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Read Your World-5 Classroom Books About Kindness

June 3, 2021 by Valarie Budayr

Now more than ever, a message of hope, compassion, empathy, and understanding is needed.

Now more than ever, children need to see themselves reflected in the pages of the books they read. Readers of all ages need to be able to “read their world” to both see themselves, and those are who different, whether by culture, religion, sexual orientation, special needs, or ethnicity.

Now more than ever, we need to come together as a nation of beautifully diverse people.

These profound thoughts were on the introduction page of one of the very first free Downloadable Kits that the MCBD Team ever created. The Multicultural Children’s Book Day Classroom Kindness Kit and Diverse Booklist were created back in 2018, even after a handful of years, and this message has not changed one bit.

So in honor of the Number One in a series of free downloadable classroom kits our team has created over the years, here is a sneak peek at five of the books from our Read Your World Booklist on Kindness.

  1.  Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson

Winner of the Coretta Scott King Honor and the Jane Addams Peace Award, Each Kindness brings to mind that the smallest act of kindness can change the world.

Chloe and her friends refuse to let the new girl at school, Maya play with them. Each time Maya tries to play with Chloe and her friends she is rejected and turned away. Because of the unkindness, Maya stops coming to school altogether. Chloe’s teacher gives impactful lessons on how little things matter. Chloe realizes what she has done and feels regretful for the unkindness and lost opportunity of friendship with Maya.

  1. The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes

The Hundred Dresses won the Newbery Honor award in 1945 and has never been out of print. Wanda Petronski is a polish girl who goes to a Connecticut school. She is made fun of and ridiculed by her classmates for wearing the same faded blue dress every day.

Wanda claims that she has 100 dresses at home but everyone knows she doesn’t. Wanda becomes the focus of intense bullying. Her classmates realize they have gone too far when Wanda is pulled out of school. Too late for apologies, one of Wanda’s classmates makes the decision that she will never stand by and NOT say anything again.

  1. Wonder by R. J. Palacio

Wonder is the book that inspired the Choose Kind movement.

August Pullman is a boy who was born with a facial deformity that has prevented him from going to a mainstream school. Starting in 5th grade, however, all of that changed and he found himself at Beecher Prep. His greatest wish in life is to be treated like a normal kid. His new classmates can’t get past his extraordinary face. Written from a variety of perspectives Wonder deals with a community’s struggle with empath, compassion, and acceptance.

  1. What Does It Mean to Be Kind? by Rana DiOrio

A girl in a red hat finds the courage to be kind to the new student in her class. Her kindness spreads, kind act by kind act until her whole community experiences the magical shift that happens when everyone understands—and acts on—what it means to be kind.

  1. Enemy Pie by Derek Munson

It was the perfect summer. That is until Jeremy Ross moved into the house down the street and became neighborhood enemy number one. Luckily Dad had a surefire way to get rid of enemies: Enemy Pie. But part of the secret recipe is spending an entire day playing with the enemy!

In this funny yet endearing story, one little boy learns an effective recipe for turning your best enemy into your best friend. Accompanied by charming illustrations, Enemy Pie serves up a sweet lesson in the difficulties and ultimate rewards of making new friends.

Kindness Activities

All of our free downloadable Classroom Kits include easy activities that will help to emphasize the chosen topic and complement the books on our booklist. Here’s a sample.

The Kindness Jar: Take a tall canning jar or any tall jar. As each person in the classroom or school community witnesses an act of kindness, they write it down on a slip of paper and place it in the kindness jar. At the end of each week read how much kindness has been generated in your classroom.

The MCBD Team invites you to grab your free Classroom (and Home!) Kindness Kit HERE.

Our FREE Kindness Classroom Kit containing:

  • Diverse Kindness Book List for ages 4 -12
  • Classroom Kindness Activities
  • “Be a Hero Be Kind” Kindness Poster
  • Multicultural Children’s Book Day Poster

 

Sign up is quick, easy, and FREE. Go HERE to grab your Kindness Classroom Kit and together we can Be a Hero, Be Kind.

Hashtag: Don’t forget to connect with us on social media and be sure and look for/use their official hashtag #ReadYourWorld

 

Filed Under: Classroom Kit, Diverse Book Review, Multicultural Booklist Tagged With: Books About Kindness

A Downloadable Classroom Kit just for Homeschoolers!

September 15, 2020 by Valarie Budayr

WE HAVE SOMETHING NEW!

