Diversity books for kids including authors and characters of color and diversity themes.
Please welcome my guest author, Adriana White. I had created a post on special needs children’s books about ten years ago when I started this blog that was really out of date and she saw my post on Twitter and was kind enough to help me out by gently educating me: Adriana White, MLIS @Adriana_Edu…
Please welcome my guest author today, Cathy Camper, with her list of children’s books featuring Arab American Culture. I first met Cathy Camper through Multicultural Children’s Book Day because her graphic novel series illustrated by Raul the Third, Low Riders in Space, was widely read and enjoyed by our reviewers. I didn’t realize that Cathy…
I’m thrilled to announce that the 2021 Multicultural Children’s Book Day poster was created by Nat Iwata. It’s free and downloadable! Our entire gallery of posters is here. Nat Iwata also the illustrator for Sumo Joe! Learn more about Nat Iwata on his website, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. Multicultural Children’s Book Day (MCBD) is an…
“Here, we talk about children as objects of protection rather than people with rights.” The United States remains the only eligible country that has failed to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which marks its 30th anniversary in November, noted Taft. “The Convention has given children in other countries the ability…
Sign Up for Free Diverse Children’s Books! Authors, illustrators, and publishers! Multicultural Children’s Book Day sponsorships are available! What does this mean? Celebrated annually on the last Friday in January, our global non-profit offers a plethora of free resources, teaching tools, booklists, downloads, and a year-round initiative to get multicultural and diverse books into the…
This is our 8th year celebrating Multicultural Children’s Book Day! We will be holding our event this year on Friday, January 29, 2021. To celebrate, we will be giving away FREE diverse children’s and YA books for you to review and share on a social media channel such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, YouTube, or…
It comes up every year: what are the “good” books for Thanksgiving and Indigenous Peoples Day? It’s not simply a question of #OwnVoices but historical accuracy from multiple points of view. It’s much easier to celebrate a narrative that eliminates conflict and genocide. In searching for books over the past few years, these are the…