2024-04-15 09:55
I wanted to put all the featured Asian Pacific American Heroes from my book on one page. For those who want to learn more about each hero, I have added videos to each person.
Meet Asian Pac… Read More
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2024-04-14 08:58
Our Read Your World Auction ends tomorrow! Check it out here.
Thanks so much for helping us change the world one book at a time!
To examine any book more closely at Amazon, please click o… Read More
2024-04-12 09:00
My daughter and her friends have been working on this documentary/mockumentary for more than three years. The Nads are RISD’s ice hockey team. Her roommate, Caleb, is a member. Also, h… Read More
2024-04-10 09:54
Please welcome authors Victoria J. Coe and Cheryl Lawton Malone with their Top 5 Books to Begin or Level Up Your Writing for Kids or Young Adults. As accomplished children’s book autho… Read More
2024-04-08 09:06
Please welcome author Michelle Staub with her list of books about water, rivers, and conservation.
We are giving away a signed copy of A Place for Rain (along with bookmarks and sticke… Read More
2024-04-05 09:49
I am thrilled to announce a new picture book, Fortune Cookies for Everyone, illustrated by Collen Kong-Savage and published by Red Comet Press! It comes out Fall of 2025!!
Angus Yuen-Killic… Read More
2024-04-03 09:49
Meet Kai Gietzen, the illustrator for my newest picture book Boxer Baby Battles Bedtime!
It comes out on May 26, 2024. Pre-order here.
Boxer Baby Battles Bedtime! by Mia Wenjen, illustrat… Read More
2024-04-02 18:44
Thank you to Charles River Creative Arts Program for sponsoring this post.
I am offering a special 15% discount for any Charles River Creative Arts Summer program including CIT.
See below fo… Read More
2024-03-29 09:25
I will be presenting my “story behind the story” of Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World to the Massachusetts Association for the Education of Young Children (… Read More
2024-03-27 09:54
I’m so thrilled to announce that Food for the Future is a finalist for the 2023 INDIES Book of the Year Awards!
The award is organized by Foreword Reviews, a trade magazine dedicated… Read More
2024-03-25 09:29
Here are my resources for April’s Earth Day and Autism Acceptance.
Earth Day Book Lists and Resources
17 Picture Books for Earth Day
12 KidLit Books for Earth Day
Top 10 Earth Day Pic… Read More
2024-03-22 09:08
The Boston Authors Club is excited to host its spring “Authors After Hours” event on Thursday, March 28th, at Whitelam Books in Reading, MA, from 7-9 PM.
Anyone wishing to learn… Read More
2024-03-20 08:33
I am thrilled that Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World has made the Green Earth Book Award long list. Check out this amazing list perfect for Earth Day coming up on April… Read More
2024-03-18 09:22
Please welcome author and illustrator Abi Cushman! Her newest picture book with Charlotte Offsay is called THE QUIET FOREST. It comes out in March, and it’s about a mischievous mo… Read More
2024-03-15 09:24
My dear friend Jenny Brown is teaching another art collage class at Maud Morgan Arts Center in Cambridge, MA, and it’s not too late to sign up!
I took her class last fall and it’… Read More
2024-03-11 09:15
The Stone Age was a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to make stone tools with an edge, a point, or a percussion surface. The period lasted for roughly 3.4 million… Read More
2024-03-08 10:27
I am so excited to reveal the cover for my first picture book with Red Comet Press, We Sing From the Heart: How The Slants® Took Their Fight for Free Speech to the Supreme Court!
Illustr… Read More
2024-03-08 09:17
If you are looking for a book for Women’s History Month AND Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, my book works perfectly for that.
It also fits for National Women and Girls in Sport… Read More
2024-03-06 10:20
TheFire.org’s recent article by Ronald K. L. Collins featuring my upcoming picture book, We Sing from the Heart: How the Slants® Took Their Fight for Free Speech to the Supre… Read More
2024-03-04 10:40
Please welcome my guest author, Ronni Diamondstein. I met her at the Chappaqua Book Festival this past year through my agent. We have the same agent!
