Since its beginning Read Your World (formerly Multicultural Children’s Book Day) has been growing every single year. With millions of social media impressions across all platforms with one goal: celebrating diverse books! In the early days of Multicultural Children’s Book Day, the celebration was held on X (formerly Twitter). In 2023 we moved our celebration to a Zoom virtual Party.
We hosted Read Your World celebrates Multicultural Children’s Book Day virtually with guests, hosts, and sponsors, creating an environment for real-time interaction and connecting with not just a national audience, but a global one. It was our same party, but even better! We gave away books throughout an hour of fun, camaraderie, and a flurry of reactions from emojis to comments such as these:
“I love that you all put this together and worked so hard to promote multicultural books.”
“You all did a great job organizing this event. Thank you!”
“This was such a fun event! Great engagement from the participants!”
“You are such a wonderful source of information!”
“I like it more in Zoom, too! 👍”
“Thank you for hosting such an amazing party!”
“I loved the closed captions and questions on the screen! I was listening/watching while my partner was making dinner, and it got a little noisy, but I was still able to participate.”
“Thank you for helping to put diverse books in the hands of students!”
“Thanks for the opportunity to be a book reviewer! I’m so excited that I won a prize! Woohoo!”
“Such an amazing event! I really enjoyed it and can’t wait to get more involved!
Read Your World thrives thanks to the support of thousands of reviewers who are paired with books from diverse authors. These reviewers include educators, parents, librarians, young children, and even authors themselves! Their reviews are featured on our Big Giant Linky, as well as on the blogs of our co-hosts, global co-hosts, and across social media. We are also bolstered by the generous contributions of our medallion sponsors, authors, corporate sponsors, donors, partner organizations, and authors/publishers who donate books.
The Read Your World team is continually grateful for your support. We are deeply touched and inspired by the overwhelming enthusiasm surrounding our celebration of diverse children’s literature.
For a glimpse of the media coverage surrounding Read Your World, simply search #ReadYourWorld on social media. You’ll find countless book reviews, recommendations, and testimonials that continue to inspire and connect readers of all ages to the world of diverse children’s books.
The following is just a sample of all of the amazing book recommendations, diverse booklist, diverse book reviews, authors, publishers, educators, librarians, and young readers from past years.
Heartwarming classroom celebrations: Over the past years, support and recognition from educators and librarians have continued to increase. This makes us incredibly happy. Some of the best rewards for the hard-working RYW Team are to see all of the smiling faces and little hands clutching multicultural books and enjoying a classroom celebration.
During our 2020 #ReadYourWorld Twitter Party, we slightly broke the Internet with all of our diverse book-loving magic and trended on Twitter. Yay us!
Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2020 Trends on Twitter!
This is just a small sample of the global fun and book-inspired participation. Search #ReadYourWorld on any social media channel to discover MORE memorable moments of Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2020. THANK YOU, everyone!
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Read Your World Assets
Free Books for Classrooms. Teachers can sign up to receive a free multicultural book, while supplies last.
Free Classrooms Kit: The Read Your World Team and Contributors have gathered a plethora of valuable resources designed to use in your classroom or homeschool. Included in the kit are comprehensive lesson plans catering to all grade levels, free posters, activities and book lists.
Big Giant Linky: Located on the RYW website and on the sites of co-host bloggers, this link-up, which will be live on January 27, is a compilation of 400-plus multicultural book reviews and activities that provides an online resource for parents, educators, caregivers, and librarians. A separate “Linky” will be available for those reviewing books on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.
Live Read Your World Day on Zoom held on the last Thursday of the month of January.
Read Your World: A Guide to Multicultural Children’s Books for Parents and Educators: This new e-book is a comprehensive guide to diverse book titles for kids of all ages. Compiled by bloggers and authors and illustrated by Demi, the book will be available as a free downloadable until January 31, after which it will be available for purchase on Amazon, with proceeds benefiting MCDB initiatives.
Ways To Get Involved
Some other things you can do to not only stay in the loop on what Read Your World is up to but also raise awareness for your work in affordable ways.
Here are a few ideas:
Join our private Facebook Group of over 1500 like-minded book reviewers, publishers, authors, and educators.
Participants and supporters can also stay in the loop with the festivities via the event’s hashtag #ReadYourWorld on X, Instagram, and other social media.
Social Media Shout-Outs! Leverage the robust social media presence of RYW with the uber-affordable Social Media Shout-out to shine the spotlight on your book (or an author or book you admire). Multicultural Children’s Book Day has some serious social media juice on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook, and shout-outs are a marketing nugget of gold for authors and publishers! Get all the details HERE.
Guest Posts on the RYW Blog: Tell us the story of your author’s journey. Tell us why YOU think diversity in kidlit is important. Tell us about a diverse book-related topic that you believe in, have experience in, or one that simply needs deeper discussion. Connect with the Project Manager at admin (at) MulticulturalChildrensBookDay (dot) com with your idea and to request our Guest Post Guidelines.
Others ways to participate in the Multicultural Children’s Book Day Initiative:
Teachers: Multicultural Children’s Book Day FREE Book for Your Classroom Campaign-If you know of a classroom or library that would like a free hardcover, library-approved, diversity children’s book, have them sign up here.
Parents/Librarians/Teachers/KidLit Lovers: Free Book to Review. RYW offers a free diverse children’s book to parents, grandparents, and educators that are willing to write a review and this year we are not limiting reviewers to just bloggers. Just share on your review on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube or your blog. Get sign up details here.
Everyone: You could be a RYW Sponsor: Sponsorship is not only a great way to support this event; it is an excellent way to get an author’s name and books in front of thousands of readers. Sponsorship levels range from Platinum to Author Level and a Friends of RYW option is also available for those who would like to support the initiative with a monetary donation. RYW Sponsors not only keep the RYW machine humming, it enables us to support underserved readers, libraries, and schools all year long.
Multicultural Children’s Book Day Free Resources, Booklists, and Extension Activities for Teachers and Parents. Enjoy this vast resource list of diverse children’s books categorized by culture, religion, sexual orientation, special needs or ethnicity.
Check out the RYW Big Giant Linky for HUNDREDS of diverse kids’ and teen book recommends and reviews to help expand your home or classroom bookcase. Go HERE and scroll down.
: This new e-book is a comprehensive guide to diverse book titles for kids of all ages. Compiled by bloggers and authors and illustrated by Demi, the book will be available as a free downloadable until January 31, after which it will be available for purchase on Amazon, with proceeds benefiting MCDB initiatives.
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