Thank you for inviting me to the Westchester Children’s Book Festival! I had a wonderful time. It is always a good time to sit next to Phaea Crede. We met many years ago at a Barefoot Books event where her wildly popular picture book, Jet the Cat (is not a cat!), is now being translated…
Thank you to House of Heroes for sponsoring this post. If you are anything like me, you have tried every trick in the book to make screen time feel less like the default setting of your evenings. Activity kits that lose their novelty by Thursday. Board games that work brilliantly for two sessions and then…
Thank you for including Barbed Wire Between Us in this list of 9 Outstanding Poetry Collections for Young Readers and Teens from School Library Journal! 2026 Stars So Far Home Page These lyrical titles include homages to Langston Hughes and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., as well as a collection of pet poems. Our…
No more Hiroshimas. My mother’s side of the family is from Hiroshima… Every August, people around the world honor the victims of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In a world where the risk of nuclear catastrophe is rising, it’s more important than ever to remember and share these stories. Eighty-one years after the…
According to CDC data, more than one in three women and more than one in six men deal with some form of contact sexual violence, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner at some point in their lives. There is a saying that there are three sides to every story: your side, my side,…
In the upcoming July issue of School Library Journal, Postcards from Malcom X has received a very nice review! “School libraries need true stories of the enduring importance of cross-cultural alliances and community organizing.” Gr 3-7–This book introduces middle school readers to the life and activism of Yuri Kochiyama, highlighting her meaningful correspondence and powerful…
My publisher, Audrey Press, closed down last year, so the rights to my two books, How to Coach Girls and The Elusive Full Ride Scholarship, reverted back. Slowly but surely, all the copies of How to Coach Girls that I owned were sold through my website. (I still have a bunch of The Elusive Full…