Happy New Year! Our theme for January is Human Rights. (As always, the theme is only a suggestion. Diverse posts on alternate topics are always welcome.) I wanted to share with you a great discovery: a novel in verse that tells the story of quiet heroes of the Civil Rights Movement. Loving vs. Virginia: A Documentary Novel of…
For High School Students in the following areas:Washington, D.C. Metro Area, Southern New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and New York Diverse Minds Writing Challenge Now celebrating its 11th Anniversary! This innovative competition asks high school students, in each region, to write and illustrate a children’s book that tells a story of tolerance, diversity or inclusion. Students…
Now more than ever, a message of hope, compassion, empathy and understanding is needed. Now more than ever, we need to come together as a nation of beautifully diverse people and encourage and implement KINDESS. Kindness is word that many of us are hearing more and more thanks to a concerning, tense and sometimes scary…
The prep of the upcoming Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2017 (1/27/17) is humming right along! In case you’ve missed all the details, Valarie Budayr from Jump Into A Book and Mia Wenjen from PragmaticMom are teaming up for the fourth year to raise awareness on the ongoing need to include kid’s books that celebrate diversity…
Thank you to Ronna Mandel (who also blogs at Good Reads with Ronna) for doing a story on me and Multicultural Children’s Book Day for JLife. This is the book list that I created for the article. 10 Multicultural Books To Read With Your Kids 1. It’s Okay to Be Different by Todd Parr Todd…
I am so excited to have kid book bloggers, Oscar and Olivia, here today with their 10 Favorite Diversity Books for Kids. They’ve included both picture books and chapter books. Oscar is 9 years old; Olivia 12 years old. They blog collaboratively at Kid Book Review. Please check out their great blog! You can also…
One of my readers requested that I do my boxing fitness giveaway featuring BOXYGEN and Expert Boxing’s 30 Day Boxer’s Diet ebook again this year, so I am. In fact, this year I am doing it up and giveaway 3 sets of both the video and ebook! See below to enter. BOXYGEN is a cardio fitness boxing…