Multicultural Children's Book Day

#ReadYourWorld

How MCBD Can Promote Your Diverse Kidlit

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Every day the MCBD Team checks our emails, and we are always blown away by the quality and beauty of the upcoming diverse books for kids from new, or veteran, authors. Most of these emails are requests for a book review, and though we are honored, we have to sadly decline.

Here’s why:

The Multicultural Children’s Book Team currently (this could change in the future) does not review books on our blog and social media. Our team is small and there are already just not enough hours in the day for us!

BUT we do have different opportunities available for authors to shine the spotlight on their diverse books and even unique ways to collaborate with us. Some are paid options, some are not. [Read more…]

Where’s My Book? And the Next Steps for MCBD2021 Book Reviewers

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“Where’s my diverse book?”

“My book review is ready, what now?”

We are getting a lot of these types of questions lately and we TOTALLY get it. So here is some info that will help everyone navigate both: [Read more…]

A 15-Book Giveaway! to Celebrate 15k On Instagram!

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***WE DID IT! MCBD has achieved 15,000 Followers on Instagram!!****

A huge THANK YOU to everyone who has supported us a helped us hit this HUGE milestone! In honor of this epic victory, we are doing a 15-Book Giveaway!

Fifteen Diverse Books to WIN

Sumo Joe by Mia Wenjen, illustrated by Nat Iwata
No Steps Behind: Beate Sirota Gordon’s Battle for Women’s Rights in Japan by Jeff Gottesfeld, illustrated by Shiella Witanto
No Voice Too Small: Fourteen Young Americans Making History edited by Lindsay H. Metcalf, Keila V. Dawson, Jeanette Bradley, illustrated by Jeanette Bradley (2 copies)
Sissy Goes Tiny by Rebecca Flansburg and B.A. Norrgard (A diverse picture book about living MORE with LESS).
“13” by Dani Dixon
Climate Change Captives 2035 by Carolyn Wilhelm
Alex Asks About Aunty’s Airplane Day by Carolyn Wilhelm
When God Made the World by Matthew Paul Turner
In The Nick of Time by Deedee Cummings
This is the Earth by Deedee Cummings
American History: Asians in America by Casey Bell
LaDonna’s Easter in Paris by Kimberly Gordon-Biddle

Giveaway Rules and Details

ONE winner will receive a copy of each of the books listed above Giveaway begins October 31, 2020

  • Prizing & samples  courtesy of Authors of the above books
  • Giveaway open to US addresses only
  • ONE lucky winner will win one copy of each of the above books.
  • Winner must have USA shipping address.
  • Must be 18 years or older to enter
  • One entry per household.
  • Staff and family members of Multicultural Children’s Book Day are not eligible.
  • The Book Bundle winner has 48 hours to claim the prize. After 48 hours, a new winner will be selected.
  • ONE Winner will be chosen via Rafflecopter on November 16, 2020

BUT FIRST, here’s how YOU can support Multicultural Children’s Book Day!

The online event/holiday takes the last Friday of every January so this year it will fall on 1/29/21 and this will be our 8th Multicultural Children’s Book Day celebration! We would love to have you participate in our upcoming event and here are a few ways you can do so:

  1. Donate Books: For our next online event, we will have hundreds of book reviewers signed up to review diverse children’s books on their blogs or on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube. Authors and publishers have the option of offering copies of their multicultural children’s books to our reviewers to review and write a social media review about. There are no guarantees that we will be able to match your book to a reviewer(s), but if this interests you, let me know. We will provide you with names and addresses and you mail your book directly to the reviewer.

Go here to sign up as a book donator.

  1. Multiple options for Sponsorship: Sponsorship is not only a great way to support this event; it is an excellent way to get your name (and your books) in front of thousands of readers. All of our Sponsors get a name mention within the hundreds of reviews that get posted from December through to the end of January and also on the sites of our 26 CoHosts sites.  

Go here to download our Sponsorship Packet and learn about participation that will fit any budget.   

  1. Connect with us on social media and share, share, share! Our official hashtag is #ReadYourWorld

– Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/MulticulturalChildrensBookDay

– Twitter https://twitter.com/MCChildsBookDay

-Instagram https://www.instagram.com/readyourworldmcbd/

-Reminder: The hashtag for this event is #ReadYourWorld

  1. Guest post: We are always looking for quality guest posts from authors and publishers on the MCBD blog. If you’d like to share the details of your writing journey and details of how your book came to be, we’d love to have you. I’ve attached some guidelines for your review.
  1. Join our private Facebook Group: This group has grown and evolved into something very special. Feel free to join:)

ENTER TO WIN A Multicultural Children’s Book Day 15-Book Giveaway to Celebrate 15k Followers on Instagram!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

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Book Reviewers! We Need YOU!


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 diverse kidlit or YA book to review!

AND, you don’t have to be a blogger to review multicultural children’s books for our MCBD 2021 online event. You just need to have a love of diversity in children’s literature and be willing to share on your social media platforms such as:

Facebook (Pages only-no Facebook profiles)

Twitter (Private Accounts are not Eligible)

Pinterest

Instagram (Private Accounts are not Eligible)

YouTube

Blogs

**We encourage honest Amazon reviews of assigned books whenever possible as well.

Reviewer sign-up deadline is 12/15/20

(NOTE: We will not be shipping out any books for the 2020 online event until Nov/Dec of 2020!

It’s September and we are OPEN FOR BUSINESS!

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It’s time! We are throwing open the hypothetical doors and kicking off the beginning of the adventure known as the 8th Annual Multicultural Children’s Book Day (MCBD)!

As of 9/1, the MCBD2021 book reviewer sign-up is open, all Sponsorship Levels are open, and Book Donator sign-up is open as well.

January 29, 2021, will mark the 8th year of Multicultural Children’s Book Day’s quest to get culturally diverse books into the hands of children, parents, teachers, and librarians. Let the book love begin!

Here’s The Breakdown of How you can get involved in Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2021

 

Sponsorships for the Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2021 Event are OPEN! 

How to be a Multicultural Children's Book Day SPONSOR

Sponsorship is a great way to support our non-profit initiative while tapping into some amazing visibility and exposure for authors and publishers of diverse board books, picture books, chapter books, and YA. Learn more here: https://wp.me/P5tVud-1A

 

Multicultural Children’s Book Day Book Reviewers-We Need YOU!

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!

Book reviewers need at least one non-private social media account, plus the ability to leave a review on Amazon, to be able to qualify for a free book.

Acceptable social media platforms include Facebook (Pages only-no Profiles), and non-private Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, or YouTube accounts.

Get the full scoop HERE: https://wp.me/P5tVud-hm

 

Book Donator Sign-up for MCBD2021 is OPEN!

Publishers/Authors-if you have multicultural books for kids that you would like to get into the hands of deserving teachers, librarians, parents, and young readers, we could use your help!

Diverse board books, picture books, chapter books, and YA books that are donated to this non-profit initiative help us to continue to raise awareness on the importance of kids being able to “see themselves” in the pages of the books they read. Multicultural books also help readers learn about new traditions, cultures, religions, and ethnicities within the pages of a book.

If you’d like to help do your part and make a difference. GO HERE and to see who you can help:   https://wp.me/P5tVud-MR

Questions? Email MCBD Admin Kristi at Admin (at) MulticulturalChildrensBookDay (dot)