I am excited to participate in a book review for Multicultural Children’s Book Day, the annual event to celebrate and encourage the publication of multicultural books for children. The co-creators of this unique event are Mia Wenjen from Pragmatic Mom and Valarie Budayr from Jump Into a Book/Audrey Press. You can find a bio for Mia and Valarie here. […]
My children and I love reading winter books together, but I had to do some digging to find books that were as diverse as we were used to reading. With a little detective work, however, I was delighted to find that there are quite a few multicultural winter books available. Kids go through lots of
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Every country I have ever lived in rolls out a smorgasbord of winter, Christmas and New Year themed books for children. There are always the reprints of the classics but I am constantly amazed by all the new books, stories and the beautiful illustrations. For this post I created a gallery of books from the
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In recent years, publishers have begun to offer more Hanukkah books depicting the diversity of Jewish families. We have a wonderful list of diverse Hanukkah books for you, but first a few facts about the holiday. Hanukkah Facts The dates of Hanukkah change each year on the Western calendar, falling in November or December. That’s
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Have you ever wondered what it must be like to be the only black person in a class? One of my daughter’s friends was in that situation for her first three years of school. The thing she mentioned most to her mother was how her hair was different from her friends. She wanted her hair
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