Educations Matters: Diverse Children's Book Reviews
Best picture books, chapter books, young adult books, graphic novels and non fiction for kids.
Poem in Your Pocket Day is April 29 and is part of National Poetry Month. Here’s how to participate: It’s easy to participate in Poem in Your Pocket Day from a safe distance. Here are some ideas of how you might get involved: Select a poem and share it on social media using the hashtag #PocketPoem. Print…
Those with sharp eyes might have noticed the small gold sticker on the upper right-hand cover of Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World. It’s from Junior Library Guild. For those who are not familiar with Junior Library Guild, they are a curating subscription service for libraries. Their team of expert librarians reads…
The 2023 Caldecott, Newbery Winners, and More! Youth Media Awards will be announced at 8 a.m. CST today during the ALA Midwinter Meeting & Exhibition which is virtual via YouTube! 2023 Caldecott Medal and Honor Books The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. It honors the artist of the most…
I wanted to thank everyone again for their support of my book passion project, a response to my middle daughter’s comment in high school that there weren’t any Asian female athletes. After the Kickstarter campaign ended and I was able to fund my book, I assumed that I would sell books on Amazon by running…
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. February’s event will be held on February 2nd and we are celebrating Black History Month using Opal Lee and What It…
I was so surprised to realize that author Nora Lester Murad was my neighbor at my old house, about a mile from where I live now! Everyone in our close-knit neighborhood knew Nora and her family and said how wonderful they were. They were abroad living in Jerusalem when I moved in. My kids played…
I’m so excited to reveal the cover of my latest picture book! Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World by Mia Wenjen, illustrated by Robert Sae-Heng This is a rhyming picture book featuring twelve unusual farms around the world. From vertical gardens in Singapore to ancient terrace farms in Chile, humans have…