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Author: Valarie Budayr

We are so excited to talk to Margarita Engle today for our Multicultural Children’s Book Author spotlight series!

Margarita Engle

Question 1: What is your favorite letter of the alphabet and why?

That’s such a fascinating question!  It makes me feel four years old.  I will admit that I love M because it looks like mountains.  On the other hand, even though S is not my favorite letter, I somehow end up with many book titles that begin with S images, such as Surrender Tree, Summer Birds, Silver People

We are thrilled to have Multicultural Children's Book Day featured in Publishers Weekly: Next month, more than 100 bloggers affiliated with parenting, education, and children’s blogs will review a selection of diverse and multicultural books on their respective blogs. The reviews will be promoted and shared by Jump Into a Book and the day’s nine “powerhouse”...

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Muslim Writers Publishing was established in 2006 by Linda Delgado, the author of the Islamic Rose series. Ms. Delgado saw a need for quality fiction books written for the growing Muslim population in the United States. She ran the business and performed the services at her own expense in order to support Muslim English-language writers, who are a sort of fledgling class in an emerging genre.   In early 2013, Ms. Delgado passed the business to Debora McNichol.

We are so excited to announce our 2nd Multicultural Children’s Book Day January 27th, 2015 because we’ve added …

Multicultural Children’s Book Day Blogger Co-Hosts

We are excited to add our amazing Co-Hosts to help spread the word about diversity books for kids:

MCCBD Cohosts

Africa to America

All Done Monkey

The Educators’ Spin on It

Growing Book by Book

InCultural Parent

Kid World Citizen

Mama SmilesMulticultural Kid Blogs

Sprout’s Bookshelf

Coming in January — Multicultural Children’s Book Day Spotlight: Shining the Light on Inclusive Authors & Illustrators!

multicultural children's book day January 27 2015

From January 1st through the 25th, the Multicultural Children’s Book Day blog — in collaboration with the Children’s Book Council — will feature interviews with 25 inclusive authors and illustrators, giving you a behind-the-scenes peek at their creative processes.

To kick off our Author and Illustrator interviews at the Multicultural Children’s Book Day blog, we interviewed Joseph Bruchac

Joseph Bruchac

followed by Jacqueline Woodson! (and stay tuned for Margarita Engle and Cynthia Kadohata!)

Jacqueline Woodson

Coming in January — Multicultural Children’s Book Day Spotlight: Shining the Light on Inclusive Authors & Illustrators!

multicultural children's book day January 27 2015

From January 1st through the 25th, the Multicultural Children’s Book Day blog — in collaboration with the Children’s Book Council — will feature interviews with 25 inclusive authors and illustrators, giving you a behind-the-scenes peek at their creative processes.

Children's Book Council

Please welcome (in alphabetical order):

Tracey Baptiste was born in Trinidad, where she grew up on jumbie stories and fairy tales. Her debut, a young adult novel titled Angel’s Grace, was named one of the 100 best books for reading and sharing by New York City librarians. Tracey is a former teacher, textbook editor, ballerina, and amateur librarian who once started up a library in her house in the hope that everyone would bring their books back late and she would be rich! You know, like other librarians. She is now a wife and mom and lives in New Jersey, where she writes and edits books for kids from a very cozy office in her house that is filled with more toys than she can count. The Jumbies is her second novel.