ruminations on life and stories between cultures by author mitali perkins.
Somehow I scored an invite to a lunch celebration at the Boston Public Library for THE DAY OF THE PELICAN, Katherine Paterson’s new novel from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt about a Muslim Albanian family…
I remember loving A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN partly because times were tight in my own immigrant family. I also might have connected our loss of property and wealth in Bengal with the Alcotts’…
We schmoozed. We ate pie. We lifted our forks in the direction of the NY Kid Lit Drinks Night, where a Boston Cream Pie was being consumed in our honor. But best of all, we talked and celebrated…
Today I’m honored to host Paula Chase Hyman, author of the Del Rio Bay series of books and co-founder of The Brown Bookshelf, a site “designed to push awareness of the myriad of…
Managing Your Online Presence:
Websites, Blogs, Twitter, Facebook, and More
Speakers: Mitali Perkins and Deborah Sloan
NESCBWI Salon
A program for published authors and illustrators of…
We’ve been talking about books as windows and mirrors this week on the Fire Escape. First off, I’m convinced that “mainstream” North American kids and teens can and will enjoy books as windows into…
Enjoy the poem that tied for third prize this year in my annual poetry contest for teens between cultures. Read it aloud for the rocking Fijian rhythm.
by Hosanna,…
After our discussion about books as mirrors or windows at different stages of life, I’m setting up a tentative hypothesis. Ready? Here it is:
Elementary-aged kids and upper high-schoolers are…
I’ll admit it. I’m a bit of a social media maniac. Why, Mitali, why? you might be asking. Let me share five sweet outcomes of my involvement with Twitter, moving from the sublime to the…
Think of a novel you enjoyed recently. How did the protagonist remind you of yourself? On the other hand, what did you glean about living a different kind of life?
My guess is that you can answer…
