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Next Steps for MCBD2022 Book Reviewers

January 4, 2022 by Valarie Budayr

“Where’s my diverse book to review?”

“My book review is ready, what now?”

We are getting a lot of these types of questions lately and we TOTALLY get it. So here is some info that will help everyone navigate both:

If Your Review Book for MCBD is M.I.A.

MCBD2022 is not far off and we are aware that some reviewers still:

  • *need a book to review
  • *their assigned book hasn’t arrived
  • *feel they were not assigned a book yet

Please keep in mind that mail delivery is painfully slow these days. If you are still waiting for a physical copy of your assigned book, ask your publisher/author if they can send you a PDF version to review until your hardcopy arrives.

ALSO, some of our bigger publishers shut down until after New Year’s Day causing delays as well.

Our best advice is to hang in there and be patient! 🙂

If you feel you haven’t been assigned to a book yet, here are two things you can do:

**Check your spam folder for an email from us with the subject line of Your Assigned Book for MCBD2022.

**To get a diverse book to review, visit our Facebook Group ASAP. We’ve created a thread called “Matchmaking” where authors can share that they are looking for book reviewers and vice-versa. If you are not a member, Feel free to join and we will add you 🙂

IMPORTANT: The “Matchmaking” option is a completely “hands-off” offering for the MCBD Team: reviewers choosing this option are responsible for connecting via DM or email.

**Reach out to our admin so we can make sure your name is on the reviewer list. We have a brand, spankin’ new matching program that was created just for us to help with the huge task of matching Sponsors to book reviewers…but there were definitely some “hiccups” at the beginning of the launch.**

 

My Review is Ready to Go, But I Am Confused

  • Create a review of the book you were assigned on your Blog (if you have one), or Goodreads, or social media (private accounts not acceptable).
  • Include as many of the mandatory details as possible. THESE DETAILS WILL BE SENT TO ALL REVIEWERS IN THE SECOND WEEK OF JANUARY. The most important pieces of the mandatory details will be the link clouds of the Medallion and author Sponsors and our hashtag: #ReadYourWorld.
  • You can post your book review on social media anytime between now and 1/28/22–but if possible we’d like you to share it as close to 1/28 as possible because it helps elevate our buzz!
  • An additional tweet or two about the book you reviewed (or the event itself) on Twitter would be much appreciated as well. Don’t forget to use #ReadYourWorld so we can find you and share.
  • If your author/book is on Amazon, a review there would be welcomed too. Just do the Amazon review like you would any other review (don’t include any of MCBD’s details).

Here’s an example of an excellent Instagram review from MCBD2021

 

View this post on Instagram

 

A post shared by Umm Afraz Muhammed (@umm.afraz)


Here is an example of a book review on a Facebook Page from MCBD2021.

Here is an example of a book review shared on Twitter:

I was gifted a copy of My Fantastic Hair by Natalie Murray. It is illustrated by Sarah-Leigh Wills and published by DMJ Publishing.
This book is great at exploring our unique differences, specifically our hair. It’s a celebration of hair of all kinds! #ReadYourWorld #MCBD2021 pic.twitter.com/0atbVHoW7X

— Christa (@cjgood_98) January 28, 2021

Examples of Past Reviews on blogs

Flying Paintings

A Gift for Amma

Wiggles, Stomps, and Squeezes

Here is a video tutorial created by our Project Manager on how to make your book review stand out in a crowd. {ignore date references–this is from the 2021 event}.

 

MCBD2022 Images can be found here:

https://www.dropbox.com/home/2022%20Multicultural%20Children’s%20Book%20Day%20Images

On 1/28/22, everyone is asked to link up their reviews on our Big Giant Linky to create a huge resource that lives on our website forever (go here and scroll down to see the 2021 Linky).

Don’t forget to connect with us on social media and be sure and look for/use our official hashtag #ReadYourWorld.

 

MCBD2022 is honored to be Supported by these Medallion Sponsors!

MCBD 2022 is honored to be Supported by these Author Sponsors!

MCBD 2022 is Honored to be Supported by our CoHosts and Global CoHosts!

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TWITTER PARTY!  

Join us on Friday, Jan 28, 2022, at 9 pm EST for the 9th annual Multicultural Children’s Book Day Twitter Party!
This epically fun and fast-paced hour includes multicultural book discussions, addressing timely issues, diverse book recommendations, & reading ideas.

We will be giving away a 9-Book Bundle every 5 minutes plus Bonus Prizes as well! *** US and Global participants welcome. **

Follow the hashtag #ReadYourWorld to join the conversation, connect with like-minded parts, authors, publishers, educators, organizations, and librarians. See you all very soon on Twitter!

Hashtag: Don’t forget to connect with us on social media and be sure and look for/use our official hashtag #ReadYourWorld.

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Filed Under: Multicultural Booklist Tagged With: Author Sponsors, book reviewer guidelines, MCBD Twitter Party, MCBD2022, Medallion Sponsors

Comments

  1. Patricia Tilton says

    January 5, 2022 at 5:54 pm

    Becky,
    I haven’t been assigned a book. But I have two books from Candlewick I will be reviewing that I could share: Drawn Across Borders: True Stories of Human Migration (10-14) and a PB, When We say Black Lives Matter. That’s what I had to do last year. I’ve waited to release my reviews, just in case I didn’t receive a book. Don’t want to review a Pdf file — too hard on my vision.

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