Best picture books, chapter books, young adult books, graphic novels and non fiction for kids.
My mother always talked about her father who died when she was young about how he built his own plane and flew it. He immigrated with my grandmother from Hiroshima and never learned English so, despite being a history teacher in Japan, he worked as a servant for a wealthy family in San Francisco. I…
Please join us for our 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. December’s event will be held on December 7th and we are celebrating Hanukkah using The Ninth Night of Hanukkah by Erica…
I was thinking about the banners, Hata-jirushi (旗印), that my ancestors used on the battlefield during medieval Japan. It would have our clan name via the kamon, or logo if you will. The banners would denote the regiments of an army within a particular samurai clan. image from Wikipedia Flags around the world are a…
My kids grew up eating Filipino food but just a few basics that we know how to prepare ourselves such as “Sour Soup” or Sinigang, and pork Adobo. I searched for Filipino restaurants in the Boston area but the only one specializing in Filipino cuisine closed down during Covid and never reopened. When we visited…
Please welcome my guest author today, Vicky Fang! I know her from the Soaring 20s picture book group that we are both in. We are giving away a SIGNED copy of her newest book, Best Buddies. To enter, please fill out the Rafflecopter at the bottom. —— There’s something so perfect about animal friendship early…
Mitali Perkins returns to Newtonville Books, her previous home, with her book launch for her lauded middle-grade book, Hope in the Valley. Here, she’s in conversation with Editor Emeritus Roger Sutton, the editor-in-chief of The Horn Book, Inc., from 1996 to 2021. Mitali reads the first chapter of Hope in the Valley. Q and A…
Please welcome my guest authors, Sabrina and Eunice, sisters, and co-founders of Hello!Lucky, a design studio, and creators of Get Outer My Space: The Cosmic Adventures of Astrid and Stella. They created a list of their favorite Space-Themed Children’s Books! Get Outer My Space: The Cosmic Adventures of Astrid and Stella by Sabrina and Eunice Moyle…