ERIN CONWAY

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’

Multicultural Children’s Book Day  2024 (1/25/25) is in its 11 th  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 celebrati

Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2023 (1/26/22) is in its 10th year! This non-profit children’s literacy initiative was founded by Valarie Budayr and Mia Wenjen ; two diverse book-loving moms who saw a need to shine the spotlight on all of the multicultural books and authors on the market while also working to get those books into the hands of young readers and educators. Ten years in, MCBD’s mission is to raise awareness of the ongoing need to include kids’ books that cel

Kutu: The Tiny Inca Princess/La Ñusta Diminuta is a picture book written by Mariana Llanos and illustrated by Uldarico Sarmiento. Llanos’ book was gifted to me to review for the Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2020 event (1/31/20). Llanos’ bilingual text tells the story of Kutu and her journey to end the drought that was threatening her father’s kingdom. Kutu is born in the time of the Incas. Her mother, la Qoya, worries for her daughter because of Kutu’s size. The qu