Diversity books for kids including authors and characters of color and diversity themes.
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’m creating the book list for Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2020 Classroom Kit: Understand and celebrate our differences. We’ve replaced our previous title, “Understanding and Celebrating People with Disabilities,” after learning that this isn’t correct language. I have children’s books and resource links for: ADHD Allergies Anxiety/Separation Anxiety Asthma Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Cancer Charcot…