Jackie and the Books She Loved by R… Read More
2024-03-03 15:17
As parents, we’re always on the lookout for things that can make our lives simpler and keep our kids happy. The baby bouncer is one of many options, but it’s helpful because it c… Read More
2024-03-01 10:20
Please join Andrew Hacket and Me
Newtonville Books
10 Langley Rd
Newton, MA 02459
Storytime Book Launch
Sunday, May 19th
11:00 am
Save the Date!
Here’s an interesting twist! Newto… Read More
2024-02-29 17:21
As a wise saying says, you should not be afraid of the person who practices hundreds of kicks, but a person who practices one kick a hundred times. This saying fits the Dissertation Team web… Read More
2024-02-28 10:17
Please welcome my guest author, Barbara Dee. She may have never experienced serious writer’s block as this is her fourteenth middle grade novel! Her newest book is about writer’s… Read More
2024-02-26 10:06
Thank you to Cindy and Beth for reviewing Boxer Baby Battles Bedtime! Here are their reviews on Twitter/X:
Cindy G. | she/her @cindygreene314
@pragmaticm… Read More
2024-02-23 10:40
The United States was founded on principles of equality, justice, and the pursuit of happiness, but not everyone was allowed to vote when the country was founded. In fact, it would be centur… Read More
2024-02-23 10:18
Our 2nd Annual Auction is fast approaching, and we’re seeking your support to raise funds to continue the work we do including:
Themed Classroom Kits such as our Climate Chan… Read More
2024-02-23 00:29
Choosing a hospice provider for yourself or a loved one can be a delicate issue. Allowing a stranger to care for you in your most vulnerable state requires a great deal of trust. We were for… Read More
2024-02-21 09:37
I always enjoy going to Lisa Rogers’ book events. I didn’t realize that I was slightly familiar with John Cage, the subject of her most recent picture book, Beautiful Noise: The… Read More
2024-02-19 09:23
Please welcome my guest author, Erin Dealey! Her list includes diverse picture books about gardens, community, and kindness, all wonderful things to consider this winter. Her newest book is… Read More
2024-02-16 10:23
I have a mushroom farm set in Mexico in my picture book, Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World. The location was deliberate. The illustrator, Robert Sae-Heng grew up in Mex… Read More
2024-02-08 11:15
I’m excited to be judging first-round Cybils this year in the categories of Easy Readers and Early Chapter Books. There were over 50 entrants for Early Chapter Books this year and we j… Read More
2024-02-07 10:09
I made a video of my watercolor paintings for my company’s virtual show. This is the long version. I submitted a shorter version that is half the length.
I started watercolor painting… Read More
2024-02-06 11:32
Graphic novels are my secret weapon to get any kid reading. My recent discovery is that there are also multicultural, diverse, and inclusive graphic novels that bring kids into different per… Read More
2024-02-05 10:50
Congratulations to Elissa Brent Weissman and Omer Hoffmann, the author and illustrator of Hanukkah Upside Down, for being a Sidney Taylor Book Award Honoree in the picture book category!
L… Read More
2024-02-02 10:17
I used to take my mom to afternoon tea all over Southern California as a way of spending quality time with her. When my kids were very little, I brought them along as well and they were surp… Read More
2024-02-01 18:04
The topic of online learning may have been an unfamiliar one a few short years ago. However, the closure of schools across the country due to the COVID-19 pandemic, meant that the nation&rsq&hell…Read More
2024-01-31 10:08
I took a foraging class with David Craft. He’s a cancer researcher in Cambridge, MA in his free time when he’s not foraging. He also wrote the book Urban Foraging: Finding and ea… Read More
2024-01-29 10:30
My second reader review from Boxer Baby Battles Bedtime! has come in!
