Hard to believe that the 6th annual Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2019 is just around the corner. As we scurry and scuttle to make sure everything is in place to make this the best MCBD ev-A, we want to take a moment to remind everyone of the plethora of free resources and downloads that this non-profit offers.
#ReadYourWorld FREE Book Resource
Read Your World: A Guide to Multicultural Children’s Books for Parents and Educators
MCBD Music Video!
This first-ever #ReadYourWorld YouTube video is a great tool for classrooms and homeschool. See how books and familiar faces YOU can spot!
Thank you to Annie Lynn and Walt Wilcezewski for donating their time and expertise to create our first official Read Your World Multicultural Children’s Book Day Music Video!!!
Please support Annie Lynn on her website and YouTube channel!
Special thanks to the kids for their vocals on this song: Havana Chapman-Edwards, Will, Hailey, and Amanda!
Thank you to Matthew Winner who submitted photos of his students holding books covering their faces.
Thank you to everyone who contributed photos!
And finally, thank you to everyone who supports Multicultural Children’s Book Day! You are all helping children see themselves reflected in the pages of a book.
Big Giant LinkUp of Diverse Book Reviews and Recommends
Gallery of Our Free Posters
Thank you to these talented illustrators (and they are all authors as well!) for donating their time to create a poster on behalf of Multicultural Children’s Book Day!
Downloadable Classroom Poverty Kit 2019
Poverty Doesn’t Discriminate | Understanding Poverty in America
This Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2018 Poverty Classroom Kit is filled with books, activities, discussion questions, resources, and a free classroom poster to help students understand that Poverty Doesn’t Discriminate. Go here for more details.
FREE Classroom Empathy Kit is ready to download and share!
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.
Multicultural Children’s Book Day is proud to offer our free Classroom Empathy Kit to help encourage discovery, hope, acceptance, and exploration through the pages of diverse children’s literature. Go HERE to learn more.
Diversity Book Lists and Activities for Teachers and Parents
This is List of Lists so you can find the books you need. Every blue title is a link to more book lists on that topic. Topics include book recommends broken down by country/geographic area, religion, cultures, traditions/holidays/special needs, ethnicity.
Find more diversity, multicultural, and inclusive books on our Multicultural Children’s Book Day Pinterest Board. Follow on Pinterest to get daily updates.
FREE Classroom Kindness Kit is ready to download and share!
Our Kindness Classroom Kit contains:
~ Diverse Kindness Book List for ages 4 -12
~ Classroom Kindness Activities
~ “Be a Hero Be Kind” Kindness Poster
~ Multicultural Children’s Book Day Poster
Watch for the #ReadYourWorld hashtag on social media and share
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Our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/MulticulturalChildrensBookDay
Our Twitter https://twitter.com/MCChildsBookDay
Our Instagram Account: https://www.instagram.com/readyourworldmcbd/
Our Facebook Group {please join!}: https://www.facebook.com/groups/259709034187671/
Mark Your Calendars!
Win 1 of 12 Book Bundles! We are giving away Book Bundles every 5 minutes!
Twitter Party
Friday, January 25th
9 pm to 10 pm EST
Hashtag: #ReadYourWorld
Register here!
As our sixth Multicultural Children’s Book Day holiday approaches on January 25, 2019, we are thrilled to have you as part of our amazing community of supporters! With enthusiasm, optimism, and hope, we are preparing for MCBD 2019 and hope you will, again, join our celebration of diversity through children’s books.
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I have left the following on FaI am honored to review for Multicultural Children’s Book Day #ReadYourWorld GOD’S DREAM by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Douglas Carlton Abrams, illustrated by LeUyen Pham. I received a review copy form LeUyen Pham.
This is a lovely book for children about getting along with different races and faiths. I love the illustrations from the fabrics on the endpieces to the children of all races to that wonderful rainbow of hands at the end!cebook as my review.