The 2020 Youth Media Awards will be announced at 8 a.m. Eastern time today during the ALA Midwinter Meeting & Exhibition! 2020 Caldecott Medal and Honor Books The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. It honors the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children. 2020 Caldecott Winner The…
In celebration of Multicultural Children’s Book Day, my ebook resource to find the best diversity books written by authors who share the same marginalized identity as the characters in their books will be FREE starting January 29th through February 2nd at Amazon here. EST OWNVOICES CHILDREN’S BOOKS: My Favorite Diversity Books for Kids Ages 1-12…
Rose Wenjen Eulogy by Noreen Wenjen (given 12-28-2020) Today, we celebrate our beloved mother and grandmother, Rose Miyako Wenjen, for a life lived well. Although she was small in stature, just under 5 feet tall, her unique blend of traits balanced perfectly. Her quiet strength offset her sweet personality. She was both easygoing and hard-working….
In honor of our seventh Multicultural Children’s Book Day, we are increasing our Twitter Party Book Bundles prizes from five to SEVEN books! More books, more diverse KidLit discussions, and more FUN! Please join us Friday, January 31st 9 pm-10 pm EST Use hashtag #ReadYourWorld to find the party We will be giving away 14…
I was thrilled to do a Skype author visit with 120 kindergartners! They were well prepared having read the story ahead of time. They also came up with questions that the Media Specialist had collected ahead of time. For such a young group, the teachers asked for a 20-minute visit. The kids were great and…
I can’t believe it’s been a decade since I started blogging here at PragmaticMom. I had a few other blogs that I created during the past ten years, but this is the only one that I’m still doing maintaining. Blogging has really changed over the past decade. It was once the darling of SEO (Search…
I met Sarah Marie Jette at our first NESCBWI Meet & Greet for YA/Children’s Writers and Illustrators of Color. as part of the new NESCBWI Equity and Inclusion Committee that I am on. She told me about her new book and we were both struck by the lack of children’s and YA books that have…