Best picture books for kids including Caldecott and other award winning books for children.
Please welcome my guest author today, Maria Gianferrari, with her holiday list of favorite dog and therapy dog picture books! She has a list of 10 picture books about dogs who help us through thick and thin. Maria is a long-time rescue dog owner and this is an ode to all wonderful dogs, past and…
Please welcome my guest author today, Margaret Chiu Greanias, with a sequel to her list of picture books about Taiwanese characters or by Taiwanese American authors and author-illustrators with 12 wonderful picture books related to Taiwan. Her original list of picture books related to Taiwan is here. We are giving away a copy of How…
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…