My son graduated from Newton North High School and it was a very different graduation from his middle sister’s in 2020, the year of the pandemic lockdown!
We got him dressed up for this occasion after realizing that he doesn’t own pants that are not sweatpants! My husband had the lei flown in honor of his connection to Hawaii.
He wrote this outfit for his senior portraits, so we are getting good use of his new fancy clothes!
In terms of graduation gifts, he doesn’t want anything. We just celebrated by taking him to dinner in Chinatown. Still, it was a big milestone and the end of an era of Newton public schools. We are now getting ready to empty nest!
p.s. Related posts:
RISD Pre-College Student Art Show 2022
National Portfolio Day Boston at UMass Lowell
Applying to Art School: Portfolio
My son’s art on the cover of Newton Community Ed catalog!
My Son Boxing: Then and Now & Boxing Picture Books
My Son’s Drawing Class at MassArt Xtreme Week!
My Son’s 7th Grade Recommended Reading List
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My books:
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The Traveling Taco:
- Reading Rockets’ Summer Reading Guide 2025
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Amazon / Signed or Inscribed by Me
We Sing from the Heart: How the Slants® Took Their Fight for Free Speech to the Supreme Court
- ALSC Notable Children’s Book
- Orbis Pictus Recommended Book for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children
- California Eureka Non-Fiction Award Honor Book
- Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People Winner (from National Council for the Social Studies and Children’s Book Council)
- Bank Street Best Children’s Books of the Year 2025
- Junior Library Guild Gold Selection
Amazon / Signed or Inscribed by Me
Amazon / Barefoot Books / Signed or Inscribed by Me
Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World
- ⭐ Starred review from School Library Journal!
- Junior Library Guild Gold selection
- Massachusetts Book Award Long List
- dPICTUS 100 Outstanding Picture Books of 2023
- Chicago Library’s Best of the Best
- 2023 INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist
- Green Earth Book Award Long List
- Nautilus Silver Winner, Nonfiction Children’s Picture Book
- Sunshine State Young Readers Award Orange Blossom List for Nonfiction
- Imagination Soup’s 35 Best Nonfiction Books of 2023 for Kids
Amazon / Signed or Inscribed by Me
Bank Street College’s The Best Children’s Books of the Year
Amazon / Signed or Inscribed by Me
Amazon / Signed or Inscribed by Me
