We all have family favorites when it comes to books for kids. The ironic thing is that oftentimes some of our favorite books are from authors that are not household names or even have been published traditionally.
Hidden gems of multicultural children’s books lurk on every home’s bookshelves but because many of these favorite authors don’t have huge marketing budgets, they remain a “best-kept secret” despite the fact they produce amazing diverse books for kids.
But the Multicultural Children’s Book Day Team has come up with a fun and clever way to use our vibrant social media channels to show children’s book authors some online love and while also raising funds to support our Free Diverse Books for Classrooms Project!
Go HERE to support the cause and nominate an author for some virtual Shout-Outs!
The Friends of MCBD Shout-Out
The Friends of MCBD $25 Shout Out and Recognition of Author Friends
Anyone with a PayPal account can gift an online “shout-out” to an author friend who has a kid’s or YA book with diversity theme. MCBD will then acknowledge the Shout-Out shout-out on our Twitter feed (over 13K followers) our private Facebook Group of over 1K members, and our Facebook page as well.
Nominate and Donate HERE to support the cause and nominate an author for some virtual Shout-Outs!
After checkout, contact Project Manager Becky to share who your shout-out should go out to.
Go HERE to support the cause and nominate an author for some virtual Shout-Outs!
Here are examples from some of Multicultural Children’s Book Day C0-Hosts!
Thien-Kim Lam blogs at I’m Not The Nanny. Her two favorite diversity books are:
Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match by Monica Brown
Mixed: Portraits of Multiracial Kids by artist and photographer Kip Fulbeck
Follow Thien-Kim on Twitter @thienkim
Jodie Rodriguez blogs at Growing Book by Book. She wants to recognize:
Bee Bim Bop by Linda Sue Park (for the little ones)
Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Pena (one of my favorites from 2015)
Follow Jodie on Twitter @growingbbb
Becky Morales blogs at Kid World Citizen. She has so many favorite books, this is a real challenge. Her first favorite would be …
Finders Keepers? A True Story in India by Robert Arnett
Her second favorite (because her daughter had her read it every single night for years) is
Te Amo, Bebé, Little One by Lisa Wheeler
MaryAnne blogs at Mama Smiles. She says, “Two I am loving right now are
Inside Out and Back Again by Thanha Lai
The Peace Tree from Hiroshima by Sandra Moore
My all-time favorite book growing up was a multicultural one – Children of the River by Linda Crew. Sadly, that last one seems to now be out of print?”
Follow MaryAnne on Twitter @mamasmiles
Carrie of Crafty Moms Share has 2 favorite multicultural books to share:
The Rescue Princesses Series by Paula Harrison
The Last Kappa of Old Japan by Sunny Seki
What are two of your favorite diversity children’s books?
