Best picture books for kids including Caldecott and other award winning books for children.
I am thrilled and honored to have received the California Reading Association’s Eureka! Honor Book Award in the nonfiction children’s book category for We Sing From The Heart: How The Slants® Took Their Fight for Free Speech to the Supreme Court, illustrated by Victor Bizar Gómez and published by Red Comet Press. Thank you…
I am thrilled for We Sing From the Heart to be included in Shelf Awareness, a publishing company based in the United States that produces two e-zines focused on bookselling, books, and book reviews. The book trailer for We Sing From the Heart was featured! And this is the WE SING FROM THE HEART book…
Lisa Rogers was kind enough to invite us to her Little Golden Book launch of Elvis Presley in this music-themed book party, complete with a karaoke machine! There was music! There was dancing! And, a lot of fun was had by all! Here are highlights of our event: Elvis Presley: A Little Golden Book…
I had four minutes to talk about my newest picture book, We Sing From the Heart, with my publisher, Angus Yuen-Killick of Red Comet Press, on the SLJ Webcast showcasing The Best of the Best from Small Presses: Picture Books for Fall. Angus and I met separately to practice our portion. It’s harder than you…
I’m thrilled today to be interviewing my editor of We Sing from the Heart: How the Slants® Took Their Fight for Free Speech to the Supreme Court at Red Comet Press. Not only was he the editor, but creative director as well. He was the person who found illustrator Victor Bizar Gomez and did all…
Please welcome my guest author today, Erin Danilile Russell with a list of 10 Biracial Picture Books. Her newest book is Seoul Food, a picture book that reflects her own biracial Black and Korean heritage. Seoul Food by Erin Danielle Russell, illustrated by Tamisha Anthony Seoul Food is a heartwarming story about a biracial girl…
In an unusual turn of events, NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English) and NCSS (National Council for the Social Studies) conventions are in Boston on the same weekend! NCTE’s Heart, Hope, and Humanity Conference will be held from November 21-24 at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center (BCEC) on 415 Summer Street which…