Can you believe that it’s less than 120 days until Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2016!?! As time continues to speed forward, the MCCBD planning team continues to create amazing opportunities to get multicultural children’s books into the hands of teachers, librarians, parents and young readers. We are also continuing our quest of shining the spotlight on…
Category: Diverse Books for Kids
Diversity books for kids including authors and characters of color and diversity themes.
Immigrating to a New Country Picture Books & Kid Lit Blog Hop
This collection of picture books shows some of the many ways people have immigrated in recent times to a new country including the United States. I have chapter books on immigration at the turn of century that our 4th grade uses and a book list of undocumented immigrants if you want to explore this theme further….
KidLit TV Multicultural Library Book Bundle GIVEAWAY
Right on time for back to school, KidLit TV is teaming up with Pragmatic Mom, Jump into a Book, Franticmommy and Multicultural Children’s Book Day to give parents, teachers, and librarians a chance to win a multicultural book bundle for their school library. School libraries play an integral role in the life of students. Many…
10 Books for Kids Whose Best Friend Moved Away
It’s not easy when your best friend moves away. I found three picture books that might help a child in this dilemma but I’d love to add more books to this list. What am I missing? Thanks for your help! Evelyn Del Rey Is Moving Away by Meg Medina, illustrated by Sonia Sanchez Daniela’s best…
Top 10 Bilingual Spanish Picture Books & #GIVEAWAY
Today my guest author is Derek Taylor Kent. You might know him as Derek the Ghost, author of the award-winning MG series Scary School. His first picture book just came out August 18 called El Perro Con Sombrero: A Bilingual Doggy Tale and illustrated by the talented artist Jed Henry. Derek says that Pepe is actually based on his own…
21 Wonderful Multicultural Dance Picture Books
First, you have to believe that it’s possible. Can a person of color become a professional dancer? These 20 Wonderful Multicultural Dance Picture Books plant the seed … but not for my kids. I could never coax my girls into dancing. My oldest did one year at the Boston Ballet School when she was four….
3 Amazing Wordless Diversity Picture Books
Right about now, you are probably ready for a trip to the beach or a dip in a pool? Or maybe you are planning a trip to NYC to check out the sights? I have three beautiful Asian American wordless picture books that will take you there with just a flip of a page. What…