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Thank you so much to everyone for covering We Sing From the Heart! I so appreciate your support! Karlin Gray: True Story~We Sing From the Heart: How the Slants(r) Took Their Fight for Free Speech to the Supreme Court Crafty Moms Share: Multicultural Books focusing on Asia and Asian American Cultures Erin Dealey:…
My author copies of Fortune Cookies for Everyone!: The Surprising Story of the Tasty Treat We Love to Eat, have arrived! It is illustrated by Colleen Kong-Savage and published by Red Comet Press in collaboration with Smithsonian. Here’s my unboxing video … I hope you like our picture book! It comes out on October…
Read Your World’s newest classroom kit is now available: Building Community with Bilingual Books. As always, this is a free resource! Each kit includes an extensive book list, activities, discussion guide, and downloadable poster. Our thanks to illustrator Emily Blodgett for creating our free and downloadable poster. She is the illustrator of Little Bun: A…
I am so excited to announce that Fortune Cookies for Everyone, illustrated by Colleen Kong-Savage and published by Red Comet Press in collaboration with the Smithsonian, is a Junior Library Gold selection! Fortune Cookies for Everyone! (Smithsonian): The Surprising Story of the Tasty Treat We Love to Eat by Mia Wenjen, illustrated by Colleen Kong-Savage…
Today, I stand with others across the cultural community to honor the victims and survivors and call on leaders to ensure a nuclear weapon is never used again. The Japanese side of my family is from Hiroshima. No more Hiroshimas. No More Nagasakis. The stories we tell matter. In 1983, The Day After reached 100…
It was a few weeks after the Paris Olympics and actually the Para Olympics were in full swing, but the last week of August was not very crowded. The last time I was in Paris, about five years ago, the wait for the Louvre was more than two hours. We were thrilled to discover that…
Hands-on learning activities are interesting and creative ways of learning. Especially, craft projects are silent workhorses in developing those core skills that go much beyond the art table. Whether it’s a child threading a needle for the very first time or an adult meticulously piecing together a handmade quilt, it engages the mind, tests patience,…