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:
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!
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.
- Diversity Book Lists and Activities for Teachers and Parents: An extensive resource of book lists and extension activities organized by geographic region, ethnicity, religion, genre, special needs, and more.
- Neurodiverse and Autistic Voices Are Your Best Autism Resources
- LGBTQIA+ Resources
- Book Giveaways with #ReadYourWorld Book Jam , featuring 24 diversity authors and illustrators in partnership with the Children’s Book Council.
- 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.
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:
Others ways to participate in the Multicultural Children’s Book Day Initiative:
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