We Sing From the Heart gets a few stickers!

I am humbled and honored to receive these honors for We Sing from the Heart: How the Slants® Took Their Fight for Free Speech to the Supreme Court, illustrated by Victor Bizar Gomez.

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)
Junior Library Guild Gold Selection

This book would not be possible without my amazing editor and creative director, Michael Yuen-Killick. Thank you also to publisher extraordinaire, Angus Yuen-Killick. Thank you to my agent Lary Rosenblatt, and his team at 22MediaWorks including editors Barbara Stewart, and Amy Betz. Without their help, this book would not exist!

Finally, thank you to Simon Tam for inspiring everyone to stand up for justice by demonstrating that a single person can make a difference, and for preserving for nearly nine years to shine a spotlight on the structural racism in our court system. Thank you also for your patient feedback throughout the writing process on many, many revisions. I’m so happy that my three children now have another Asian American male role model to look up to.

For teachers who use Simon’s case in their classes, Thank YOU! I hope this book helps to explain the battle he fought and won on behalf of free speech!

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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)
Junior Library Guild Gold Selection