I met Sarah Marie Jette at our first NESCBWI Meet & Greet for YA/Children’s Writers and Illustrators of Color. as part of the new NESCBWI Equity and Inclusion Committee that I am on. She told me about her new book and we were both struck by the lack of children’s and YA books that have…
Category: Diverse Books for Kids
Diversity books for kids including authors and characters of color and diversity themes.
Sumo Joe’s 6 Month Anniversary and How I Celebrated
I’m grateful that my mother was able to read my debut picture book. My mother was always supportive of everything we did and when my sister and I started writing and publishing books, she would make a point of purchasing five copies. At the time, she was living in an Independent Living facility so she…
Speaking at Asian American Studies at UMass Boston
It was such a pleasure to speak at UMass Boston Asian American Studies class recently, taught by Dr. MinJin Kim. My thanks to Priya Sonal who found me on social media. She wrote to me: Hello Ms Mia, I saw your recent post on Instagram, My heart felt sorry for you and your family’s…
10 Jewish Folktale-Inspired Books
Please welcome award-winning guest author, Elizabeth Suneby, and author-illustrator, Laurel Molk, with their newest book, No Room for a Pup! published by Kids Can Press. This fun read-aloud, cleverly illustrated book is a hilarious twist on a revered Yiddish folktale about gratitude popularized in It Could Always Be Worse, published in 1977. In No Room for a…
#ReadYourWorld Book Jam 2020 with Children’s Book Council
Multicultural Children’s Book Day is partnering with Children’s Book Council for #ReadYourWorld Book Jam 2020! Please join us for a series of blog posts hosted on the Multicultural Children’s Book Day blog featuring diverse authors and illustrators during the month of January with lots of book giveaways! Our line up includes: Nikki Grimes will share…
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…
Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2020 Poster by Jerry Craft!
We are thrilled to release the Multicultural Children’s Book Day poster for 2020 (our 7th year) by Jerry Craft! He is an American cartoonist and children’s book illustrator best known for his syndicated newspaper comic strip Mama’s Boyz. Craft is one of only a handful of syndicated African American cartoonists in the US. Jerry Craft’s…