I’m excited to announce my book news! Boxer Baby Battles Bedtime Kickstarter! I’m running a Kickstarter campaign to presell my newest picture book, Boxer Baby Battles Bedtime. Boxer Baby Battles Bedtime by Mia Wenjen, illustrated by Kai Gietzen Dad needs to get Boxer Baby down for her nap but she is not going down without…
Senior citizens boxing at Nonantum Boxing Club? You better believe it, and they are in amazing shape! Some of these boxers featured have started boxing after retirement. Others have boxed for years: Eric, age 61 Suzanne, age 60 Yoron, age 60+ Dee, age 70 Mark, age 82, started boxing in his 60s My friend Eric,…
The Supertree Grove is featured in my picture book, Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World, illustrated by Robert Sae-Heng, and published by Barefoot Books. It was a thrill to see the SuperTtee Grove for myself in Singapore. This is the smaller grove: My daughter, who is spending a semester abroad at…
Please welcome my guest author today, Margaret Chiu Greanias, with her list of picture books for introverts. What is an introvert? It’s a concept created by the father of psychology Carl Jung. WebMD defines it as: “An introvert is a person with qualities of a personality type known as introversion, which means that they feel more…
I consider it money well spent to take a Singapore Hawker food tour with Secret Food Tour to see the secret streets and treats. My daughter and I were eager to eat at the famous Hawker stalls but there are so many, even at one location! Our tour guide Monica was terrific. Not only did…
I’m thrilled to announce that Food for the Future is included in Chicago Public Library’s Best of the Best lists! This is a staff-created list. Food for the Future is on their Best Informational Books for Younger Readers of 2023 list for kids in kindergarten through 3rd grade. The Best of the Best lists represent…
My mother always talked about her father who died when she was young about how he built his own plane and flew it. He immigrated with my grandmother from Hiroshima and never learned English so, despite being a history teacher in Japan, he worked as a servant for a wealthy family in San Francisco. I…
It’s been a longstanding tradition to take Afternoon Tea as a special family bonding time, sans men. I used to do this with my mother, both before I had children, and afterwards with toddlers. Somehow dressing up the girls in fancy dresses to sip lemonade from tea cups put them on their best behavior, thought…
