Please welcome The Platypus Media Editorial Team with their list of Cozy Bilingual (Spanish-English) Picture Books to Read at Bedtime. We are giving away 15 copies of their book! To enter, please fill out the Rafflecopter at the bottom. Cozy Bilingual (Spanish-English) Picture Books to Read at Bedtime 1. Nurtured and Nuzzled/Criados y acariciados by The Platypus Media Editorial Team,...
Please welcome Gaia Cornwall with her list of 12 Diverse Picture Books Featuring Supportive Parents. We are also giving away 3 copies of her book, Jabari Jumps. To enter, please fill out the Rafflecopter at the bottom of the post. 12 Diverse Picture Books Featuring Supportive Parents A list of books for young readers who feature diverse families with...
After experiencing two miscarriages, MCBD 2018 Author Sponsor Carlotta Penn started singing the words of a song she wrote a decade before when she learned she was pregnant for a third time. The song was called Rainbows, and detailed the magic and beauty of falling in love. When her daughter, Jember Dove, was born in 2016, Penn knew the song could be transformed into a children’s book dedicated to babies born after miscarriages.
Dream A Rainbow is Penn’s first children’s book aimed to inspire children to dream big and discover the world around them. The story features a young girl named Hana, who dreams of where a rainbow might take her on a stormy morning. The vibrantly-colored illustrations feature friends and animals that Hana meets on her adventure in Ethiopia.
“Daydreamers Press is the public vehicle for my personal passions,” she shared. “It is my contribution to a world where all people can see representative and inspiring reflections of themselves in books and communities. A Daydreamer is creative thinker who believes it is important, possible, and fulfilling to work their dreams to life. To Press is to do with diligence, To share your voice. Daydreamers Press for a liberated world.”
The last On My Desk of 2017!
But don’t worry…there’s no shortage of awesome books to share!
This series got started because, with my role as Project Manager, I get to enjoy the avalanche of amazing multicultural books for kids that are donated to our project. My office currently looks like a small bookstore and I love every second of it.
Being appreciative over every book that crosses my desk, I wanted to find a fun way to share those books with the loyal folks who show up here to read every week and support this non-profit. In that moment, On My Desk | New Diverse Kids’ Books to Consider was born! It’s my way of sharing some amazing titles that don’t always get the attention they deserve.
Recently we had an email come through from a NYC school teacher who was on the hunt for new diverse book titles for her home and classroom bookshelf. Her question to us was; did we have access to any new lists or multicultural book recommends?
We LOVE questions like that!
Truth-be-told, there are tons of booklists and resources on the Multicultural Children’s Book Day site and we are adding new ones all the time.
From blog posts, author visits, directories of book and even an e-book, MCBD has a ton of Diverse Booklists and Book Recommends for Teachers and Librarians. Here are a few resources that everyone might find helpful:
1.Our FREE Classroom Empathy/Understanding Refugees Kit has great classroom tools plus a bunch of great diverse book recommends.
