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Last year for the 2014 Multicultural Children’s Book Day, we tracked the social media shares of the hosts and co-hosts over just three days. We did not include the social media shares of the 200 bloggers that joined us with their wonderful book reviews. We did not include social media shares made on other days beyond the day before, the day of, and the day after Multicultural Children’s Book Day.

18.9 Million Social Shares Last Year Over Just 3 Days!

We were astounded to find that there were more than 18.9 million social media shares over the three days alone!

MCCBD may officially be over until 2016, but the guest posts and author visits will continue! This week we are welcoming author Maritza Martinez Mejia to share her fun answers to our Q&A and some details about her work.

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

My favorite letter of the alphabet is “M” since my name contains three Ms

M3 = Maritza Martinez Mejia

Guest Post from D. G. Driver, Author of Cry of the Sea

I was driving to work, mulling about what to write for this guest blog post when an interview with the writing/illustrating team of the picture book The Last Stop on Market Place came on NPR. The author, Matt de la Peña began speaking about diversity: “This book is about diverse characters, but it isn’t about being diverse.” Then illustrator Christian Robinson added that when books focus explicitly on diversity, “there tends to be an element of heaviness — maybe because the history is heavy and serious.”1

In 2010, Francois left the corporate world in order to pursue his passion to be an author.

The result was the children’s book series “The Junglies” which comprises of 11 books telling stories of the adventures of five jungle animals. “The Junglies” was inspired by Francois’ eldest daughter.

The Junglies Francois Keyser

Wisdom Tales Press and Multicultural Children’s Book Day will sharing a booth at Moms Rock Expo, May 2 &3 at the Minneapolis Convention Center!Moms Rock Expo

Moms Rock! Expo, May 2nd & 3rd, is a weekend of FUN for Moms in the Minneapolis, Minnesota area. The event will include Celebrity Mom keynotes, cooking demos, fashion & beauty and SHOPPING! Moms Rock Expo has information on parenting, products, and lots more.