UPDATED JUNE 2022! June is National Caribbean American Heritage Month! It serves to celebrate the rich and diverse cultures of the Caribbean and the significance of Caribbean people and their descendants in the history and culture of the … Read More
Never too early to teach children about how other kids around the world live! Learning about the ways children in other parts of the world may live very different lives yet love doing many similar things, is an … Read More
It’s Women’s History Month – time to celebrate the amazing achievements of women throughout history and around the globe! One good way of teaching children and teenagers about women’s history is to read biography collections about a wide … 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
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
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