In 1987, the United States Congress declared March as Women’s History Month. But women’s history—also known as just plain history—has been around as long as there have been women, even if it wasn’t always recorded, shared, or taught in schools. Here are some tips for weaving women’s history into conversations with kids every month of the year – see my full article at Familius.com.
One of my favorite book discovery sites, Shepherd.com, asked me and a bunch of others authors to pick our top three reads of 2023. It was hard – I read a lot of great books this year. And I can think of at least five more I would add in a heartbeat! But here are the three that were most on my heart and mind on the day they asked:
Read my full reviews and learn more about these titles at Shepherd.com.
What were your favorite reads of 2023? Let me know in the comments!
Thank you to the folks over at Pencil Tips Writing Workshop for hosting my recent guest post full of ideas for teacher on how to use my new book She Spoke: 14 Women Who Raised Their Voices and Changed the World in the classroom! If you aren’t familiar with Pencil Tips, you’ll definitely want to check it out – it’s a treasure trove of resources for teachers, featuring the work of authors Karen Leggett Abouraya, Laura Gehl, Laura Krauss Melmed, Mary Amato, Mary Quattlebaum, and many more!
The Sword and Verse release celebration blog tour starts today! Thank you to Rockstar Book Tours for hosting the tour and to all the bloggers who will be welcoming me over the next two weeks! Here’s the schedule:
Monday, January 11: Interview at Two Chicks on Books
Tuesday, January 12: Review at A Reader Under The Sea
Wednesday, January 13: Guest post at Tales of the Ravenous Reader
Thursday, January 14: Review at Nerdophiles
Friday, January 15: Interview at Dark Faerie Tales
Monday, January 18: Review at Fiktshun
Tuesday, January 19 (AKA RELEASE DAY!): Guest post at Once Upon a Twilight
Wednesday, January 20: Review at Please Feed the Bookworm
Thursday, January 21: Interview at The Eater of Books!
Friday. January 22: Review at Good Choice Reading
Today we’ll hear from author Celeste Lim, who shares her thoughts on diversity in children’s fiction as part of The Sweet Sixteens’ #SixteensBlogAbout May theme. Born in China and raised in Malaysia, Celeste holds an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School and an MA from Manhattanville College. She is represented by Rosemary Stimola of Stimola Literary Studio and her debut middle-grade novel, THE BRIDE FROM HUANAN, will be published by Scholastic Press in spring 2016.
About THE BRIDE FROM HUANAN: In Medieval China, a girl is sold by her family to become a nursemaid and wife to a toddler husband. With the help of sentient creatures called jing, she discovers internal strength, and a destiny that is foretold to intertwine with her spirit guardian – a great, golden fox spirit.
And now, Celeste:
I grew up jealous of white children.
Though hardly fluent in English herself, my mother had tried very hard to read me English fairy tales when I was young. As a child, I was familiar with Anderson, Grimm and many stories written by Enid Blyton. I remember thinking then, questions like: Where was my snow? Why aren’t there fairies living in our garden? What does a Christmas pie taste like? And especially hated it whenever my mother would say, “We don’t have any of those things here, my dear; they are all in English places overseas.”
Stories By Hand with Kathy MacMillan 