The
Latina Book Club is a proud reviewer for Multicultural Children’s Book Day,
which celebrates its fifth anniversary this year. Below is our review of Anne Broyles new
bilingual children’s book. #ReadYourWorld
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| Pelican Publishing Company Translated by Maru Cortes |
ARTURO
AND THE BEINVENIDO FEAST by Anne Broyles is a delightful, heart-warming bilingual
children’s book about family, love and bienvenida / welcome.
In this
new book, Arturo and his grandmother, Abue Rosa, are preparing a feast to
welcome his aunt’s fiancé to the family. However, when Abue Rosa doesn’t feel
well and must lay down, Arturo doesn’t want to disturb her and so he takes over the
menu with delicious results.
As the author
states: Food is one of the ways families share love. Readers will love Arturo’s generous heart and
innocent independence. They’ll also appreciate
the warm and colorful illustrations by KE Lewis, and the simple recipes that
complete the story.
We
whole-heartedly enjoyed this book and were pleased to share it with our small
nephews, who wanted to duplicate Arturo’s final menu!
Other
books in this series: ARTURO AND THE
NAVIDAD BIRDS.
ABOUT THE
AUTHOR: Anne Broyles writes books and
curricula for children and young adults. Her first book with Pelican, ARTURO
AND THE NAVIDAD BIRDS, received the International Latino Book Award second
place for Best Children’s Picture Book-Bilingual. Other books have been named
Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People and Bank Street College’s
Best Children’s Books of the Year and have won other awards. Visit her at www.annebroyles.com.
ABOUT THE
ILLUSTRATOR: KE Lewis is the resident
cartoonist for Cobblestone magazine and an animator for Dig It!, an education program
in Seattle, WA. She is a member of the
Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators and the Puget Sound
Beekeepers Association. Visit her at www.karenlewis.com.
INFORMATION
ABOUT MULTICULTURAL CHILDREN’S BOOK DAY
Multicultural
Children’s Book Day 2018, (1/27/18)
is in its 5th year and was founded by Valarie Budayr from Jump Into A Book and Mia Wenjen from PragmaticMom. Our mission is to raise awareness of the ongoing need to
include kids’ books that celebrate diversity in home and school bookshelves
while also working diligently to get more of these types of books into the
hands of young readers, parents and educators.
MCBD 2018 is honored to have some amazing
Sponsors on board.
2018 MCBD Medallion Sponsors
PLATINUM:Scholastic
Book Clubs
GOLD:Audrey Press, Candlewick
Press, Loving Lion Books, Second Story
Press, Star Bright Books, Worldwide
Buddies
SILVER:Capstone
Publishing, Author Charlotte Riggle, Child’s
Play USA, KidLit
TV, Pack-n-Go
Girls, Plum Street Press
BRONZE: Barefoot Books, Carole P.
Roman, Charlesbridge Publishing, Dr. Crystal Bowe, Gokul! World,
Green
Kids Club, Gwen Jackson, Jacqueline
Woodson, Juan
J. Guerra, Language Lizard, Lee & Low
Books, RhymeTime
Storybooks, Sanya Whittaker Gragg, TimTimTom Books,
WaterBrook
& Multnomah, Wisdom
Tales Press
2018
Author Sponsors
Honorary
Author Sponsors: Author/Illustrator Aram Kim and Author/Illustrator
Juana Medina
Author
Janet Balletta, Author Susan Bernardo, Author Carmen Bernier-Grand, Author Tasheba
Berry-McLaren and Space2Launch, Bollywood Groove Books, Author
Anne Broyles, Author
Kathleen Burkinshaw,
Author
Eugenia Chu, Author Lesa Cline-Ransome, Author
Medeia Cohan and Shade 7 Publishing, Desi
Babies, Author Dani Dixon and Tumble Creek Press, Author Judy Dodge Cummings, Author D.G.
Driver, Author Nicole Fenner and Sister Girl Publishing,
Debbi
Michiko Florence, Author Josh Funk, Author Maria Gianferrari,
Author
Daphnie Glenn, Globe Smart Kids, Author
Kimberly Gordon Biddle, Author Quentin Holmes, Author Esther Iverem, Jennifer Joseph: Alphabet Oddities, Author
Kizzie Jones, Author Faith L Justice , Author P.J.
LaRue and MysticPrincesses.com, Author
Karen Leggett Abouraya, Author Sylvia Liu, Author Sherri Maret, Author Melissa Martin Ph.D., Author
Lesli Mitchell, Pinky Mukhi and We Are One, Author Miranda
Paul, Author Carlotta Penn, Real Dads
Read, Greg Ransom, Author Sandra
L. Richards, RealMVPKids Author
Andrea Scott, Alva Sachs and Three Wishes Publishing, Shelly
Bean the Sports Queen, Author
Sarah Stevenson, Author Gayle H. Swift Author Elsa
Takaoka, Author
Christine Taylor-Butler, Nicholette
Thomas and MFL Publishing
Author
Andrea Y. Wang, Author Jane Whittingham Author
Natasha Yim
We’d like to also give a shout-out to MCBD’s impressive
CoHost Team who not only hosts the book review link-up on celebration day, but
who also works tirelessly to spread the word of this event. View our CoHosts HERE.
TWITTER
PARTY Sponsored by Scholastic Book Clubs: MCBD’s
super-popular (and crazy-fun) annual Twitter Party will be held 1/27/18 at
9:00pm.
Join
the conversation and win one of 12-5 book bundles and one Grand Prize Book
Bundle (12 books) that will be given away at the party!
Free
Multicultural Books for Teachers: http://bit.ly/1kGZrta
Free Empathy Classroom
Kit for Homeschoolers, Organizations, Librarians and Educators: http://multiculturalchildrensbookday.com/teacher-classroom-empathy-kit/
Hashtag: Don’t forget to connect with us on social
media and be sure and look for/use our official hashtag #ReadYourWorld.
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