{Guest post by Ajanta Chakraborty-Co-Founder/CEO of Bollywood Groove™ & Culture Groove} Diwali, the festival of lights of India, is the Christmas equivalent of India. During this time, the entire country gets into a sparkly festive mood that was also an integral part of my cultural upbringing there. Away from the motherland, the desire to spread the same...
As you know, our online event/holiday takes place the last Friday of every January so this year it will fall on 1/29/21and this will be our EIGHTH Multicultural Children’s Book Day celebration! Multicultural Children’s Book Day (MCBD) is an online and offline celebration that attracts thousands of supporters, educators, parents, caregivers, book reviewers, and quality authors...
***WE DID IT! MCBD has achieved 15,000 Followers on Instagram!!**** [video width="1080" height="1080" mp4="https://readyourworld.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/MCBD-5K-on-IG-Thank-you-to-our-fans-Video.mp4"][/video] A huge THANK YOU to everyone who has supported us a helped us hit this HUGE milestone! In honor of this epic victory, we are doing a 15-Book Giveaway! Fifteen Diverse Books to WIN Sumo Joe by Mia Wenjen, illustrated by Nat Iwata Teal: A Book...
“The sun beats down relentlessly on a scorched landscape where nothing is growing. Buffalo is listless and desperately looking around for something to eat. Then, one evening he finds a white biscuit in a small pool of water. But, he is not the only animal to see it and a great fight begins… But all...
{Guest Post by Jodi Murphy, Geek Club Books} Rebecca (Bex) Burgess, an illustrator and comic artist from the UK, went viral when the autistic community and educators discovered their graphic illustration, “Understanding the Spectrum.” The comic was the first of its kind to explain autism from a neurodiverse perspective AND created by an autistic artist. It’s...