Multicultural Children’s Book Day Reviewer Sign Up is now Open!

Receive free diverse children or YA books in exchange for a short review posted to social media or read aloud in a classroom or library.

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Diverse Children and YA Book Reviewers

January 26, 2023, will mark the 1oth year of Multicultural Children’s Book Day’s (MCBD) quest to get culturally diverse books into the hands of children, parents, teachers, and librarians. Multicultural Children’s Book Day is an online and offline celebration that attracts thousands of supporters, educators, parents, caregivers, book reviewers, and quality authors and publishers who join forces to shine the spotlight on diversity in children and YA literature.

Celebrated annually on the last Friday in January, our global non-profit offers a plethora of free resources, teaching tools, booklists, downloads, and a year-round initiative to get multicultural and diverse books into the hands of young readers. To date, we have donated over 10,000 books to underserved kids, classrooms, and organizations, and that number continues to climb. To learn more about MCBD, visit us on the web and follow our official hashtag #ReadYourWorld on social media.

If you love diverse books for kids and have a social media platform to share a review on, we want to give you a FREE diverse kidlit or YA book to review!

AND, you don’t have to be a blogger (though we love our bloggers!) to review multicultural children’s books for our MCBD2022 online event. You just need to have a love of diversity in children’s literature and be willing to share on your social media platforms such as:

Facebook (Pages only-no Facebook profiles)

Twitter (Private Accounts are not Eligible)

Pinterest

Instagram (Private Accounts are not Eligible)

YouTube

TikTok

Amazon

Goodreads

Reviewer sign-up deadline is 12/31/23

(NOTE: We will not be shipping out any books for the 2023 online event until Nov/Dec of 2022!)

How it All Works: Information for our valued Reviewers During a Multicultural Children’s Book Day Event

Reviewers can sign up via OUR NEW AUTOMATED system to review a multicultural children’s book for our event.

Reviewers are then “matched” with an author or publisher that will supply them with a free children’s book to review. Reviewers are encouraged to read the books and share their thoughts on the book (a basic book review) in the form of a complete review post that can (optional) contain fun book-related activities.

We ask that our reviewers give an honest review, mention the book and author by name, and disclose that they were gifted with the book from Multicultural Children’s Book Day.

Once their book review post is live (any time between January 1 and January 26), reviewers are invited to “link up” their blog post on the Big Giant Linky that will be found on any of our CoHosts’ sites and also the MCBD website. This Big Giant Linky will go live on January 26th, 2023.

**Please note, not everyone is guaranteed to receive a physical book! We will do our best, but sometimes demand exceeds our supply of available diverse books. We will be able to provide eBooks/PDF copies to everyone who signs up.**

Reviewer sign-up deadline is 12/31/23

(NOTE: We will not be shipping out any books for the 2021 online event until Nov/Dec of 2022!)

Important MCBD Links

The Multicultural Children’s Book Day website and view our booklists, reading resources, and other useful multicultural information.

Multicultural Books for Kids Pinterest Board has even more reading ideas.

Watch for the #ReadYourWorld hashtag on social media and share

List of our CoHosts: https://multiculturalchildrensbookday.com/about/co-hosts/

Our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/MulticulturalChildrensBookDay

Our Twitter: https://twitter.com/MCChildsBookDay

Our Instagram Account:  https://www.instagram.com/readyourworldmcbd/

Our Facebook Group {please join!}: https://www.facebook.com/groups/259709034187671/

Our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/Pragmaticmom

Our TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@multiculturalchildrensbd

Our official hashtag is: #ReadYourWorld

SUMMARY OF THE EVENT

FIRST, a giant blog tour —
Readers, parents, teachers, librarians, and caregivers are coming together to explore lots of books with diverse content and sharing their thoughts and feedback via book reviews, book lists, and links.

SECOND, a giant networking event —
This global event connects readers, caregivers, educators, librarians, non-profits, organizations, sponsors, co-hosts, bloggers, and thought leaders so we can all achieve a common goal of raising awareness on the importance of diversity in children’s and YA literature.

THIRD, a virtual book drive —
Through MCBD initiatives like the FREE Diverse Books for Classrooms Project, The Offline Classroom Swag Pack,  and continued outreach to underserved readers, proceeds raised during the course of this online event (and all year-long) go towards getting free multicultural books in locations where they are needed and into the hands of young readers.

**If you have questions about Multicultural Children’s Book Day, how to get involved, or how to get free books for your school or classroom, email us at Admin (at) MulticulturalChildrensBookDay (dot) com **

**Please note, not everyone is guaranteed to receive a book! We will do our best, but sometimes demand exceeds our supply of available diverse books**

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