Poem in Your Pocket Day is April 29 and is part of National Poetry Month. Here are 9 Poetry Picture Books for POEM IN MY POCKET. Here’s how to participate: It’s easy to participate in Poem in Your Pocket Day from a safe distance. Here are some ideas of how you might get involved: Select a poem…
Those with sharp eyes might have noticed the small gold sticker on the upper right-hand cover of Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World. It’s from Junior Library Guild. For those who are not familiar with Junior Library Guild, they are a curating subscription service for libraries. Their team of expert librarians reads…
I wanted to thank everyone again for their support of my book passion project, a response to my middle daughter’s comment in high school that there weren’t any Asian female athletes. After the Kickstarter campaign ended and I was able to fund my book, I assumed that I would sell books on Amazon by running…
It’s been on my bucket list for YEARS to visit Louisa May Alcott’s home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts (just twenty minutes from where I live). And yes, there is an apple orchard there. Once, it was quite extensive, but now it’s a small grove of (newish) apple trees. In front of the entrance was…
Modern Singapore was founded in the 19th century, thanks to politics, trade and a man known as Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles. Singapore’s prosperity suffered a major blow during World War II, when it was attacked by the Japanese on 8 December 1941. The invaders arrived from the north, confounding the British military commanders who had expected…
I didn’t know very much about Tibet so I decided to learn more. Tibet has a tricky situation in terms of governance. China considers Tibet an autonomous region or a Chinese province, but there is also a government in exile headed by the Dalai Lama. Tibet’s geography is a big part of this governance dispute….
I am presenting for the American Association of School Librarians Chapter Assembly because while I do have resources, they are all over the map. So, to prepare for my presentation and to make the resources easy to find, I am putting them all in one place, right here in this post! Morning! I am the…