Do you know how excited I was when I first discovered that there is going to be a Multicultural Children's Book Day?? This ingenious idea was co-created by Mia Wenjen from Pragmatic Mom and Valarie Budayr from Jump Into a Book/Audrey Press. Their mission: Despite census data that shows 37% of the US population consists of people of color, only 10% of children’s books published have diversity content. Using the Multicultural Children’s Book Day, Mia and Valarie are on a mission to change all of that. Their mission is to not only raise awareness for the kid’s books that celebrate diversity, but to get more of these types of books into classrooms and libraries. Another goal of this exciting event is create a compilation of books and favorite reads that will provide not only a new reading list for the winter, but also a way to expose brilliant books to families, teachers, and libraries.
The inaugural Multicultural Children's Book Day: Celebrating Diversity in Children's Literature is going to be on January 27, 2014. I am honored to be one of the official bloggers taking part in this celebration! Bloggers all over the country will be participating by posting book reviews, hosting give-aways, sharing activities, etc. so that parents and teachers have tools to celebrate this day with the children in their care!
There are wonderful sponsors for this event as well! The main sponsors are Wisdom Tales Press, Lee& Low Books, Chronicle Books, and Susan Daniel Fayad: Author of My Grandfather’s Masbaha. I am a huge fan of Lee & Low Books already, which you can see by the number of their books I recommend in my multicultural book list! I am eager to get to know the other sponsors as well!
So, I hope you will join me in "Celebrating Diversity in Children's Literature" on January 27th! But more importantly, my hope is that you'll be inspired to infuse your homes, classrooms, and libraries with great multicultural books! Stay tuned for all sorts of related posts in the coming days!
The inaugural Multicultural Children's Book Day: Celebrating Diversity in Children's Literature is going to be on January 27, 2014. I am honored to be one of the official bloggers taking part in this celebration! Bloggers all over the country will be participating by posting book reviews, hosting give-aways, sharing activities, etc. so that parents and teachers have tools to celebrate this day with the children in their care!
There are wonderful sponsors for this event as well! The main sponsors are Wisdom Tales Press, Lee& Low Books, Chronicle Books, and Susan Daniel Fayad: Author of My Grandfather’s Masbaha. I am a huge fan of Lee & Low Books already, which you can see by the number of their books I recommend in my multicultural book list! I am eager to get to know the other sponsors as well!
So, I hope you will join me in "Celebrating Diversity in Children's Literature" on January 27th! But more importantly, my hope is that you'll be inspired to infuse your homes, classrooms, and libraries with great multicultural books! Stay tuned for all sorts of related posts in the coming days!
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