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Welcome to Thailand! Mystery of the Naga at Night

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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 Thai hill tribe village. Whatever it sounds close enough to touch. The wind blows. Pebbles scatter. A shadow slithers through the moonlight. What is this mysterious creature doing slipping into the jungle every night? Jess and Nong May are determined to find out.

 
And here’s how to get an advance reader’s copy–for free! We’re headed to the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) conference in Louisville, Kentucky, in November. Is your favorite librarian planning to attend the conference? If so let us know and we’ll reserve a free advanced reader copy for you and one for your librarian. We have a limited number that we’re setting aside for advanced requests, so let us know ASAP at hello@packngogirls.com and we’ll send you instructions for reserving your copy.
If you haven’t already discovered Pack-n-Go Girls Adventures you’re in for a treat. This early chapter book series reflects the diversity in our world. American girls from all parts of the country travel to Thailand, Mexico, Brazil, Austria, and Australia where they solve spooky mysteries and create new friendships. We inspire readers to embrace adventure, be curious, value what unites us, and celebrate the differences that make us unique. It’s a boundary-less world out there. Teach your kids to become global kids!
Want to discover more about Pack-n-Go Girls? Sign up here and get our Adventure Starter Kit as our gift to you. Your kids will love the fun activities!
Mystery of the Naga at Night

Mystery of the Naga at Night

More About the Pack-n-Go Girls

The Pack-N-Go Girls are a MCBD2020 PLATINUM SPONSOR!

Dreaming of true-blue friends, mysterious adventures, and faraway places? Pack-n-Go Girls take you there!

2017 Literary Classics Winner – Best Series – Young Reader
2017 Moonbeam Children’s Book Winner – Best Chapter Book Series
2014 Moonbeam Children’s Book Winner – Best Chapter Book Series
Readers tour haunted castles in Austria, catch thieves in Mexico, save dolphins and turtles in Brazil, search for lost golden temples in Thailand, and chase aliens in Australia. AND at the same time, they’re inspired to embrace adventure, be curious, value what unites us, and celebrate the differences that make us unique. Kids discover the diversity of cultures and the richness each one contributes to the world.
Headquartered in Colorado Springs, CO, Pack-n-Go Girls specializes in creating innovative stories for girls that deliver positive messages around independence, adventure, and global awareness.
PNGG’s newest offering is Mystery of the Rusty Key, the second book in the Australian adventures. Here’s a bit about both books:
Image of Mystery of the Min Min Lights https://app.box.com/s/6bnmjmilq1ud4c54mo96kyh987j769zv 
Mystery of the Min Min Lights – Australia 1
Journey into the dusty, windswept Australian outback, land of bounding kangaroos and dazzling sunsets. Wendy Lee arrives from California. She’s lucky to meet Chloe and Jacko Taylor, who invite Wendy to their sheep station. It sounds like fun except that someone is stealing the sheep. And the thief just might be something as crazy as a UFO.
Image of Mystery of the Rusty Key https://app.box.com/s/vj89d47wnyvbm0okmd6j2btrnx8mnaep
 
Mystery of the Rusty Key – Australia 2
Wendy, Chloe, and Jacko travel to Sydney and dive straight into another mystery where they must unravel four spooky clues: an ancient letter, a rusty key, a missing box, and a curse. The kids race against time to solve the mystery before the clock strikes midnight.
Learn more about the Pack-n-Go Girls® books and related products HERE.
Follow the Pack-n-Go Girls® on Twitter:@packngogirls , Instagram, Pinterest, and on Facebook: facebook.com/packngogirls

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!

AND…you don’t have to be a blogger to review multicultural children’s books for our MCBD2020 (1/31/20) 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, Pinterest, Instagram, or YouTube. We encourage honest Amazon reviews of assigned books whenever possible as well.

SIGN UP HERE to be an MCBD2020 book reviewer ASAP and go HERE for the detailed explanation of what it means to be a valued book reviewer for our MCBD2020 celebration

(Signup deadline is 12/15/19)

The Multicultural Children’s Book Day Official 2020 Poster is HERE!

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It’s HERE! We are thrilled and excited not only that our official 2020 poster is complete, but also because award-winning author/illustrator Jerry Craft was the creator!

Multicultural Children’s Book Day Official 2020 Poster

Multicultural Children's Book Day Official 2020 Poster

Not only do we love Jerry’s style, but we also knew we wanted a poster that reflects older children this year. Jerry rose to the task and created this exceptional and memorable Multicultural Children’s Book Day Official 2020 Poster.

Download your poster HERE.

About Jerry Craft

JERRY CRAFT is an author and illustrator. New Kid is his middle-grade graphic novel that has earned five starred reviews, including one from Booklist magazine, which called it “possibly one of the most important graphic novels of the year.” Kirkus Reviews called it “an engrossing, humorous, and vitally important graphic novel that should be required reading in every middle school in America.”

He is the creator of Mama’s Boyz, a comic strip that was distributed by King Features Syndicate from 1995-2013, and won five African American Literary Awards. Jerry is a co-founder of the Schomburg’s Annual Black Comic Book Festival. He was born in Harlem and grew up in nearby Washington Heights. He is a graduate of The Fieldston School and received his B.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts.

How YOU Can Get Involved In MCBD2020

As you know, MCBD is a non-profit that works with authors to get their books reviewed during our online event and also works to get free diversity children’s books into the hands of young readers.

The online event/holiday takes the last Friday of every January so this year it will fall on 1/31/20 and this will be our SEVENTH 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.

**NOTE: We do not limit book reviewers to just bloggers. There are so many book-loving moms who have vibrant social media channels we have opened up review options to include social media to give those who are not bloggers a chance to share books with their followers.

