Best picture books for kids including Caldecott and other award winning books for children.
I’m thrilled to have author Andrea Wang guest posting today. She’s always been a strong writer with a voice that represents Asian American culture proudly and accurately, but she’s recently made the leap from being great to exceptional. I feel like this is her breakout year. Her newest picture book, Watercress, is on my list…
It surprises me that allergies are not included in children’s books very often given the prevalence of kids with life-threatening allergies. I’m starting a book list and would love to get your suggestions! Thanks so much! 6 Children’s Books with Characters That Have Life-Threatening Allergies Violet and the Crumbs: A Gluten-Free Adventure by Abigail…
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. September’s event will be held on September 2nd and we are celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15…
2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the landmark case that made mixed-race marriages legal. It’s hard to imagine that mixed-race marriages were illegal until quite recently. What is the outcome of making mixed-race marriages legal? Anti-miscegenation laws or miscegenation laws are laws that enforce racial segregation at the level of marriage and intimate relationships by…
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…