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A Good, Good Year for Joseph and Whoosh in Joseph’s Big Ride

“The narrative, which focuses on building a friendship, is paired with Daley’s vibrant illustrations, which depict just how fast the minds, and bikes, of young children can go…An ideal addition…”                      School Library

“Tell Me More”

I have the great fortune to spend this year with New Hampshire Humanities. We’re working on a reading and writing project with  English learners.  The project is A Year of New Voices,   In the Year of New Voices, professional writers

This One’s for the Moms and Dads: Tell Me More

I have the great fortune to spend this year with New Hampshire Humanities. We’re working on a literacy project with adult education and refugee resettlement classes for English learners.  The project is A Year of New Voices,   In the Year

“Scent of Geranium”

I just found this animated story by Naghmeh Farzaneh who came from Iran to study in the U.S.  Naghmeh struggles so much with the English language and the life but she remembers one thing her mother told her and it

Stories of the mystery of immigrant lives

With our country’s continuing need for stories on families who are arriving in the U.S. for refuge,  Book Riot reviewer, Kelly Jensen, offers this new reading list, YA Books about Immigration.   Included here are many new voices to YA literature. 

“I hope I will learn to dance a different dance I’ve never danced before.”

“This is how we’re gonna do. We’re gonna dance the Nepali song. Cross left leg over right. One – two – three – go.” And the movie song,  Kale Dai, blasted from the instructor Pujan Wagley’s phone through the school

A House of Extravagant Colors

This is a version of an article I wrote for New Hampshire Humanities about the day they hosted Juan Felipe Herrera at the Nashua, NH Adult Learning Center.  Thank you Maren Tirabassi and the students of the class and Juan

Juan Takes His Turn – JabberWalking with Juan Felipe Herrera

  He calls a poem a burble. A writing pad is a paperbag, or a newspaper, periodico, or whatever you want it to be. All that matters is that you hurry, hurry, hurry. And write down whatever you see in

Wordless Picture Books about making your way in America and other creative pursuits

I’ve been reading stories without words. Turn the pages and you see beautiful picture puzzles for all ages of readers.  Here is a collection of stories I love, ones I’ve also brought to international students who are learning English. And

A Different Pond and more 2017 Books about Refugees

Across the world, families are crossing borders in search of a resting place where their children can be safe and go to school. 2017 saw new books coming out to help children understand the lives of other children displaced by