Dr. Cara Byrne @cararosebyrne
Z loved reading @pragmaticmom’s silly and fun Boxer Baby Battles Bedtime, which we… Read More
2024-01-29 09:41
I don’t know a lot about South Asian American children’s literature so this was a fun list to research and it was fun to hunt down books I had heard about but haven’t read… Read More
2024-01-28 11:19
Space… the final frontier. I’ll admit that Star Trek got me really into space travel and thinking about what lies beyond our own solar system. These days when we think of earlie… Read More
2024-01-28 11:14
Thank you to Heidi Rabinowitz of The Book of Life Podcast for creating this book list for me to cover. She noticed that my Best #OwnVoices Children’s Books had Jewish books about… Read More
2024-01-28 10:58
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. My mother is a breast cancer survivor so this is a topic dear to my heart. I’ve gathered up books for kids and teens about cancer.
What am I m… Read More
2024-01-27 11:36
You might recognize Furqan from our Multicultural Children’s Book Day poster! Robert Liu-Trujillo created the artwork for our event. When Rob gave us sketches for the poster, we didn&r&hell…Read More
2024-01-27 09:37
My son went through a serious dinosaur phase that lasted almost a year when he was 4-years-old. Now he’s into Pokemon….sigh! I prefer reading about dinosaurs! But if you can&rsq&hell…Read More
2024-01-25 05:01
Today is Read Your World Day 2024. We are so thrilled to celebrate with everyone! Here are three ways to celebrate: 1) Join us for our Virtual Party tonight, 2) Link up your diverse book rev… Read More
2024-01-24 10:38
My first reader review for Boxer Baby Battles Bedtime!, illustrated by Kai Gietzen. Published by Eifrig Press has come in! I sent out ARCs (Advanced Released Copies) and am thrilled to… Read More
2024-01-22 05:01
Read Your World 2024 is tomorrow and I’m excited to share my book reviews.
Please add your diverse children’s and YA book reviews on the Big Giant Linky on my blog and the Read… Read More
2024-01-19 10:19
My husband booked us at the Jen Hotel in Singapore when I helped my daughter move into her dorm room at National University of Singapore (NUS). It’s part of the Shangri La hotel compan… Read More
2024-01-17 10:02
Join us on January 25th,
Read Your World Day 2024
Virtual Party
9 pm EST
We will be giving away book bundles every ten minutes.
Sign up here.
Join us by registering for our Virt… Read More
2024-01-15 10:45
My round-up of resources for Black History Month includes:
African American children’s book lists
Multicultural Children’s Book Club videos
Read Your World Ig Live interviews wit… Read More
2024-01-12 10:45
Vanessa from Families Embracing Diversity hosted a conference, and she sent out a newsletter about my session:
Today I want to share the recording/transcripts of one of the interviews from t… Read More
2024-01-11 11:01
Today, I wanted to look at the Civil Rights Movement told through art and children’s books. Both are powerful communication tools both to educate and as a means to connect emotionally… Read More
2024-01-10 10:38
A sacred site, carrying the powerful mana of 23 interred Aliʻi chiefs, the Puʻuhonua and Royal Grounds were used by the Hawaiians for centuries.
My oldest daughter had visited Puuh… Read More
2024-01-08 10:01
Black Joy is not … dismissing or creating an ‘alternate’ black narrative that ignores the realities of our collective pain; rather, it is about holding the pain and injust… Read More
2024-01-05 10:47
My oldest was a sophomore at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) when the Covid-19 lockdown hit. Her school shut down right before spring break and she decided to take the second semester o… Read More
2024-01-03 10:38
My trip to NYC for USBBY was held at the Scholastic headquarters where the Scholastic Art Awards were on display. My son entered a piece for this prestigious competition but, alas, I didn&rs&hell…Read More
2024-01-01 10:41
Read Your World Celebrates Multicultural Children’s Book Day is thrilled to be introducing our #ReadYourWorld Book Jam 2024 in conjunction with the Children’s Book Council.
This… Read More
2023-12-22 10:04
I’m so thrilled that Food for the Future made Imagination Soup‘s list of 35 Best Nonfiction Books of 2023 for Kids.
