Educations Matters: Diverse Children's Book Reviews
Diversity books for kids including authors and characters of color and diversity themes.
I’m thrilled to announce a new picture book through Red Comet Press. We Sing from the Heart: How the Slants® Took Their Fight for Free Speech to the Supreme Court by Mia Wenjen, illustrated by Victor Bizar Gomez. This is the story of Simon Tam, the leader of the popular all-Asian-American dance-pop band, The Slants®,…
The Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World review went live on the Kirkus website on February 25th and was published in the March 15th edition of Kirkus Reviews. “A dozen sustainable farms around the world offer intriguing possibilities for the future of agriculture. Simple four-beat rhyming couplets concisely describe a…
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. April’s event will be held on April 6th and we are celebrating Neurodiversity using Wiggles, Stomps, and Squeezes Calm My Jitters…
Please welcome my guest author/illustrator, Qing Zhuang. We are both in the Soaring 20s picture book group, and I remember meeting her in a workshop at Kweli years ago with Bryan Collier! It is a small world! We are giving away 2 copies of her writing debut picture book, Rainbow Shopping. To enter, please fill…
My kids studied Ghana in second grade and their teachers all wanted to find books that portrayed Ghana as a city because the kids all thought the Ghanaians lived in rural villages. This was more than 15 years ago, and I’m happy to see that there are few books depicting Accra, Ghana’s capital city. I’m…
We are seeking auction items for our online auction for Read Your World celebrates Multicultural Children’s Book Day. Help us change the world one book at a time! Donate to our online auction here: https://buff.ly/3INy4el Our auction will run from May 1 through May 15. The link to bid on items…
I wanted to pull together all my resources on one page in honor of Women’s History Month. Resources to Celebrate #WomensHistoryMonth Here are my book lists Picture Books About Strong, Independent Female Artists African-American Female Musicians Picture Books 31+ STEM Books to Inspire Girls Visiting the Little Women Home of Louisa May Alcott…