Multicultural Children's Book Day

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KidLit TV | working together to bring great books to kids!

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Julie Gribble and New York Media Works, LLC/ KidLit TV

KidLitTv

KidLitTv

KidLit TV is a diverse group of parents, educators, librarians, kid lit creators, and award-winning filmmakers all working together to bring great books to kids! Their mission is to create fun new ways to reinforce an appreciation of reading that children will carry with them for the rest of their lives.

“Go on an adventure in the world of stories with us! KidLit TV is the place to discover great children’s books and learn more about the people who create them.”

What Makes KidLit TV so Awesome

StoryMakers: StoryMakers is KidLiTv’s flagship series is an entertaining talk show highlighting bestselling authors and illustrators in the kid lit world. The series is hosted by Rocco Staino, Contributing Editor at School Library Journal, a contributing writer at The Huffington Post, and Director of Empire State Center for the Book! Check out some of our past StoryMakers episodes:

StoryMakers with Vanessa Brantley-Newton

Pat Cummings and H. Chuku Lee

FIELD TRIP – Our crew hits the road to explore the world of kid lit.

Thalia Book Club campers
INSIDE SCOOP – Sneak a peek at bestselling authors’ new books.

READ OUT LOUD – Read your favorite books with your favorite authors!
Plus exclusive Red Carpet coverage of special literary events.

KidLit TV is also the  winner of the Parents’ Choice Gold Award, the Norton Juster Award for Devotion to Literacy, and selected as one of the American Library Association’s Great Websites For Kids.
KLTV is available in over 600,000 schools worldwide via our website and video distribution partners. We’re a diverse group of parents, educators, librarians, kid lit creators, and award winning filmmakers working together to create fun new ways to reinforce an appreciation of reading that children will carry with them for the rest of their lives.
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Diverse and customizable children’s books | Loving Lion Books

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Diverse and customizable children’s books | Loving Lion Books

Loving Lion Books

Diverse and customizable children’s books that celebrate the joy of family and reflect the beautiful, multi-ethnic world in which we live.

Loving Lion Books is a publishing house that creates and publishes gorgeous custom children’s books featuring and celebrating children and families of color. The books are sold exclusively on our website: www.LovingLionBooks.com.

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A #ReadYourWorld Diverse Booklist from Capstone Publishing

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2018 Silver Sponsor Capstone Publishing

Capstone Publishing

Helping children develop a love of reading and learning, no matter their ability level, is at the heart of what we do at Capstone. Our passion for creating inspired learning has made us the most trusted publisher of children’s books and digital solutions for libraries, classrooms, and consumers for more than 25 years.

Capstone is a trusted publisher of children’s media, including books, digital products, solutions and services, literacy programs, and K-12 professional development resources. Capstone creates content in a variety of print and digital formats for school libraries, classrooms, and at-home reading. Capstone ignites curiosity and imagination through the power of inspiring learning experiences. #CapstoneForAllKids

Capstone offers an amazing line-up of diverse books for young readers (for all age groups). [Read more…]

World Languages for our Multicultural World | Guest post by Judy Martialay

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World Languages for our Multicultural World

First Global Challenge, an international competition, brought teen-agers from over 150 countries around the world to Washington, D.C. this summer. Students collaborated across countries and borders to build robots which would reduce water contamination. A keynote speaker observed that in the future there would be many opportunities for budding scientists from around the world to work together for peaceful purposes.

This is the world that we need to prepare our children for. Regardless of their career choices or where they may live, it is more probable than ever that they will be communicating and working with people from diverse language and cultural backgrounds.

How do we best prepare our children for success in the multilingual, multicultural 21st century?

Judy Martialay

Let’s give them an early start learning a foreign language. One can learn a language at any age, but children who start early have more years to become truly proficient and to have a marketable skill. [Read more…]

Read Your World with 50+ Children’s Books from Author Carole P. Roman

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It all started with a question from a little boy; a question about an iconic landmark that most adults recognize easily.

Author Carole P. Roman fondly remembers the day she and her grandson were spending time together on a family trip to Las Vegas. As a curious four-year old, Carole’s grandson spotted a replica of the Eiffel Tower and asked what it was. After explaining what the iconic Paris, France landmark was, she realized that kids needed a colorful and easy way to learn about the world around them. In that moment the idea for what is now a 50+ book collection was born.

“I wanted a way to explain cultures, provide gentle lessons, show examples of dreaming big to young readers to they don’t feel limited in what they can achieve,” Carole noted. “I also wanted to provide books that acted as introductions to cultures, religions, ethnic foods, historic times and even period dress. It was an exciting new journey that was vastly different than current role, but one I was thrilled to embark on nonetheless.”

As a very success business owner, Carole soon found herself “reinventing” her career path in her sixties and taking on the new role of children’s book author. Since that first inspiration moment with her grandson, Carole has self-published five different series-totaling 50+ books. [Read more…]

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