Read Your World Day (previously Multicultural Children’s Book Day) reviewer sign-ups are now open!
Sign up BEFORE 12/31/24 and receive a FREE Diverse Kidlit Book to review for our annual event on 1/29/25.
Read Your World is a non-profit organization that works with authors and publishers to get their books reviewed for the event and also works to make diverse children’s books available for free. Read Your World also offers a variety of free resources, teaching tools, booklists, downloads, and a year-round initiative to get multicultural and diverse books into the hands of young readers. Over 11,500 books have been donated to underserved kids, classrooms, and organizations to date, and the numbers keep growing.
On January 29, 2024, Read Your World (RYW) will celebrate its 13th anniversary of bringing culturally diverse books to the hands of children, parents, teachers, and librarians. It is an online and offline celebration that attracts thousands of supporters, educators, parents, caregivers, book reviewers, and quality authors and publishers who join forces to shine the spotlight on diversity in children and YA literature.
If you love diverse books for kids and have a social media platform to share a review on, we want to give you a FREE diverse children’s or young adult book to review!
If you enjoy diverse kidlit or YA books and have a social media platform to share a review, we want to give you a FREE copy!
How it All Works: Information for our valued Reviewers for our Read Your World Event
📚Reviewers can sign up via OUR AUTOMATED system to review a multicultural children’s book for our event.
📚Reviewers are then “matched” with an author or publisher that will supply them with a free children’s book to review. Our reviewers are encouraged to read the books and share their thoughts on them (a basic book review) in a review post that includes fun activities related to the book (optional).
📚Reviews must be honest, mention the book’s title and author, and disclose that the book was gifted to them.
📚Once their book review post is live (any time between January 1 and January 29), reviewers are invited to “link up” their blog post on the Big Giant Linky that will be found on any of our CoHosts’ sites and also the RYW website.
📚The Big Giant Linky will go live on January 29th, 2025.
📚 You don’t have to be a blogger to review multicultural children’s books for our online event. All you need to do is have a passion for diversity in children’s literature and be willing to share on social media platforms.
You don’t have to be a blogger (though we love our bloggers!) to review multicultural children’s books for our Read Your World Day virtual party. You just need to have a love of diversity in children’s literature and be willing to share on your social media platforms such as:
Book Reviewer sign-up deadline is the last day of the year 12/31. NOTE: Books are shipped during the month of November and December for the January event.
If you have questions about Read Your World, how to get involved, or how to get free books for your school or classroom, email us at Admin@MulticulturalChildrensBookDay.com
Please note, not everyone is guaranteed to receive a book! We will do our best, but sometimes demand exceeds our supply of available diverse books.
Please read the Frequently Asked Questions About the Bookmatching Program here.
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**Our official hashtag is #ReadYourWorld***
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