Multicultural Children’s Book Day is coming up on January 27, 2018. Wondering how to participate?
Here’s how:
1. Link up your diversity children’s book reviews. I’ll have a post with a linky on January 27th and you can add your link there. The review can be on a blog post, Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest or YouTube.
2. Join us for our 5th Twitter Party where we will be giving away hundreds of multicultural children’s books. RSVP here. (Winners need to be registered so we know where to send your book bundle.)
We will be giving away Book Bundles every 6 minutes!
Twitter Party Details:
When: Saturday, January 27th
Time: 9 pm to 10 pm EST
Where: On Twitter!
Hashtag: #ReadYourWorld
3. Did you do a diversity book event at home, library or classroom? Share it with us! Email me or tag me with your social media posts (pragmaticmomblog@gmail.com or @pragmaticmom on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook).
We sent more than 30 schools swag and diversity books to help out so we will be sharing these as well.
4. Enter to win a book from our #ReadYourWorld Book Jam 2018. Fifteen authors and illustrators have created diversity book lists for the month of January on the Multicultural Children’s Book Day blog. 78 books are being given away on these posts! There is still time to enter ALL the giveaways!
5. We also have FREE diversity children’s book resources!
Classroom Empathy Kit covers immigration and refugees and includes a book list for ages 1-12, activities, discussion guide, and posters.
Classroom Kindness Kit includes a book list for ages 1-12, activities and posters.
Our eBook is free this week! Read Your World: A Guide to Multicultural Children’s Books for Parents and Educators is a “Best Of” list of diversity books lists for children contributed by 20 bloggers and 2 authors.
Diversity Book Lists and Activities. We have vetted the best book lists and sorted it by category to help you find the books you need.
Our Diverse World Book Lists for Kids (this is a general book list)
It’s also broken out by country/geographic area:
- Our Diverse World: Africa
- Our Diverse World: Asia
- Our Diverse World: China
- Our Diverse World: Japan
- Our Diverse World: Korea
- Our Diverse World: India
- Our Diverse World: Armenia
- Our Diverse World: Australia
- Our Diverse World: Latin America
- Our Diverse World: Mexico
- Our Diverse World: Middle East
- Our Diverse World: Scandinavia
Diversity in Children’s Books Presented as Every Day (this is a book list)
Books on World Religions for Kids (this is a book list)
It’s also broken out by holiday and/or religion.
- Diverse Thanksgiving Books for Kids
- Diverse Christmas Books for Kids
- Muslim Books for Kids
- Jewish Books for Kids
- Hindu Books for Kids
- Buddhist Books for Kids
- Confucianism & Taoism Books for Kids
- Baha’i Books for Kids
- Day of the Dead Books for Kids
- Las Posadas Books for Kids
Seeing Yourself in Children’s Books
- Special Needs Books for Kids
- LGBT Book Lists for Kids of All Ages
- African American Books for Kids of All Ages
- American Indian Books for Kids of All Ages
- Asian American Books for Kids of All Ages
- Hispanic American Books for Kids of All Ages
Diversity Books By Genre
- Diverse Board Books
- Diverse Picture Books
- Diverse Easy Readers & Early Chapter Books
- Diverse Chapter Books
- Diverse Biography Picture Books
- Diverse Graphic Novels
- Diverse Fantasy and Science Fiction for Kids
- If You Like This: Read This Diversity Book for Kids
- Bilingual Books for Kids
General Diversity Book Lists (this is a book list)
Find more diversity, multicultural, and inclusive books on our Multicultural Children’s Book Day Pinterest Board. Follow on Pinterest to get daily updates.
BEST #OWNVOICES CHILDREN’S BOOKS: My Favorite Diversity Books for Kids Ages 1-12 is a book that I created to highlight books written by authors who share the same marginalized identity as the characters in their books.