Thank you to my amazing debut group, KidLit247s 💖 What a joy it's been to cheer each other on through 2024!
Dionna L. Mann @monicamancillas.bsky.social @jenniferannrichter.bsky.social @DianaJunYiMa @DeborahLakritz @WriterofCuentos Please do check out all their incredible books!

I'm excited to kick off 2025 with thrilling news: Lion of the Sky has been named a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection!

As an educator, this recognition means the world to me. Thank you to JLG for this opportunity!

Thrilled to announce that @sfchronicle.bsky.social Chronicle Books will publish my debut narrative non-fiction picture book, THEIR STORY IS OUR STORY - a reimagined story of Partition, and that the insanely talented @viplovsingh.bsky.social will illustrate!

Respected trade reviews can make or break a book’s sales and impact a writer’s confidence. So I’m thrilled and grateful to School Library Journal for their amazing review of Lion of the Sky:

www.slj.com/review/lion-...

This is a funny and fast-paced middle-grade graphic novel about Feng-Li surviving a strange new world, by Betty C. Tang with all the 'Home Alone' feels, except this time it's three siblings home together! 📚👍

If you're looking for a relatable sibling story, with emotional depth and humor, I can recommend Saving Sunshine - a middle-grade Graphic Novel about Muslim American siblings by Saadia Faruqi and Shazleen Khan. 📚👍