Multicultural Children's Book Day

#ReadYourWorld

The MCBD2019 Diverse Book Link Up is OPEN #ReadYourWorld

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Welcome to our 6th annual Multicultural Children’s Book Day! Here’s how to celebrate:

  1. Link up your diversity book reviews below.
  2. Join us tonight at our 6th annual Twitter Party! Follow @McChildsBookDay to join in on the diverse book discussions, discover new titles and authors and for a chance to win one of our twelve book bundles. Party time is 9 pm to 10 pm EST. RSVP here. Use hashtag: #ReadYourWorld.
  3. Get your copy of our diverse kidlit book recommend-packed ebook, Read Your World: A Guide to Multicultural Children’s Books for Parents and Educators. It’s FREE today through January 31st!
  4. We want to extend a huge THANK YOU to all of the Sponsors, Authors, Publishers, Organizations, Book Reviewers, Book Donators, Parents, Caregivers, Educators and Librarians who devote their time and energy to helping us to achieve our mission of getting multicultural children’s and YA books into the hands of readers. We appreciate you!

​​Inlinkz Link Party

Inlinkz Link Party

Special Moments we LOVED from Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2017

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The 4th Multicultural Children’s Book Day has come and gone and as expected, it was a HUGE success. We couldn’t be more proud of our team, our sponsors, our reviewers,  the young readers, moms, educators, librarians, authors, illustrators, publishers and organizations that help us continue to do what we do 🙂

As you can imagine, there were MANY sweet and touching moments throughout this special day (and the weeks leading up to it) here are a some of our favorites:

Great Write-ups

Fourth Annual Multicultural Children’s Book Day Gets Underway via @publisherswkly

Guest Post on Scholastic’s On Our Minds blog #1

Guest Post on Scholastic’s On Our Minds Blog #2

The Creativity and Thoughtfulness of our reviewers was Mind-Blowing

Amazing #readyourworld gatherings

The Lareda Ranch Social Justice Committee (LRSJC) teamed up with the local public library and held an event titled Kids Around the World.  We highlighted various cultures represented on each of the 7 continents and we celebrated Multicultural Children’s Book Day by featuring the amazing books you sent us.  We were also pleased to pass out the wonderful bookmarks you provided and used the great posters you sent me. We all enjoyed this so much and want to thank you for helping us to put on a wonderful community You truly helped to make it a success.  Thanks so much!- Shereen
Lareda Ranch Social Justice Committee

Lareda Ranch Social Justice Committee

Lareda Ranch Social Justice Committee

 

Lareda Ranch Social Justice Committee

P.S.  We also had all the kids make these cute diversity/love bracelets.  I just love these and thought I would send a pic of that as well.

We TRENDED on Twitter (3 times!)! Thank you to everyone who participated on our #readyourworld Twitter Party. We had 1900 tweets during that hour and trended on the number two spot! The tweets are Storified on our website if you want to read them.
Readyourworld trending
Support from Educators and Librarians (we love you guys!)
Jefferson Elementary Library planned a fun day for kids on MCBD day (1/27/17)
Jefferson Elementary LIbrary
So did Ludington Library.

Instagram was all a-buzz!

The Children and Families Commission of San Luis Obispo County

Imagination, education and celebration!!! Multicultural Children’s Book Day is this Friday, January 27th! We invite you to help raise awareness for kids’ books that honor diversity– and the need to include them in our libraries and classrooms! These books were donated by @multiculturalchildrensbookday and shared by First 5 SLO County a proud #MCCBD2017 partner!

First 5

#ReadYourWorld #kidlit #MCCBD2017 #talkreadsing #shareslo #slocounty #diversity #first5slo For more info, go to https://multiculturalchildrensbookday.com/

We honestly could go on for DAYS. Please search #ReadYourWorld (our official hashtag) on all social media channels and see the magic for yourself and discover some amazing new multicultural YA and children’s books for yourself. Be sure and visit our Big Giant Linky as well to see all sorts of diverse book reviews and activities. Read on!