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Please join me for our tenth 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. March’s event will be held on March 3rd and we are celebrating Ramadan using Lailah’s Lunchbox: A Ramadan Story by…
I finally visited Henry David Thoreau House at Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. It’s about 20 minutes from where I live and I have passed it many, many times, but never stopped to see it. He was a precursor to the Tiny House movement. His house can be described not just as tiny but also…
Welcome to the Speak Up, Speak Out! by Tonya Bolden Blog Tour! To celebrate Black History Month and the release of Speak Up, Speak Out!: The Extraordinary Life of Fighting Shirley Chisholm by Tonya Bolden (January 4th), 5 blogs across the web featuring posts from the book and author, as well as 5 chances to win! Foreword by…
Melissa Stewart, an award-winning and much-respected author of more than 190+ nonfiction children’s books, reached out to me to ask me to help raise awareness of the #KidsLoveNonfiction campaign. I was happy to help. Trained in biology and science journalism, Melissa most recently won a Sibert Honor award with Summertime Sleepers: Animals that Estivate, illustrated…
I am thrilled to be part of The Sydney Taylor Book Award Blog Tour, celebrating with picture book honor winner, The Christmas Mitzvah, written by Jeff Gottesfeld, and illustrated by Michelle Laurentia Agatha. I interview Jeff and Michelle below! The Christmas Mitzvah by Jeff Gottesfeld, illustrated by Michelle Laurentia Agatha Al Rosen is a…
I have compiled some of my book lists to include all the books that I could find that showcase Black Achievement. So far, my list of books here is up to 48 but more books within each blog post linked below. This list was prompted by an article in Edutopia that asked K-12 teachers to celebrate…
Thank you so much to Tanya Raukko for interviewing me about Multicultural Children’s Book Day in Medium. An Interview with Mia Wenjen Changing the Game and Bringing Diversity to Bookshelves Through her writing, Mia Wenjen brought more diversity to classrooms and founded the Multicultural Children’s Book Day. I was pleasantly surprised when I saw Mia…