Please welcome today’s guest author, Beth Bacon. Beth and I are not only authors of books for kids, but we are also college classmates! Beth has written about a dozen books for young readers, including her perennial favorite, I Hate Reading, which looks at the world from the silly perspective of a couple of kids…
It’s that time of year again! Read Your World is celebrating diverse children’s and young adult by giving Free Books in Exchange for a Review for Read Your World Day on January 28, 2027! Free Book in Exchange for a Review Get a FREE book in exchange for your review! Join us in celebrating diversity…
Thank you to Publishers Weekly for reviewing Postcards from Malcolm X! Postcards from Malcolm X: How Yuri Kochiyama Became a Human Rights Activist Mia Wenjen, illus. by Keith Henry Brown. Red Comet, $24.99 (42p) ISBN 978-1-63655-089-3 This stirring biography from Wenjen (Barbed Wire Between Us) and Brown (Pushing Hope) chronicles how the quiet…
I’m excited to be on a picture book panel at Books of Wonder in New York City: These picture books tell brilliant true stories that you just can’t miss. Join us in-store to hear all about them! Picture Books to Inspire From activists to artists to brave children, these picture books tell the tales of…
It was a great pleasure to host a storytime and craft session with Kathleen Choi at Turtle Books in Brookline Village, Massachusetts. This is a new bookstore, dedicated solely to children’s books! Kathy read Giving Thanks with Halmoni: Celebrating Chuseok, the Korean Harvest Festival, illustrated by Sook Nyul Choi, with a beautiful craft creating a…
We had another great Red Comet Crawl with Alison Goldberg, Kathy Choi, Andrew Hackett, and me, this time in Boston. We visited Beacon Hill Books & Cafe, Trident Booksellers and Cafe in the Back Bay, and I Am Books in Boston’s North End. Lunch was a giant slice of pizza at Ernesto’s, followed by coffee…
Thank you to Shalin Hai-Jew at the International Examiner for reviewing Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World! “Food for the Future” highlights sustainable “boutique” farming practices worldwide There is a salt farm based on the evaporating of sea water. There is a honey farm. There is a mushroom farm. Under the ocean,…