You can see the entire list here.
p.s. Related posts:
Food… Read More
2023-12-20 10:13
I have a new Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World Discussion and Activity Guide!
It’s perfect for educators and parents who want gardening extension activities that… Read More
2023-12-18 10:59
Please welcome my guest author today, Maria Gianferrari, with her holiday list of favorite dog and therapy dog picture books! She has a list of 10 picture books about dogs who help us throug… Read More
2023-12-15 10:16
Included in our Singapore Food Tour was a cultural and history lesson so we were quite excited to go inside the massive Buddhist temple in Chinatown, The Buddha Tooth Relic Temple, which has… Read More
2023-12-13 10:20
Beth Bacon and I are both children’s book writers from the 1987 class at Harvard. There is actually a Facebook group for the class of ’87 who are all authors of various genres an… Read More
2023-12-11 09:05
Please welcome my guest author today, Margaret Chiu Greanias, with a sequel to her list of picture books about Taiwanese characters or by Taiwanese American authors and author-illustrators w… Read More
2023-12-08 10:27
Senior citizens boxing at Nonantum Boxing Club? You better believe it, and they are in amazing shape! Some of these boxers featured have started boxing after retirement. Others have boxed fo… Read More
2023-12-06 10:15
The Supertree Grove is featured in my picture book, Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World, illustrated by Robert Sae-Heng, and published by Barefoot Books.
It was a thrill… Read More
2023-12-04 10:07
Please welcome my guest author today, Margaret Chiu Greanias, with her list of picture books for introverts.
What is an introvert? It’s a concept created by the father of psychology Ca… Read More
2023-12-02 10:38
The tradition of giving wedding anniversary gifts by year is a sentimental and meaningful way for couples to celebrate their enduring love and commitment…but do you know which year co… Read More
2023-12-01 10:53
I consider it money well spent to take a Singapore Hawker food tour with Secret Food Tour to see the secret streets and treats. My daughter and I were eager to eat at the famous Hawker stall… Read More
2023-11-29 10:36
I’m thrilled to announce that Food for the Future is included in Chicago Public Library’s Best of the Best lists! This is a staff-created list.
Food for the Future is on their B… Read More
2023-11-27 10:00
My mother always talked about her father who died when she was young about how he built his own plane and flew it. He immigrated with my grandmother from Hiroshima and never learned English… Read More
2023-11-24 10:25
It’s been a longstanding tradition to take Afternoon Tea as a special family bonding time, sans men. I used to do this with my mother, both before I had children, and afterwards with t… Read More
2023-11-22 10:24
With our youngest now moved into Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, my husband and I are official empty nesters, and yes, it is sad and hard for me. Luckily, our son is not too far away… Read More
2023-11-21 14:01
Our Read Your World Celebrates Multicultural Children’s Book Day fundraiser has just begun.
Help us fight against banned and challenged books by giving teachers a Classroom Kit of dive… Read More
2023-11-20 10:23
Please join us for our Multicultural Children’s Book Club. We host a FREE multicultural children’s picture book virtual book club on the first Thursday of every month from 7 pm t… Read More
2023-11-17 10:06
My son graduated from Newton North High School and it was a very different graduation from his middle sister’s in 2020, the year of the pandemic lockdown! We got him dressed up for thi… Read More
2023-11-15 10:11
I am thrilled to be part of The Writers Loft Annual Literary Extravaganza! We are hosting a book sale and signing, including the release of the latest poetry anthology, Gnomes and Ungnomes:… Read More
2023-11-13 10:29
I was thinking about the banners, Hata-jirushi (旗印), that my ancestors used on the battlefield during medieval Japan. It would have our clan name via the kamon, or logo if… Read More
2023-11-10 10:31
My kids grew up eating Filipino food but just a few basics that we know how to prepare ourselves such as “Sour Soup” or Sinigang, and pork Adobo. I searched for Filipino restaura… Read More
2023-11-08 10:11
My husband and I had to scramble to make the Hokusai exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. When it first came out, I earmarked it and felt like I had all the time in the world to see… Read More
2023-11-06 11:26
Please welcome my guest author today, Vicky Fang! I know her from the Soaring 20s picture book group that we are both in.
