Many kidlit writers write some, mostly, or all nonfiction. Today’s world needs us now more than ever to use our talents and skills to help kids of all ages learn about our changing world, how it affects them, and what they can do to create change for the better in areas that are important to them, their friends and families, and their communities.
Read on for more in this issue of my author newsletter!
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This is a big and exciting month for me…my debut picture book releases on May 20th! Read on for how you can get a signed copy and enter to win a book bundle!
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No fooling, it’s hard to believe we’ve made it to April…read on for kidlit news and more!
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A change in seasons is a good time to change up your creative routine or discover new things. This month’s newsletter has some ideas for how I’m doing that, along with some of my favorite kidlit resources that have helped me in the past (and still do!) in my journey. Enjoy!
Tanya
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I’m happy to once again be a book reviewer on Multicultural Children’s Book Day! As part of this annual event, I was gifted a book to review, in order to provide my honest opinion. Read on to discover more. #ReadYourWorld
Food For The Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World
by Mia Wenjen
Illustrated by Robert Sae-Heng
Published by Barefoot Books
With an increasing interest in environmentally friendly methods of growing food for a swelling worldwide population, Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World offers inspiring insights into twelve approaches from around the globe. Using short, rhyming couplets (“Can we feed the world without pollution? Sustainable farms are one solution”), this picture book travels from salt and rooftop farms in the U.S. to vertical farms in Singapore, an oceanic biosphere farm in Italy, circular gardens in Senegal, and other new or time-tested, creative ways to grow food while caring for the earth it comes from, both today and tomorrow. Simple yet vibrantly-colorful digital and hand-drawn art complements each spread’s text, and inset boxes offer definitions of key concepts and terms. Extensive back matter for older readers offers additional information on sustainable farming and food justice, as well as a world map highlighting the featured countries and a deeper dive into each country’s methods.
This timely picture book written by the Pragmaticmom.com blogger Mia Wenjen and illustrated by U.K. artist Robert Sae-Heng will be a nice addition for teachers to lessons about the environment, sustainability, food justice, cultural studies, and food sources. In addition, young readers will find plenty to enjoy as they see how a diverse range of people around the world sustainably grow and harvest their food.
Read Your World is a non-profit whose mission is to raise awareness about children’s books that celebrate diversity and to get more of these books into the hands of readers, parents, and educators. With the alarming increase in children’s books being challenged and banned, it is more important than ever to give kids access to diverse stories.
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Tanya Konerman, Author 