The matching process between our 100+ bloggers who have signed up to review books for the event and the authors/publishers will begin December 1. That will give all of our bloggers plenty of time to read their books and create a review and companion activity. If you are a blogger who would like to be included in this event, go HERE to sign up. If you are an authors or publisher who would like to donate books go HERE for more information. We hope to hear from all of you soon!
Spotlight on a Sister Initiative:
We Need Diverse Books is a wonderful movement that gained momentum and recognition early this year. This author-driven initiative is a grassroots organization created to address the lack of diverse, non-majority narratives in children’s literature. We Need Diverse Books is committed to the ideal that embracing diversity will lead to acceptance, empathy, and ultimately equality.
Multicultural Children’s Book Day and We Need Diverse Books are working towards the same cause, just from different angles. WNDB is working very hard to change and shift the mindset of the publishing industry and MCCBD is working to get diverse books into the hands of the end-user (kids, parents, teachers and librarians). Mia and I will be attending some huge book events soon and hope to have a conversation with the WNDB team to learn more about how we can help each other. The more of us spreading the word and shining the spotlight on diverse books, the better!
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Naila Moon says
I came over from the Kid Lit Hop and signed up for the event! 🙂
Catherine says
Thank you for all your hard work putting MCCBD together 🙂
#KLBH
ValarieBudayr says
Thank you so much for joining us Catherine! We are so glad to have some Australia children’s book bloggers joining us this year! We are getting digital books for our International bloggers this year (sorry we didn’t have that last year!).
Cheryl Carpinello says
Such a huge undertaking. Congrats on all your efforts and successes!!
ValarieBudayr says
Thank you so much Cheryl!!
Renee @ Mother Daughter Book Reviews says
Woot! Congrats on pulling together such an AMAZING event! It is getting to be such a huge thing and I’m so excited to be part of MCCBD again this year. 🙂
ValarieBudayr says
Hi Renee,
We are thrilled to have you and your wonderful blog on board! Thank you for your support!