Diversity books for kids including authors and characters of color and diversity themes.
I was thrilled to do a Skype author visit with 120 kindergartners! They were well prepared having read the story ahead of time. They also came up with questions that the Media Specialist had collected ahead of time. For such a young group, the teachers asked for a 20-minute visit. The kids were great and…
I met Sarah Marie Jette at our first NESCBWI Meet & Greet for YA/Children’s Writers and Illustrators of Color. as part of the new NESCBWI Equity and Inclusion Committee that I am on. She told me about her new book and we were both struck by the lack of children’s and YA books that have…
I’m grateful that my mother was able to read my debut picture book. My mother was always supportive of everything we did and when my sister and I started writing and publishing books, she would make a point of purchasing five copies. At the time, she was living in an Independent Living facility so she…
It was such a pleasure to speak at UMass Boston Asian American Studies class recently, taught by Dr. MinJin Kim. My thanks to Priya Sonal who found me on social media. She wrote to me: Hello Ms Mia, I saw your recent post on Instagram, My heart felt sorry for you and your family’s…
Please welcome award-winning guest author, Elizabeth Suneby, and author-illustrator, Laurel Molk, with their newest book, No Room for a Pup! published by Kids Can Press. This fun read-aloud, cleverly illustrated book is a hilarious twist on a revered Yiddish folktale about gratitude popularized in It Could Always Be Worse, published in 1977. In No Room for a…
Multicultural Children’s Book Day is partnering with Children’s Book Council for #ReadYourWorld Book Jam 2020! Please join us for a series of blog posts hosted on the Multicultural Children’s Book Day blog featuring diverse authors and illustrators during the month of January with lots of book giveaways! Our line up includes: Nikki Grimes will share…
Have you seen our fabulous Multicultural Children’s Book Day Music Video with original music created by Annie Bird? We are using the music to make a new video for Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2020! AND YOU CAN BE FEATURED!!! All you need to do is take a photo of you, kids, your hand, or just…