Cynthia Shambry is the owner of Elda Reads, a child development program that promotes diversity by providing exposure to multicultural books and services. Elda Reads has a collection of books by Black ...

Rising third-grader Madison Wilson is on a mission to raise money to bring multicultural crayons and construction paper, as well as books with diverse characters, to local schools. So far, she has ...

Commemorating its 10-year anniversary early next year, nonprofit literacy organization Multicultural Children's Book Day will be opening submissions to donate free children’s books starting September ...

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Three Alief ISD elementary schools have received a Little Yellow Library, a custom-designed bookshelf that provides 200 multicultural and bilingual books. The books come from a partnership between ...

Paul Dixon and Lehman Riley are trying to land a big publishing deal for their "Papa Lemon" series of children's books, which bring a multicultural perspective to issues such as mental health and ...

Science fiction and fantasy books for younger audiences are booming — but they still mostly feature white heroes and are aimed at white audiences. So Stacy Whitman is launching Tu Books, a new ...

Growing up in Texas, Eva Longoria and her sisters loved reading and thought the local library was “the funnest place in the world,” as she put it. Their mother was a teacher, so Longoria was raised to ...

Multicultural Books Las Vegas has a variety of different book genres to offer to patrons. On Nov. 5, the first Black-owned bookstore in over an entire decade opened up in Sin City. Tamara Shiloh ...

The Multicultural Book Fair 2025 will take place at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, on Saturday 6 September, bringing together writers, publishers, and readers for a full day of literature and cultural ...