Best picture books for kids including Caldecott and other award winning books for children.
The Supertree Grove is featured in my picture book, Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World, illustrated by Robert Sae-Heng, and published by Barefoot Books. It was a thrill to see the SuperTtee Grove for myself in Singapore. This is the smaller grove: My daughter, who is spending a semester abroad at…
Please welcome my guest author today, Margaret Chiu Greanias, with her list of picture books for introverts. What is an introvert? It’s a concept created by the father of psychology Carl Jung. WebMD defines it as: “An introvert is a person with qualities of a personality type known as introversion, which means that they feel more…
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…
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! I’ve added a few picks of my own for a total of 16 wonderful space-themed…
Barefoot Books has partnered to create edible for KIDS, a four-page insert that is in EdibleBoston and other cities that are part of the Edible Community magazine series. Here’s a video of the four-page spread for Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World. Have you seen this in your city? Please…