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Multicultural Children's Book Day Part 2

This year, I was also gifted The Jake Show by Joshua Levy! The book was published by Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishing (harpercollins.com). Joshua is Jewish Florida native who has written several middle grade books. Jake is a TV-loving kid who is being pulled between two different worlds: The devout "yiddishkeit" of living with his mother and the secular, STEM encouraging of living with his father. Shuffled from school to school and between these two worlds, Jake has mastered the art of masking, but with the guidance of some excellent friends (and a few close-calls along the way), learns that he can't be both the person his mom wants him to be and the person his dad wants him to be at the same time (let alone himself). I really connected with Jake and the need to perform differently for different groups of people. I also remembered the feeling of starting in a new school and feeling like it would only be temporary. While adjusting to the Jewish vocabulary in the beginning was a little difficult for me (Jake did a great job at providing subtitles for things a few chapters in), this book was a great read! Jake's story will resonate with readers trying to parse out who they are/who they want to be. I'm so excited to add this book to the shelves in my library! Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2024 (1/25/24) is in its 11th year! Valarie Budayr and Mia Wenjen founded this non-profit children’s literacy initiative; they are two diverse book-loving moms who saw a need to shine the spotlight on all of the multicultural diverse books and authors on the market while also working to get those books into the hands of young readers and educators.

Read Your World’s mission is to raise awareness of the need to include kids’ books celebrating diversity in homes and school bookshelves. Read about our Mission and history HERE.

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Read Your World celebrates Multicultural Children’s Book Day and is honored to be Supported by these Medallion and Ruby Sponsors!

FOUNDER’S CIRCLE: Mia Wenjen (Pragmaticmom) and Valarie Budayr (Audreypress.com)

🏅 Super Platinum Sponsor: Author Deedee Cummings and Make A Way Media

🏅 Platinum Sponsors: Publisher Spotlight, Language Lizard Bilingual Books in 50+ Languages, Lerner Publishing Group, Children’s Book Council

🏅 Gold Sponsors:  Barefoot Books, Astra Books for Young Readers

🏅 Silver Sponsors: Red Comet Press, Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, Valerie Williams-Sanchez and Valorena Publishing, Lee and Low Books, Cardinal Rule Press

🏅 Bronze Sponsors: CK Malone, Tonya Duncan Ellis, Anita Crawford Clark, Star Bright Books, Blue Dot Kids Press, Brunella Costagliola, Red Fin, Fabled Films 

Ruby Sponsor: Crayola 

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Poster Artist:  Rebecca Burgess 

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Classroom Kit Poster: Barefoot Books 

MCBD 2024 is honored to be Supported by these Author Sponsors!

Authors: Gwen Jackson, Josh Funk, Eugenia Chu, Sivan Hong, Marta Magellan, Kathleen Burkinshaw, Angela H. Dale, Maritza M Mejia, Authors J.C. Kato and J.C.², Charnaie Gordon,  Alva Sachs, Amanda Hsiung-Blodgett, Lisa Chong, Diana Huang, Martha Seif Simpson, DARIA (WORLD MUSIC WITH DARIA) Daria Marmaluk-Hajioannou, Gea Meijering, Stephanie M. Wildman, Tracey Kyle, Afsaneh Moradian, Kim C. Lee, Rochelle Melander, Beth Ruffin, Shifa Saltagi Safadi, Alina Chau, Michael Genhart, Sally J. Pla, Ajuan Mance, Kimberly Marcus, Lindsey Rowe Parker

MCBD 2024 is Honored to be Supported by our CoHosts and Global CoHosts!

MCBD 2023 is Honored to be Supported by our Partner Organizations! 

Check out MCBD's Multicultural Books for Kids Pinterest Board!

📌 FREE RESOURCES from Multicultural Children’s Book Day

MCBD 2024 Poster

Mental Health Support for Stressful Times Classroom Kit

Diversity Book Lists & Activities for Teachers and Parents

Homeschool Diverse Kidlit Booklist & Activity Kit

FREE Teacher Classroom Activism and Activists Kit

FREE Teacher Classroom Empathy Kit

FREE Teacher Classroom Kindness Kit

FREE Teacher Classroom Physical and Developmental Challenges Kit

FREE Teacher Classroom Poverty Kit

Gallery of Our Free Posters

FREE Diversity Book for Classrooms Program

📌 Register for the MCBD Read Your World Virtual Party

Join us on Thursday, January 25, 2024, at 9 pm EST celebrating more than 10 years of  Multicultural Children's Book Day Read Your World Virtual Party! Register here. 

