Multicultural Children´s Book Day 2023: 123 Who Comes Next by Amy Matsushita-Beal

 

As someone growing up in a multicultural family and environment, who have created a multicultural little family, finding sources of inspiration for my everyday reading life is very important. After currently taking over tasks pertaining to multicultural education, having access to sources of information able to educate multicultural children is equally of high importance. Therefore, my participation of this year - 10 year anniversary edition - of Multicultural Children´s Book Day, an event I previously celebrated on my blog was an honor and an opportunity to feature interesting titles useful both for educators and children.

For this time edition, I am happy to introduce to a picture book, aimed at toddlers and preschool childrne, illustrated by graphic artist Amy Matsushita-Beal: 123 Who Comes Next? to be soon published by Starbright Books, a multicultural edition house.

The book is an excellent tool to be used for both learning to count and to explain diversity of unique human beings, and diversity in general - at a certain point the children are joined by some veggie too. The simple yet suggestive illustration for this age can be creatively used by parents and educators to illustrate various diverse contexts based on almost everything: from gender to languages and everything in-between. 

An excellent resource that should add value and creativity to any diversity-focused curriculum.

Rating: 4 stars

Disclaimer: Book offered as part of the international event but the opinions are, as usual, my own