Like we mentioned in the previous post about our new 2019/2020 Multicultural Children’s Book Day Classroom Kit-Understand and Celebrate our Differences, we encountered more amazing books on these topics than we had room for in the final Kit! ADHD Allergies Anxiety/Separation Anxiety Asthma Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Cancer Charcot Marie Tooth Cerebral Palsy Cystic Fibrosis ...
Recently, the MCBD Team has spent considerable time creating our 5th Free Classroom Kit for Teachers, Librarians, and parents to utilize. The theme of the 2019/2020 Multicultural Children’s Book Day Classroom Kit is Understand and Celebrate our Differences. We’ve replaced our previous title, “Understanding and Celebrating People with Disabilities,” after learning that this isn’t correct...
Deedee Cummings has been a long-time supporter of Multicultural Children's Book Day, and as the years tick forward, we continue to be blown away by the talent, passion, and tenacity of this multi-book diverse author. Her business, Make a Way Media, offers everything from workshops to journals to inspire creativity in kids; creativity founded in writing...
Guest post by Author, Afsaneh Moradian Happy Pride Month! As people march and hold events about the history and struggles of the LBGTQIA community for equality and civil rights, it’s also a time to celebrate and support the visibility of LGBTQIA folks. Much of the spirit of Pride this year is to highlight that gender is more...
{guest post from Ajanta Chakraborty of CultureGroove} Should non-Muslim kids celebrate Ramadan & Eid? You probably guessed it; the answer is a resounding yes! Mom/Dad, what is she wearing? Kids and their delightful loud questions in public, am I right? If your child hasn’t already asked it, they probably will when they see a little girl in Hijab at...
One of the many missions of MCBD is to always be providing new diverse children's book resources for young readers, parents, teachers, and librarians to utilize. One of our popular free offerings is our yearly downloadable Classroom Kits. In past years, MCBD has produced kits with themes that include Kindness, Empathy, and Poverty. All of these Kits contain...
Guest post from author Shereen Rahming I was no more than seven or eight years old growing up in a tiny village in the relatively small country of Belize. Almost everything I loved and knew existed in that single place. The elementary school I attended was right next door in the community center grounds. My classroom...
According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the U.S., affecting 40 million adults in the United States age 18 and older, or 18% of the population. Anxiety and big emotions are such a large part of our children’s lives these days. Our hunch is that this...
Everyone loves a good story about perseverance, faith, and courage. This is especially true when the story comes with the opportunity to be exposed to a new language and culture. Dorje the Yak by Caryn Hartman is a tale of triumph over adversity. It follows the struggle of Dorje, and the struggle of Tibet, to assert...
May is Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in the United States. The month of May was chosen to commemorate the immigration of the first Japanese to the United States on May 7, 1843, and to mark the anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad on May 10, 1869. The majority of the workers...
