Educations Matters: Diverse Children's Book Reviews
Diversity books for kids including authors and characters of color and diversity themes.
“If the plantation owners of the South, Jackson’s people, were to have the land they wanted to grow more cotton, the Choctaws had to move,” I said. “And if you, Chief Pushmataha, were so against this move, you must be gone, out of the way.” from When A Ghost Talks, Listen by Tim Tingle …
Please join me 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. December’s event will be held on December 2nd and we are celebrating Interfaith Holidays using The Hanukkah Magic of Nate Gadol…
Sometimes you just gotta ask! (Me asking): Please consider SUMO JOE picture book Hello Japanese American National Museum store manager, My name is Mia Wenjen and I’m the author of a rhyming picture book SUMO JOE. I am half Japanese American and wrote it to show that sumo is not a sport of fat…
In honor of Alzheimer’s Awareness Month, please welcome Brightview’s Corporate Director of Dementia Care, Cole Smith, who has compiled reading materials for caretakers and their families in order to help ease difficult conversations and explain dementia to children. What books would you add to this list? Thanks so much for your suggestions! Alzheimer’s Awareness…
Thank you to Lois J Wickstrom for her Readers’ Favorite review: Changing the Game by Mia Wenjen introduces seventeen Asian Pacific American Female star athletes. They have overcome crippling injuries, poverty, racism, and other life-altering events to win Olympic medals, and achieve other honors in their chosen sports. These women practice martial arts, kayaking, swimming,…