2025 Multicultural Children's Book Day

Multicultural Children’s Book Day Read Your World 2025 (1/30/25) is in its 13th 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 its Mission and history HERE.

Let's Go to Egypt written by Dr. Vanessa Kohn-Refaat and Ahmed Refaat is a bilingual children's picture book that uses childlike wonder and loving family relationships to explore Egypt. This book was gifted to me to review for the Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2025 event (1/30/25).

Let's Go to Egypt is narrated through the eyes of two sisters, Lina and Nora, on a family trip to Egypt.  They experience both famous elements of Egypt like the Nile and the pyramids but also learn about day-to-day cultural elements like shopping at the bazaar or how people dress.  The sun's warmth, the graininess of sand, or a swirl of wind, throughout, watercolor illustrations blend the details of Egypt's past and welcome the reader into Egypt's present. The written text is intentionally kept simple so that it can be used as a more entertaining selection for language learning materials.  Moreover, this bilingual book in Arabic and English provides a unique opportunity for multilingual families familiar with Egyptian dialect to build English language skills and feel close to their heritage.

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Further opportunities from Multicultural Children's Book Day!!

Register for the MCBD Read Your World Virtual Party

Join us on 1/30/25, 9 pm EST for 13 years of Read Your World Day celebration! 📚 Register for our Read Your World Virtual Party:

Dive into multicultural book discussions, timely issues, and diverse recommendations, and win a 10-Book Bundle + Bonus Prizes! 🌍 US and Global participants welcome. Follow #ReadYourWorld for the conversation! See you on 1/30/25

Check out RYW’s Multicultural Books for Kids Pinterest Board!

📌 FREE RESOURCES from Read Your World Day

• RYW2025 Poster

• Mental Health Support for Stressful Times Classroom Kit

• Diversity Book Lists & Activities for Teachers and Parents

• Homeschool Diverse Kidlit Booklist & Activity Kit

• FREE Teacher Classroom Activism and Activists Kit

• FREE Teacher Classroom Empathy Kit

• FREE Teacher Classroom Kindness Kit

• FREE Teacher Classroom Physical and Developmental Challenges Kit

• FREE Teacher Classroom Poverty Kit

• Gallery of Our Free Posters

• FREE Diversity Book for Classrooms Program

Read Your World celebrates Multicultural Children’s Book Day and is honored to be Supported by these Medallion and Ruby Sponsors!

FOUNDER’S CIRCLE: Mia Wenjen (Pragmaticmom) and Valarie Budayr (Audreypress.com)

🏅 Super Platinum Sponsor: Author Deedee Cummings and Make A Way Media

🏅 Platinum Sponsors: Publisher Spotlight and  Language Lizard Bilingual Books in 60 Languages 

🏅 Gold Sponsors:  Third State Books 

🏅 Silver Sponsors: Red Comet Press and Lerner Books 

🏅 Silver Corporate Sponsor:  Scholastic Books 

🏅 Bronze Sponsors:  Lee and Low 

🏅 Corporate Sponsor: Crayola Education and Scholastic

Read Your World is honored to be Supported by these Author Sponsors!

Authors: Stephanie M. Wildman, Martha Seif Simpson, Anna Jennings, Gwen Jackson, Afsaneh Moradian, author, author, author, author, Josh Funk, Nancy Tupper Ling, Kathleen Burkinshaw, Gea Meijering, Eugenia Chu, Dorktales Story Time, Amanda Hsiung-Blodgett, Authors J.C. Kato and J.C.², Cynthia Levinson, Diana Huang, Rochelle Melander,  Lisa Chong, Lisa Stringfellow,  Brunella Costaglioga, Lindsey Rowe Parker, Rachel C. Katz, Tonya Duncan Ellis, Shifa Safadi, Lisa Rogers, Sylvia Liu, Eva Clarke

Read Your World is Honored to be Supported by our CoHosts and Global CoHosts and by our Partner Organizations!