Wisdom Tales Press sponsors Multicultural Children's Book Day January 27, 2014

Multicultural Children’s Book Day Celebrates Diversity in children's books
 
Jan. 13, 2014 - PRLog -- Wisdom Tales Press, a children’s book publisher based in Bloomington, Indiana, is proud to be a sponsor of the first annual Multicultural Children’s Book Day. Scheduled for January 27, 2014, this event is taking place both to raise awareness of children’s books that celebrate diversity and to support the use of multicultural books in classrooms and libraries.

Wisdom Tales is a children’s book imprint published by the award-winning Bloomington based publishing house, World Wisdom. Launched in May 2012, this new imprint is dedicated solely to children’s and teen books, created for the purpose of sharing the wisdom, beauty, and values of traditional cultures and peoples from around the world.

Multicultural Children’s Book Day was created by children’s reading and play advocates Valarie Budayr from Jump Into a Book (http://www.jumpintoabook.com/) blog and Mia Wenjen from Pragmatic Mom (http://www.pragmaticmom.com/) blog. Best-selling author Budayr remarks, “Despite census data that shows 37% of the US population consists of people of color, only 10% of children’s books published have diversity content.”

Wenjen cites another important reason for celebrating Multicultural Book Day: “We also want to create a compilation of books and favorite reads (http://www.pragmaticmom.com/) that will provide not only a new reading list for the winter, but also a way to expose brilliant books to families, teachers, and libraries.”

Wisdom Tales Press plans to give away a set of their children’s books on both their Facebook and Pinterest pages in conjunction with the event.  Multicultural Children’s Book Day really speaks to the heart of all that Wisdom Tales and its books represent.

For more information, please check out the following links below:

https://www.facebook.com/WisdomTalesPress

http://www.jumpintoabook.com/2014/01/multicultural-childrens-book-day-coming/

http://www.pragmaticmom.com/2013/11/multicultural-childrens-book-day/

If you would like to schedule an interview with the President or Production Director, please contact Kathy Floyd at 812-330-3232 to make arrangements.

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