News to thrill Mitali's fan club members (a.k.a., my parents) ... The Children's Literature and Reading Special Interest Group of the International Reading Association came up with their annual list of 25 Notable Books for a Global Society — and Rickshaw Girl is one of them! I'm delighted to announce the results of my sixth annual teen poetry and short fiction contests. Congratulations to all the winners, and thanks to everyone who entered. Rickshaw Girl is nominated for the 2008-2009 Massachusetts Children's Book Awards, Monsoon Summer for the 2009 Minnesota's Maud Hart Lovelace Award, and First Daughter: White House Rules receives lovely reviews here and there -- thanks to the blogosphere. Rickshaw Girl is a Jane Addams 2008 Honor Book! Check out this brief clip of Mitali's live interview with Spencer Christian on ABC-KGO's View From The Bay or watch the full segment on KGO's site:
Friday, April 11th - Saturday, April 12th: I'll be at the New England Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Annual Conference, presenting a workshop on Saturday April 12th from 10:05 -11:00 a.m. called "Pajama Promotion: Five Web-Savvy Ways to Generate Buzz About Your Books." Wednesday, April 16th: I'll be talking about "Books Between Cultures" from 12-12:50 at the Texas Library Association Convention, (Program CPE#356 in room D 171/173 sponsored by the Texas Association of School Librarians) followed by book signings on the exhibit floor, first at the Penguin booth #1701 from 2 – 3, and then at the Author Autographing Area with Charlesbridge from 3-4. Stop by and say hi. Thursday, April 17th: I'll be celebrating Operation Teen Book Drop at the Winchester Author Festival in Winchester, Massachusetts. Friday, April 18th: If you're in the San Francisco Bay Area, you can catch me on KGO's View From The Bay from 3-4 p.m. PST (streaming online live here), where I'll be chatting about growing up between cultures and how stories kept me balanced.
GET NEWS AND UPDATES ABOUT We readergirlz are collaborating with YALSA and teen book publishers to pull off Operation Teen Book Drop, giving away new books to over 10,000 teen patients in twenty children's hospitals across the country. I'm presenting Books Between Cultures at YALSA's inaugural Young Adult Literature Symposium in Nashville, Tennessee November 7-9, 2008. The Boston Globe and the Providence Journal gave their readers the scoop on sparrowblog and my First Daughter Books, as did the Stanford Magazine and India New England. On the web, bloggers Teen Book Review and Jessica Burkhart hosted me for interviews, and Harmony and Bookworm both loved First Daughter. Paper Tigers' blog celebrated International Mother Language Day by featuring my novel Rickshaw Girl, saying it "would make a great readaloud, especially for a mother and daughter to share." Librarian-blogger Cloudscome agreed, "highly recommend(ing) it for middle grade (8-10 year old) readers, as a read aloud, or a kid's book club book." I guest-blog over at Mom's Rising. If you didn't make it to my book launch party on 2/3/08, here's a 3-minute snippet (to explain my wardrobe, it was Super Bowl Sunday and the Pats hadn't lost yet): You can become a fan of the First Daughter books over at Facebook or get her widget on your blog:
Monsoon Summer is a 2008 YALSA popular paperback for young adults. Watch for a story about me and my buddy Karen Day (Tall Tales, No Cream Puffs from Wendy Lamb Books) in the Boston Globe on January 27, 2008. Hey! I'm a Readergirlz Diva! I'll be doing town-wide visits in Needham, Ma and Brookline, Ma during Spring 2008. Check out my School Library Journal interview about Sparrowblog and the First Daughter novels. I'm helping to choose the best fiction picture book of 2007 for the Cybil Awards as well as the author most deserving of PEN's Annual Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship. Guess what? I'm going to present "Pajama Promotion: Five Web-Savvy Ways to Generate Buzz About Your Books" at the New England Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators' annual conference on April 12, 2008. I'm a Readergirlz 31 Flavorites Author! Several YA and children's book authors (including me) reflect on how gender affects reading in the September/October 2007 issue of the Horn Book. The Fire Escape is delighted to announce the winners of the 2007 teen poetry contest and teen short fiction contest. Congratulations to the authors! I'm invited to be part of the Summer Blog Blast Tour, and am interviewed here (Monday, June 18), and here (Wednesday, June 20), and here (Thursday, June 21). Mitaliperkins.com makes the Horn Book's Web Watch list. Mitali's Fire Escape is featured as a blog of note in the Horn Book, PaperTigers, and School Library Journal. Mom and I travel to San Francisco to be part of PaperTiger's Community Outreach in the schools. No Place Like Home, my article about place in fiction, is published in School Library Journal Curriculum Connections. First Daughter: Extreme American Makeover releases June 14, 2007, and
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