to be able to share the amazing resource of MCCBD Silver Sponsor Junior Library Guild!

Junior Library Guild

Junior Library Guild founded in 1929, provides collection development services to more than 20,000 school and public libraries throughout North America. This unique service reviews and selects children’s and young adult books prior to their publication. New-release JLG selections are placed into one of 66 levels ranging from Prekindergarten to Adult Crossover and are then shipped to member libraries on a monthly basis.

Spring 2015

Multicultural Children's Book Day Spotlight

We are thrilled to welcome yet another author to our Multicultural Children’s Book Day Spotlight: Shining the Light on Inclusive Authors & Illustrators series! This week we are welcoming Tracey Baptiste, author of The Jumbies (Algonquin Young Readers, 4/28/14, Ages 8-12). THE JUMBIES (coming Spring 2015)

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Caribbean island lore melds with adventure and touches of horror in The Jumbies, a tale about Corinne La Mer, a girl who on All Hallow’s Eve accidentally draws a monstrous jumbie out of the forest, sparking a very personal war that only she can stop – a war made even more difficult once she discovers her own dark truth. tracey b