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Multicultural Booklist

Read Your World / Multicultural Booklist (Page 47)

Saying “Thank you” never seems like quite enough when working with the amazing children’s illustrators/authors that make our Official MCBD poster possible every year. This year is no exception.

We felt Julie Flett would be the perfect artist to create the Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2019 Poster. As a Cree-Metis author, illustrator, and artist she has a passion for diversity in children’s literature and a portfolio of talent that is mind-blowing! With an assist from designer, Robin Mitchell Cranfield, the result of the MCBD2019 was a home run!

About Julie

Author/Illustrator/Artist, Julie Flett

I (Becky) can't remember what came first; me discovering a gorgeous book called The Length of String, or author Elissa Weissman reaching out to MCBD to share news of this novel with us. Either way, the moment I saw the cover and the summary of the story, I couldn't hit the "Buy" button fast enough. [caption id="attachment_8637" align="alignnone"...

Friends, we still have so much work to do! Here's some information from the CCBC about diversity in kidlit. In their analysis of picture books published in 2017: Of the approximately 3,700 books received at the CCBC in 2017, most from U.S. publishers, here's the breakdown: 340 had significant African or African American content/characters. 100 of these...

Guest post from Jennie EagleSpeaker   I’ve always had a passion to be forward thinking in my learning, asking hard questions and try to understand where people come from. I’m an East Coast Canadian (Maritimer) who moved to central Alberta to become a Child & Youth Care Counsellor. There I accomplished my goal, met & married my husband...