by Once again, Multicultural Kid Blogs is delighted to participate in Multicultural Children’s Book Day! This annual celebration highlights children’s book titles that reflect diverse families and cultures. There are so many great events associated with the Multicultural Children’s Book Day including a Twitter party (see more below); book giveaways; book reviews; free multicultural books for teachers; free […]
Jewish Kidlit Awards
by The #WeNeedDiverseBooks movement has brought much-needed attention to children’s literature with diverse characters and themes, but recognition for these books is not a new idea. Youth literature awards exist for minorities from American Indians to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender community to the differently abled. As a synagogue librarian, my particular minority focus is on awards for […]
Multicultural Children's Book Day
by IT’S FINALLY HERE! That’s right, Multicultural Children’s Book Day has arrived! Today we are Celebrating: A giant blog tour and Link-up: Our BIG Multicultural Children’s Book Day linky is LIVE today (see the end of this post): 1) If you are a blogger: link up your multicultural children’s book reviews! 2) If you are […]
Multicultural Children’s Book Day: Interview with the Founders
by Multicultural Children’s Book Day – the annual event to celebrate and encourage the publication of multicultural books for children – is coming on January 27, and we at Multicultural Kid Blogs are thrilled to be a co-host this year! (And also tickled that 7 of the 8 other co-hosts are MKB members!) I recently […]