Best picture books for kids including Caldecott and other award winning books for children.
I’m thrilled to be doing the cover reveal for I’ll Always Come Back to You by Carmen Tafolla and illustrated by Grace Zong today! It’s a sweet rhyming picture book and the mother in the story is a mail carrier. I think we all appreciate our front-line workers because, in the thick of the pandemic, we…
What amazes me the most is that I grew up in Seal Beach, California, one town over from Westminster, where Sylvia Mendez and Aki Munemitsu both lived. When Aki and her family were forced to leave their farm during WWII and live incarcerated at internment camps, a banker helped her family lease their land so…
Please welcome my guest author today, Abi Cushman. We both are huge fans of Richard Scarry’s world, especially his book about Cars and Trucks and Things That Go! Her new picture book, Animals Go Vroom!, is also about transportation and we are giving away a copy! To enter, please fill out the Rafflecopter at the…
“This history was totally hidden from white children. And that was deliberate.” from The Atlantic I think that the Tulsa Race Massacre may have garnered a single sentence in my history book when I studied A.P. History in high school in Southern California. A single sentence or even paragraph isn’t enough to do it justice,…
Please join Amy Tai and me for our fourth 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. August’s event will be held on August 5th and we are celebrating the Hindu holiday, Raksha Bandhan,…
I met Darshana Khiani years ago as a fellow children’s book blogger. Her blog, Flowering Minds, has wonderful author interviews and children’s book reviews, but it is my go-to for South Asian KidLit books. Darshana might have been the first KidLit blogger who decided to venture into writing children’s books and personally inspired me to…
I received Wishes by Muon Thi Van and searched my blog to add it to my Vietnamese American book list only to find … that I don’t have one! I’m not sure why I never made one. Perhaps there weren’t enough books to make a list? Or, more likely, I just forgot. That was remiss…