My daughter is going to art school and so today I dedicate this post to her and her future classmates celebrating strong, independent female artists! p.s. She won The Newton Art Association Scholarship and didn’t tell us she entered. Picture Books About Strong, Independent Female Artists Maya Lin: Artist-Architect of Light and Lines by Jeanne Walker…
I wanted to share a robust conversation that I had with two middle grade authors recently after posting this video that compared their two characters — both half-Filipino. One author is #OwnVoices and one is not. I have been tracking Filipino-American children’s books because I’m shocked and dismayed by how few there are. This is…
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My 13 year old son loves STEM and finds videos on YouTube to watch. Sometimes he asks to do the experiments and I’ve learned to jump on it. This can be tricky, though, if the experiment requires materials that we don’t have on hand or a complicated set up. I’m starting to stockpile videos of…
To celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, I am creating. a huge list of Asian-Pacific American children’s books. I am going to give a shout-out to all the AAPI children’s book authors and illustrators that I can think of with a book published in the last 18 months. I will be listing them…
Read these wonderful children’s books about Thailand and learn about the country’s beautiful culture! These stories are sure to delight your young reader. A teacher mentioned that she was grateful for my lists of Laos and Hmong children’s books but she was looking for books covering Thailand and Myanmar/Burma for students in her classroom who…
Please welcome my guest author, Jackie Azúa Kramer, today with her newest picture book, If You Want to Fall Asleep. You might remember her earlier from her post on picture books that celebrate imagination and friendship, and her book The Green Umbrella. We are giving away a signed copy of If You Want to Fall Asleep….