Multicultural Children's Author Archives - Multicultural Children's Book Day

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?

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…]

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

March 13, 2017 by Valarie Budayr

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…]

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.
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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

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.

Support from Educators and Librarians (we love you guys!)

Jefferson Elementary Library planned a fun day for kids on MCBD day (1/27/17)

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!

#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!