Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2017

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Join us in celebrating Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2017 (1/27/17) for its fourth year. Co-founded by Valarie Budayr from Jump Into A Book and Mia Wenjen from PragmaticMom, the mission is to raise awareness on the ongoing need to include kid’s books that celebrate diversity in home and school bookshelves while also working diligently to get more of these types of books into the hands of young readers, parents and educators.

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 holiday, the MCBD Team are on a mission to change all of that. This event has also proven to be an excellent way to compile a list of diverse children’s book titles and reviews for parents, grandparents, educators and librarians to use all year long.

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Check out the 270+ Book Reviews and Activities from Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2016 here.

Current Sponsors: For the MCBD 2017 event, we have been very blessed to already have some amazing Sponsors in place.

Platinum Sponsors include Scholastic, Barefoot Books and Broccoli. We are we are beyond thrilled to have all 3 sponsor’s support. Other

Medallion Level Sponsors include heavy-hitters like Author Carole P. Roman, Audrey Press, Candlewick Press, KidLitTV, Capstone Young Readers, Author Gayle Swift, Wisdom Tales Press, Lee& Low Books, The Pack-n-Go Girls, Live Oak Media, Author Charlotte Riggle and Chronicle Books.

We’d like to also give a shout-out to MCBD’s impressive CoHost Team who not only hosts the book review link-up on celebration day, but who also work tirelessly to spread the word of this event. View our CoHosts HERE.

Hashtag: Don’t forget to connect with is on social media and be sure and look for/use their official hashtag #ReadYourWorld.

Be sure to follow the Multicultural Children’s Book Day on Facebook and Twitter and Join the MCBD Facebook Group!

Multicultural Children’s Book Day

Welcome to our 4th Multicultural Children’s Book Day! Here’s how to celebrate:

Link up your diversity book reviews
Win diversity book bundles at our Twitter Party tonight! We’re giving away 100+ children’s books from 9pm to 10pm EST. RSVP here. Use hashtag: #ReadYourWorld.
Get your a copy of Read Your World: A Guide to Multicultural Children’s Books for Parents and Educators. It’s FREE today through January 31st!

Book Reviewers: Please link up your book reviews here. We have set up FOUR linkys so you can add your blog review based whether your review is on a BLOG, INSTAGRAM, FACEBOOK, or YOUTUBE.

Please add here:

1) BLOGGERS: Reviewers who posted on their blog, Link Up Your BLOG Posts for Multicultural Children’s Book Day Here:

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2) INSTAGRAM: Reviewers who posted on Instagram, Link Up Your INSTAGRAM Posts for Multicultural Children’s Book Day Here:

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3) FACEBOOK: Reviewers who posted on Facebook, Link Up Your FACEBOOK Posts for Multicultural Children’s Book Day Here:

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4) YOUTUBE: Reviewers who made a video on YouTube, Link Up Your YOUTUBE Posts for Multicultural Children’s Book Day Here:

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Join us tonight at the Multicultural Children’s Book Day Twitter Party! We are giving away 12 diversity children’s book bundles; one every six minutes.

Multicultural Children's Book Day Twitter Party

WHEN: January 27th
TIME: 9 pm to 10 pm EST

HASHTAG: #ReadYourWorld

Please RSVP for Twitter Party below

All winners need to be signed up so that we can send you your book bundle.

You can see the question and book bundle prizes here.

New for Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2017 – We published an ebook this year!!

Read Your World: A Guide to Multicultural Children's Books for Parents and Educators

Read Your World: A Guide to Multicultural Children’s Books for Parents and Educators edited by Mia Wenjen with contributors:

Katie Meadows of Youth Literature Reviews

Alex Baugh of Randomly Reading

Amanda Boyarshinov of The Educators’ Spin On It

Valarie Budayr of Jump Into a Book

Erica Clark of What Do We Do All Day?

Rebecca Flansburg of Frantic Mommy

Anna Geiger of The Measured Mom

Svenja Gernand of Colours of Us

Michelle Goetzl of Books My Kids Read

Jennifer Hughes of The Jenny Evolution

MaryAnne Kochenderfer of Mama Smiles

Marie-Claude Leroux of Marie Pastiche

Katie Logonauts of The Logonauts

Stephanie Meade of InCulture Parent

Leanna Guillén Mora of All Done Monkey

Becky Morales of Kid World Citizen

Carrie Pericola of Crafty Moms Share

Jodie Rodriguez of Growing Book by Book

Melissa Taylor of Imagination Soup

Mia Wenjen of PragmaticMom

and authors…

Uma Krishnaswami

Elsa Marston

Finally, did you get our free Classroom Kindness Kit? It includes Be a Hero Be Kind poster by Jarrett Krosoczka, a diversity kindness book list for ages 2 through 12, and classroom kindness activities.