Our FREE Classroom Empathy Kit is ready to download and share!
As our fifth Multicultural Children’s Book Day holiday approaches on January 27, 2018, we are thrilled to present our second Classroom Kit for teachers, librarians, parents, and guardians.
Our 2017 Multicultural Children’s Book Day Classroom Kindness Kit is here.
Our 2018 Classroom Empathy Kit has a special poster from award-winning author Juana Medina. This kit’s emphasis is on understanding the immigrants and refugee experience and includes a booklist along with some excellent activity ideas.
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Our FREE Classroom Empathy Kit contains:
- Read Your World- 19 Classroom Books to Assist in Understanding Immigration and Refugees for ages 4 -12
- Empathy Activities include a very powerful “Backpack Activity” that really shines the light on material possessions and what is most important in life.
- A true life experience retelling from co-founder Valarie Budayr that brings the Backpack activity to life.
- “Everyone is Welcome Here” Empathy Classroom Poster thanks to the talents of award-winning author/illustrator, Juana Medina
- The official Multicultural Children’s Book Day Poster for 2018 courtesy of Author/Illustrator, Aram Kim
- Helpful Resources, Articles, and Talking Points for Teachers
- How Do You Write Your Name? Activity
- “Can you match these famous immigrants with their contributions?” Matching Game
THANK YOU to author/illustrator Juana Medina for lending us her amazing talents as well!
p.s. Related posts:
10 True Kidlit Immigration Stories by Sandra Neil Wallace
New MCBD Classroom Kit: Activists & Activism!
10 Middle Grade Books About Immigrant Families
Chapter Books to Support 4th Grade or 5th Grade Immigration Unit
Meet Asian Pacific American Hero Haing Ngor
Undocumented Immigrants in Children’s Literature
Immigrant Story: In The Year of the Boar
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My books:
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Barbed Wire Between Us by Mia Wenjen, illustrated by Violeta Encarnación
- ⭐ Starred review from Kirkus
- ⭐ Starred review from Publishers Weekly
- ⭐ Starred review from School Library Journal
- Kirkus: The Most Anticipated Children’s Books of Spring 2026
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- California Eureka Non-Fiction Gold Award
- Junior Library Guild Gold Selection
- Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People Winner (from National Council for the Social Studies and Children’s Book Council)
The Traveling Taco:
- California Eureka Non-Fiction Silver Award
- Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People Winner (from National Council for the Social Studies and Children’s Book Council)
- Reading Rockets’ Summer Reading Guide 2025
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We Sing from the Heart: How the Slants® Took Their Fight for Free Speech to the Supreme Court
- ALSC Notable Children’s Book
- 2025 Carter G. Woodson Book Award Middle Level Honoree
- Orbis Pictus Recommended Book for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children
- 2024 Julia Ward Howe Prize for Children’s Literature Winner
- California Eureka Non-Fiction Award Honor Book
- Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People Winner (from National Council for the Social Studies and Children’s Book Council)
- Bank Street Best Children’s Books of the Year 2025
- Recommended Reading for the Social Justice Literature Award 2025 (International Literacy Association)
- Pennsylvania Mountain Laurel Book Award Nominee 2026-27
- Junior Library Guild Gold Selection
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Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World
- ⭐ Starred review from School Library Journal!
- Junior Library Guild Gold selection
- Massachusetts Book Award Long List
- dPICTUS 100 Outstanding Picture Books of 2023
- Chicago Library’s Best of the Best
- 2023 INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist
- Green Earth Book Award Long List
- Nautilus Silver Winner, Nonfiction Children’s Picture Book
- Sunshine State Young Readers Award Orange Blossom List for Nonfiction
- Imagination Soup’s 35 Best Nonfiction Books of 2023 for Kids
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Bank Street College’s The Best Children’s Books of the Year
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Such a great idea! Multicultural Day keeps getting better each yer!
Thanks Pat! This year we are working on a Poverty Classroom Kit! It’s about halfway done and we plan to release over the summer.
This is wonderful, and so timely, Mia. Can we send one to the White House?
LOL! I wish!