Please join us for our Multicultural Children’s Book Club. We host a FREE multicultural children’s picture book virtual book club on the first Thursday of every month from 7 pm to 8 pm EST.
October’s event will be held on October 5th and we are highlighting World Homeless Day using Sanctuary: Kip Tiernan and Rosie’s Place, the Nation’s First Shelter for Women by Christine McDonnell, illustrated by Victoria Tentler-Krylon
As always, we will have:
- Book talk
- Creative Project
- Snack ideas related to our theme
- Surprise guest (popping in at 7:40 pm): author Christine McDonnell and illustrator Victoria Tentler-Krylov!
- Giveaway (Featured Book and travel-sized women’s toiletries)
I am giving away a “Multicultural Children’s Book Club in a Box” which includes the picture book Sanctuary: Kip Tiernan and Rosie’s Place, the Nation’s First Shelter for Women and travel-sized women’s toiletries.
We hope you can join us on October 5th at 7 pm EST!
Sign up here!
Meeting ID: 812 2500 4297
Passcode: Empathy
Multicultural Children’s Book Club
October 5, 2023, 7:00 – 8:00 PM EDT
p.s. You can view our past events here.
Celebrating Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month
Multicultural Children’s Book Club featuring Juneteenth Jamboree
Tokyo Olympics Martial Arts “Book Club in a Box” GIVEAWAY!
Raksha Badhan Multicultural Picture Book Club GIVEAWAY!
Hispanic Heritage Multicultural Children’s Book Club & GIVEAWAY!
Halloween Multicultural Children’s Book Club & GIVEAWAY!
Multicultural Children’s Book Club with Traci Sorell for Native American Heritage Month
Multicultural Children’s Book Club: Interfaith Picture Book
Multicultural Children’s Book Club & Multicultural Children’s Book Day
Black History Month Multicultural Children’s Book Club
Multicultural Children’s Book Club: Ramadan Featuring Lailah’s Lunchbox
Multicultural Children’s Book Club: Emily D and the Fearful First Day for Autism Awareness Month!
Multicultural Children’s Book Club: Yu and Me Books
Multicultural Children’s Book Club: ‘Twas the Night Before Pride
p.p.s. Related posts:
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My books:
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- California Eureka Non-Fiction Gold Award
- Junior Library Guild Gold Selection
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Barbed Wire Between Us by Mia Wenjen, illustrated by Violeta Encarnación
- ⭐ Starred review from Kirkus
- ⭐ Starred review from Publishers Weekly
- Kirkus: The Most Anticipated Children’s Books of Spring 2026
Amazon / Signed or Inscribed by Me
The Traveling Taco:
- California Eureka Non-Fiction Silver Award
- 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)
- Junior Library Guild Gold Selection
Amazon / Signed or Inscribed by Me
Amazon / Barefoot Books / Signed or Inscribed by Me
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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