Shanghai Sukkah
Written by Heidi Smith Hyde
Illustrated by Jing Jing Tsong
For Multicultural Children’s Book Day #ReadYourWorld
Multicultural Children’s Book Day falls on January 27, 2016. The mission of MCCBD is to not only raise awareness for kids’ books that celebrate diversity, but to also get more of these of books into classrooms and libraries. MCCBD assigns a book for participating bloggers to review.
I reviewed Shanghai Sukkah. A young boy named Marcus had to move with his
family from Berlin to Shanghai fleeing the Holocaust in Europe.While playing in his new place with other Jewish boys, he made a new friend named Liang. Although they spoke different languages, they learned how to communicate and became good friends. Marcus needed to build a Sukkah to celebrate the fall harvest holiday. Marcus and his friends worked hard to keep his traditions abroad and found the only place to build one on the roof, but made a simple Sukkah. Liang shared his harvest holiday called Moon Festival and invited Marcus to celebrate with him. Liang added enthusiasm to his Sukkah by bringing colorful lanterns to Marco’s Sukkah. Marcus and Liang found a way to bring both holidays together.
The MCCBD team’s mission is to spread the word
and raise awareness about the importance of diversity in children’s literature.
Young readers need to see themselves within the pages of a book and experience
other cultures, languages, traditions and religions within the pages of a book.
MCCBD encourages readers, parents, teachers, caregivers and librarians to
follow along the fun book reviews, author visits and event. The full name of this event
is Multicultural Children’s Book Day and
the official hashtag is #ReadYourWorld on Twitter and other social media.
The co-creators of MCCBD are Mia Wenjen from Pragmatic Mom and Valarie Budayr from Jump Into a
Book/Audrey Press. Find a bio for Mia
and Valarie here. View the
Diversity Book Lists and Resources for Educators and Parents here. Connect with
Multicultural Children’s Book Day on Facebook.
MCCBD Sponsors
Multicultural Children’s Book day 2016 Medallion Level Sponsors! #ReadYourWorld
Platinum: Wisdom Tales Press * StoryQuest Books*Lil Libros
MCCBD Co-Hosts
Multicultural
Children’s Book Day has 12 amazing Co-Hosts and you can view them here.
All Done Monkey, Crafty Moms Share,Educators Spin on it,Growing Book by Book,Imagination Soup,I’m Not the Nanny,InCultural Parent, Kid World Citizen,Mama Smiles,Multicultural Kid Blogs,Spanish Playground
Classroom Reading Challenge
MCCBD holds a Classroom Reading Challenge. This very special offering offers teachers and classrooms the chance to very easily earn a free hardcover multicultural children’s book for their classroom library. These books are not only donated by the Junior Library Guild, but they are also pre-screened and approved by them as well.
All Done Monkey, Crafty Moms Share,Educators Spin on it,Growing Book by Book,Imagination Soup,I’m Not the Nanny,InCultural Parent, Kid World Citizen,Mama Smiles,Multicultural Kid Blogs,Spanish Playground
Classroom Reading Challenge
MCCBD holds a Classroom Reading Challenge. This very special offering offers teachers and classrooms the chance to very easily earn a free hardcover multicultural children’s book for their classroom library. These books are not only donated by the Junior Library Guild, but they are also pre-screened and approved by them as well.
The Classroom Reading Challenge has begun! Teachers can earn a free
diversity book! #teachers, #books http://multiculturalchildrensbookday.com/?p=1796
