I’m thrilled to be presenting on a panel at the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). Josh Funk put our panel together. It’s called, “Food: The Universal Language that Connects Us All.” I’ll be joining Josh Funk, Mindy Yuksel, Jen Seiler, and Lisa Wyzlic on Friday, November 17th at 11:00 a.m. Josh Funk…
What a lucky day at Chappaqua Children’s Book Festival to catch Nancy Castaldo just as she was headed out. I was able to invite her to join us for our farm book event, and … the stars aligned because she lives quite far away in update New York … but she is joining us!!!! We…
My friend Tim told me that I was included in the photo gallery for the ALA 23 in Chicago in Publisher’s Weekly. I was thrilled to see this photo! From Left to Right: Barefoot CEO and co-founder Nancy Traversy with authors Shirin Shamsi, Mia Wenjen, Baptiste Paul, and marketing director Jeanne Stafford Other authors were kind…
I was thrilled to get the opportunity to speak at the ALA Conference 2023 on the Diversity in Publishing stage for Food for the Future. My topic was Sustainable Values in Children’s Books. While only a handful of people attended, the CEO of Barefoot Books, Nancy Traversy, recorded it for me. That’s the extra mile…
I hope you can join me for an author event at the More Than Words bookstore in Boston. More Than Words is a nonprofit social enterprise based in the Boston area, operating as a job training program for system-involved young people ages 16-24. It helps foster children who leave the system to acquire job skills….
This year’s Read Your World’s Classroom Kit is on Climate Change and Environment Justice. But what exactly does that mean? I am using this book list to explore this topic with 44 Children’s Books on Climate Change and Environmental Justice. Are they the same or different? What Is Climate Change and Global Warming? The…
Boston Area Friends! Please Join Maria Gianferrari and Me for our Farm Picture Book Event Saturday, September 23 at 11:00 am Maria Gianferrari and I will be chatting and reading our books at Greentail Table in Newton, MA on Saturday, September 23rd at 11:00 a.m. We hope you can join us! p.s. For…