We are giving away a SIGNED copy of her newest book, Best Buddies… Read More
2023-11-03 09:06
It was an unusually hot day which made taking prom pictures that much harder, especially for anyone wearing a suit and tie! Luckily, the evening cooled down a bit. The seniors took a bus fro… Read More
2023-11-01 09:02
Mitali Perkins returns to Newtonville Books, her previous home, with her book launch for her lauded middle-grade book, Hope in the Valley.
Here, she’s in conversation with Editor Emeri… Read More
2023-10-30 09:53
Please welcome my guest authors, Sabrina and Eunice, sisters, and co-founders of Hello!Lucky, a design studio, and creators of Get Outer My Space: The Cosmic Adventures of Astrid and Stella… Read More
2023-10-29 18:32
I have had several relatives who suffered from both a mental disorder coupled with drug misuse. It can be very challenging for their loved ones to know what to do and how to best respond. He… Read More
2023-10-27 09:23
Barefoot Books has partnered to create edible for KIDS, a four-page insert that is in EdibleBoston and other cities that are part of the Edible Community magazine series.
Here’s a vid… Read More
2023-10-25 09:08
Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) Dorms in midtown Manhattan have great security! I was impressed by how meticulous the front desk and security guards are with letting in visitors!
The r… Read More
2023-10-23 09:13
Please welcome my guest author, Joan Schoettler, with her children’s book list on Celebrating Armenia and the Armenian Culture through Picture Books and Middle Grade Novels. Octo… Read More
2023-10-20 09:35
My son’s 12 grade art exhibit included a case of his work for being an Art Major for four years. His self-portrait was also on display in his art classroom. This was his first attempt… Read More
2023-10-20 09:27
Please welcome my friend and guest author today, Nancy Tupper Ling, with her list of Tiny But Mighty: Picture Books with a Big Heart and perhaps a Wee Message, Too! I’ve known and love… Read More
2023-10-18 09:22
Please join us for our Multicultural Children’s Book Club. We host a FREE multicultural children’s picture book virtual book club on the first Thursday of every month from 7 pm t… Read More
2023-10-17 09:29
Have you ever thought about how even a crayon doodle can open up a world of imagination for kids? Nudging the little ones into the world of art, can make everyone an artist.
Children&rsquo&hell…Read More
2023-10-16 09:51
Please welcome my friend and fellow author, Lisa Rogers, with her Books About Listening to the World Around Us picture book list! Her newest picture book celebrates musician John Cage.
We a… Read More
2023-10-13 09:48
Musician Annie Lynn of AnnieBird Music created the Multicultural Children’s Book Day song for us. Her son Alex, a film major, created the videos. The most recent one below has received… Read More
2023-10-11 09:29
I’m thrilled to be presenting on a panel at the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). Josh Funk put our panel together. It’s called, “Food: The Universal Language… Read More
2023-10-09 09:42
Please welcome my guest author today, Maria Gianferrari with her book on mushrooms: When It Rains It Spores — Fun Fungi Books! She has had a busy year with six new picture books… Read More
2023-10-07 09:14
Read Your World Celebrates Multicultural Children’s Book Day is excited to present a free virtual event to celebrate The Bilingual Child!
Celebrating The Bilingual Child Month Together… Read More
2023-10-06 09:31
What a lucky day at Chappaqua Children’s Book Festival to catch Nancy Castaldo just as she was headed out. I was able to invite her to join us for our farm book event, and … the… Read More
2023-10-04 09:01
My friend Tim told me that I was included in the photo gallery for the ALA 23 in Chicago in Publisher’s Weekly. I was thrilled to see this photo!
From Left to Right: Barefoot CEO… Read More
2023-10-02 09:24
Please welcome my guest author, Vicky Fang, with her picture book list just in time for Halloween.
Here is a spread from the book!
We are giving away a signed copy of her newest book, The… Read More
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