Ruth Behar
@ruthbehar.bsky.social
Newbery Honor Award-winning and Pura Belpré Award–winning author of THE VULNERABLE OBSERVER, LUCKY BROKEN GIRL, LETTERS FROM CUBA, TÍA FORTUNA'S NEW HOME, ACROSS SO MANY SEAS. Co-author with Gabriel Frye-Behar of PEPITA MEETS BEBITA.
Exciting book news!! My son @gabrielfryebehar.bsky.social and I have co-authored a second picture book, Picadillo for Paulina, which will be coming out in Summer 2026 with Norton Young Readers!! Delighted to be working with editor Simon Boughton and artist Erika Rodriguez Medina. ❤️
July 11, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Exciting book news!! My son @gabrielfryebehar.bsky.social and I have co-authored a second picture book, Picadillo for Paulina, which will be coming out in Summer 2026 with Norton Young Readers!! Delighted to be working with editor Simon Boughton and artist Erika Rodriguez Medina. ❤️
Looking forward to being at @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social conference this weekend!
June 25, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Looking forward to being at @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social conference this weekend!
Happy to announce that today is the paperback release day of Across So Many Seas!! 🙏💙🧿
May 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Happy to announce that today is the paperback release day of Across So Many Seas!! 🙏💙🧿
I'm thrilled & grateful to have received a Newbery Honor Award & a Sydney Taylor Honor Book Award for my book, ACROSS SO MY SEAS. Thanks to my amazing editor @nancyrosep.bsky.social & the @penguinschoollib.bsky.social team & my family & ancestors whose stories of resilience I will never forget.
January 28, 2025 at 1:04 AM
I'm thrilled & grateful to have received a Newbery Honor Award & a Sydney Taylor Honor Book Award for my book, ACROSS SO MY SEAS. Thanks to my amazing editor @nancyrosep.bsky.social & the @penguinschoollib.bsky.social team & my family & ancestors whose stories of resilience I will never forget.
I am so heartened to learn that Across So Many Seas has found its way to 2024 best books lists. Warm thanks to my amazing editor @nancyrosep.bsky.social and to all the readers who’ve shared the book’s 500-year journey. 🙏❤️
December 7, 2024 at 7:14 PM
I am so heartened to learn that Across So Many Seas has found its way to 2024 best books lists. Warm thanks to my amazing editor @nancyrosep.bsky.social and to all the readers who’ve shared the book’s 500-year journey. 🙏❤️
So honored to learn ACROSS SO MANY SEAS is on the NYPL list of best children’s books of the year!
November 27, 2024 at 1:19 AM
So honored to learn ACROSS SO MANY SEAS is on the NYPL list of best children’s books of the year!
Delighted to post on @bsky.app for the first time! I’ll be at the Miami Book Fair this Saturday with authors Gayle Forman and Cynthia Leitich Smith and moderator @kimberlywhite.bsky.social! Join us if you’re in Miami!
November 21, 2024 at 2:14 PM
Delighted to post on @bsky.app for the first time! I’ll be at the Miami Book Fair this Saturday with authors Gayle Forman and Cynthia Leitich Smith and moderator @kimberlywhite.bsky.social! Join us if you’re in Miami!