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Thank You for Celebrating #ReadYourWorld Virtual Party 2024

Our 2024 Read Your World virtual party celebrating Multicultural Children’s Book Day is the culmination of a year’s worth of planning, organizing, and rallying the support of the almost 900 reviewers, 212 book donors, our financial supporters and donors (listed here on our Donor Wall), our cohosts and global cohosts, illustrators, and of course, our medallion, corporate and author sponsors listed below.

Thank you so much for your support! 

🏅 Super Platinum Sponsor: Author Deedee Cummings and Make A Way Media

🏅 Platinum Sponsors: Publisher Spotlight, Language Lizard Bilingual Books in 50+ Languages, Lerner Publishing Group, Children’s Book Council

🏅 Gold Sponsors:  Barefoot Books, Astra Books for Young Readers

🏅 Silver Sponsors: Red Comet Press, Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, Valerie Williams-Sanchez and Valorena Publishing, Lee and Low Books, Cardinal Rule Press

🏅 Bronze Sponsors: CK Malone, Tonya Duncan Ellis, Anita Crawford Clark, Star Bright Books, Blue Dot Kids Press, Brunella Costagliola, Red Fin, Fabled Films 

Ruby Sponsor: Crayola 

Authors: Gwen Jackson, Josh Funk, Eugenia Chu, Sivan Hong, Marta Magellan, Kathleen Burkinshaw, Angela H. Dale, Maritza M Mejia, Authors J.C. Kato and J.C.², Charnaie Gordon,  Alva Sachs, Amanda Hsiung-Blodgett, Lisa Chong, Diana Huang, Martha Seif Simpson, Daria Marmaluk-Hajioannou, Gea Meijering, Stephanie M. Wildman, Tracey Kyle, Afsaneh Moradian, Kim C. Lee, Rochelle Melander, Beth Ruffin, Shifa Saltagi Safadi, Alina Chau, Michael Genhart, Sally J. Pla, Ajuan Mance, Kimberly Marcus, Lindsey Rowe Parker

Founder’s Circle: Mia Wenjen (Pragmaticmom) and Valarie Budayr (Audreypress.com)

 

The virtual party was a hit!  It was so lovely to interact with our participants and read their answers. They gave us so many recommendations! So stay tuned for another post.

Congrats to the winners of our giveaway!

If you missed our virtual party, don’t worry we recorded it for you! You can also click through the slide deck that was used during the party as well.

2024 Read Your World Virtual Party

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Frances Evans

Frances Díaz Evans is a Latina Author, Educator, Multicultural and Language Advocate. She holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Universidad del Este in Puerto Rico and a master’s degree in Spanish education from the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina. She joined Multicultural Children’s Book Day in the early days advocating for multicultural books as a book reviewer, then as a co-host, and now she’s excited to take on the role of project manager. Frances can be reached at admin (at) multiculturalchildrensbookday.com