First Book Virtual Book Drive for Multicultural Children’s Book Day
The matching process between our 100+ bloggers who have signed up to review books for the event and the authors/publishers will begin December 1. That will give all of our bloggers plenty of time to read their books and create a review and companion activity. If you are a blogger who would like to be included in this event, go HERE to sign up. If you are an authors or publisher who would like to donate books go HERE for more information. We hope to hear from all of you soon!
Spotlight on a Sister Initiative:
We Need Diverse Books is a wonderful movement that gained momentum and recognition early this year. This author-driven initiative is a grassroots organization created to address the lack of diverse, non-majority narratives in children’s literature. We Need Diverse Books is committed to the ideal that embracing diversity will lead to acceptance, empathy, and ultimately equality.
WNDB recognizes all diverse experiences, including (but not limited to) LGBTQIA, people of color, gender diversity, people with disabilities, and ethnic, cultural, and religious minorities. Their mission is to promote or amplify diversification efforts and increase visibility for diverse books and authors, with a goal of empowering a wide range of readers in the process.
Similar to Multicultural Children’s Book Day, WNDB reaches out to individuals and groups involved in many levels of children’s publishing—including (but not limited to) publishers, authors, distributors, booksellers, librarians, educators, parents, and students.
WNDB is also in the process of creating and funding their newly announced Walter Dean Myers Award & Grant program “The Walter” will recognize outstanding diverse contributions by authors in Young Adult and Middle Grade literature, and provide funds to help develop new diverse authors and artists. We are excited to announce that WNDB is close to meeting its fundraising goal! Get the scoop on how you can help HERE.
Multicultural Children’s Book Day and We Need Diverse Books are working towards the same cause, just from different angles. WNDB is working very hard to change and shift the mindset of the publishing industry and MCCBD is working to get diverse books into the hands of the end-user (kids, parents, teachers and librarians). Mia and I will be attending some huge book events soon and hope to have a conversation with the WNDB team to learn more about how we can help each other. The more of us spreading the word and shining the spotlight on diverse books, the better!
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I came over from the Kid Lit Hop and signed up for the event! 🙂
Thank you for all your hard work putting MCCBD together 🙂
#KLBH
Thank you so much for joining us Catherine! We are so glad to have some Australia children’s book bloggers joining us this year! We are getting digital books for our International bloggers this year (sorry we didn’t have that last year!).
Such a huge undertaking. Congrats on all your efforts and successes!!
Thank you so much Cheryl!!
Woot! Congrats on pulling together such an AMAZING event! It is getting to be such a huge thing and I’m so excited to be part of MCCBD again this year. 🙂
Hi Renee,
We are thrilled to have you and your wonderful blog on board! Thank you for your support!