INTRODUCING MCBD’S World Travel from your Homeschool Table: A Diverse Kidlit Booklist & Activity Kit for Homeschoolers and Distance Learners. This is a Bonus Kit that we created as a resource for homeschoolers.

As you may already know, we create free, info-packed kits that are packed with diverse booklist suggestions and companion activities to keep kids reading during the school year.

These free kits are usually created for traditional classrooms, but with the uptick of families switching to homeschooling, we wanted something that would benefit this specific group of learners. Here’s a sample of what’s inside:

Diverse Picture Book Recommendations and Activities for Explorers ages 4-12

A Bonus Booklist from our 2020 Activists and Activism Classroom Kit!

Special Homeschool Activities for Young Explorers Courtesy of:

    • Barefoot Books!
    • Language Lizard!
    • The Pack-n-Go Girls!
    • KidLitTV!

See What Else You Can Expect from this FREE Homeschool-themed Downloadable Kit HERE

DID YOU KNOW…

Did you know that MCBD has many other Free Resources and Classroom Kits! It’s true! Our Diversity Book Lists & Activities for Teachers and Parents page is the motherlode of downloadable/clickable “List of Lists” that are designed to help parents, teachers, and caregivers find the multicultural and diverse book titles for kids that they need.

All of these diverse and multicultural book lists are also broken down into easy-to-find topics and themes. Every blue title linked to more book lists on that topic. Here are some examples of some of  our lists that are in high demand right now:

Anti-Racist Books and Resources

Imagination Soup: Anti-Racist Books for Kids Ages 8 – 12

The Conscious Kid: Critical Conversations

PragmaticMom: White Privilege Books for Kids

Feminist Books for Kids: 9 Children’s Books About Police Brutality

Imagination Soup: Picture Books That Teach Kids About Prejudice, Inclusion, and Kindness

PragmaticMom: How To Teach Kids About Microaggressions

InCulture Parent: 6 Children’s Books to Celebrate Juneteenth

Colours of Us: 37 Children’s Books to help talk about Racism & Discrimination

PragmaticMom: Children’s Books about Skin Color

PragmaticMom: Antiracist Books for Kids, Teens, and Adults

Colours of Us: 150 Children’s Books Celebrating Black Boys

GO HERE to view these resources plus the links to all of our FREE Classroom and Homeschool Kits.


BOOK REVIEWERS, WE.Need. YOU. for MCBD2021!

If you love diverse books for kids and have a social media platform to share a review on, we want to give you a FREE diversity book to review!

AND…you don’t have to be a blogger to review multicultural children’s books for our MCBD2020 (1/29/21) online event. Go here to learn more about how this process works. 

You just need to have a love of diversity in children’s literature, have one non-private social media account on Facebook (Pages only-no Facebook profiles), Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, or YouTube, and be able to leave an honest Amazon review of your assigned book.

SIGN UP to be an MCBD2021 book reviewer HERE and learn more about what it takes to join the MCBD2021 celebration

(Signup deadline is 12/15/20)

Filed Under: Classroom Kit, Diverse Book Review, diversity in children’s books, Multicultural Booklist Tagged With: Classroom Kit just for Homeschoolers, Diverse Kidlit Booklist, Free Resources for homeschoolers

Book-Inspired Activities to Keep Young Minds Learning | Part One

April 21, 2020 by Valarie Budayr

Free Resources for Distance Learners and Homeschoolers! Our amazing authors and publishers have banded together to help us keep feeling/sharing/inspiring those learning from home with free or affordable book-inspired activities and learning tools. Enjoy!

Book-Inspired Activities to Keep Young Minds Learning | Part One

 

Who’s ready for some Indoor Reading BINGO? Free download @ https://bit.ly/3aBuNw8. Happy Reading!

Author Felicia Lee has some awesome free downloadable coloring sheets HERE.

News channels NBC4i has a great My 2020 COVID-19 Time Capsule activity for kids. It’s a very fun way to help kids record and create their own report about this moment in history that we are all experiencing.

 

Multicultural Blog Posts and Free Resources

This classroom guide for LaDonna Plays Hoops is designed for students in second through fourth grade. It is assumed that teachers will adapt each activity to fit the needs and abilities of their own students. It offers activities to help teachers integrate LaDonna Plays Hoops into English language arts (ELA), mathematics, science, and social studies curricula. Art and drama are used as a teaching tool throughout the guide. All activities were created in conjunction with relevant content standards in ELA, math, science, social studies, art, and drama.

