Tag: children’s picture books

2016 Summer Olympics!

The opening ceremony for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio is tonight! I always look forward to the Olympics (both winter & summer) because my first published children’s picture book was about Olympic champion diver Dr. Sammy Lee, a Korean American who broke racial barriers with his back to back Gold Medals in the 1948 and…
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Love Is Love – My LGBTQ KidLit Book Donation Drive for the Orlando Youth Alliance

UPDATE AS OF JULY 18, 2016: Thank you to everyone who donated YA novels and children’s books, comic books, and DVDs featuring positive LGBTQIA+ characters and themes for the Orlando Youth Alliance. I received a beautiful letter from their president, Michael Slaymaker, thanking us. He wrote the following: “Roberto, a longtime member of the Orlando Youth Alliance,…
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From Books to Cheese Curds to Bhaṅgṛā Dancing & More: 2015 South Asia Book Awards!

I’m still recovering from an intense but fun weekend in beautiful Madison, Wisconsin, where I was one of the winners of the 2015 South Asia Book Awards for my children’s picture book biography, TWENTY-TWO CENTS: MUHAMMAD YUNUS AND THE VILLAGE BANK (illustrated by Jamel Akib, Lee & Low Books 2014).  The South Asia Book Award is given…
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