Anne Broyles, Nancy Castaldo, Antwan Eady, Maria Gianferrari, Lindsay H. Metcalf, and I were thrilled to present to NCSS via a virtual panel! A PDF of our slide deck including all our activities and resources are below. Farm to Table to Book: Teaching with Farm Texts to Learn About Food Security, Sustainability, and Community…
Thank you to Shepard.com for featuring my book list, The Best Children’s Book About Boxing! Shepard helps readers connect with authors. Find out more here. p.s. Related posts: I Started Sparring Again … but am on a break from boxing 15 Boxing Themed Children’s Books This is What 60 Looks Like at Nonantum Boxing Club!…
I am thrilled that We Sing from the Heart: How the Slants® Took Their Fight for Free Speech to the Supreme Court is a Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People Winner. Thank you so much to the National Council for the Social Studies and the Children’s Book Council for this honor! …
The Newton Children’s Book Festival was a big success! We had more than one thousand parents, guardians, grandparents, teachers, librarians, and children come to our event in search of authors and illustrators to meet! Our line up of 60+ authors and illustrators was the primary reason for our big draw. It was also great fun…
I received my MBA from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA, and I vouch for its usefulness. I think my HR classes were some of my most useful ones. I actually went to business school to learn accounting, but I found the curriculum to be widely useful, and my classmates were all interesting…
What a thrill to have Rajani LaRocca interview Lisa Stringfellow about her newest middle grade fantasy book, Kingdom of Dust! p.s. Related posts: 8 Middle Grade Fantasies with Black girl protagonists 29 Antiracist Books for Kids, Teens, and Adults Rajani LaRocca’s MASALA CHAI FAST AND SLOW Book Launch at Belmont Books Rajani LaRocca’s MIRROR…
It was such fun to hang out with authors Sandra Elaine Scott, Mia Wenjen, Kelly Carey, Nancy Tupper Ling, and musical performer Elijah T. Grasshopper. Elija T. Grasshopper performed songs with participation from Sandra Elaine Scott and Kelly Carey. Sandra Elaine Scott also read THE BLACK UNICORN, and I read about the gymnasts featured in…