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…
Please welcome my guest author Alice Rothchild with her book list about Challenging Erasure: 15 books for kids that talk about Palestine and the lived experience of Palestinians. Her newest book is Finding Melody Sullivan. Finding Melody Sullivan by Alice Rothchild Finding Melody Sullivan is my contemporary young adult novel about trauma, (from the personal…
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. March’s event will be held on March 2nd and we are celebrating Women’s History Month using Planting Stories: The Life of…
I am thrilled today to be part of a blog tour to celebrate the Sydney Taylor Book Award Finalists. Each of us on the blog tour will be interviewing one award recipient. I am thrilled to be talking to Shoshana Nambi, author of The Very Best Sukkah: A Story from Uganda. I am also grateful…
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…
I’m excited to be reviewing books for our 10th Multicultural Children’s Book Day to shine a spotlight on all the great diverse KidLit! Today, I want to also talk about The ReFoReMo Challenge, or Reading for Research Month Challenge, which was founded in 2015 to help picture book writers reform writing by reading and researching…
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…