Tag: diversity

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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“CONFETTI KIDS” Early Reader Series Preview from Lee & Low Books

Hi! I’m excited to announce that my next book project will launch on February 15, 2016 from LEE & LOW BOOKS. I wrote the first two books of the new “Confetti Kids” early reader book series from Lee & Low’s new “Dive Into Reading” line. The books are illustrated by the wonderfully talented artist SHIRLEY NG-BENITEZ.…
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