Flash Back Time! On January 27th, 2012 over 100 parenting, education, and children's book bloggers showed up for the very first time to review diverse books for kids and teens on their respective blogs. These posts and shares ultimately reached over 2 million eyeballs across Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+. As I was sifting through old...
If you are looking for guest posts about diverse books that focus on timely topics & unique language, there have been many on Multicultural Children’s Book Day blog recently....
As the 7th annual MCBD approaches on January 31, 2020, we have been eyeball deep in all-things-Multicultural Children’s Book Day and loving every second of it! Here are some reasons why we know for a FACT, that the 2020 Multicultural Children's Book Day will be the best EVER. 5 things to look forward to for Multicultural Children’s...
Guest post from the Pack-n-Go Girls Great news! We're just weeks away from releasing Mystery of the Naga at Night, the second book in the Thailand series. Girls from around the world have been pre-reading it and they're loving it. Here's a bit about the book: Welcome to Thailand! Rustle. Crunch. Rustle. Crunch. Something creeps by Jess’ window in a...
First Global Challenge, an international competition, brought teen-agers from over 150 countries around the world to Washington, D.C. this summer. Students collaborated across countries and borders to build robots which would reduce water contamination. A keynote speaker observed that in the future there would be many opportunities for budding scientists from around the world to work together for peaceful purposes.
This is the world that we need to prepare our children for. Regardless of their career choices or where they may live, it is more probable than ever that they will be communicating and working with people from diverse language and cultural backgrounds.
Let’s give them an early start learning a foreign language. One can learn a language at any age, but children who start early have more years to become truly proficient and to have a marketable skill.