Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Miami Children’s Trust Book Club sends one free book every month to young children from birth to age 5 along with resource guides for parents. Photo provided to the Miami Herald by the ...
Little Free Library in a Tokyo Metro station. The first Little Free Library was built in 2009 by the late Todd Bol in Hudson, Wisconsin. [9] Bol mounted a wooden container, designed to look like a one-room schoolhouse, on a post on his lawn and filled it with books as a tribute to his late mother, a book lover and school teacher who had recently died. [10]
Eva Longoria touted the importance of books and diverse stories for children as she announced a partnership with Mott's to make books available in book deserts.
The Alma Flor Ada Award was created in 2021 out of the Virtual Center for Bilingual and Bicultural Books for Children and Young Adults (VCB3) at San Diego State University. Each year, the VCB3, recognizes a classic book which has made a significant impression and contribution to the Latino youth community in the United States.
[10] [11] The grant was established in 2014 and named after children’s book author Walter Dean Myers, an advocate of multicultural children’s books. [11] [10] In 2015, WNDB granted their first recipients (five writers and illustrators) $2,000 each. [11] In 2016, WNDB granted five more writers and illustrators $2,000 each. [12]
Camp Fire, formerly Camp Fire USA and originally Camp Fire Girls of America, is a co-ed youth development organization. [1] [2] Camp Fire was the first nonsectarian, multicultural organization for girls in America. [3]
Children's book author Monica Brown. Mónica Brown (born October 24, 1969) is an American academic and author of children's literature.Known for her Lola Levine and Sarai chapter book series, as well as numerous biographies covering such Latin American luminaries as Tito Puente, [1] Celia Cruz, Dolores Huerta, and Cesar Chavez, she writes relatable characters that highlight the nuance and ...
Margaret Read MacDonald (born January 21, 1940) is an American storyteller, folklorist, and award-winning children's book author.She has published more than 65 books, of stories and about storytelling, which have been translated into many languages.