Being Asian means that you are all about food. Did you know that the greeting in Chinese, 你吃了吗？ {Ni (third tone) Chi (first tone) Le (first tone) Ma(third tone), means have you eaten yet?! The family-style serving platters set the tone; meals are meant to be eaten together! It’s no surprise that there are quite…
Summer is starting soon and I need to get a summer reading plan for my kids! Usually, my kids are assigned an extensive summer reading project by the teachers in the next grade. One year it was five books AND a book review project! When my girls started middle school, the summer reading assignments ceased…
Since reading about Children of the Tipi: Life in the Buffalo Days by Michael Oren Fitzgerald and hearing pushback by Debbie Reese that the contemporary life of Native Americans was not included, it got me thinking. While the premise of Children of the Tipi was to document life in the bygone buffalo days, she has…
I’m so sorry to be late for the Homeschool Blogging Carnival hosted by Lisa at The Squishable Baby and Keisha at Unschooling Momma. I’ve been distracted by racism in a musical at the local high school that has hit a nerve and generated a lot of press including a front-page article in The Boston Globe, 2 OpEd articles in…
March is Women’s History Month and one great way to celebrate is to go to my friend, Margo Tannebaum’s joint blog, KidLit Celebrates Women’s History Month. For the month of March, Margo of The Fourth Musketeer and her partner in this endeavor, Shelf Employed, have lined up guest bloggers to celebrate children’s books featuring women…
Have you heard of the APALA children’s book awards? Of course not. I blogged for three years on children’s books seeking out the best Asian American KidLit and I didn’t know about it. That’s a shame because Asian American children’s books are slowly coming into their own, well on the heels perhaps of the Asian…
I chose a Creek folk tale today for Picture Book of the Day and wanted to explore both the story, and its influences, and make connections to learn more about the Muscogee (Creek) people. I hope you enjoy this exploration! The Muscogee (Creek) people are descendents of a remarkable culture that, before 1500 AD, spanned…