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The Multicultural Children’s Book Day Official 2020 Poster is HERE!

November 3, 2019 by Valarie Budayr

It’s HERE! We are thrilled and excited not only that our official 2020 poster is complete, but also because award-winning author/illustrator Jerry Craft was the creator!

Multicultural Children’s Book Day Official 2020 Poster

Multicultural Children's Book Day Official 2020 Poster

Not only do we love Jerry’s style, but we also knew we wanted a poster that reflects older children this year. Jerry rose to the task and created this exceptional and memorable Multicultural Children’s Book Day Official 2020 Poster.

Download your poster HERE.

About Jerry Craft

JERRY CRAFT is an author and illustrator. New Kid is his middle-grade graphic novel that has earned five starred reviews, including one from Booklist magazine, which called it “possibly one of the most important graphic novels of the year.” Kirkus Reviews called it “an engrossing, humorous, and vitally important graphic novel that should be required reading in every middle school in America.”

He is the creator of Mama’s Boyz, a comic strip that was distributed by King Features Syndicate from 1995-2013, and won five African American Literary Awards. Jerry is a co-founder of the Schomburg’s Annual Black Comic Book Festival. He was born in Harlem and grew up in nearby Washington Heights. He is a graduate of The Fieldston School and received his B.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts.

How YOU Can Get Involved In MCBD2020

As you know, MCBD is a non-profit that works with authors to get their books reviewed during our online event and also works to get free diversity children’s books into the hands of young readers.

The online event/holiday takes the last Friday of every January so this year it will fall on 1/31/20 and this will be our SEVENTH Multicultural Children’s Book Day celebration! We would love to have you participate in our upcoming event and here are a few ways you can do so:

  1. Donate Books:For our next online event, we will have hundreds of book reviewers signed up to review diverse children’s books on their blogs or on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube. Authors and publishers have the option of offering copies of their multicultural children’s books to our reviewers to review and write a social media review about. There are no guarantees that we will be able to match your book to a reviewer(s), but if this interests you, let me know. We will provide you with names and addresses and you mail your book directly to the reviewer.

Go here to sign up as a book donator.

**NOTE: We do not limit book reviewers to just bloggers. There are so many book-loving moms who have vibrant social media channels we have opened up review options to include social media to give those who are not bloggers a chance to share books with their followers.

  1. Multiple options for Sponsorship: Sponsorship is not only a great way to support this event; it is an excellent way to get your name (and your books) in front of thousands of readers. All of our Sponsors get a name mention within the hundreds of reviews that get posted from December through to the end of January and also on the sites of our 20+ CoHosts sites. First consideration for matching books to reviewers always goes to our paid Sponsors first as well.

Go here to learn more: https://multiculturalchildrensbookday.com/sponsorship/sponsorship-info/

  1. Connect with us on social media and share, share, share!Our official hashtag is #ReadYourWorld

– Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/MulticulturalChildrensBookDay

– Twitter https://twitter.com/MCChildsBookDay

-Instagram https://www.instagram.com/readyourworldmcbd/

-Reminder: The hashtag for this event is #ReadYourWorld

  1. Guest post: We are always looking for quality guest posts from authors and publishers on the MCBD blog. If you’d like to share the details of your writing journey and details of how your book came to be, we’d love to have you. I’ve attached some guidelines for your review.
  2. Join our private Facebook Group: This group has grown and evolved into something very special. Feel free to joinand I will add you 🙂

MCBD Links to remember:

MCBD site: https://multiculturalchildrensbookday.com/

Free Multicultural Books for Teachers: http://bit.ly/1kGZrta

Free Classroom Empathy Kit for Homeschoolers, Organizations, Librarians, and Educators: https://multiculturalchildrensbookday.com/mcbd2018s-free-classroom-empathy-kit-is-here-empathy-immigration/

Free Kindness Classroom Kit for Homeschoolers, Organizations, Librarians, and Educators: https://multiculturalchildrensbookday.com/teachers-classroom-kindness-kit/

Free Diversity Book Lists and Activities for Teachers and Parents: http://bit.ly/1sZ5s8i

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

 

Filed Under: MCBD2020, Multicultural Booklist Tagged With: #ReadYourWorld, Jerry Craft, Multicultural Children's Author, Multicultural Children's Book Day Official 2020 Poster

World Languages for our Multicultural World | Guest post by Judy Martialay

August 10, 2017 by Valarie Budayr

World Languages for our Multicultural World

First Global Challenge, an international competition, brought teen-agers from over 150 countries around the world to Washington, D.C. this summer. Students collaborated across countries and borders to build robots which would reduce water contamination. A keynote speaker observed that in the future there would be many opportunities for budding scientists from around the world to work together for peaceful purposes.

This is the world that we need to prepare our children for. Regardless of their career choices or where they may live, it is more probable than ever that they will be communicating and working with people from diverse language and cultural backgrounds.

