Be Featured in our Multicultural Children's Book Day Music Video!

Have you seen our fabulous Multicultural Children’s Book Day Music Video with original music created by Annie Bird?

We are using the music to make a new video for Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2020! AND YOU CAN BE FEATURED!!!

All you need to do is take a photo of you, kids, your hand, or just the diversity book that you recommend. Post it to Twitter or Instagram and tag with #ReadYourWorldMusicVideo so we can find it. Due by 1/5/2020.

Other ways to participate in Multicultural Children’s Book Day:

Get a FREE diversity children’s or young adult book and post your review to social media during the month of January. Sign up here.
Teachers: get a free diversity children’s book for your classroom library by signing up here.
Teachers and Librarians: get two free diversity children’s books and swag by celebrating with a Multicultural Children’s Book Day event in the classroom or library the last week of January. Sign up here.
Celebrate with a free poster! Here’s our gallery of posters.
Use our giant Diversity Book Lists and Activities resource to find the perfect book.
Use our Classroom Kit on Empathy themed around immigration and refugee experience. Our kits have a curated book list, activities, poster, and discussion guide.
Use our Classroom Kit on Kindness.
Use our Classroom Kit on Poverty.
Use our newest Classroom Kit on Physical and Developmental Challenges.
Join us to win book bundles at our 7th annual Twitter Party on January 31, 2020 at 9pm EST. Use hashtag #ReadYourWorld to find us.
We will be doing a 10 blog post series with Children’s Book Council featuring 10 diverse books of all genres and there will be book giveaways! This will run the month of Janaury 2020 on the Multicultural Children’s Book Day blog. Authors include Nikki Grimes, Nic Stone, Christina Soontornvat, Julie Flett, Traci Sorell, David O. Bowles, Ann Dávila Cardinal, Vita Murrow, Wendy Xu, and Eric Smith.

These two diversity ebook resources will be FREE from January 29-Feb 2, 2020 in celebration of Multicultural Children’s Book Day!

Our ebook resource, Read Your World: A Guide to Multicultural Children’s Books for Parents and Educators, is a fundraising book for Multicultural Children’s Book Day.

BEST #OWNVOICES CHILDREN’S BOOKS: My Favorite Diversity Books for Kids Ages 1-12

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Diversity Books for Children: 60+ Book Lists

I’ve broken down my multicultural lists by:

Multicultural Book Lists for Kids (a catch-all for those lists that don’t fit the categories below)
Civil Rights Movement Books for Kids
Asian American Books for Kids with subcategories
Korean American Books for Kids
Japanese American Books for Kids
Chinese American Books for Kids
Southeast Asian Books for Kids
Native American Books for Kids
Hispanic American Books for Kids
Arab American Books for Kids
LGBTQ Books for Kids

Multicultural Book Lists for Kids

Modern Immigration and the Refugee Experience

50 Must Read Diversity Picture Books

Homelessness in Children’s Books

Special Needs Books for Kids

Chapter Book Series Starring Diverse Girl Characters

Picture Books to Teach Gratitude

Top 10 Diverse Superhero Books

10 Picture Books About Africa to Teach Empathy

Follow PragmaticMom’s board Multicultural Books for Kids on Pinterest.

Follow PragmaticMom’s board Children’s Book Activities on Pinterest.

My books:

Amazon / Signed or Inscribed by Me

Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World

- - Junior Library Guild Gold selection
  - Selected as one of 100 Outstanding Picture Books of 2023 by dPICTUS and featured at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair
  - Starred review from School Library Journal
  - Chicago Library’s Best of the Best
  - 2023 INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist
  - Green Earth Book Award longlist
  - Imagination Soup’s 35 Best Nonfiction Books of 2023 for Kids

Amazon / Barefoot Books / Signed or Inscribed by Me