Through color-coding in stores, kids "learn" which toys are "supposed" to be for girls or boy. Pink and yellow toys are considered "girly" and anything blue or dark green is obviously for boys, right? What about the toys themselves? Can boys play with dolls and girls play with trucks? Of course, they can. And that's the open-minded...
Guest Post By Deborah Salazar Shapiro The breeze was blowing in. I could smell and admire the vastness of the beautiful blue ocean. It was 2011. Next to me on the ferry, along with my husband-to-be, was a happy group of fellow travelers also on their way to the island of Zanzibar, off the coast of...
Guest post by author and coach, Kevin Christofora There are some values that are always important to instill in your children, but occasionally, certain ones become even more pertinent than others. One that seems particularly essential these days is tolerance. All over the world, there’s an upswing in people fearing and blaming people who are...
(Guest post by Becky Flansburg; Project Manager for MCBD) Not long ago, I had the absolute pleasure of interviewing publisher, Philip Lee. As one of the former founders of Lee & Low Books, Philip left the company in 2004 to create his own publishing house, Readers to Eaters, in 2009. It was Philip that clued me...
Carole P Roman is a long-time supporter and Bronze Level Sponsor for MCBD2018. Carole has published over 50 books and she has multiple series that are all amazing. Her If You Were Me and Lived in…” combines her teaching past with her love of exploration and interest in the world around us and is a perennial...