Please join us for our Multicultural Children’s Book Club. We host a FREE multicultural children’s picture book virtual book club on the first Thursday of every month from 7 pm to 8 pm EST. January’s event will be held on January 5th and we are celebrating the Chinese New Year using It’s Chinese New Year,…
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Announcing #ReadYourWorld Book Jam 2023 Line Up!
We are thrilled to announce our #ReadYourWorld Book Jam 2023 with the Children’s Book Council! January 2, 2023: Torrey Maldonado with a sports book list & inscribed GIVEAWAY! January 9, 2023: Ukrainian author and illustrator, Oleksandr Shatokhin, with his book list of picture books to understand the Ukraine war & GIVEAWAY!…
6 Children’s Books about Singapore
Modern Singapore was founded in the 19th century, thanks to politics, trade and a man known as Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles. Singapore’s prosperity suffered a major blow during World War II, when it was attacked by the Japanese on 8 December 1941. The invaders arrived from the north, confounding the British military commanders who had expected…
Pippa Park Scavenger Hunt Box GIVEAWAY!
Please welcome my guest author, Erin Yun! She’s back with book two in the bestselling Pippa Park middle grade series about identity, family, friendships, and peer pressure: Pippa Park Crush at First Sight. Pippa Park picks up right where she left off . . . trying to balance basketball, school, friends, working at the struggling family laundromat,…
11 Children’s Books about Tibet
I didn’t know very much about Tibet so I decided to learn more. Tibet has a tricky situation in terms of governance. China considers Tibet an autonomous region or a Chinese province, but there is also a government in exile headed by the Dalai Lama. Tibet’s geography is a big part of this governance dispute….
16 Children’s Books About Mongolia
My friend from college, Lionel, is a hands-on uncle to his young nephews in California. The nephews are multiracial Mongolian-American so Lionel asked for a book list to learn more about their Mongolian heritage. I found 16 children’s books about Mongolia. Unfortunately, there is not a lot, especially through my public library system, but I…
7 Picture Books About Blues Music & All That Jazz
Please welcome my guest author, Alice Faye Duncan with her picture book list on blues and jazz music! We are giving away five signed copies of Yellow Dog Blues. To enter, please fill out the Rafflecopter at the bottom. 7 Picture Books About Blues Music & All That Jazz Blues Journey by Walter Dean Myers,…