Know Your Value: She Spoke and more!

Reviews, She Spoke

So honored to have She Spoke: 14 Women Who Raised Their Voices and Changed the World included in this terrific roundup of “books to inspire young girls to know their value” over at nbcnews.com! List curator Ciarra Chavarria of @girlsreadtheworld says: “Having access to these women’s voices, to literally hear them saying their iconic and critical words creates a magical connection between readers and these women, and I’ve never seen (well, heard) anything else like it.”

Check out the complete list here!

 

Speak Up! Listen Up!: Strategies for Using SHE SPOKE in the Classroom

Guest Posts, Resources for Teachers and Librarians, She Spoke

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!

 

SHE SPOKE is the Chloe’s Book Club May pick at Girls’ Life!

Contests and Giveaways, She Spoke

So honored and thrilled that She Spoke: 14 Women Who Raised Their Voices and Changed the World is the May pick for Chloe’s Book Club with Chloe Lukasiak over at Girls’ Life! Chloe is joined by her mom Christi and her younger sister Clara for a discussion of the outspoken women who inspire them! Read Chloe, Clara and Christi’s Commentary, check out Chloe’s Playlist and Discussion Questions, and enter an awesome Giveaway featuring a She Spoke prize pack, which includes a $50 gift card from the ethical, female-led clothing and accessories company Dazey LA, a $50 gift card from Barnes & Noble and a copy of the book itself. Check it out!

 

Writing for All Ages

Authors You Should Know, Interviews, On Publishing, On Writing

I was honored to take part recently in a group interview of authors who publish books for multiple age groups, along with authors: Hena Khan, Nora Shalaway Carpenter, Leah Henderson, and Casey Lyall. Robin Galbraith conducted the interview for Cynsations, the excellent writing resource blog run by New York Times bestselling, award-winning children’s-YA author and all-around lifter-up-of-other-creators, by Cynthia Leitich Smith. Click here to read “Writing & Marketing for Multiple Age-Levels” at Cynsations.

(And shout-out to Casey Lyall, who provided my new favorite phrase in listing her picture books as being geared to “ages 0 to Immortal Being”. )

NITA’S FIRST SIGNS Named 2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist

American Sign Language, Awards, board books, Little Hands Signing series, Nita's First Signs

Nita's First Signs final coverNita’s First Signs has been recognized as a finalist in the 21st annual Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards, in the Picture Book, Early Reader category!

As part of its mission to discover, review, and share the best books from university and independent publishers, Foreword Magazine, Inc. hosts an annual awards program each year. Finalists represent the best books published in 2018. After more than 2,000 individual titles spread across 56 genres were submitted for consideration, the list of finalists was determined by Foreword’s editorial team. Winners will be decided by an expert team of booksellers and librarians—representing Foreword’s readership—from across the country.

The complete list of finalists can be found at: https://www.forewordreviews.com/awards/finalists/2018/

Winners in each genre—along with Editor’s Choice Prize winners and Foreword’s INDIE Publisher of the Year—will be announced June 14, 2019.

Founded in 1998, Foreword Magazine, Inc. is the only media company completely devoted to independent publishing. Publishers of a Folio: award-winning bimonthly print review journal, special interest products, and daily online content feeds, Foreword exclusively covers university and independent (non “Big 5”) publishers, the books they publish, and their authors. Foreword is based in Traverse City, Michigan, with staff based worldwide.