In celebration of Multicultural Children's Book Day 2017, I received Nerd Camp Briefs: Nikhil and The Geek Retreat written by Elissa Brent Weissman and published by Olive Street Press. This is my first year participating in the Multicultural Children's Book Day so needless to say, I was ecstatic when I signed up and received my book to review. Multicultural Children's Book Day is a great event, and I LOVE that it's mission is to raise awareness about diversity and making books that celebrate diversity available in classrooms and libraries.
Nikhil and The Geek Retreat is a quirky and quick read about Nikhil and his weekend retreat at the Summer Center for Gifted Enrichment. At the retreat, Nikhil meets up with his best friends, Gabe and Wesley, where they geek out on favorite presidents, great explorations, trading element cards, and NASA presentations. This time, however, Nikhil will have to babysit his younger, and oftentimes troublesome sister, Monisha. Fearing that his sister will get into trouble, Nikhil does not want to be banned from returning to the retreat for the upcoming summer. So Nikhil and his friends will have to figure out a way to keep Monisha out of trouble.
This is a funny story, and I appreciate reading a book about smart children geeking out at a special educational camp. Nikhil is like a parent's dream come true. Who else would think that homework is the highlight of most days! I think Nikhil and his friends would be great role models for children, showing them that it's okay to be a geek and to attend nerd camp.
Since Nikhil and his friends played and traded chemical element cards, I thought my children and I can play with a periodic table tile set that we have but never played with.
ETA HAND2MIND PERIODIC TABLE CONNECTING TILES
We also found a periodic table song by ASAP Science on Youtube that they loved listening to and it helped them learn the elements.
Nikhil and The Geek Retreat is the third book in the Nerd Camp series. To learn more about the other Nerd Camp books or Weissman's other books featuring smart children, check out her website here.
Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2017 (1/27/17) is its fourth year and was founded by Valarie Budayr from Jump Into A Book and Mia Wenjen from PragmaticMom. Our mission is to raise awareness on the ongoing need to include kid’s books that celebrate diversity in home and school bookshelves while also working diligently to get more of these types of books into the hands of young readers, parents and educators.
Despite census data that shows 37% of the US population consists of people of color, only 10% of children’s books published have diversity content. Using the Multicultural Children’s Book Day holiday, the MCBD Team are on a mission to change all of that.
Current Sponsors: MCBD 2017 is honored to have some amazing Sponsors on board. Platinum Sponsors include Scholastic, Barefoot Books and Broccoli. Other Medallion Level Sponsors include heavy-hitters like Author Carole P. Roman, Audrey Press, Candlewick Press, Fathers Incorporated, KidLitTV, Capstone Young Readers, ChildsPlayUsa, Author Gayle Swift, Wisdom Tales Press, Lee& Low Books, The Pack-n-Go Girls, Live Oak Media, Author Charlotte Riggle, Chronicle Books and Pomelo Books
Author Sponsor include: Karen Leggett Abouraya, Veronica Appleton, Susan Bernardo, Kathleen Burkinshaw, Delores Connors, Maria Dismondy, D.G. Driver, Geoff Griffin, Savannah Hendricks, Stephen Hodges, Carmen Bernier-Grand,Vahid Imani, Gwen Jackson, Hena, Kahn, David Kelly, Mariana Llanos, Natasha Moulton-Levy, Teddy O'Malley, Stacy McAnulty, Cerece Murphy, Miranda Paul, Annette Pimentel, Greg Ransom, Sandra Richards, Elsa Takaoka, Graciela Tiscareño-Sato, Sarah Stevenson, Monica Mathis-Stowe SmartChoiceNation, Andrea Y. Wang
We’d like to also give a shout-out to MCBD’s impressive CoHost Team who not only hosts the book review link-up on celebration day, but who also work tirelessly to spread the word of this event. View our CoHosts HERE.
MCBD Links to remember:
MCBD site: http://multiculturalchildrensbookday.com/
Free Multicultural Books for Teachers: http://bit.ly/1kGZrta
Free Kindness Classroom Kit for Homeschoolers, Organizations, Librarians and Educators: http://multiculturalchildrensbookday.com/teachers-classroom-kindness-kit/
Free Diversity Book Lists and Activities for Teachers and Parents: http://bit.ly/1sZ5s8i
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