I met Darshana Khiani years ago as a fellow children’s book blogger. Her blog, Flowering Minds, has wonderful author interviews and children’s book reviews, but it is my go-to for South Asian KidLit books. Darshana might have been the first KidLit blogger who decided to venture into writing children’s books and personally inspired me to…
I’m kicking off a series that I call “What They Don’t Teach in History Books.” These are topics that are generally erased from history. I don’t remember ever learning about them at school. I will center each topic using children’s books. I plan to add videos and other links to make each topic a more…
I received Wishes by Muon Thi Van and searched my blog to add it to my Vietnamese American book list only to find … that I don’t have one! I’m not sure why I never made one. Perhaps there weren’t enough books to make a list? Or, more likely, I just forgot. That was remiss…
I’m personally a foraging enthusiast but it’s not a passion that members of my family share. Still, I haven’t given up. I have taken them on a foraging field trip with a local expert. I make a point of showing them edible plants in our neighborhood. I have shared videos on foraging that my husband…
I was thrilled to be invited to join Nancy Tupper Ling‘s #AuthorAcrostic series. You may know Nancy from her children’s books. I have to be honest. I did not know exactly what an acrostic poem was when she asked me. I looked it up. It does not have to be rhyming but I found the…
Thank you so much to Coach Carl Tarabelli who reviewed The Elusive Full Ride Scholarship. Carl Tarabelli Needham High School Varsity Girls Soccer Coach – 2015 D1 State Champion Former NEFC Sr Staff Coach – 2016 U16 NPL National Champions Parent of 3 youth athletes, 2 of whom went on to play in college …
Juneteenth gets its name from the combination of June and Nineteenth and is celebrated annually on June 19. It’s also called Emancipation Day and Freedom Day. Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863, announcing enslaved people “shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free,” but the proclamation didn’t immediately apply in certain areas, including secessionist…