How do we best prepare our children for success in the multilingual, multicultural 21st century?

Judy Martialay

Let’s give them an early start learning a foreign language. One can learn a language at any age, but children who start early have more years to become truly proficient and to have a marketable skill. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Author Visits, Guest Posts, Spotlight on a Sponsor Tagged With: Multicultural Children's Author, Multicultural Children's Book Authors, Multicultural Children's Book Day, multicultural children's book day sponsors, multicultural children's book publisher, Spotlight on a Sponsor, World Languages for our Multicultural World

Be True to Yourself- Celebrating Uniqueness with A Taco for El Presidente

March 13, 2017 by Valarie Budayr

Max the Taco

Those who know Seema Vora Bakhru best also know that she loves tacos. From recipes to social media, this first-time author has always gravitated (and ate!) tacos in all shapes, sizes and flavors. Inspired by a love of tacos, a creative mind and her own two young boys, Seema started thinking about how her obsession with tacos could be a fun book for kids. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Author Visits, Book review Tagged With: #ReadYourWorld, book review, Multicultural Books for kids, Multicultural Children's Author, Multicultural Children's Book Day Spotlight

MCBD 2017 Recap, Stats and very big THANK YOUS! #readyourworld

February 13, 2017 by Valarie Budayr

It’s only been a few weeks since the mind-blowingly awesome 1/27/17 MCBD celebration and we can promise all of you that we are still recovering!

Again, the MCBD team was touched and elevated by the overwhelming support and enthusiasm surrounding our diverse children’s literature online celebration. In the days following the crescendo of the event (the crazy-fun Twitter Party) we all have spent hours sifting through the amazing thoughts, comments and requests that were offered up during our Twitter Party on 1/27/17 and picked the best-of-the-best share with our valued 2017 Sponsors.

Here is just a sampling of the Special Moments we LOVED from Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2017.

Go HERE to view this info-packed blog post and you can also get a larger sample of our Twitter Party Storified HERE.

Another notable accomplishment we pulled off during the fast-paced months preceding MCBD is the fact we published an eBook as a fundraiser for ongoing MCBD projects! It is currently for sale on Amazon here.
Read Your World: A Guide to Multicultural Children's Books for Parents and Educators [Read more…]

Filed Under: 2017 Twitter Party, MCBD ebook, MCCBD News, MCCBD Updates Tagged With: #ReadYourWorld, book review bloggers, MCBD 2017 Recap, MCCBD Book reviewers, MCCBD Sponsor, Multicultural Author, Multicultural Children's Author, Multicultural Children's Book Authors, multicultural children's book publisher, Wisdom Tales and Multicultural Children's Book Day

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

February 3, 2017 by Valarie Budayr

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 4th annual Multicultural Children’s Book Day is tomorrow! Give a like if you pledge to share a diverse book with the children in your life on Friday, January 27. Read diverse books, share diverse books, repeat!⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #ReadYourWorld #ChildrensBooks #BarefootBooks #reading #inspiration #storytelling #AllChildren #empathy #compassion #kindness #multicultural #reading #storytelling #worldcitizen #GlobalCitizen #kidlit #WeNeedDiverseBooks #wndb #diversity #inclusivity #booklover #childrensliteracy #promoteliteracy #booksmatter

A photo posted by Barefoot Books (@barefootbooks) on Jan 26, 2017 at 9:43am PST

Imagination, education and celebration! (We can’t stop smiling at the little guy in the center 😂🤗) We invite you to help raise awareness for kids’ books that honor diversity! Multicultural Children’s Book Day— this Friday, January 27th! Shout out to these cuties in Mrs. Jones kindergarten class at Grover Heights Elementary! Books donated by MCCBD co-founders @valeriebudayr and @pragmaticmom #shareslo #sanluisobispocounty #readyourworld #talkreadsing #first5slo #first5ca #diversity #MCCBD2017 @first5slocounty @slocountylibraries https://multiculturalchildrensbookday.com/

A photo posted by First 5 SLO County (@first5slocounty) on Jan 24, 2017 at 2:00pm PST

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/

Multicultural Children’s Book Day is Fri. Focus: Be A Hero, Be Kind! Made Kindness Spinner 4 K-1st w/pics from @KidsforPeace! #readyourworld

A photo posted by Ro (@whisperer70) on Jan 25, 2017 at 11:14am PST

5-3 is excited for Multicultural Children’s Book Day on 1/27. Today we read ,”What Does It Mean To Be Kind?”#ReadYourWorld @MrsGalligan5 pic.twitter.com/wnvW6NElSR

— Lori Moran (@MoranGalligan) January 23, 2017

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!

Filed Under: 2017 Twitter Party, diversity in children’s books, Events, MCCBD News Tagged With: #ReadYourWorld, Big Giant Linky, diverse book reviews and activities, MCCBD Twitter Party, Multicultural Children's Author, Multicultural Children's Book Authors, Multicultural Children's Book Day

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