Welcome to Our Neighborhood!
It was a pleasure to present at the WPA SCBWI 2019 conference in Pittsburgh: Welcome to Our Neighborhood. I am passionate about the topic. Creating together with respect honesty and trust is a unique and fulfilling experience. A few things to think about: •Multi-perspective adds richness to a story •Why me? Am I qualified to tell this story/If I don’t who will?/Can? •Am I helping to tell the story in the best way possible for me? My coauthor/ readers and my characters? •As always respect your reader. I never set out to write [...]
Look what just came out in Chinese!
This little books has travelled all around the world. Look where else it has been: Four Feet, Two Sandals (Eerdmans, 2007) by Karen Lynn Williams and Khadra Mohammed; Illustrated by Doug Chayka ***The cities of Bologna and Itabashi have a sister city relationship and are culturally twinned in the promotion of children's books. Each year a translation contest is held in Itabashi, Tokyo in which participants buy selected English or Italian children's books and prepare a translation, which they submit to the competition. This is the 15th year that the Itabashi Translation Contest [...]
USBBY 2019 in Austin Texas! Whose Story Is it?
Whose Story is it? How do We Tell It? Collaboration. Here I am with the panel : Traci Sorell, JL Powers, Padma Venkatraman, Brittany J. Thurman, Nancy Bo Flood IBBY Mission: to promote international understanding through children's books to give children everywhere the opportunity to have access to books with high literary and artistic standards to encourage the publication and distribution of quality children's books, especially in developing countries to provide support and training for those involved with children and children's literature to stimulate research and scholarly works in the field of children's [...]
Sharing and Caring: Lovely to hear from fans around the world
See what is happening in England! And these kind words from CA: Amazing Teachers do Amazing things I am a 2nd grade teacher working at a school in Anaheim, California. This is my 20th year at the same school and mostly in 2nd grade. Our school is a title 1 and the majority of our students come from low income families. My school is located in the inner city of Anaheim. Through the years, my students have encountered many things that are too painful to discuss. However, through it all, they still come to school with [...]
Help Make Reading a Priority!
Honored to be part of this Program in Pittsburgh, PA. Sponsored by this amazing organization Learn More here: https://www.readingreadypittsburgh.org/about_us Donate here:https://www.readingreadypittsburgh.org/donate At this very special Library In Homestead, PA Find a dragon, build a Galimoto READ!! Help Make Reading a Priority all children!
Lucky in Pittsburgh: City of Asylum: Jasmine Warga
In Pittsburgh we are so lucky to have The City of Asylum Bookstore@ABC City. The bookstore offers many frequent free events with opportunities to meet and hear authors, poets, musicians and artists encouraging cross-cultural exchange. Not to mention the broad and unique selection of cross-cultural (and more) books for children, young people and adults. That's where I met Jasmine Warga! See more about Jasmine and her books here: http://jasminewarga.com/about See what this unique bookstore is here: About Us City of Asylum creates a thriving community for writers, readers, and neighbors. We provide [...]