This epically fun and fast-paced hour includes multicultural book discussions, addressing timely issues, diverse book recommendations, & reading ideas.

We will be giving away a 10-Book Bundle during the virtual party plus Bonus Prizes as well! *** US and Global participants welcome. **

Follow the hashtag #ReadYourWorld to join the conversation, and connect with like-minded parts, authors, publishers, educators, organizations, and librarians. We look forward to seeing you all on January 25, 2024, at our virtual party!

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MCBD24 continues: What the Bread Says

What the Bread Says: Baking with Love, History, and Papan, by Vanessa Garcia/Illustrated by Tim Palin, (Oct. 2022, Cardinal Rule Press), $17.95, ISBN: 9781735345185 Ages 5-7 Every Saturday, Vanessa’s mom heads to yoga after dropping Vanessa off at her grandfather’s. The two “meditate another way”: they bake all sorts of breads together, and Papan – a combination of “papa” and “pan”, the Spanish…

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Safe Passage MCBD review by Diana-Huang

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Amara, The Brave Mermaid Review #ReadYourWorld

HerBrina Sade’ Shepherd www.HerBrinaSShepherd.com IG: @sunof_mysmile Facebook: HerBrina Sade’ Shepherd Julie’s Review: Let’s just start right off with how gorgeous the illustrations are! The mermaid images are stunning and vivid. Love them! I also loved the watercolor drawings used as the background on each page. The contrast between the gentle watercolor pages of the cover and the text pages to…

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Participate in Read Your World Day on Jan. 30

Review: Potty Training Day For Girls by Akilah Trinay and Ziana Washington and illustrated by Stephanie Hider Buy on Bookshop Potty Training Day for Girls is a fun book to read in anticipation of starting potty training with your daughter. I wish that I had a book like this when we were potty training our daughter. Thank you to the author and #ReadYourWorld for the gifted copy to review! Told…

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A true or false game to accompany Inca-tastic Tales (but you don't need to read the book to play it!). All links in bio. #kdpkids #readyourworld #earlyreaders #mustread #kidslit #diversekidslit #indieauthors #indieauthorsunited #chapterbooks #shortstoriesforkids #folklore #cosmovision #inca #ñusta #pachamama #games #game #familytime #readingwithkids #learnwithkids https://www.instagram.com/p/CYt_jGlA6bR/?utm_medium=tumblr

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♥ the second session : 10h. #Read #ReadUpCanada #readyforrehearsal #readmorde #readystockbagbyarabella #readinghospital #readwithyourkids #ReadYourWorld #readybahanaccessories #readyornot #readyhup #readingwoman #readytowear16 #readyforcoachella2016 #readysetsnow #readytoshipbooties #readyforthenextlevel #readyforsomefootball #readyforgym #readingintherain #readyboys #readytofacetheunknown #readingwithlotus #readyforchristmas #readthebookofmormon #readingwithchildren #readytorace #readinggoals #readingforthemindandheart #readysalted https://www.instagram.com/p/B_aUwVKJ29G/?igshid=1qw2xdmm41kmq

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January 31st is #MulticulturalChildrensBookDay :) Resources, reviews, and fab reads available at https://multiculturalchildrensbookday.com/ #ReadYourWorld #WNDB #kidlit

(poster illustrated by Jerry Craft, author of NEW KID)

