“Squishy Taylor and the Bonus Sisters” by Alisa Wild immediately caught the attention of Michael, age 9, chief of the Roving Reader Leaders.

It was delivered to our door for Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2018 by Capstone Publishing. After quickly reading this first book, Michael insisted on going to the bookstore and getting the rest in the series.

Here’s what he had to say about the first book:

A day later, he got his hands on a few more “Squishy Taylor” books, but complained that he hadn’t found all of them. Here he gives the series a 100-million-star rating!

Learn more about Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2018, which is in its 5th year and was founded by Valarie Budayr from Jump Into A Book and Mia Wenjen from PragmaticMom.

Check out the 2018 MCBD Medallion Sponsors here: http://multiculturalchildrensbookday.com/2106-sponsors/mcbd2018-medallion-level-sponsors/

Check out the 2018 MCBD Author Sponsors here: http://multiculturalchildrensbookday.com/2106-sponsors/2018-author-sponsors/

MCBD’s CoHost Team who not only hosts the book review link-up on celebration day, but has also worked hard to spread the word about this event. http://multiculturalchildrensbookday.com/about/co-hosts/

TWITTER PARTY Sponsored by Scholastic Book Clubs: MCBD’s super-popular (and crazy-fun) annual Twitter Party will be 9 pm 1/27/18.

Twitter Party! Great conversations, fun prizes and the chance to #ReadYourWorld (1/27/18)

Free Multicultural Books for Teachers: http://bit.ly/1kGZrta

Get a free Empathy Classroom Kit for Homeschoolers, Organizations, Librarians and Educators: http://multiculturalchildrensbookday.com/teacher-classroom-empathy-kit/
Hashtag: #ReadYourWorld.

In Squishy Taylor, dark-skinned Squishy finds herself in a stepfamily with two stepsisters, aka bonus sisters. The kids aren’t crazy about the stepfamily situation at first, but connect with each other when they try to solve a mystery together. The book has a beautiful cover and is engaging and fun. We love that the girls learn to get along–and meet all kinds of interesting characters along the way.