If you’re teaching students about issues around immigration or you are writing about immigrants, here’s a site that could support you from the American Immigration Council. It’s Teach Immigration’s Share My Lesson. Lessons offered range from ones for preschoolers to high school students. Themes range from “Build an Inclusive Community” to novel studies. I…
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“Chnam Oun 16” and Either the Beginning or the End
When I heard the song “I am 16” – “Chnam Oun 16” – by Bochan, I thought she must speak for so many Cambodian daughters, mothers, and grandmothers with her gripping lyrics of survival. And Bochan has just said, Yes, we can use her song as the audio for a book trailer for Either the…
REFORMA: “A book is a companion that will bring you light and comfort.”
My article was first opublished by The Pirate Tree: Social Justice and Children’s Literature The group Reforma, an American Library Association affiliate, and IBBY, the International Board of Books for Young People, have, at their core, the driving belief that every child has the right to read.
May You See the Rabbit in the Moon and know it’s the Beginning of the World
This photo captures an event that happened on a fall night in Kittery, Maine. It has already become one of my all-time favorite events. The people gathered with me are my neighbors who came to hear me read from Either the Beginning or the End of the World at the Rice Library. I met a…
A Poem from Juan Felipe Herrera “I went to the marketplace & I bought beautifuls/”
New U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, son of migrant workers, writes often about his child self and writes poems for children and teens. In his preface to Laughing Out Loud, I Fly, he writes that when he was seventeen years old he discovered Picasso’s book of poems, Hunk of Skin and says he was…