Diversity books for kids including authors and characters of color and diversity themes.
Welcome to our 7th Multicultural Children’s Book Day! Here’s how to celebrate: Link up your diversity book reviews Win diversity book bundles at our Twitter Party tonight, January 31, 2020! We’re giving away 100+ children’s books from 9pm to 10pm EST. RSVP here. Use hashtag: #ReadYourWorld. Get your free copy of Best #OwnVoices Children’s Books….
In celebration of Multicultural Children’s Book Day, my ebook resource to find the best diversity books written by authors who share the same marginalized identity as the characters in their books will be FREE starting January 29th through February 2nd at Amazon here. EST OWNVOICES CHILDREN’S BOOKS: My Favorite Diversity Books for Kids Ages 1-12…
In honor of our seventh Multicultural Children’s Book Day, we are increasing our Twitter Party Book Bundles prizes from five to SEVEN books! More books, more diverse KidLit discussions, and more FUN! Please join us Friday, January 31st 9 pm-10 pm EST Use hashtag #ReadYourWorld to find the party We will be giving away 14…
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…