Great things are happening at Multicultural Children’s Book Day headquarters!
*Our Poster Reveal: The official MCBD2019 poster courtesy of author/illustrator, Julie Flett, is ready to take the world by storm! Needless to say, this poster’s beauty blew us away. Go here to read Julie’s story and download a copy for your reading area, library or classroom.
*2019 Sponsorships are OPEN. Go here to lock in your spot (deadline for Sponsor sign-up is 12/15/18). Pass the word! [Read more…]
We’ve invited all of our classrooms and supporters to celebrate The Big Day anytime during 1/22 and 1/27 and we’ve already had some educators and organizations share their ReadYourWorld fun here. The buzz around this event is mind-blowing and we felt compelled to share even more fun images and examples of educators using #Readyourworld to educate Global Citizens:
Sarah Fisk from the Orange County (Orlando) Library System reached out to use in September to share their plans for Local Author Festivals in honor of Multicultural Children’s Book Day! The library had a signing-only author festival with 6 Florida authors from 2 to 4 pm. They also had Crystal Sullivan, the library’s lead storyteller, do a mini storytime for children at 2 and 3pm.
Multicultural Children’s Book Authors showed their support during Orange County Library System’s MCBD event.
Amazing lesson for Multicultural Children’s Book Day!! The book 10 Gulab Jamuns and the sweet treat made with @CampbellOutside were a huge hit with our class! Many thanks to author @SAcharya7 for sharing the book with us! #ReadYourWorld @CampbellAPS @APSVirginia pic.twitter.com/f8MrNsKHtp
— Jessica Berg (@MsBergsClass) January 25, 2018
Celebrating Multicultural Children’s Book Day! #MCBD2018 @MCChildsBookDay @JumpIntoABook1 pic.twitter.com/hXgTlVRBIG
— Mrs. R.’s Class (@rlsmrsrclass121) January 26, 2018
@KensingtonES_NC is ready for MCBW in the media center! Check out one of these books to travel the world!!! @AGHoulihan @rachelnclarke #MCBD2018 #Literacy4U #ReadYourWorld #UCPSLibraryLife pic.twitter.com/C5vqzerdgv
— Bryan McKenzie (@McKeduc8or) January 24, 2018
Here are some of our #picturebook recommendations from today! @MCChildsBookDay #ReadYourWorld #books #read #jesvt #cesuvt pic.twitter.com/OSsnl3doRe
— aimee randall (@teachvt) January 26, 2018
Celebrated Multicultural Children’s Book Day #ReadYourWorld #DiverseBooks #NoxonHeroes #MulticulturalChildrensBookDay pic.twitter.com/wK2G8PBmUy
— Melissa Tirado (@MrsTiradoENL) January 25, 2018
Book 2 for #MCBD2018! We read the Water Princess and talked about what we can do to change the world ❤ 🌍 @McKeduc8or @rachelnclarke @AGHoulihan #ReadYourWorld #UCPSLibraryLife #Literacy4U pic.twitter.com/kv7T1HIgvZ
— Felicia Moore (@Moore1stGrade) January 25, 2018
To celebrate #ReadYourWorld at @CannadayMISD today, teachers schoolwide are sharing a Multicultural Children’s Book. Cannaday teachers to enter our classroom book giveaway remember to post a pic of your readaloud w/ #ReadYourWorld & tag me!Thank you @MCChildsBookDay for the swag! pic.twitter.com/c9BhrjInrA
— Ro Menendez (@romenendez14) January 26, 2018
Book 1 for #MCBD2018– we don’t judge by our outside appearances! Made personal hashtags for ourselves & wrote postcards to friends telling them what we think about them using inside traits. @McKeduc8or @AGHoulihan @rachelnclarke #Literacy4U #UCPSLibraryLife #ReadYourWorld pic.twitter.com/qvgq6cKkrQ
— Felicia Moore (@Moore1stGrade) January 24, 2018
Home display of books set in Central and South America #ReadYourWorld #MulticulturalChildrensBookDay pic.twitter.com/1mtiNrsDfh
— Vivian Harris (@vivianharris45) January 26, 2018
Happy #MCchildrensbookday #ReadYourWorld @KNAAN you rock! Music+books=fun #jesvt #cesuvt #vted #read #books @MulticulturKids pic.twitter.com/97dS7Au8fu
— aimee randall (@teachvt) January 26, 2018
“Book tasting” with Books representing multiple cultures around the world with 3rd grdrs @Hillside_Eagles #GISDLibraries #ReadYourWorld pic.twitter.com/FWVtlrNV0B
— Joni Harris (@Jharrisreads) January 25, 2018
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Multicultural Children’s Book Day (MCBD) is a non-profit co-founded by fellow moms Valarie Budayr and Mia Wenjen who has a vision of helping kids “see themselves” on the pages of the books they read. This event has evolved into something so incredibly wonderful and positive: far more than all of us could have ever imagined.
As we approach our fifth MCBD, I am excited to report that we have so many amazing things planned for our 2018 online event (1/27/18). , This holiday is usually just a one day event, but because since the day of this children’s book-related holiday lands on a Saturday, we decided to get creative on how we can make this one-day event a week-long party!
A huge part of what we do is work with authors and publishers to not only review and give publicity to their multicultural books, but to also spend hundreds of “women-hours” and thousands of dollars to get those books into the hands of young readers. Typically, the majority of our celebration exists online, but after seeing all of the amazing offline festivities that MCBD2017 inspired, we knew we wanted to do something extra special for our next event on 1/27/18. [Read more…]
As you may know, Multicultural Children’s Book Day (MCCBD) 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. Your readership and support is a gift that we deeply value.
As you may know, the online event/holiday takes place every January 27th and we are now in our 5th year. BUT this year, the official “day” falls on a Saturday. No biggee for most party-goers, but a bit of a style-cramper for educators and librarians.
So starting on January 22nd all the way until the Big Day (1/27/18) we will be encouraging young readers, caregivers, grandparents, parents, teachers and librarians to “party” the week leading up with their own gatherings, booklists, social media tweets and books reviews. Our own reviewers (300+ of them!) will be busy sharing their own multicultural books reviews online and we expect Authors and Sponsors will have some fun and goodies up their sleeves as well. [Read more…]
