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January 25, 2021

Multicultural Children’s Book Day

Danielle Peterson

Multicultural Children’s Book Day is celebrated on January 29. The mission of Multicultural Children’s Book Day is to raise awareness of children’s books that celebrate diversity and to get more of these books into classrooms and libraries across the country. This year, GCS is celebrating and supporting this initiative in the Lower School by incorporating diverse books from our very own Manor House Library into lessons. Each grade level will read and discuss a story about a diverse character in the upcoming week.

 

Grade

Book

Author

Pre-Kindergarten

The Day You Begin

Jaqueline Woodson

Kindergarten

Dreamers

Yuyi Morales

First 

Boxes for Katje

Candace Fleming

Second

When We Were Alone

David Robertson

Third

The Water Princess

Susan Verde

Fourth

Ruby’s Wish

Shirin Yim Bridges

Fifth

Stories for Boys Who Dare to Be Different

Ben Brooks

 

On Friday, January 22, Sheena Jordan, diversity coordinator, joined Lower School students in their assembly to talk about diverse books and authors, and how students could write stories of their own.

 

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