Multicultural Children’s Book Day: Read Your World
January
27, 2015
Our mission is to not only raise
awareness for the kid’s books that celebrate diversity, but to get more of
these of books into classrooms and libraries.
Children’s reading and play advocates Valarie Budayr from Jump Into a
Book and Mia Wenjen from Pragmatic Mom teamed up in late 2013 to create an
ambitious (and much needed) national event. This dynamic
duo is hosting yet another Multicultural Children’s Book Day as a way of
celebrating diversity in children’s books.
As a part of the celebration Kristi's Book Nook is giving away a copy of Zapato Power. For a chance to win be sure to follow, share this wonderful event and leave a comment with your name and email. Offer expires 1/31/15.
Title:
Zapato Power: Freddie
Ramos Stomps the Snow
Author:
Jacqueline Jules
Illustrations:
Miguel Benitez
Publisher: Albert Whitman
& Company
ISBN: 9780807594872
Review:
Wouldn’t it be cool to have a pair of shoes that let you zip around and do amazing things, just like a superhero? Freddie Ramos does know because he has Zapato Power.
Wouldn’t it be cool to have a pair of shoes that let you zip around and do amazing things, just like a superhero? Freddie Ramos does know because he has Zapato Power.
Freddie is a very special
kid. Mr. Vaslov, an inventor, knew it. He had given Freddie a very special pair
of shoes to test. With the press of a button on his Zapato Power wristband,
Freddie’s shoes let out a puff of smoke and he can woosh and bounce as high as
a basketball and he could run faster than a train. Freddie liked to use his
shoes for hero stuff but today it started to snow. So much so, school was
closed in preparation of the big storm heading their way. It was predicted
there would be at least two feet.
Freddie tried out his
Zapato Power on the way home. The snow flew up around him and almost made him
invisible. Not only that, the snow evaporated with each step he took. The next
day the town had been snowed in. Mr. Vaslov gave Freddie some special snow
shoes to go with his Zapato Power. Freddie cleared sidewalks and pathways for
his neighbors. When Freddie discovered that building D residents had to be
moved to the school because they had no heat he knew his help would be needed.
He used his Zappato Power to clear pathways at the school so supplies could be
brought in for the families. But, there
was another problem. A thief had infiltrated the school and stolen some purses.
It will be up to Freddie to find out who. He will have to use more than his
Zappato Power to become the hero he know he is.
Author Jacqueline Jules has
created a fun series surrounding Freddie Ramos and his Zapato Power shoes. This
is a great series for boys, but girls will love it to. The characters are
realistic and children will love them and be able to relate to them. There is
an easy to comprehend storyline with basic sentence structure for any reader to
grasp. The black and white illustrations give readers a peek into each chapter.
Parents and teachers will want to share this book as a read-a-long and further
discussion. Zapato Power is a CYBILS award-winning series.
For a sneak peak at Zapato Power #5, please see my book trailer http://youtu.be/8qKpvF_sHr4
Visit the author at www.jacquelinejules.com.
JACQUELINE JULES, author of Zapato Power,
http://www.jacquelinejules.com
http://www.jacquelinejules.com
MCCBD’s
2015 Sponsors include Platinum Sponsors: Wisdom
Tales Press, Daybreak Press Global
Bookshop, Gold
Sponsors: Satya
House,
MulticulturalKids.com, Author Stephen Hodges
and the Magic Poof, Silver
Sponsors: Junior Library Guild, Capstone
Publishing, Lee and Low Books, The Omnibus
Publishing. Bronze
Sponsors:Double Dutch Dolls, Bliss Group Books, Snuggle
with Picture Books Publishing, Rainbow Books, Author FeliciaCapers, Chronicle Books
Muslim
Writers Publishing ,East West Discovery
Press.
Don't forget our hashtag for this event is
#ReadYourWorld
We are hosting a Twitter party! Join us for
Multicultural Children's Book Day Twitter Party onJan 27th 9:00pm EST. Use
hashtag: #ReadYourWorld to win 10 book packages. Use this info to share with
your readers and to tweet it out!
If you have not done so, check out the MCCBD blog!
Thanks to support from the Children's Book Council we are posting author
interviews like crazy and are thrilled with the response. You can find the
MCCBD blog here: http://multiculturalchildrensbookday.com/blog/
Platinum Sponsor Wisdom Tales Press
is hosting a book giveaway on
their website that anyone can enter. Winner will receive 6 Wisdom Tales Books
of their choice. Here's a tweet: Book #giveaway at Wisdom Tales Press!
Winner will receive 6 Wisdom Tales Books of their choice. #ReadYourWorld http://ow.ly/Hr0MC
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