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Please join us on January 27th as we celebrate multicultural, diverse and inclusive books for kids for Multicultural Children’s Book Day. To help us with our mission to get diversity books into the hands of children, we are giving away a TON of books.

Please join us for our Twitter party where we will be discussing children’s books and giving away packages of diversity books for kids every 5 minutes!

Multicultural Children’s Book Day Twitter Party

Win Packages of Diversity Books for Kids

Wednesday, January 27th

9:00 pm -10 pm EST

Hashtag: #ReadYourWorld

We will be discussing:

Q1: What diverse, multicultural and inclusive books are you reading with your kids? #ReadYourWorld

Q2: What diversity/multicultural/inclusive topics are you having trouble finding? #ReadYourWorld

Q3: How do you feel about mixed race characters in books? Are there enough? #ReadYourWorld

Q4: Would you read a book about a race or culture that isn’t yours or your child’s? Would you buy this book? #ReadYourWorld

Q5: Are there certain diverse characters that you see too much of … say studious Asian Americans? #ReadYourWorld

Q6: What diverse characters would you like to see? (I’d love to see an Asian American in a dance picture book!) #ReadYourWorld

Q7: Do you follow KidLit awards that are specific to an ethnicity like the (Pura) Belpré Medal? #ReadYourWorld

Q8: With racist political rhetoric in the media, how do you teach your kids compassion and understanding towards Muslims (or any other group)? #ReadYourWorld

Q9: Who are your favorite authors of a diverse nature? #ReadYourWorld

Q10: What are your favorite diversity books? #ReadYourWorld

Q11: Do you have a new author discovery that you are excited about? #ReadYourWorld

Q12: If you were to buy one children’s book of a diverse nature, what would it be about? #ReadYourWorld

12 Diversity Book Bundle Prizes, 1 Prize handed Out Every 5 Minutes!

Multicultural Children’s Book Day Grand Prize Diversity Book Bundle

Thank you to all the authors and publishers who donated books! They are noted next to each book.

• Quickest Kid In Clarksville-Chronicle Books
• Mystery of the Thief in the Night-Pack-n-Go-Girls
• The Peace Tree-Lee and Low
• Sunbelievable-StoryQuest
• Hands Around the Library-Karen Leggett and Susan Roth
• Never Say a Mean Word Again– Wisdom Tales
• Just Like Me Climbing a Tree-Wisdom Tales
• Don’t Judge a Bird by it’s Feathers-Tori Nighthawk
• Poetry Friday Anthology-Pomelo Books
• Call Me Tree– Lee and Low
• Hoodie Hero– Shout Mouse Press
• In The Forbidden City-The China Institute

Q1 Prize: Diversity Picture Books, Ages 4-8

• I wonder, I wonder-Valerie Christopher
• Centipede Dragon-Alice Y Chen
• Kai and the Magic Jacket-Tricia Chinn Campbell
• Sade & the Golden Shoe-Shahara Ruth

Q2 Prize: Diversity Advanced Picture Books, Ages 6-9

• Papa Lemons Little Wanderers-Lehman Riley
• Indonesian Children’s Favorite Stories-Joan Suyenaga
• The Green Musician-Mahvash Shahegh
• The Remembering Day-Pat Mora
• Francisco’s Kites-Alicia Z Klepeis

Q3 Prize: Diversity Picture Books, Ages 4-8

Q7: Diversity Young Adult, Ages 12 and up

• Anahita’s Woven Riddle-Meghan Nutall Sayres
• Patalosh-Z. Altug
• Chronicles from the Chateau Moines-Evelyn Holingue

Q8: Diversity Advanced Picture Books, Ages 6-9

• Mystery of the Golden Temple-(Pack-n-Go Girls)
• Ellis and the Magic Mirror-Cerece Murphy
• Favorite Indonesian Stories-Tuttle Books
• The Legend of Robert Cofresi-Janet Balletta
• Once Upon a Time in Japan-Tuttle Books

Q9: Diversity Picture Books, Ages 4-8

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Are we excited or what!? Today is Multicultural Children’s Book Day and both Mia Wenjen from PragmaticMom and I would love it if you’d celebrate with us.

This is our second annual event and is bigger than ever before. Along with 17 sponsors , 9 blog co-hosts, and 150+ bloggers, we’re reading our world in many amazing and wonderful ways.

Head on over to www.multiculturalchildresnbookday.com/blog and have a look at our linky party. There you will find many great multicultural and diverse books to read.

Twitter Party! Join us for Multicultural Children’s Book Day Twitter Party on Jan 27th 9:00pm EST.

Use hashtag: #ReadYourWorld to win 10 book packages! This Twitter Party is hosted by myself and Mia Wenjen from PragmaticMom! View the prize list HERE.

How it all Began

So many times Mia and I are asked how “it all began” with Multicultural Children’s Book Day so we teamed up to make this video that answers that very question:

Let’s get LINKY! Link up your multicultural children’s book review and let’s create an amazing resource for teachers, parents and librarians!

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Susan at The Book Chook compiles a wonderful digital magazine called Literacy Lava that parents can access for free in pdf form. She just released the fourth issue and it includes a lot of helpful and interesting articles about creative thinking, magazine hunts, raising book-loving boys, encouraging writing skills, how to select quality books, discovery baskets, story stretchers and using multimedia for storytelling. I especially love all the links to different online resources. I hadn't heard of many of them and will certainly refer back to them in the future. Well worth checking out!

Each week, Mom It Forward hosts a #gno twitter party (Girls’ Night Out). This Tuesday, the topic is "Celebrate Reading and Children’s Literature." Join other moms on Tuesday, March 9 from 9-11 ET by using the #gno and #memetales hashtags as they discuss ways to nurture young readers (Make sure to RSVP to the party.) You can also enter for a chance to win a Kodak zi8 Video Camera.

The Share a Story - Shape a Future blog tour begins on March 8th and runs until March 12th. Each day different kidlit bloggers promote reading and literacy by sharing useful tips and ideas.
The topics covered each day are as follows: (more information here)
Day 1: The Many Faces of Reading - Terry Doherty @ Scrub-a-Dub-Tub
Day 2: Literacy My Way/Literacy Your Way - Susan Stephenson @ The Book Chook
Day 3: Just the Facts: The Nonfiction Book Hook - Sarah Mulhern @ The Reading Zone
Day 4: Reading Through the Ages: Old Faves & New Classics - Donalyn Miller @ The Book Whisperer
Day 5: Reading for the Next Generation - Jen @ Jen Robinson's Book Page