As with any event, success is measured by the strength and effectiveness of the team. At MCCBD Headquarters we are happy to report that we do indeed have a very strong team!
Multicultural Children’s Book Day is thankful for its CoHosts. Our CoHosts are a group of select powerhouse bloggers who share the same diversity in children’s literature passions and beliefs. They also assist in extending the reach and spreading the word of Multicultural Children’s Book Day. These 11 blogs will also be host to the wildly-popular book review/blog post link-up the week of 1/27/16. We would appreciate if you could take a few minutes and visit each of these excellent blogs. These women were selected by the MCCBD team because of their true dedication to supporting diversity in children’s literature.
All Done Monkey
Leanna is a stay at home mother to two sweet, funny, rambunctious boys with a baby girl on the way! Sh
e draws inspiration from the Writings of the Bahá’í Faith and tries to raise her Monkeys in a fun, spiritual, loving environment. She and her husband, who is from Costa Rica, are raising their boys to be bilingual and bicultural but more importantly to be “world citizens.” All Done Monkey is dedicated to sharing this journey with you! All Done Monkey focuses on multiculturalism, children’s education, natural parenting, and spiritual education.
Leanna is the co-founder of Bahá’í Mom Blogs and founder of Multicultural Kid Blogs.
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Multicultural Kid Blogs is a collection of 100+ child and family centered blogs dedicated to raising world citizens, through arts, activities, crafts, food, language, and love.
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Kim Vij: Kim Vij is a Certified Teacher with over 20 years of experience using her Bachelor’s Degree in Early Childhood Education from the University of Central Florida. She moved from the traditional classroom to raise her 3 children and to be an advocate for early childhood education using a much larger platform online. When she is not creating or pinning ideas for kids, you will often find Kim speaking at events, hosting twitter chats or discussing with a friend at a play date about how to help their child learn with developmentally appropriate strategies. A community builder at heart, she serves as an organizer of a local mom’s group and as a school volunteer coordinator. Kim is the Co-author of the popular website The Educators’ Spin On It.
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Amanda Boyarshinov: Amanda is a National Board Certified teacher with oodles of experience in early childhood education. She holds a bachelor’s degree in elementary education and a master’s degree in Reading for grades K-12. You will often find her in her backyard exploring nature with her kids or doing a hands-on science project at the kitchen table. She loves to walk her dog and snuggling up with a good book when she isn’t elbow deep in baking blueberry muffins in the kitchen. She shares educational activities for children ages 0-7 at The Educators’ Spin On It. Here are some of her tips on building a diverse bookshelf.
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Watch from Amanda and Kim’s upcoming book, 100 Fun & Easy Learning Games for Kids: Teach Reading, Writing, Math and More With Fun Kid Activities Paperback – May 24, 2016
Jodie Rodriguez has a passion for helping caregivers nurture our youngest readers. As a 
former National Board Certified early-childhood, elementary teacher and administrator, she has worked with thousands of families and educators providing best literacy practices. She lives near St. Louis, Missouri and now stays home with home with her two young sons. She is the creator/founder of Growing Book by Book. A blog dedicated to helping caregivers nurture our youngest readers. You will find book lists, book related activities and literacy tips and tricks for kids ages 0-8.
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InCultural Parent
InCultureParent is an online magazine for parents raising little global citize
ns. Centered around culture, tradition and language, we feature articles on parenting around the world and raising multicultural and multilingual (also bicultural and bilingual) children. We also spotlight different global holidays together with craft ideas for kids and recipes. We review good books for kids that have a multicultural theme or feature different cultures.
Stephanie Meade is the Founder of award-winning InCultureParent: an online publication advocating parents raising global citizens. Stephanie is into diverse books, bilingual kids, global travel, all things multicultural.
Becky Morales started Kid World Citizen as a way to share ideas from her classroom 
and activities that she did with her kids. Becky an adoptive mom and the cultures in her family’s household include Mexico, China, Ethiopia, and African-American, but has expanded the blog to include cultures from around the world. Becky loves meeting other globally-minded parents and teachers and sharing ideas to expose kids to world cultures. She has also written a book to help teachers and homeschoolers increase global learning with their kids (and in it there is a booklist of over 300+ excellent multicultural titles for elementary learners!): http://amzn.to/1W9G4oB
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Mama Smiles – Joyful Parenting features experiences, products, and activities that encourage parent-child b
onding, create fun learning opportunities, inspire positive sibling relationships, and build happy, healthy, connected families.
Imagination Soup:
Melissa Taylor, MA, is an education expert and Pinterest influencer as well as a mother, teacher, and freelance writer. She writes an award-winning learning blog, Imagination Soup and freelances for publications online and in print, including Sylvan Learning, Random House, USA Today Health, The Writer, and Scholastic Parent and Child. Connect with Melissa on Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter and Google+.
Jennifer Brunk writes about teaching Spanish to children on her blog Spanish Playground. She focuses 
on communicative teaching and authentic language materials. Jennifer raised her three children speaking English and Spanish and has been teaching Spanish to young world citizens for over twenty years. The challenge of finding quality resources inspired her to create Spanish Playground, a place teachers and parents can turn to for support, strategies and materials.
Carrie is a former high school math teacher and diversity club leader. Now she uses her expertise to write about her adventures with her daughter, review books and products and share information. Crafty Moms Share is a place where Carries shares her ideas, knowledge and more and hosts link parties to allow others to share as well. She is a board member of Multicultural Kid Blogs and a believer that we are all equal and need to be respected for our differences as well as our similarities.
Thien-Kim Lam is the founder of , where she writes about the crossroads of Asian, African American, and southern culture in parenting and food. She shares not just personal stories on raising biracial children, but offers multicultural book lists, bilingual language resources, and original recipes. She’s been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered and The Washington Post and earn her a spot in the BlogHer Voices of the Year 2012 Keynote. Thien-Kim is a passionate member of the We Need Diverse Books team and head book nerd of virtual book club From Left to Write.
Thien-Kim on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram
Thien-Kim on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram
Attention K-8th Teachers! Get a FREE Diversity Book for Your Class!
2016 Multicultural Children’s Book Day Classroom Reading Challenge begins November 1, 2015!
Multicultural Children’s Book Day Classroom Reading Challenge is a special project connected to Multicultural Children’s Book Day (1/27/16) that gives classrooms the opportunity to earn a FREE Diversity Book for their class!
Teachers: We want to help you build your classroom library with diverse, inclusive and multicultural books! Here’s how to get a free book through Multicultural Children’s Book Day during the month of January. Teachers and classrooms can also win a Skype author visit with a children’s book author and the drawing will be made from the pool of teachers who signed up before 1/27/16. {author to be announced} This special project is free of charge to all teachers and schools and helps MCCBD achieve their mission of getting multicultural books into the hands of young readers and teachers.
What is it:
The Classroom Reading Challenge is a new project for us but it is a way for teachers to sign up, read up to four multicultural books in their classroom and earn a free multicultural book from us.
How to Get Started:
Multicultural Children’s Book Day: Diversity Classroom Reading Challenge for Teachers was created to be a streamlined and simple way to encourage the reading of diversity titles while earning a special multicultural book for your classroom. GO HERE for what to expect and to sign up your classroom.
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-Reminder: The hashtag for this event is #ReadYourWorld
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