Super Platinum Make A Way Media Deedee Cummings is a professional dreamer. She is also an author, therapist, attorney, and mom from Louisville, Kentucky. Cummings founded Make A Way Media in 2014 after struggling to find books with characters who looked like her own children and an extreme lack of stories that reflected their life...
Audrey Barbakoff Dr. Audrey Barbakoff is an author, librarian, and educator. Years of working in public libraries developed her love of joyful read-alouds that encourage positive interaction between children and their grown-ups. As a mom, she is passionate about passing down the vibrancy and diversity of Jewish humor, language, and stories. She also writes professional...
Free Virtual Event Read Your World is honored to have special guest authors, Xelena González, James Bird, Sherri Maret and Carla J. S. Messinger to celebrate our very first Native American Heritage Month virtual event on Wednesday, November 5, 2025 07:00 PM EST. Meet these great authors and register for a chance to win 1...
How Read Your World Helps Fight Book Bans: One Diverse Book at a Time In recent years, book bans in the U.S. have surged at an alarming rate! Many target children’s books that feature diverse characters, explore social justice issues, or share the lived experiences of BIPOC and LGBTQI+ communities. These challenges go beyond politics,...
Matching Reviewers and Book Donors! Join us for Read Your World Day on Thursday, January 29th! Save the date! 01/29/2026 at 8 p.m. EST Register for the virtual party HERE Free Book in Exchange for a Review Get a FREE book in exchange for your review! Join us in celebrating diversity in children’s literature and help...