What is Read Your World Day? Read Your World Day (RYWD), formerly known as Multicultural Children’s Book Day, is an online and offline event. We give away diverse children’s and young adult books both to reviewers and at our virtual party. See “How Can I Participate” for more details. What happens on RYWD? FIRST, is...
Read Your World Celebrates Multicultural Children’s Book Day To date, Read Your World, along with literacy partners, authors, and publishers, has donated over 10,800 books to parents, teachers, and librarians. Read Your World strives to shine the spotlight on the diverse books and authors that often get overlooked by mainstream publishing and media. Social Media...
“Where’s my diverse book to review?” “My book review is ready, what now?” We are getting a lot of these types of questions lately and we TOTALLY get it. So here is some info that will help everyone navigate both: If Your Review Book for MCBD is M.I.A. MCBD2022 is not far off and we...
Hi! How does multicultural children’s book day work? Do you want us to send a book? Please tell me more:) This was a question that popped into my email last week and my first thought was, “what a great question!” For those who are unfamiliar with the diversity in children’s literacy initiative known as Multicultural...
We did it! Another wildly successful Multicultural Children’s Book Day is complete. Once again, the MCBD team was touched and elevated by the overwhelming support and enthusiasm surrounding our diverse children’s literature online celebration. In the days following the crescendo of the event, and our crazy-fun annual Twitter Party, we all have spent hours sifting...