Maritza Martínez Mejía, AWA: About Multicultural Children's Book Day by LuzDelMes

When I was a child, I always dreamed of traveling around the world , meeting people with different cultures, tasting delicious foods, and learn different languages.

A perfect dream that I made it possible while reading!

Diversity in children’s literature has been a topic of concern to movements like Multicultural Children’s Book Day (MCBD). Authors, illustrators, educators and bloggers have been an important element to make sure children have access to books that celebrate diversity. Feature characters from diverse cultures, countries and race are an important building block of the learning process in classroom and at home. It is fundamental to teach students from early age that different does not mean to be wrong.

I’m pleased to be part of MCBD since June 2015 not only as an author, but also as a Reviewer to Multicultural Children’s Book Day and Board of Trustees. This event has helped me promote my books, received reviews for my books, increase followers in my social media (Twitter and Instagram), and meet authors from around the world. Excellent resource for NEWTWORKING and internviews:

Author participation interviews: Please Visit 👉

1. https://multiculturalchildrensbookday.com/multicultural-childrens-book-author-maritza-martinez-mejia/

2. https://multiculturalchildrensbookday.com/meet-author-and-board-of-advisor-martiza-m-mejia/

3. Big Giant Linky: Linky 2023

4. Please check out our Big Giant Linky and share on social media. https://multiculturalchildrensbookday.com/2024-big-giant-linky/

5. Share the joy of reading to classrooms by donating books to your local schools.

This year's reviews to The Purple Shell are amazing!

Look at this... 👀 Lovely Review of The Purple Shell from Jennie Hamnett #bentleyheathpsbookclub for

Book illustrated by ViVi Moji to celebrate Multicultural Children's Book Day 2024 by

for #LuzDelMes ✨

Another lovely review 👀 of The Purple Shell by Erika Oum #Erikabilinguals2019

for #ReadYourWorld

I MADE it to the Multicultural Children's Book Day Ultimate Book List

by Frances Evans . Thank you for including "The Purple Shell" to this amazing list of diverse, bilingual, Spanish, and English books as part of #MCBD.

Read Reviews 👉https://discoveringtheworldthroughmysonseyes.com/multicultural-childrens-book-day-ultimate-book-list-round-up/

Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2024 (1/25/25) is in its 11th year! Valarie Budayr and Mia Wenjen founded this non-profit children’s literacy initiative; they are two diverse book-loving moms who saw a need to shine the spotlight on all of the multicultural diverse books and authors on the market while also working to get those books into the hands of young readers and educators. Read Your World’s mission is to raise awareness of the need to include kids’ books celebrating diversity in homes and school bookshelves. Read about our Mission and history HERE.