Books for Hope Auction

I donated a picture book critique to the Books for Hope: Help India Fight Covid Auction. Bid on my item and so many more from May 8 through May 9 at booksforhope.org. All proceeds go directly to the UNICEF India Covid Relief Effort.

My book has a cover!

If you're on social media, you've seen that the cover for my upcoming picture book Usha and the Big Digger was shared on the We Need Diverse Books blog last Friday. If not, well, now you know.

Thank you to illustrator Sandhya Prabhat and the design team at Charlesbridge Publishing for creating this absolutely astounding cover!

The concept behind the Storytelling Math series

My upcoming picture book, Usha and the Big Digger is just one of many wonderful books coming out as part of Charlesbridge's Storytelling Math series. Read more about the concept behind this groundbreaking series from Marlene Kliman, the researcher with TERC who helped create these books:

If you’re like most adults, you think of books about counting or shapes. The books that come to mind are likely to feature animals or white main characters, rather than reflecting current U.S. demographics, in which young children of color predominate. These books may be better-suited to a math lesson than to a favorite bedtime read aloud, and chances are, they were written by white authors. Why don’t we tend to think of books that offer a wider range of math topics, feature main characters of color, appeal to a broad audience, and are written by authors of color? Because few such math picture books exist.

Read the rest here.

The Storytelling Math series