  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 20+ CoHosts sites. First consideration for matching books to reviewers always goes to our paid Sponsors first as well.

Go here to learn more: https://multiculturalchildrensbookday.com/sponsorship/sponsorship-info/

  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.
  2. Join our private Facebook Group: This group has grown and evolved into something very special. Feel free to joinand I will add you 🙂

MCBD Links to remember:

MCBD site: https://multiculturalchildrensbookday.com/

Free Multicultural Books for Teachers: http://bit.ly/1kGZrta

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 Diversity Book Lists and Activities for Teachers and Parents: http://bit.ly/1sZ5s8i

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

 

Diverse Children’s Book Reviewers: Get a Free Book for MCBD2020

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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!

January 31, 2020, will mark the 7th year of Multicultural Children’s Book Day’s (MCBD) quest to get culturally diverse books into the hands of children, parents, teachers, and librarians. As you may know, Multicultural Children’s Book Day (MCBD) is a non-profit that works with authors to get their books reviewed during our online event and also works to get free diversity children’s books into the hands of young readers.

Multicultural Children's Book Day Official 2020 Poster

In a nutshell; you don’t have to be a blogger to review multicultural children’s books for our MCBD2020 (1/31/20) 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, Pinterest, Instagram, or YouTube. We encourage honest Amazon reviews of assigned books whenever possible as well.

SIGN UP HERE to be an MCBD2020 book reviewer or use the embedded form below.

(Signup deadline is 12/15/19)

Reviewers are then “matched” with an author or publisher that will supply them with a free children’s book to review. Reviewers are encouraged to read the books and share their thoughts on the book (a basic book review) in the form of a complete review post that can (optional) contain fun book-related activities that will bring the story to life.

​Once the book review you, the reviewer, write is posted via your blog and/or your social media  (any time between January 1 and January 31, 2020 is good). The MCBD linky will go live on January 31st 2020 and reviewers are invited to “link up” their blog post on the Linky that will be found on the MCBD website. plus any of our CoHosts’ sites

Reviewer sign-up deadline is 12/15/19 (NOTE: We will not be shipping out any books for the 2020 online event until Nov/Dec of 2019!

Reviewers can sign up via a Google Sign-up and review a multicultural children’s book for this event.

Important MCBD Links

The Multicultural Children’s Book Day website and view our booklists, reading resources and other useful multicultural information.

Multicultural Books for Kids Pinterest Board has even more reading ideas.

Watch for the #ReadYourWorld hashtag on social media and share

List of our CoHosts- https://multiculturalchildrensbookday.com/about/co-hosts/

Our Instagram Account https://www.instagram.com/readyourworldmcbd/

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

-Our Twitter https://twitter.com/MCChildsBookDay

Sign up Here to be a Reviewer for MCBD2020

Our July Flash Sale is Over, but here’s what upcoming at MCBD

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Our much-anticipated July Flash Sale on Author and Platinum Level Sponsorships has just wrapped and we are over-the-moon excited to welcome PLATINUM Sponsors for Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2020; Language Lizard and Pack-n-Go-Girls!

Both are long-time supporters of MCBD and both offer amazing books for parents, caregivers, teachers, and librarians.

If you missed the sale; don’t despair! All Sponsorship levels for MCBD2020 will reopen September 1, 2019, and you can lock in your spot at that time.

Author Sponsors for MCBD2020 (with more to come!)

2019 Author Sponsors

We’d also give a round of applause to returning, and new, Author Sponsors Audrey R. Bey, Eugina Chu, Fathers Incorporated/Kenneth Braswell, Maritza M. Mejia, Kathy Burkinshaw, Josh Funk, Bollywood Groove, Lauren Muskovitz, The Little Green Monster: Cancer Magic! by Sharon Chappell, Phe Lang, Afsaneh Moradian, Valerie Williams-Sanchez, TUMBLE CREEK PRESS, Nancy Tupper Ling, Gwendolyn Jackson, Angeliki Pedersen, Kimberly Gordon Biddle, Mia Wenjen and The #OWN VOICES ebook, Susan Bernardo, Ann Morris, Janet Balletta, Evelyn Sanchez-Toledo, Shoumi Sen, and Sarah Stevenson.

And this is just the beginning! Stay tuned to see what other amazing diverse authors, publishers, and organizations join us in the coming months for the seventh Multicultural Children’s Book Day on January 31, 2020.

New on the Blog

 

In case you missed it, Part 2 of our Kidlit Books that Share Physical and Developmental Challenges is live on the MCBD blog. Go HERE to read the list and discover new diverse books for your home or classroom bookshelf.

Like we mentioned in the previous post about our new 2019/2020 Multicultural Children’s Book Day Classroom Kit-Understand and Celebrate our Differences, we encountered more amazing books on these topics than we had room for in the final Kit!

PART ONE of this bonus list can be found HERE.

Our Latest FREE Classroom Kit

Creating this downloadable kit has been eye-opening and educational and we’ve done our best to pass the lessons on to those who welcome this kit into their classrooms and homes.

Don’t forget to download your FREE Teacher Classroom Physical and Developmental Challenges Kit as well.

Our FREE Classroom Kit contains:

~ Classroom Books that will help Readers Understand Physical and Developmental Challenges for ages 4 -12

~ Classroom or Home Activities

~ “Physical and Developmental Challenges” Classroom Poster thanks to the talents of award-winning illustrator, SKlakina

~Helpful Physical and Developmental Challenge Talking Points for Teachers

~Links, resources and services available to families facing the challenges of coping with Physical and Developmental Challenges in the U.S.A

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