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Author Carole P. Roman Helps to Raise Global Readers #ReadYourWorld

September 15, 2017 by Valarie Budayr

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.

Writing for children has opened up a whole second act for her. While she is still working in her family business, this has enabled her to share her sense of humor as well as a love for history and culture with the audience she adores.

“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 from 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.

Carole P Roman

If You Were Me and Lived in… is an award-winning collection of twenty-two books that share national identities and cultural experiences with the middle reader crowd. This series has been given multiple awards and is extremely popular in the homeschool community. It’s spin-off of the same name, addresses historical time periods and is fast being recognized as a great introduction to history by homeschooling moms.

Carole’s massive catalog of published works is broken up into several types and ten of her titles make up the “historical series.” These books include 22 notable titles like If You Were Me and Lived in….(Peru, Egypt, North Korea, Italy etc).

Her ten If You Were Me and Lived in- Historical series books includes a look at life in Ancient Rome, Mars, Colonial Times and many more.

Carole P Roman

Writing for children has opened up a whole second act for her. While she is still working in her family business, this has enabled her to share her sense of humor as well as a love for history and culture with the audience she adores. Roman lives on Long Island with her husband and near her children.

AWARDS

  • Back to Homeschool Resource Award
  • New York Book Festival 2016 – Honorable Mention
  • National Indie Excellence Awards Finalist 2016
  • Shelf Unbound Award 2015 – Best Series
  • Los Angeles Book Festival
  • 2016 International Book Awards

Connect with Carole on her website, Facebook and Twitter

 

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SUMMARY OF THE EVENT

FIRST, a giant blog tour —
so that readers, parents, teachers, librarians, and caregivers can explore lots of books with diversity content via book reviews, book lists, and links.

SECOND, a giant networking event —
to connect organizers, sponsors, co-hosts, bloggers, and others interested in expanding awareness of, and promotion of multicultural children’s books.

THIRD, a virtual book drive —
to place multicultural books in locations where they are needed.

Following the book review, you will find information and links for the generous SPONSORS, CO-HOSTS, and PARTNERS of the MCCBD global event.

Have Questions? Email the MCCBD Project Manager at Becky (at) MulticulturalChildrensBookDay (dot)com.

 

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Comments

  1. Dorothy Boucher says

    September 15, 2017 at 5:20 pm

    This is just amazing! and Thanks so much for this chance. I have been wanting her books for like forever. .
    @tisonlyme143

    • Valarie Budayr says

      September 16, 2017 at 8:51 am

      We LOVE Carole’s books….plus she is SUCH a nice person!

  2. carrole p roman says

    September 16, 2017 at 5:27 pm

    Thanks, Valarie!! I love Multicultural Children’s Book Day, as well.

  3. Bryn says

    September 16, 2017 at 11:01 pm

    This is wonderful

  4. Tracey M. says

    September 18, 2017 at 4:50 am

    I would LOVE to own Carole P. Roman’s book collections. We truly enjoy reading these two series. They are fantastic resources to teach about History, Geography, and to raise cultural awareness. Thank you for the opportunity to win – it would be a blessing if we won!

    • Valarie Budayr says

      September 18, 2017 at 7:05 am

      Fingers and toes crossed that you win! 🙂

  5. Dandi D says

    September 19, 2017 at 3:50 pm

    I am so excited about this giveaway! I homeschool our children and these would be wonderful to use with them!

  6. Kathy C. says

    September 20, 2017 at 4:12 pm

    I am the primary teacher at my school who ensures that we always have a multi-cultural display on our entry board to share with students and visitors. It is my strongest desire to bring the outside world in. Since each of us sees ourselves as “in,” I also teach my students how easily one can go from being the “in” person to a person living in a strange place where one has to learn to connect to another culture. This lesson came to light this year because we have a student whose parent was forced to move to Thailand after her parents were killed. They are Mon people. If I were not an avid reader about other cultures and groups, I would not have known about the experiences she had been through or the changes in her culture. I want to share these skills with many students. Having the books would provide a lovely opportunity.

  7. Angie Swartz says

    September 20, 2017 at 6:56 pm

    It would be amazing if I could share these books with my school!

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