It’s been such a great year for those who love both multicultural/diversity/inclusive books for kids AND novels in verse! I picked five amazing favorites that I’ve loved from this past year and hope that the popularity of these books will encourage more diversity books to be published! What are your favorite novels in verse? Please…
Month: April 2015
Booking Across the USA: Tennessee & Patricia McKissack
I am thrilled to be co-posting with Valarie Budayr of Jump Into A Book for the Book Across America blog tour. I was late to the sign up to my birth state of California was already taken, as well as Massachusetts where I now reside. No matter. Tennessee was open where Valarie lives so I…
Things You Can Do to Improve Your Child’s Writing Skills
Writing is an essential part of our everyday lives. However, it can be a challenging skill to learn and get good at. By starting early with some easy activities, you will be able to help your child start developing their writing skills early in life. This will help contribute to their future progress as a…
15 Books for Kids about Living in an Alcoholic Home
Today’s Picture Book of the Day comes from the Multicultural Children’s Book Day Twitter Party. We asked participants to tell us what inclusive, diversity and/or multicultural children’s books they having trouble finding. It’s a heartbreaking topic but kids who live in an alcoholic home were one such request. I researched and found these books at…
It’s Distracted Driving Awareness Month! #CallsKill
I’m in the car a lot driving my kids around. It’s become my office. I have snacks and water at all times. I nap in my car. I sometimes even hang out in my garage by myself, checking my email via my phone in my car for a few minutes before going inside. It’s nice…
Top 10 Best Multicultural Easy Readers
It wasn’t easy finding great multicultural easy readers! My town library has about 49 cubic feet of easy readers — an entire wall — but about half have animal characters and most of the remaining books do NOT have characters of color. From my search that day, I’d say that about 2% of the square…
Getting Kids Published with Erik of This Kid Reviews Books
I am so thrilled to be co-posting with Erik of This Kid Reviews Books today at the request of Erika of Urth Mama: Do you have any interest in doing a blog post (or series) about career pathways for children/young adults to become children’s book authors? I ask because my 8 year old daughter (aka Paprika) has…