I received Wishes by Muon Thi Van and searched my blog to add it to my Vietnamese American book list only to find … that I don’t have one! I’m not sure why I never made one. Perhaps there weren’t enough books to make a list? Or, more likely, I just forgot. That was remiss…
Author: Pragmatic Mom
My Daughter’s Team Wins the Rhode Island BlueGreen Innovation Challenge!
My daughter is a sophomore at Rhode Island School of Design and she pulled together a team of Industrial Design majors to compete in the BlueGreen Innovation challenge in Rhode Island. Along the way, she added an M.I.T. senior engineering student to her team. They successfully competed and made the finalist round. They are one…
Tokyo Olympics Martial Arts Multicultural Children’s Book Club
Please join Amy Tai and me for our third Multicultural Children’s Book Club. We host a FREE multicultural children’s picture book virtual book club on the first Thursday of every month from 7 pm to 8 pm EST. July’s event will be held on July 1st and we are celebrating martial arts at the Tokyo…
13 Picture Books about What Makes A House A Home
One year for my birthday, I had my husband take me to Cape Ann to see the exhibit for The Little House. The author and illustrator, Virginia Lee Burton, lived in Newton, MA where I live now. My kids grew up reading Mike Mulligan and the Steam Shovel and Katy and the Big Snow. In…
Aquent Turns 35 Years Old!
My company just turned 35 years old this month. We ran the numbers: During this time we found work for 145,000 people, at 71,000 clients, in nearly 20 countries. And the 3 original founders are still here! Thank you to everyone who has been part of our family: talent, clients, staff. You are all a…
Learning Japanese Through Games
Please welcome my guest author today, Jennifer Fischer. She’s a producer at Think Ten Media Group and blogs at Indie Jen Fischer on Medium. She has recommendations of how to teach kids Japanese using games. —– No doubt about it, kids love games: board games, card games and, of course, video games! We love our…
Thank you everyone! SUMO JOE on 2nd printing!!!
I was thrilled to learn from my publisher, Lee & Low, that Sumo Joe is on its second printing! Thank you to everyone who has supported my debut picture book! Hi Mia, Kandace may have already let you know but SUMO JOE is actually now in its second printing! That means, however, that we will…