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Because we need more Persian poetry in our lives, we give you this gem by Hafez - ✨ ✨ ✨ I pull a sun from my coin purse each day. And at night I let my pet, the moon, Run freely into the sky meadow. If I whistled, She would turn her head and look at me. If I then waved my arms, She would come back wagging a marvelous tail Of stars. There are always a few men like me In this world Who are house-sitting for God. We share His royal duties: I water each day a favorite potted plant Of His-- This earth. Ask the Friend for love. Ask Him again. For I have learned that every heart will get What it prays for Most. - A Potted Plant by Hafez (Translated by Daniel Ladinsky) Persian lyric poet Hafez (1310-1390 CE) born is one of the most celebrated of the Persian poets, and his influence can be felt to this day. As the author of numerous ghazals expressing love, spirituality, and protest, he and his work continue to be important to Iranians, and many of his poems are used as proverbs or sayings. - Poetry Foundation ✨ ✨ ✨ Art by Patricia Grush, Robin Dewitt and Golsa Yaghoobi from Brave with Beauty: A Story of Afghanistan by Maxine Rose Schur (Yali Books, October 2019) ✨ ✨ ✨ #persianpoetry #poetry #hafez #hafiz #farsi #diversebooks #weneeddiversebooks #historicalfiction #afghanistan #southasianhistory #southasianwomen #shaktis #muslimqueens #muslimwomen #afghanistanhistory #diversepicturebook #historicalpicturebooks #teachingforchange #readyourworld https://www.instagram.com/p/ByK3BBWlNPK/?igshid=mdcl2m2q3rv2

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https://mombian.com/2023/01/26/10-recent-lgbtq-inclusive-books-for-multicultural-childrens-book-day/Today is Multicultural Children’s Book Day, so I’m showcasing 10 recent picture books that are LGBTQ inclusive and celebrate a diversity of cultures!

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Miranda Paul and Baptiste Paul's I Am Farmer: Growing an Environmental Movement in Cameroon

Miranda Paul and Baptiste Paul’s I Am Farmer: Growing an Environmental Movement in Cameroon

I Am Farmer: Growing an Environmental Movement in Cameroon written by Miranda Paul and Baptiste Paul and illustrated by Elizabeth Zunon is a non-fiction account of environmental activism in Cameroon told through the story of farmer and activist Tantoh Nforba who works to bring organic gardening and clean water to Cameroon.

Tantoh is introduced as a young boy delighting in his grandmother’s…

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Read Your World 2025 Part 2

I was also gifted A Two-Place Heart by Doan Phuong Nguyen! This was a publication by Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books (leeandlow.com). Nguyen was born in Vietnam and immigrated to the U.S. in elementary school with her family.

Bom is experiencing a longing for the home and family she knew in Vietnam all while the memories and language seem to be slipping from her mind. She's baffled by her younger sister's nonchalance about not remembering their life in Vietnam. In an effort to remind both her sister and herself, she begins recording her memories and feelings on paper using her dad's typewriter.

This is a beautiful novel in verse. Nguyen does a brilliant job of capturing Bom's fears of forgetting the home she's left behind. I also loved the inclusion of Vietnamese words and the family tree included in the beginning. I'm elated to add this book to our library collection! Read Your World 2025 (1/30/25) is in its 13th year! Valarie Budayr and Mia Wenjen founded this non-profit children’s literacy initiative; they are two diverse book-loving moms who saw a need to shine the spotlight on all of the multicultural diverse books and authors on the market while also working to get those books into the hands of young readers and educators.

Read Your World’s mission is to raise awareness of the need to include kids’ books celebrating diversity in homes and school bookshelves. Read about our Mission and history HERE.

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Read Your World is honored to be Supported by these Medallion:

FOUNDER’S CIRCLE: Mia Wenjen (Pragmaticmom) and Valarie Budayr (Audreypress.com)

🏅 Super Platinum Sponsor: Author Deedee Cummings and Make A Way Media

🏅 Platinum Sponsors: Publisher Spotlight and  Language Lizard Bilingual Books in 60 Languages 

🏅 Gold Sponsors:  Third State Books 

🏅 Silver Sponsors: The Quarto Group, Red Comet Press and Lerner Books 

🏅 Silver Corporate Sponsor:  Scholastic Books 

🏅 Bronze Sponsors:  Lee and Low and Star Bright Books

🏅 Bronze Corporate Sponsor: Crayola Education 

🏅 Ruby Corporate Sponsor: MagicBlox

Read Your World is honored to be Supported by these Author Sponsors!

