Have you been following the brouhaha on Twitter: #WeNeedDiverseBooks ? This is what went down: “Last week, BookCon announced their event’s lineup of blockbuster kid lit panelists. Jeff Kinney, James Patterson, Rick Riordan, and Lemony Snicket, four white men, will be starring as luminaries in the field for this event. Even the invited panelists have…
Category: Diverse Books for Kids
Diversity books for kids including authors and characters of color and diversity themes.
March is Women’s History Month Picture Book of the Day
March is Women’s History Month and one great way to celebrate is to go to my friend, Margo Tannebaum’s joint blog, KidLit Celebrates Women’s History Month. For the month of March, Margo of The Fourth Musketeer and her partner in this endeavor, Shelf Employed, have lined up guest bloggers to celebrate children’s books featuring women…
5 Multicultural Books for Kids from the Kid Lit Blog Hop
I wanted to share some of the great multicultural books from the last Kid Lit Blog Hop. Multicultural Books for Kids from the Kid Lit Blog Hop Sam and the Lucky Money from Randomly Reading Sam and the Lucky Money is is a wonderful read aloud for kids. It is not so much about teaching young…
Highlighting Multicultural Children’s Books & Kid Lit Blog Hop
Last Monday was a busy day. Valarie from Jump Into a Book and I co-hosted Multicultural Children’s Book Day along with more than 80 wonderful bloggers: 2GirlsLostInaBook · 365 Days of Motherhood · A Bilingual Baby · A Library Mama · A Simple Life, Really? · Africa to America · After School for Smarty Pants · All Done Monkey · Andi’s Kids Books · Anita Brown Bag · Austin Gilkeson · Barbara Ann Mojica · Between The Covers · Bookish Ambition · Books My…
Multicultural Children’s Book Day: Celebrating Diversity in Children’s Literature
Valarie from Jump Into a Book and I welcome to you Multicultural Children’s Book Day! We have a wonderful group of bloggers who are posting today!! 2GirlsLostInaBook · 365 Days of Motherhood · A Bilingual Baby · A Library Mama · A Simple Life, Really? · Africa to America · After School for Smarty Pants · All Done Monkey · Andi’s Kids Books · Anita Brown Bag · Austin…
Multicultural Children’s Book Day Coming Up!
Valarie Budayr of Jump Into a Book and I are getting excited for January 27th to roll around so we can celebrate multicultural children’s books along with all of you and many wonderful parenting and children’s book bloggers! So far, more than two dozen bloggers have signed up to help us celebrate diversity in children’s…
Join Us for Multicultural Children’s Book Day January 27!
Multicultural Children’s Book Day January 27, 2014 Our mission is to not only raise awareness for the kid’s books that celebrate diversity, but to get more of these of books into classrooms and libraries. Children’s reading and play advocates Valarie Budayr from Jump Into a Book and Mia Wenjen from Pragmatic Mom have teamed up to create…