Diversity books for kids including authors and characters of color and diversity themes.
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…
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…
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…
Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2020 Sponsorships are OPEN! Every year we have authors and publishers that find out about Multicultural Children’s Book Day late in the game and are interested in sponsorship after our Dec 15th cutoff. What we want our sponsors to know is that we BEGIN promoting you and your books as soon…
It’s so easy to get free diversity children’s books through Multicultural Children’s Book Day. You don’t have to be a blogger to review multicultural children’s books for our MCBD 2020 online event. You just need to have a love of diversity in children’s literature and be willing to share on your social media platforms such…
I recently joined a new diversity committee for New England Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (NESCBWI). The other members of the committee are: Jeanette Bradley, Lisa Stringfellow, Janet Costa Bates, Amitha Knight, Autumn Allen, and Valerie Bolling. One of the first tasks our committee accomplished was create a mission statement: The mission of…
I can’t believe that Sumo Joe is releasing today! It feels like I have been talking about Sumo Joe for years and now it’s finally real! Thank you to everyone who has supported me along this journey including authors who have kindly covered Sumo Joe on their blogs: Caroline Starr Rose: Classroom Connections: Sumo Joe…