It's a wrap! Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2020 is officially over and we think it was the Best.Celebration.YET. Over the last years, our online and offline diverse kidlit initiative has enabled us to not only shine the spotlight on exceptional diverse books for kids and teens but to also get to know the amazing people who bring...
Hard to believe it's approaching nearly 30 days since the mind-blowing awesome MCBD 2019 (1/25/19) celebration and we can promise all of you that we are still recovering! 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...
Six years!
Can you believe MCBD is in its SIXTH YEAR?! The Multicultural Children’s Book Day team couldn’t be proud of the success we’ve achieved and the people we’ve touched along the way.
Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2019 Poster
Our mission is to not only raise awareness for the kid’s books that celebrate diversity but to get more of these of books into classrooms and libraries.
“Daddy, daddy, look- I finally found one!” My daughter Savannah yelled to me in the middle of the Barnes and Noble bookstore. You see, a few months earlier my lovely wife and I decided that we were going to infuse Kwanzaa into our family holiday celebrations. The only problem was that we both grew up...
The clock is ticking, the calendar is flipping and MCBD 2017 is getting closer and closer! Things are coming together beautifully as the MCBD Team works frantically to pull in more children's book reviewers and get teachers and classrooms signed up for the Free Diversity Book for Your Classroom Library campaign. There is SO MUCH exciting things...