MCCBD may officially be over until 2016, but the guest posts and author visits will continue! This week we are welcoming author Maritza Martinez Mejia to share her fun answers to our Q&A and some details about her work.
My favorite letter of the alphabet is “M” since my name contains three Ms
M3 = Maritza Martinez Mejia
Guest Post from D. G. Driver, Author of Cry of the Sea
I was driving to work, mulling about what to write for this guest blog post when an interview with the writing/illustrating team of the picture book The Last Stop on Market Place came on NPR. The author, Matt de la Peña began speaking about diversity: “This book is about diverse characters, but it isn’t about being diverse.” Then illustrator Christian Robinson added that when books focus explicitly on diversity, “there tends to be an element of heaviness — maybe because the history is heavy and serious.”1
In 2010, Francois left the corporate world in order to pursue his passion to be an author.
The result was the children’s book series “The Junglies” which comprises of 11 books telling stories of the adventures of five jungle animals. “The Junglies” was inspired by Francois’ eldest daughter.
Wisdom Tales Press and Multicultural Children’s Book Day will sharing a booth at Moms Rock Expo, May 2 &3 at the Minneapolis Convention Center!
Moms Rock! Expo, May 2nd & 3rd, is a weekend of FUN for Moms in the Minneapolis, Minnesota area. The event will include Celebrity Mom keynotes, cooking demos, fashion & beauty and SHOPPING! Moms Rock Expo has information on parenting, products, and lots more.
We are so thrilled to have Mitali Perkins today talking to us about her anthology Open Mic: Riffs on Life Between Cultures in Ten Voices.
Mitali Perkins was born in India, immigrated to the United States with her parents and two sisters when she was seven, and studied political science at Stanford University and Public Policy at U.C. Berkeley.
