Diversity books for kids including authors and characters of color and diversity themes.
Please welcome my guest author today, Margaret Chiu Greanias, with a sequel to her list of picture books about Taiwanese characters or by Taiwanese American authors and author-illustrators with 12 wonderful picture books related to Taiwan. Her original list of picture books related to Taiwan is here. We are giving away a copy of How…
Our Read Your World Celebrates Multicultural Children’s Book Day fundraiser has just begun. Help us fight against banned and challenged books by giving teachers a Classroom Kit of diverse children’s books. If we can raise $500 by Giving Tuesday, we are eligible to win $500 from Giving Butter, the platform that we are…
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. December’s event will be held on December 7th and we are celebrating Hanukkah using The Ninth Night of Hanukkah by Erica…
I was thinking about the banners, Hata-jirushi (旗印), that my ancestors used on the battlefield during medieval Japan. It would have our clan name via the kamon, or logo if you will. The banners would denote the regiments of an army within a particular samurai clan. image from Wikipedia Flags around the world are a…
Mitali Perkins returns to Newtonville Books, her previous home, with her book launch for her lauded middle-grade book, Hope in the Valley. Here, she’s in conversation with Editor Emeritus Roger Sutton, the editor-in-chief of The Horn Book, Inc., from 1996 to 2021. Mitali reads the first chapter of Hope in the Valley. Q&A with Mitali…
Barefoot Books has partnered to create edible for KIDS, a four-page insert that is in EdibleBoston and other cities that are part of the Edible Community magazine series. Here’s a video of the four-page spread for Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World. Have you seen this in your city? Please…
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. November’s event will be held on November 2nd and we are celebrating Indigenous People’s Month using, illustrated by Julie Flett. …