Please welcome my guest author, Meg Eden Kyatt, with her list of 21 incredible novels in verse that deserve attention. Meg Eden Kuyatt is a neurodivergent author and college-level creative writing instructor. We are giving away a book bundle of Good Different ARC and related goodies. To enter, please fill out the Rafflecopter at the…
Please welcome my guest author/illustrator, Qing Zhuang. We are both in the Soaring 20s picture book group, and I remember meeting her in a workshop at Kweli years ago with Bryan Collier! It is a small world! She has a list today of 11 Children’s Books about an Asian Immigrant Family. We are giving away…
My kids studied Ghana in second grade and their teachers all wanted to find books that portrayed Ghana as a city because the kids all thought the Ghanaians lived in rural villages. This was more than 15 years ago, and I’m happy to see that there are few books depicting Accra, Ghana’s capital city. I’m…
I wanted to pull together all my resources on one page in honor of Women’s History Month. Resources to Celebrate #WomensHistoryMonth Here are my book lists Picture Books About Strong, Independent Female Artists African-American Female Musicians Picture Books 31+ STEM Books to Inspire Girls Visiting the Little Women Home of Louisa May Alcott…
My Book News! How To Coach Girls books are back in print! Teacher’s Guide for BARBED WIRE BETWEEN US BARBED WIRE BETWEEN US in Read Across America calendar The original song “Barbed Wire Between Us” by Daria Music won a Bronze Global Music Award in the category of Protest Music in July 2026: …
There are many practical life skills that children don’t seem to be taught anymore, at least not how they were when we were growing up. You’ve skimped, saved, and gotten together the money needed for your teen to head off to college, but now you’re worried that the child just isn’t ready. On the academic…
Please welcome my guest author Alice Rothchild with her book list about Challenging Erasure: 15 books for kids that talk about Palestine and the lived experience of Palestinians. Her newest book is Finding Melody Sullivan. Finding Melody Sullivan by Alice Rothchild Finding Melody Sullivan is my contemporary young adult novel about trauma, (from the personal…