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The Children’s Trust Book Club provides a free book a month to children from birth to age 5, in English or Spanish. Free book club for toddlers, preschoolers expands. How Miami-Dade parents can ...
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.
Apple: Skin to the Core is a Junior Library Guild book [2] and was generally well-received, including starred reviews from Booklist [3] and Shelf Awareness. [4]Kirkus Reviews called the book "[a] rare and special read," [5] while School Library Journal called it "bittersweet but ultimately inspiring."
We Need Diverse Books started on Twitter.Following the announcement of a panel of all-white, all-male children's authors at BookCon in 2014, Ellen Oh, Malinda Lo, and other authors and publishing insiders began protesting and discussing the lack of diversity and representation in the field on Twitter using the hashtag #WeNeedDiverseBooks.
Here she first encountered a large collection of African American children's literature. [7] The Detroit Free Press sponsored an annual book fair. In November 1969, Dr. Donald Bissett of Wayne State's Children's Literature Center, coordinated a display of 40+ children's books featuring African Americans at the fair.
Multicultural Families Illustration including Fostering Tolerance for Lesbian and Gay Family Unit Developing Themes of Study. The Children of the Rainbow Curriculum (also referred to as the Rainbow Curriculum), created in 1991 by the New York City Board of Education was introduced to first-grade teachers to "assist with teaching about multicultural social issues".