Please welcome Isra from Muslims in KidLit! I met Isra years ago when I first started blogging when she was still living in the Boston area. She had a lifestyle blog then called The Frugalette. We spend hours on a bus ride from hell sponsored by McDonald’s to go to a blogging convention in New…
Author: Pragmatic Mom
My Shelter-in-Place Coping Strategies
How is everyone holding up? We are in unprecedented times and I hope that everyone is well. I have to say that I feel very fortunate to be able to shelter-in-place. I am so grateful to everyone out there who is supporting those of us at home: delivery people, post office workers, grocery store employees,…
15 Children’s Books featuring Volleyball!
My kids were introduced to volleyball in San Antonio, Texas when we went to visit a close friend of my husband’s from their college golf days. He also has three children, and his oldest had started playing volleyball in first grade. She patiently taught my two daughters how to bump and set the ball in…
Designing For Good: $30k grants to Nonprofits!
I’m proud to announce that Aquent, the company that I co-founded in college, is giving away three $10,000 grants to non-profits. This is our way of giving back by helping non-profits and also supporting innovation through design. Designing for Good 2020 Competition Open for Entries! Since 2016, the Designing for Good grant competition has enabled…
15 Children’s Books About Art Mysteries
The art heist mystery at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum inspired this book list. I have compiled a list of children’s books of mysteries in museums below. What books am I missing? Thanks for adding to this list! Best 15 Mysteries for Kids Set in Museums Art Dog by Thacher Hurd Arthur Dog leads a quiet…
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Mystery
I recently took a tour of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum which I hadn’t visited in quite some time. She was a Boston philanthropist with an excellent eye for art. She built this museum to house her collection with the stipulation that nothing be moved. It is an incredibly beautiful space. But there’s more to…
Sumo Joe makes Bank Street Best Children’s Books of the Year list!
Thank you to Ariel Gordon Bernstein for the heads up that Sumo Joe was included in Bank Street College’s The Best Children’s Books of the Year! I never would have thought to check. I have recently been submitting manuscripts to literary agents and am in recovery from rejection. Ditto for editors whom I have submitted…







