The first children’s book that I’ve translated from Portuguese into English, The World in a Second, is coming out next month, and I’m currently looking for other books to translate. I’d like to translate young adult novels, to do my…
Category: Economic Justice/Poverty/Immigration
An interview with Rad American Women A-Z’s Kate Schatz
Kate Schatz’s recent release, Rad American Women A-Z, is an artistic-historic compilation of leftist women whose accomplishments have sometimes been forgotten but who paved the way for women of all kinds to have the rights we have today. What rad…
Blessing, Hope, and Joy: 3 Kenyan Picture Books
Today I wanted to let you know about three titles by Canadian writer Eric Walters (published by Canada’s Tundra Press). The three books are all set at Rolling Hills Residence, an orphanage in rural Kenya. Each book is a fictionalized…
Author Miranda Paul talks about how the environment and poetry merge for create picture books to enlighten
Recently blogger Peter Marino reviewed Miranda Paul’s One Plastic Bag, a picture book story of one woman’s creative efforts to clean up her environment while also creating a livelihood for women in her village. Miranda’s interest in the environment…
Morris Award Finalist Blog Tour: The Carnival at Bray
Welcome back to the Morris Award Finalist Blog Tour, where I am posting at the last minute due to shoveling more than a foot of snow from my driveway, sidewalk, and roof and then being too tired to do anything…
The Morris Finalist Blog Tour: An Interview with Isabel Quintero
Welcome to the Morris Finalist Blog Tour, featuring the outstanding 2015 debut authors and their books! In December, YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association, of the American Library Association) announces the list of finalists, and we learn of the winner…
Ellis Island by Molly Aloian
My grandparents were not quite of the humble origins they claimed to have been, something I found out years after they were gone. I’d assumed, based on their complaints about of the rough crossing of the seas from Sicily to…
On Buy Nothing Day, a Review of Blue Gold
The Friday after Thanksgiving in the United States is traditionally known as Black Friday because of shoppers taking advantage of the long weekend to get a start on their holiday purchases. In recent years, it is also Buy Nothing Day.…
Review: How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon
How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon (Henry Holt, 2014) begins with words similar to too many recent news stories – an African American teenager has been shot by a white man. The police arrest, and then quickly release, the…
A Cat’s View of Palestine: Deborah Ellis does it again
You know, if somebody just told me the premise of this book (“American girl dies suddenly and finds herself reincarnated, with all her memories intact, as a cat living in Palestine”) I would have thought, That is too cheesy for…