We were thrilled to have 25+ inclusive authors and illustrators to kick off our spotlight series in collaboration with Children's Book Council and but what now? Who else should we interview? We asked Native American Children's Book expert Debbie Reese for more authors and she helped us out with this list: Cynthis Leitich Smith Nicola Campbell Julie Flett Eric Gansworth Carol Lindstrom Cheryl Minnema Virginia...
Wow! What a week! The second annual Multicultural Children’s Book Day was a wild success and we will be sharing details and a recap in the coming days. But today we want to focus on our first-ever Twitter Party.
Not only was this one-hour twitter party well attended, it was a ton of fun! Great connections, conversations, questions discussions and PRIZES! Eleven lucky winners won multicultural book bundles for their families to enjoy.
Here’s a Storified recap created by the brilliant Kim V at Educators’ Spin on It.
Please welcome Lisa Yee today as our spotlight on diversity and inclusion authors and illustrators continues!
We are so excited and honored to have author Maria E Andreu stop by for a visit. Maria’s book The Secret Side of Empty was named among School Library Journal’s Top 10 Latino Books of 2014!
Welcome to our 2nd annual Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2015!! We are so excited for our second year! Thank you to everyone joining us today!
Today is the day! It’s Multicultural Children’s Book Day!
Today we are Celebrating:
A giant blog tour and Link-up —
Our Big MCCBD Linky is LIVE today so that bloggers can link up their multicultural children’s book reviews so that readers, parents, teachers, librarians, and caregivers can explore lots of books with diversity content via book reviews, book lists, and links.
Welcome Silver Sponsor Lee and Low Books!
Here’s a little info to help you get to know them better.
LEE & LOW BOOKS is an independent, family-run children’s book publisher focusing on diversity. It is the company’s mission to meet the need for stories that all children can identify with and enjoy. The company publishes books for children of all ages under several imprints, including leveled books for beginning readers (Bebop Books), bilingual books (Children’s Book Press), and speculative fiction for middle grade and young adult readers (Tu Books).
Twitter Party! Join us for Multicultural Children’s Book Day Twitter Party on Jan 27th 9:00pm EST. Use hashtag: #ReadYourWorld to win 10 book packages! This Twitter Party is hosted by Co-Founders Valarie Budayr of Jump Into a Book and Mia Wenjen from PragmaticMom!
Welcome MCCBD Silver Sponsor Capstone Young Readers!
Inspired by imagination and curiosity, Capstone Young Readers creates entertaining and informative reading experiences that generate excitement and love for reading. Our publishing program contains board books, innovative fiction, drawing and how-to books, graphic novels, and nonfiction books that bring family, history, and the global community to life for learners from toddler to young adult.
We are thrilled to be able to share the amazing resource of MCCBD Silver Sponsor Junior Library Guild!
Junior Library Guild founded in 1929, provides collection development services to more than 20,000 school and public libraries throughout North America. This unique service reviews and selects children’s and young adult books prior to their publication. New-release JLG selections are placed into one of 66 levels ranging from Prekindergarten to Adult Crossover and are then shipped to member libraries on a monthly basis.
