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are
my own and I did not receive any other compensation. As in all my
reviews I am providing links for your ease but receive no compensation.
Today I am going to review my second book for Multicultural Children's Book Day (MCCBD). On Monday I reviewed the first book, Endeavour's Long Journey. There I shared all the exciting things going on with MCCBD. MCCBD is a national event which Valarie Budayr from Jump Into a Book and Mia Wenjen from Pragmatic Mom
created to celebrate diversity in children's books. MCCBD team hopes to
spread the word and raise awareness about the importance of diversity
in children’s literature. Our young readers need to see themselves
within the pages of a book and experience other cultures, languages,
traditions and religions within the pages of a book. We encourage
readers, parents, teachers, caregivers and librarians to follow along
the fun book reviews, author visits, event details, a multicultural
children’s book linky and via our hashtag (#ReadYourWorld) on Twitter
and other social media. This year's MCCBD is January 27th! The 2015 sponsors for MCCBD are:
Disclosure:Wisdom Tales Press
gave me a copy of this product free of charge. All opinions in my review
are
my own and I did not receive any other compensation. As in all my
reviews I am providing links for your ease, but receive no compensation.
Have you ever wondered why pine trees keep their needles in the winter and the other trees lose their leaves? Alexis York Lumbard shares an old Native American tale explaining this to young children and weaves through the message of helping others and charity. The book is Pine and the Winter Sparrow and the story is based on a Cherokee (or at least that is where Ms. Lumbard thinks it is from) fable called Why the Trees Lose Their Leaves.
I usually pass Hazel's outgrown clothes to a friend who has a three-year-old girl. However there were a few I kept this time. One was a t-shirt that the tag was cut out and whoever cut it out cut the shirt as well. The second was her favorite dress (well actually I kept three favorite dresses, but I only did something with one so far) and the third is a favorite skirt. I started with the t-shirt. It had a pom pom type trim on the neck (this is what got cut) and a band at the waist. I cut the band off and then cut the neck decoration off and saved it for later. Next I got out my pattern for a BFC doll t-shirt from Beach Baby Doll Boutique. I won ten free patterns from Sylvia at Beach Baby Doll Boutique awhile ago and one of the patterns I picked was the Easiest Tee to fit BFC Ink. I have to say it really is the easiest pattern!! After completing the t-shirt I added a piece of the neck trim to the neck of the doll shirt.
