Multicultural Children's Book Day

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Special Delivery: OK Messages Project Serving Children of Incarcerated Parents

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Special Delivery: OK Messages Project Serving Children of Incarcerated Parents

Guest post by Cheri Fuller, Executive Director

www.okmessages.org

(See Video on Home Page of children watching their moms’ DVDs)

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When a four-year-old boy’s mom was put in prison, he was scared she was in a cage all day and night. Until he got the package with his mommy’s DVD and a Dr. Seuss book she read. Then he saw she was safe and not in a cage, and when he missed her he put the video in and read along—feeling like she was there with him. [Read more…]

A Special MCCBD Donation: Oklahoma Messages Project

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MCCBD’s mission is, and will always be, to get diversity children’s books into the hands of young readers. It is especially important for kids to be able to “see themselves” in the pages of a book, but family reading time is also a critical piece of this literacy puzzle.

MCCBD has had the honor of working with several important non-profits who share a similar vision and one such organization is the Oklahoma Messages Project. Thanks to the outreach of OK Messages Project Director, Cheri Fuller, MCCBD donated a big box of multicultural books for children and their incarcerated parents to create memories with.
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