Download here.

LaDonna Plays Hoops Teachers Guide

 

Teacher Resources from Delalma Publications!

  • Mexican Foods Supplementary Activity
  • ¡Todos a celebrar! A Hispanic Customs & Traditions Alphabet Book
  • Hello, Zapata! ¡Hola!

Author Julia Inserro has an exceptional blog post called Surviving 30+ Days of Quarantine with Littles

If your kids’ school is shuttered, we’ve got news for you! The KLTV team has created a virtual library of FREE read alouds, podcasts, #kidlitcrafts & #homeschooling drawing & writing resources for kids!
Click: https://t.co/L4hE8wWD1n @diversebooks @MCChildsBookDay @ALALibrary pic.twitter.com/mPhqx9l2Oo

— KidLit TV (@KidLitTV_NYC) March 15, 2020

eLearning Links and Resources from MCBD Sponsors

Pack-n-Go Girls

Pack-n-Go Girls with the express intention to increase children’s creativity and curiosity, appreciation for other cultures, and a sense of adventure in a boundaryless world. To that end, we provide learning activities and presentations to inspire kids to learn and grow as global citizens.

FREE ACTIVITIES

Download and print these FREE activities to go along with your Pack-n-Go Girls stories.

COLOR THE CASTLE

WORD SEARCH

LANGUAGE DETECTIVE

 

LEARN SPANISH

DOLLARS AND PESOS

Language Lizard

Their newest educational resource, Building Bridges With Bilingual Books And Multicultural Resources is now available in a complete teacher’s set. These sets are available in Spanish and Arabic, as well as a set with assorted languages. Read on to learn more about these sets.

Complete Teacher’s Set for Culturally Responsive Classrooms

Each teacher’s set comes with 10 picture books that pair with the multicultural lesson plans and diversity activities contained in the Building Bridges English-only teacher resource guide.

 Building Bridges With Bilingual Books And Multicultural Resources

Building Bridges With Bilingual Books And Multicultural Resources

Their FREE Downloadable Class Kit project has been wildly successful as well:

Free Classroom Empathy Kit for Homeschoolers, Organizations, Librarians, and Educators: https://multiculturalchildrensbookday.com/mcbd2018s-free-classroom-empathy-kit-is-here-empathy-immigration/

Free Kindness Classroom Kit for Homeschoolers, Organizations, Librarians, and Educators: https://multiculturalchildrensbookday.com/teachers-classroom-kindness-kit/

Free Classroom Kit–Poverty Doesn’t Discriminate | Understanding Poverty in America:

Free Classroom Physical and Developmental Challenges Kit:

Have questions on How You Can Get Involved In Multicultural Children’s Book Day? Connect with the Project Manager at Becky (at) MulticulturalChildrensBookDay (dot) com.

 

 

ONE MORE THING

Show some social media love while marketing your book (or an author you admire) in a creative and far-reaching way!

Social Media Shout-Outs

Multicultural Children’s Book Day Social Media Shout-Outs

Our Social Media Shout-Outs has escalated in popularity over the last few months because folks see that it an affordable way to show some online love to their own work, an author they admire, or a book they admire. MCBD Social Media Shout-Outs also acts as a fundraiser for this non-profit.

Multicultural Children’s Book Day Social Media Shout-Out =$25 (sale price good until 2/28/20)

Anyone with a PayPal account can gift an online “shout-out” to an author friend who has a kid’s or YA book with a diversity theme OR use it as an effective tool for their own book marketing and book promotion.

Using a custom image created by the MCBD Team, we will provide one share/post our Twitter feed (over 13.7K followers) on our Instagram Feed (over 10.500 followers), within our Multicultural Children’s Book Day Private Facebook Group (over 1500 Members) and our Facebook page (over 4K followers) as well.

That’s a LOT of eyeballs!

GO HERE to get more details, see more samples of past Shout-Outs, and to purchase your own Social Media Shout Out to honor someone in the world of diverse books for kids and teens! #ReadYourWorld

 

Filed Under: Classroom Kit, Free Resources, Multicultural Booklist Tagged With: book-inspired activities, Free Resources for distance learners, Free Resources for homeschoolers

The 2019/2020 Free Classroom Kit is in the works!

