guest post from Erika Probst Up until several years ago, I lived in an idealistic world that I believed indicated we were in a post-racial society. We had moved beyond racism, hadn’t we? Sure, occasionally we’d see something about racism in the news, but most of society was not racist, right? Then my idealistic view was shattered...
Guest Post by Author, Tim J. Myers One of the greatest things about being a writer is discovering your own life in your work. You can't help writing about what's important to you, and your experiences often show up in different forms, whether you intended that or not. Art often is, among other things, a window into...
Guest post by Izzie Chea From humble beginnings in the busy kitchen of an Oakland, CA home in 2016, the idea of bringing children’s Spanish and bilingual books was coming to fruition. Maceo Cabrera-Estévez, Cuban-American mom and book lady for Barefoot Books, noticed the demand for high quality, authentic, and representative Spanish and bilingual children’s literature....
Guest Post from Author Kathleen Burkinshaw Why does a book about an event that happened 50 plus years ago have anything to do with today? Well, I believe that using historical fiction books for children/young adult readers illuminates a time period and a culture that may only be mentioned briefly in one paragraph of a history textbook....
International Holocaust Remembrance Day is not a traditional holiday of any culture, but rather a day of remembrance designated by the United Nations in 2005. [caption id="attachment_10393" align="alignnone" width="820"] International Holocaust Remembrance Day[/caption] Some have asked why MCBD shifted from a consistent "every January 27th" model to a "last Friday in January" model. We originally innocently thought...