Please save the date for Storytime at Hummingbird Books 55 Boylston St Suite 5510 Chestnut Hill, MA in The Street mall Sunday, May 28th 11:00 am with Josh Funk I will be celebrating my book birthday for Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World. Josh will be reading his newest picture…
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Books written by me, Mia Wenjen.
Kirkus reviews Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World
The Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World review went live on the Kirkus website on February 25th and was published in the March 15th edition of Kirkus Reviews. “A dozen sustainable farms around the world offer intriguing possibilities for the future of agriculture. Simple four-beat rhyming couplets concisely describe a…
My Book Announcements
My Book News! GREEN HOMES HAPPY PLANET Cover Reveal BARBED WIRED BETWEEN US: Kirkus The Most Anticipated Children’s Books of Spring 2026 We Sing From the Heart Wins Social Justice Literature Award BARBED WIRE BETWEEN US gets Kirkus Starred Review! A Great Review by BookList for FORTUNE COOKIES FOR EVERYONE! We Sing…
Food for the Future selected by dPICTUS as 100 Outstanding Picture Books of 2023
I’m excited to share that Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World was selected by dPICTUS for their list of 100 Outstanding Picture Books of 2023! An active community of international picturebook publishers and agents use the dPICTUS online platform to promote their titles, secure foreign rights deals, discover emerging talent, and make…
FOOD FOR THE FUTURE is a Junior Library Guild Gold Selection!
Those with sharp eyes might have noticed the small gold sticker on the upper right-hand cover of Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World. It’s from Junior Library Guild. For those who are not familiar with Junior Library Guild, they are a curating subscription service for libraries. Their team of expert librarians reads…
Scholastic Purchased CHANGING THE GAME!
I wanted to thank everyone again for their support of my book passion project, a response to my middle daughter’s comment in high school that there weren’t any Asian female athletes. After the Kickstarter campaign ended and I was able to fund my book, I assumed that I would sell books on Amazon by running…
FOOD FOR THE FUTURE: SUSTAINABLE FARMS AROUND THE WORLD Cover Reveal!
I’m so excited to reveal the cover of my latest picture book! Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World by Mia Wenjen, illustrated by Robert Sae-Heng This is a rhyming picture book featuring twelve unusual farms around the world. From vertical gardens in Singapore to ancient terrace farms in Chile, humans have…






