Welcome to our 5th annual Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2018 #ReadYourWorld Book Review Linkup! Here’s how to celebrate: 1. Link up your diversity book reviews. 2. Find new books to read for your home or classroom bookshelf by following … Read More
Join us for our Multicultural Children’s Book Day Twitter Party 2018! We promise it will be a fun and fast-paced hour of great book conversations, sharing of diverse book ideas and lots of prizes! Follow the hashtag #ReadYourWorld to join … Read More
My 5 Most Popular Multicultural Children’s Book Lists of 2017 5 Multicultural Children’s Books about Mental Illness For children living with a parent with mental health problems reading picture books about mental illness can help them … Read More
October is National Bullying Prevention Month! Founded in 2006, it aims to educate communities across the U.S. and raise awareness about the devastating effects of bullying – from school avoidance and loss of self-esteem to anxiety, depression, and even … Read More
UPDATED SEPTEMBER 2022! It’s Banned Books Week‘s 40th anniversary! Launched in 1982 to create awareness of the harm of censorship, it celebrates the freedom to read and express ideas. Each year, many diverse children’s & YA books are … Read More
UPDATED NOVEMBER 2024! Talking to children and teenagers about racism and discrimination is as necessary (now more than ever!) as it is uncomfortable for most parents and educators (especially white ones). Necessary because racial bias in children starts as … Read More
STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) has been an important part of the school curriculum for many years now. More recently, art has been added in order to emphasize the importance of creative thinking, and so STEM became … Read More
“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.” Dalai Lama XIV UPDATED NOVEMBER 2018! Kindness and empathy are two of the most important social skills we can teach our children. Now more than ever, … Read More
Earlier this month, uncontrollable wildfires raged through our small South African town for several days, resulting in huge devastation and trauma for humans as well as animals. In amongst all the chaos, the whole community rallied together to … Read More
Recently I came across a wonderful UK initiative called Make a Noise in Libraries. It was started by RNIB, a charity for people with sight loss, and aims at making libraries more accessible and inclusive for visually impaired … Read More