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…
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…
Please welcome my guest author, Lydia Lukidis, with her list of 10 great Early Reader Graphic Novels. That’s right! Graphic novels for ages 3 and up, but with the sweet spot at ages 6 and up. We are giving away the second book in her Groucho series, Groucho the Grouchy Groundhog. To enter, please leave…
Primary Sources is a two-person exhibition featuring artists Alex Jackson and Jordan Seaberry at the Steven Zevitas Gallery in Boston. It runs from September 4 – October 17, 2026. Jordan Seaberry is a professor at the Rhode Island School of Design, where he teaches drawing. I met him at the Eating the Whole Fish…