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Author Visits, Book review, Multicultural Booklist
January 25, 2018

Multicultural Fun and Magic of Worldwide Buddies

 

Worldwide Buddies is a series of fictional, educational stories with characters from different countries that allow readers to imagine a more beautifully complex world. Stories are designed to promote cultural awareness and introduce little ones to diverse realities and wonders of the world, early on.

Each story explores a different underlying social, cultural, or political concept. This is done through simple plots and characters who face everyday challenges that are universal and relevant to every child. The stories tackle serious topics in a light-hearted, funny and positive way.

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Author Visits, Book review, Multicultural Booklist
January 24, 2018

Where are the models of relatable kids from diverse cultural backgrounds?

By Jeni Lee Chapman, Co-author of Gokul Village and the Magic Fountain and Co-Founder of Gokul Workshops LLC

The power of coming together with a shared mission produces truly amazing and impactful results. My co-founder, Bal Das and I planted this seed a little over a year ago and started this journey together. In September we published our first book and announced the launch of a new concept for children’s media called Big Bold Beautiful World Media. Our mission is to use creativity and innovation to build stories, products, and experiences that empower the social-emotional learning of global generations. As Maya Angelou beautifully wrote, “we are more alike my friends than we are unalike.”

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CBC Book Jam, Giveaway, Multicultural Booklist
January 24, 2018

Please welcome Jo Meserve Mach, Vera Lynne Stroup-Rentier and Mary Birdsell with their list of Books Making the World Better Through Inclusion. Books Making the World Better Through Inclusion 1. Emanuel’s Dream by Lauri Ann Thompson, illustrated by Sean Qualls I love true stories and this true story of Emmanual Ofos Yeboah is so inspiring! Because his mother believes...

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CBC Book Jam, Multicultural Booklist
January 22, 2018

Please welcome Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen with her list of 8 Picture Books About Feeling Different But Finding Your Place. We are giving away 5 copies of her picture book Splatypus. Please fill out the Rafflecopter at the bottom to enter. 8 Picture Books About Feeling Different But Finding Your Place  1. Flight School by Lita Judge Little Penguin wants to fly...

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Multicultural Booklist
January 20, 2018

Hard to believe it’s only a week until MCBD2018! I’ve been eyeball-deep in multicultural books for kids and I.Love.IT.

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.

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Guest Posts, Spotlight on a Sponsor
January 19, 2018

When Author Andrea Scott’s Sponsor Intake Form crossed my desk, it contained a story that I knew needed to be told.

Author Andrea Scott

Her company, Smile Big Dream Bigger, started off as a bilingual book to encourage people to smile big with their hearts and to dream big. It has formed in to a tutoring service for all age groups that helps people to learn different languages and excel in school, and it encourages them to make their dreams a reality.

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Multicultural Booklist
January 18, 2018

So many amazing parents, teachers, and librarians have been sharing their plans for MCBD, we just had to pass on this magic to our supporters.

This email from Tam Hixson truly made our eyes leak!

“Just a quick update to let you know what MCBD has inspired in Lake Oswego, Oregon….

Last month we had a Kids Bake Sale with a goal to raise $1000. With the support of several individuals, groups, businesses, and local newspaper, we exceeded our goal and raised $1200. We’ve partnered with the school district librarian and 100% of the proceeds purchased a dozen multicultural books for all of the elementary schools in our district.

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Author Visits, diversity in children’s books, Multicultural Booklist
January 18, 2018

Please welcome Megan Dowd Lambert with her list of Eight Picture Books with Diverse Family Constellations.

 

Because of my lived experience as a mother in a multiracial, adoptive, queer, blended family, I appreciate seeing representations of families in picture books that exist and thrive outside of a White, heteronormative, nuclear family structure. I like writing such stories, too! Real Sisters Pretend, illustrated by Nicole Tadgell, is an adoption story that was inspired by two of my daughters, and its characters include two moms, one who is Asian and one who is White, and their two adopted daughters, one who is Black and one who is a multiracial child of color. It was published by Tilbury House in 2016, and was named a Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2017. It’s also included on the Center for the Study of Multicultural Children’s Literature Best Books of 2016 list and the CCBC Choices 2017 list.

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