The MCCBD 2016 Classroom Reading Challenge Has Begun!
November 1, 2015
Attention K-8th Teachers! Get a FREE Diversity Book for Your Class!
2016 Multicultural Children’s Book Day Classroom Reading Challenge begins November 1, 2015!
Attention K-8th Teachers! Get a FREE Diversity Book for Your Class!
2016 Multicultural Children’s Book Day Classroom Reading Challenge begins November 1, 2015!
Right on time for back to school, KidLit TV is teaming up with Pragmatic Mom, Jump into a Book, Franticmommy and Multicultural Children’s Book Day to give parents, teachers, and librarians a chance to win a multicultural book bundle for their school library.
School libraries play an integral role in the life of students. Many students can cite their school library as a place where a love of reading and learning is fortified. Throughout the country, budgets for school programs are being slashed, school libraries have been heavily hit. Hours for library time are cut in some schools, and non-existent in others. Furthermore, the tight budget impacts a school librarian’s ability to secure funds to purchase new books.
Starting today, September 15th and through September 30th you can enter to win a curated bundle of multicultural books featuring StoryMakers guests and additional kid lit authors.
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.
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.
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.
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, 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.
We are so thrilled to have Mitali Perkins today talking to us about her anthology Open Mic: Riffs on Life Between Cultures in Ten Voices.
Mitali Perkins was born in India, immigrated to the United States with her parents and two sisters when she was seven, and studied political science at Stanford University and Public Policy at U.C. Berkeley.
Born and raised in East LA, Joe received his BFA in illustration from California State University, Long Beach in 1992 and also studied Engineering at Cornell University. Only months after leaving school, he secured a book contract with a publisher after his first meeting and has been illustrating books ever since.
He is the illustrator of awarding-winning picture books such as What a Truly Cool World and Nappy Hair. His latest book is Swing Sisters.
Today, he shares some of books that mean a lot to him … and we asked him to pick a few favorites of his own from among his many titles.
