Sign Up for Free Diverse Children’s Books! Authors, illustrators, and publishers! Multicultural Children’s Book Day sponsorships are available! What does this mean? Celebrated annually on the last Friday in January, our global non-profit offers a plethora of free resources, teaching tools, booklists, downloads, and a year-round initiative to get multicultural and diverse books into the…
Author: Pragmatic Mom
My Remote Learning Plan for My High School Sophomore
I think this has been on all our minds. What is our school doing this fall? Are we hybrid or remote learning? Either mode does not bode well, especially for high school students who will need to learn at the non-COVID-19 normal pace if they are going to take Advanced Placement tests in the future….
26 Foster Care Themed Books for Tweens
Did you know that foster care is on the rise? “The number of cases of children entering the foster care system due to parental drug use has more than doubled since 2000, according to research published this week in JAMA Pediatrics.” It can be traced to the opioid endemic which is largely due to Purdue Pharma based…
14 Books for Kids About 9/11
Living near Boston where the 9/11 planes took off, we seem to be one degree away from knowing someone who perished that day. For me, my neighbor was one of the pilots flying out of Boston. My neighborhood cafe and bakery had a daughter on that flight. My old neighbors from the South End have…
Homeschool Room Setup Tips and Tricks
As the world finds itself gripped in the worst pandemic in a century, schools are increasingly shutting down to prevent the spread of the virus and prevent endangering the lives of children, teachers, and parents. This means more and more parents are starting to homeschool their students or have been forced to homeschool them due…
Free Diverse Children’s Books through Multicultural Children’s Book Day!
This is our 8th year celebrating Multicultural Children’s Book Day! We will be holding our event this year on Friday, January 29, 2021. To celebrate, we will be giving away FREE diverse children’s and YA books for you to review and share on a social media channel such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, YouTube, or…
Top 8 Picture Books Featuring Anthropomorphic Foods
Please welcome author Josh Funk with a fun and funny book list of anthropomorphic foods! I’m a stop on his blog tour for his fourth Lady Pancake & Sir French Toast picture book, Short & Sweet. I find these picture books to be both clever and hilarious. I also appreciate a good rhyming picture book…







