[CASL-L] Fwd: MCBD 2019 Book Jam, Video and Twitter Party

[Melissa Thom]

FYI!

I am actively planning some activities for Global Read Aloud Day, but
wanted to share this information as well!!

Melissa
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Date: Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 9:29 AM
Subject: MCBD 2019 Book Jam, Video and Twitter Party
To: <melissa_thom at whps.org>


Happy New Year everyone!
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Happy New Year everyone!
Greetings! Melissa,

As you can imagine, we have been eyeball deep in all-things-Multicultural
Children’s Book Day (MCBD) 2019.

As usual, there is a plethora and exciting changes, milestones and
victories we’d like everyone to know about.

*Sponsorships*: We officially closed all Sponsorship levels at the end of
December and we are beyond pleased at the variety and quality of both
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this
year. When you have a moment, check out both pages and see what we mean :)

*Book Reviewers: *We have 832 reviewers signed up this year! THAT, is a
record. Thank you to everyone who signed up to review a diverse kids’ or YA
book for the 1/25/19 celebration.

*Music Video*: MCBD has its first ever music video! How cool is that? Thank
you to Annie Lynn and Walt Wilcezewski for donating their time and
expertise to create our first official Read Your World Music Video. *View
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*Read Your World Book Jam with the CBC*: For the 3rd year, MCBD has
partnered with the Children's Book Council for our yearly "Book Jam" and
we've officially kicked off this wildly popular month-long series on the
MCBD blog. Get a peek at the latest Book Jam post and giveaway *here
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*Twitter Party! *We have announced the date and time for this year's
crazy-fun Twitter party hosted by Make A Way Media! As always, we will not
only have some great questions to ask but we will also have tons of
multicultural children’s books and swag to give away. *Here is the
announcement post
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*NOTE*: If you have suggestions for twitter party questions to ask, we are
all ears. We want to touch on hot topics and relevant issues along with
book recommends and upcoming trends in diverse kidlit. Send an email to
Becky at multiculturalchildrensbookday.com with your suggestions and idea for
conversation-starting questions for our 2019 Twitter Party.

That is all for now and remember, our official hashtag is #ReadYourWorld.
Follow this hashtag on social media to stay informed of event details,
author visits and giveaways!

*THANK YOU for your continued support!*

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