Educations Matters: Diverse Children's Book Reviews
Diversity books for kids including authors and characters of color and diversity themes.
I’m a Barefoot Books Community Book Seller and the newest catalog just arrived. I am so excited to see Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World showcased! We are even on the back cover! Food for the Future is available for pre-order! Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World by…
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. May’s event will be held on May 4th and we are celebrating Asian Pacific American Heritage Month using Holding On by…
Please welcome my guest author Meg Eden Kyatt with her list of novels in verse. Meg Eden Kuyatt is a neurodivergent author and college-level creative writing instructor. We are giving away a book bundle of Good Different ARC and related goodies. To enter, please fill out the Rafflecopter at the bottom. Good Different by Meg…
I am delighted to share the book trailer for Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms by Mia Wenjen, illustrated by Robert Sae-Heng. Edited by Lisa Rosinsky. Releasing May 23, 2023, through Barefoot Books. p.s Related posts: Kirkus reviews Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World FOOD FOR THE FUTURE is…
April 17-18 will mark Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day). In 2018, after experiencing increased antisemitism and feeling a need to do something about it, I met Eva Kor, who had survived Auschwitz as a child. Normally all children would have been sent immediately to their deaths in the gas chambers, but because she was a…
I’m thrilled to announce a new picture book through Red Comet Press. We Sing from the Heart: How the Slants® Took Their Fight for Free Speech to the Supreme Court by Mia Wenjen, illustrated by Victor Bizar Gomez. This is the story of Simon Tam, the leader of the popular all-Asian-American dance-pop band, The Slants®,…
The Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World review went live on the Kirkus website on February 25th and was published in the March 15th edition of Kirkus Reviews. “A dozen sustainable farms around the world offer intriguing possibilities for the future of agriculture. Simple four-beat rhyming couplets concisely describe a…