Educations Matters: Diverse Children's Book Reviews
I am so thrilled to be making a book with Angus Yuen-Killick, founder of Red Comet Press. The incredibly talented Keith Henry Brown will illustrate Postcards from Malcolm X: How Yuri Kochiyama Became a Civil Rights Activist. This middle grade picture book biography is slated to come out in 2024! p.s. Related posts: Highlights…
I’m thrilled to announce that I have a new picture book coming out through Barefoot Books spring of 2023! Robert Sae-Heng is the illustrator. Lisa Rosinsky and Autumn Allen are the editors. Lary Rosenblatt at 22MediaWorks represented me. Jess Lomas at Inkling Illustration represented the illustrator. Picture Book Announcement! Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms…
It was so fun to hear the story behind the story from Josh Funk and Carrie Finison for Picture Book Hour Live at Brookline Booksmith. The basement space was full and there were plenty of enthusiastic littles including Carter Hasegawa’s! Carter is an editor at Candlewick Press and I was thrilled to meet him! I…
Please welcome my guest author, Erin Yun! She’s back with book two in the bestselling Pippa Park middle grade series about identity, family, friendships, and peer pressure: Pippa Park Crush at First Sight. Pippa Park picks up right where she left off . . . trying to balance basketball, school, friends, working at the struggling family laundromat,…
Please join us for Multicultural Children’s Book Club. We host a FREE and virtual multicultural children’s picture book club on the first Thursday of every month from 7 pm to 8 pm EST. December’s event will be held on December 1st and we are celebrating interfaith holidays, Christmas + Hannukah using Red and Green…
Buy | Goodreads | Trailer A heart-pounding final showdown changes the life of Cruz Coronado forever in the seventh and final book in this thrilling fact-based fiction series. Amid assignments that take the Explorer Academy recruits from the iceberg-filled waters of Antarctica to the bone-dry deserts of Argentina, Cruz Coronado is scrambling to complete the last piece…
Welcome to the Midnight at the Shelter Blog Tour! Follow along as we celebrate the release of Midnight at the Shelter (November 1, 2022) with behind-the-scenes looks from author Nanci Turner Steveson, plus 5 chances to win a copy! Best Writing Advice by Nanci Turner Steveson I learned how to write the hard way. I didn’t go to college,…
Please share Multicultural Children’s Book Day FREE Diverse Children’s and YA Book Program Our Sign Up ends December 31, 2022 Use Our Press Kit with “Cut and Paste” social media posts here. Thank you so much! p.s. Related posts: FREE Teacher Classroom Kit Mental Health Support for Stressful Times Sign…
I didn’t know very much about Tibet so I decided to learn more. Tibet has a tricky situation in terms of governance. China considers Tibet an autonomous region or a Chinese province, but there is also a government in exile headed by the Dalai Lama. Tibet’s geography is a big part of this governance dispute….
