{Guest post By Idan Ravin} I wrote It Takes Patience, with the hope it inspires children to find their ‘voice', adults to rekindle their past and soak in the nostalgia, and families to connect meaningfully during these challenging times. The story is told through the eyes of seven-year-old Patience, multiracial and living in a small town in Appalachia, as she learns resilience,...
We’re Kendra and Claire-Voe Ocampo, authors of the new LGBTQ children’s picture book, Mighty May Won’t Cry Today. What inspired us to create the book? We were inspired to write Mighty May Won’t Cry Today after our first daughter was born and we began reading her children’s books. We quickly saw that most of them featured a...
Earlier this week, we shared how lucky we are to have enthusiastic participation and brilliant talent from all over the globe--specifically from our authors and diverse book reviewers from Greece. Thanks to the hard work and dedication of Global CoHost, Agatha Rodi, we continue to be able to round up an amazing array of multicultural children's...
It's a wrap! Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2020 is officially over and we think it was the Best.Celebration.YET. Over the last years, our online and offline diverse kidlit initiative has enabled us to not only shine the spotlight on exceptional diverse books for kids and teens but to also get to know the amazing people who bring...
Guest post by Speech and Language Therapist (and publisher), Sunita Mistry Shah My name is Sunita and I am the brain behind The Jai Jais, a growing collection of books, yoga/mindfulness and educational resources for children centered around Hindu gods and goddesses. Using my expertise as a speech and language therapist, along with my children’s natural curiosity...