I will be:
Doing a Storytime and Craft at Parkside Bookshop with Kathy Choi in the South End, Boston, on Sunday, September 7th at 11 am. She will be reading GIVING THANKS WITH HALMONI, and I will be reading THE TRAVELING TACO.Due to low expected attendance expected from the inclement weather forecast, we have opted out.
- Doing a Storytime Event for Boston Local Food Festival on Sunday, September 14th, on the Rose Kennedy Greenway. The Family Fun Zone is located around Rings Fountain (Milk St, Atlantic Ave on one side and Surface Rd on the other). It runs from 11 am to 5 pm, and I will be reading THE TRAVELING TACO and doing a craft from 3 to 4 pm.
- At the Boston Authors Club’s Julia Howe Awards presentation at the Metropolitan Waterworks Museum, starting at 6 pm. I will be giving a short speech about WE SING FROM THE HEART.
- At the Chappaqua Book Festival on September 27th from 10 am to 4 pm in Chappaqua, NY.
This fall, I will also be at NCTE (Denver) hosting a roundtable, attending USBBY (Boston), and giving a speech at NCSS (DC).
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My books:
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Barbed Wire Between Us by Mia Wenjen, illustrated by Violeta Encarnación
- ⭐ Starred review from Kirkus
- ⭐ Starred review from Publishers Weekly
- ⭐ Starred review from School Library Journal
- Kirkus: The Most Anticipated Children’s Books of Spring 2026
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- California Eureka Non-Fiction Gold Award
- Junior Library Guild Gold Selection
- Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People Winner (from National Council for the Social Studies and Children’s Book Council)
The Traveling Taco:
- California Eureka Non-Fiction Silver Award
- Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People Winner (from National Council for the Social Studies and Children’s Book Council)
- Reading Rockets’ Summer Reading Guide 2025
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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
- 2025 Carter G. Woodson Book Award Middle Level Honoree
- Orbis Pictus Recommended Book for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children
- 2024 Julia Ward Howe Prize for Children’s Literature Winner
- 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
- Recommended Reading for the Social Justice Literature Award 2025 (International Literacy Association)
- Pennsylvania Mountain Laurel Book Award Nominee 2026-27
- Junior Library Guild Gold Selection
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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
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Bank Street College’s The Best Children’s Books of the Year
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