Authors: Stephanie M. Wildman, Martha Seif Simpson, Anna Jennings, Gwen Jackson, Afsaneh Moradian, Joaquín Camp, Rahana Dariah, Ziggy Hanaor, Josh Funk, Nancy Tupper Ling, Kathleen Burkinshaw, Gea Meijering, Eugenia Chu, Dorktales Story Time, Amanda Hsiung-Blodgett, Authors J.C. Kato and J.C.², Cynthia Levinson, Diana Huang, Rochelle Melander,  Lisa Chong, Lisa Stringfellow,  Brunella Costaglioga, Lindsey Rowe Parker, Rachel C. Katz, Tonya Duncan Ellis, Shifa Safadi, Lisa Rogers, Sylvia Liu, Eva Clarke, Crystal Murakami, Teddi Ahrens

Read Your World is Honored to be Supported by our CoHosts and Global CoHosts and by our Partner Organizations! 

Check out RYW’s Multicultural Books for Kids Pinterest Board!

📌 FREE RESOURCES from Read Your World Day

RYW2025 Poster

Mental Health Support for Stressful Times Classroom Kit

Diversity Book Lists & Activities for Teachers and Parents

Homeschool Diverse Kidlit Booklist & Activity Kit

FREE Teacher Classroom Activism and Activists Kit

FREE Teacher Classroom Empathy Kit

FREE Teacher Classroom Kindness Kit

FREE Teacher Classroom Physical and Developmental Challenges Kit

FREE Teacher Classroom Poverty Kit

Gallery of Our Free Posters

FREE Diversity Book for Classrooms Program

📌 Register for the Read Your World Virtual Party:  https://readyourworld.org/virtualparty 

Join us on Thursday, January 30, 2025, at 9 pm EST celebrating 13 years of  Read Your World Day Virtual Party! Register here.   

This epically fun and fast-paced hour includes multicultural book discussions, addressing timely issues, diverse book recommendations, & reading ideas.

We will be giving away a 10-Book Bundle during the virtual party plus Bonus Prizes as well! *** US and Global participants are welcome. **

Follow the hashtag #ReadYourWorld to join the conversation, and connect with like-minded parts, authors, publishers, educators, organizations, and librarians. We look forward to seeing you all on January 30, 2025, at our virtual party!

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It's Multicultural Children's Book Day! Celebrate with Chocolate Milk, Por Favor!

Happy Multicultural Children’s Book Day! I love being part of this initiative and bringing you books from different cultures and cultural points of view. This year, I’ve got two great ones, starting with this book on empathy and kindness. Chocolate Milk, Por Favor: Celebrating Diversity with Empathy, Maria Dismondy/Illustrated by Donna Farrell, (Sept. 2020, Cardinal Rule Press), $15.95, ISBN:…

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If you are one of the very wise, intelligent, attractive and savvy people with exquisite taste and great hair who was kind enough to order a copy of my book @APenguinsQuest_Book then I have a little favor to ask. Any chance you could leave a review on Amazon or wherever you may have ordered from? I’m told it really helps with the algorithm search whatnot on the interwebs. It doesn’t have to be a huge write up, just a little something about how the book changed your life and after reading it you achieved a new higher level of consciousness. Or just maybe a few stars? Here is the first ever review from the dashing and highly esteemed ekot as an example. I will be sure to give you a high five when we meet again. Thank you! If you did not enjoy the book, this offer does not apply. #bookstagram #illustration #boardbooks #bookmarketing #childrensbook #earlyreaders #indieauthors #kidlit #kidlitart #kidsbooks #raisingreaders #storytime #mustread #picturebook #readyourworld #penguin #penguins #kingpenguins #notablekidspublishing #birds #skijumping #kidsbooks #lakeplacid #bookworm #readaloud #booksforkids #penguinscanfly #apenguinsquest #read #booklover #bookreviews https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc0wyt0pPLR/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Celebrating Mid-Autumn Festival Review #ReadYourWorld

Eugenia Chu Children’s Book Author | Twitter, Instagram, Facebook | Linktree   Julie’s Review:   Celebrating Mid-Autumn Festival is a book about an important holiday in Chinese culture, thanking the moon for the autumn harvest. The book shares history as well as legends behind the festival. It even contains recipes for making the mooncakes as well as other crafts and games. I liked how the book…

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