Diversity books for kids including authors and characters of color and diversity themes.
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…
I’m excited to share that Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World was selected by dPICTUS for their list of 100 Outstanding Picture Books of 2023! An active community of international picturebook publishers and agents use the dPICTUS online platform to promote their titles, secure foreign rights deals, discover emerging talent, and make…
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. March’s event will be held on March 2nd and we are celebrating Women’s History Month using Planting Stories: The Life of…
I am thrilled today to be part of a blog tour to celebrate the Sydney Taylor Book Award Finalists. Each of us on the blog tour will be interviewing one award recipient. I am thrilled to be talking to Shoshana Nambi, author of The Very Best Sukkah: A Story from Uganda. I am also grateful…
Those with sharp eyes might have noticed the small gold sticker on the upper right-hand cover of Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World. It’s from Junior Library Guild. For those who are not familiar with Junior Library Guild, they are a curating subscription service for libraries. Their team of expert librarians reads…
The 2023 Caldecott, Newbery Winners, and More! Youth Media Awards will be announced at 8 a.m. CST today during the ALA Midwinter Meeting & Exhibition which is virtual via YouTube! 2023 Caldecott Medal and Honor Books The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. It honors the artist of the most…