Multicultural Children’s Book Day Classroom Poverty Kit 2019 Poverty Doesn’t Discriminate | Understanding Poverty in America Is ready for download! As our sixth Multicultural Children’s Book Day holiday approaches on January 25, 2019, we are thrilled to have you as part of our amazing community of supporters! With enthusiasm, optimism, and hope, we are preparing for MCBD 2019 and...
To access this FREE kit and all our kits click HERE FREE Classroom Poverty Kit 2019: Poverty Doesn’t Discriminate | Understanding Poverty in America Our FREE Classroom Kit contains: ~27 Classroom Books that will help Readers Understand Poverty in America for ages 4 -12 ~ Two Classroom or Home Activities ~ “Poverty Doesn’t Discriminate” Classroom Poster thanks to...
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. The...
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...
Sometimes the idea for a great diverse picture book for kids comes from the more genuine and authentic sources. That is exactly the case with Alex Asks About Auntie’s Airplane Day by Carolyn Wilhelm. The idea for this book occurred to Carolyn when she saw her-2-year-old grandson watch his Auntie Betsy from South Korea, and...