Thank you to Lois J Wickstrom for her Readers’ Favorite review: Changing the Game by Mia Wenjen introduces seventeen Asian-Pacific American Female star athletes. They have overcome crippling injuries, poverty, racism, and other life-altering events to win Olympic medals and achieve other honors in their chosen sports. These women practice martial arts, kayaking, swimming,…
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21 Inuit Picture Books
I was so happy to get some Inuit picture books sent to me and I wanted to learn more about the Inuit. The Inuit are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions of Greenland, Canada, and Alaska. The Inuit languages are part of the Eskimo–Aleut languages also known as Inuit-Yupik-Unangan and…
Changing the Game nominated for 2021 Readers Choice Awards! Please Vote!
I’m so excited because Changing the Game: Asian Pacific American Female Athletes was just nominated for the 2021 Readers Choice Awards contest by TCK Publishing! Please vote for it here. To examine any book more closely at Amazon, please click on image of book. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Follow PragmaticMom’s…
Multicultural Children’s Book Club with Traci Sorell for Native American Heritage Month
Please join Melissa Konstantatos and Leanna for our seventh 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. November’s event will be held on November 4th and we are celebrating Indigenous People’s Month using We…
Multicultural Children’s Book Day Reviewer Sign Up is Now Open!
Multicultural Children’s Book Day Reviewer Sign Up is now Open! Receive a free diverse children’s or YA book in exchange for a short review posted to social media. Sign up here: Diverse Children and YA Book Reviewers -We need you for MCBD2022! p.s. Related posts: Multicultural Children’s Book Day: 2022 Sponsorships Open! A…
Sumo Joe on The Children’s Book Podcast with Matthew Winner
Thank you so much to Matthew Winner for having us on The Children’s Book Podcast: Mia Wenjen and Nat Iwata share SUMO JOE on The Children’s Book Podcast. “SUMO JOE is a story told in rhyme about a boy and his friends upholding a centuries-old tradition considered through a modern lens. It’s the first picture…
My FREE Sumo Joe Virtual Classroom Visit
I had so fun giving a virtual author visit to a 4th grade elementary school in Texas. This is my free SUMO JOE author visit in which I tell the origin story of my debut picture book and detail the process of how a picture book gets made from idea to revision to illustration to…