May 18, 2019 by Valarie Budayr

One of the many missions of MCBD is to always be providing new diverse children’s book resources for young readers, parents, teachers, and librarians to utilize. One of our popular free offerings is our yearly downloadable Classroom Kits. In past years, MCBD has produced kits with themes that include Kindness, Empathy, and Poverty. All of these Kits contain robust diverse book recommends, resources, and unique activities and talking points that are perfect for classroom settings.
For the 2019/2020 season, we are proud to announce that we are currently working our newest Kit: Multicultural Children’s Book Day  2020 Free Teacher Classroom Physical and Developmental Challenge Kit: Understand and celebrate our differences.
This Kit is being created as we speak so if you know of specific children’s or YA books and activities relating to the below topics. please let us know and we will consider adding them to this Kit:
  • Deafness
  • Visually Impaired
  • Speech Impaired
  • Autism
  • Cerebral Palsy
  • Orthopedic impairment (wheeled heroes)
  • OCD
  • Tourette Syndrom
  • Epilepsy
  • “Hidden Disabilities” (food allergies, anxiety, depression)
  • Learning Disabilities (dyslexia, ADHD)
Email project manager Becky at Becky@multiculturalchildrensbookday.com with your thoughts and recommends.

Thank you for making this non-profit initiative a success!

Need marketing help for your multicultural children’s or YA book? We can help! The MulticulturalChildren’s Book Day Sponsored Post Package as a way to leverage our robust social media and a strong following.

Multicultural Children’s Book Day Sponsored Post Package

Sponsored Post Package

2019 Sponsored Post Examples

Tim J. Myers and Yao Bai and the Egg Pirates

Yao Bia and the Egg Pirates

Dorje the Yak by Caryn Hartman 

La Frontera: El Viaje Con Papa / My Journey With Papa by Deborah Mills and Alfredo Alva 

La Frontera Tera: El Viaje Con Papa / My Journey With Papa

Celebrating an Orthodox Christian Easter with Catherine’s Pascha

Catherine's Pascha

One of our Multicultural Children’s Book Day team members will create a custom blog post of 400-500 words. This will be published on the Multicultural Children’s Book Day blog. The post will include photos as well as a nofollow link (per Google’s rules) to the author, brand or publisher.

After publishing, the post will be shared and promoted one time across Multicultural Children’s Book Day’s social media: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest. Additional social media sharing by Jump Into a Book and PragmaticMom’s social media channels means that this post will reach more than *260,000 followers!* One of the FB or IG posts will also be boosted one time for $25, which is included in the fee. Book reviews require a sample of the product to be provided to our team prior to writing the honest review.

***Our Sponsored Post options are only available from February to September of any given year***

New to 2019!

Once created, your Sponsored Post will be shared and promoted 2X to MCBD’s social media channels (Instagram, Facebook, and Pinterest) and including 4 tweets on Twitter (an increase from last year).

MCBD will also use their Tailwind Program to post your Pinnable image to at least three pinning groups (including the HUGE Multicultural Books for Kids Board with over 16,000 followers).  For even more sharing juice, we will include it in SmartLoop (an option on Tailwind that automatically schedules certain Pins in a continuous loop into the future).

View the full details of the Sponsored Post Package by downloading the Kit HERE

**Payment must be made in full via PayPal before Campaign can begin.

***For questions or inquiries, email MCBD’s Project Manager at becky@multiculturalchildrensbookday.com

****The Multicultural Children’s Book Day Sponsored Post Package does not promise or guarantee book sales.

Our Sponsored Post options are only available from February to September of any given year***

Go here for more information on the benefits of an MCBD Sponsored Post for authors and publishers.

 


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Filed Under: Classroom Kit, Multicultural Booklist Tagged With: #ReadYourWorld, books about special needs, diverse book recommends, diverserkidlit, understanding disabilities

Our Poverty Classroom Kit and 2019 MCBD Sponsorship Info!

September 15, 2018 by Valarie Budayr

Now that the kids are back in school (or college for a few of the MCBD team) things are “full steam ahead” with getting ready for Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2019.



First, we’d like to remind everyone of the 2019 date change (and future dates for MCBD as well).

Instead of being “every January 27th,” we are shifting to a “last Friday in January” focus so we don’t interfere with International Holocaust Remembrance Day. This change just felt right and we are glad to make this positive move. So, the next Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2019 will be on January 25, 2019. [Read more…]

Filed Under: 2019 MCBD, Classroom Kit Tagged With: 2019 Classroom Poverty Kit, 2019 MCBD Sponsorship, 2019 Medallion Level Sponsorships, Author Sponsorships 2019, MCBD2019 Sponsors, Sponsorships 2019

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