I’m in the car a lot driving my kids around. It’s become my office. I have snacks and water at all times. I nap in my car. I sometimes even hang out in my garage by myself, checking my email via my phone in my car for a few minutes before going inside. It’s nice…
Top 10 Best Multicultural Easy Readers
It wasn’t easy finding great multicultural easy readers! My town library has about 49 cubic feet of easy readers — an entire wall — but about half have animal characters and most of the remaining books do NOT have characters of color. From my search that day, I’d say that about 2% of the square…
Getting Kids Published with Erik of This Kid Reviews Books
I am so thrilled to be co-posting with Erik of This Kid Reviews Books today at the request of Erika of Urth Mama: Do you have any interest in doing a blog post (or series) about career pathways for children/young adults to become children’s book authors? I ask because my 8 year old daughter (aka Paprika) has…
7 Best Multicultural YA Books & Kid Lit Blog Hop
These are the Young Adult books from the 2015 Notable Books for a Global Society. Part I from the list of picture books is here and Part II of middle grade books is here. Best Multicultural Young Adult Books for Teens Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal by Margarita Engle Did you know that there was…
2014 Cybils Winners: Early Chapter Book and Easy Reader
It was so much fun to judge the final round of the Cybils for Best Easy Reader and Early Chapter Book. I felt like our committee really pondered long and hard to come up with the winners in a multi-step process: We procured the books, mostly from the library (copies were sent by publishers if…
20 Wonderful Multicultural Board Books for Babies and Toddlers
These multicultural board books for kids are perfect for babies, toddlers, and preschoolers! A fantastic selection of diverse books for storytime. Valarie from Jump Into a Book and I are starting a series of book lists to highlight our favorite multicultural children’s books. We plan to turn this into an eBook which we will give…
How Do You Teach Innovation? My Entrepreneurial Story
A few readers have asked me to post more on my entrepreneurial experience (b.k. — before kids). I co-founded a dorm room enterprise, now called Aquent, with two friends that has grown, now nearly 30 years later, into a mid-sized company (as defined by “less than one billion in sales but larger than one hundred…