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It's official. Two years in a row makes it a tradition. The Reading Culture Yearbook is here. It's the year end celebratory episode where we look back and highlight some of our favorite moments in the form of awarding superlatives. Or, as we dubbed them last year and seemingly forgot, “The Readies”.This year's edition features awards such as “Best [Not] Meet Cute”, the “Owning It Award”, the “Merriam-Webster Award” (alternatively titled “most likely to know more words than Merriam-Webster”), and “The Teen Whisperer Award”.And just like last year, we promise to make you laugh, and potentially cry depending on how quickly you reach for the tissues.***Connect with Jordan and The Reading Culture @thereadingculturepod and subscribe to our newsletter at thereadingculturepod.com/newsletter. Show ChaptersChapter 1 - Best Alter EgoChapter 2 - The Teen Whisperer AwardChapter 3 - Full Circle Moment Chapter 4 - Best [Not] Meet CuteChapter 5 - Citizen of the World AwardChapter 6 - Odd Couple AwardChapter 7 - The All In AwardChapter 8 - Most Moving Dream Chapter 9 - Best Life Lesson From LiteratureChapter 10 - Owning It Award Chapter 11 - Most Likely to Rewrite the Stars Chapter 12 - Merriam-Webster AwardChapter 13 - Best Dinner Party GameLinksThe Reading CultureThe Reading Culture Newsletter SignupFollow The Reading Culture on Instagram (for giveaways and bonus content)Beanstack resources to build your community's reading cultureJordan Lloyd BookeyHost: Jordan Lloyd BookeyProducer: Jackie Lamport and Lower Street MediaScript Editors: Josia Lamberto-Egan, Jackie Lamport, Jordan Lloyd Bookey
Thank you so much for listening! If you would like to see more from 831 Minh Le, you can find them here:https://www.instagram.com/831minhle/ This episode is sponsored by Columbia Family Chiropractor: https://www.cfcforhealth.com https://www.instagram.com/columbiafamilychiropracticIf you would like to follow us, we are on everything at Here For The Health Of It Podcasthttps://www.instagram.com/hereforthehealthofitpodcasthttps://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hereforthehealthofit
Thank you so much for listening! If you would like to see more from 831 Minh Le, you can find them here:https://www.instagram.com/831minhle/ This episode is sponsored by Columbia Family Chiropractor: https://www.cfcforhealth.com https://www.instagram.com/columbiafamilychiropracticIf you would like to follow us, we are on everything at Here For The Health Of It Podcasthttps://www.instagram.com/hereforthehealthofitpodcasthttps://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hereforthehealthofit
"That barrier between what is “real” and what is not, when that's more fluid, I think it's that's where the fun of fiction comes in. Especially when you're writing for kids.” - Minh LêLife is full of barriers. Barriers between reality and the imagination, the spiritual and physical world, and perhaps most crucially, the ones we create for ourselves. When a barrier is a boundary, it can be a good thing. But in many cases, the barriers we create are holding us back. Minh Lê's life was defined by many of these self-imposed barriers until well into his adult life. But slowly, through nudges from friends and family and a lot of self-reflection, Minh began to learn that the only thing in between him and his dream of being a picture book author, was himself.Minh is a children's book author best known for "Drawn Together," winner of the 2019 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, as well as the Eisner-nominated "Lift" and "The Blur." He also authored the Green Lantern graphic novel series and contributed to numerous short story anthologies. Minh has a full-time day job and is also very active in the kidlit community, especially his work with We Need Diverse Books. He is intentional with his time and dedication and has made a deep impact on children's literature. In this episode, Minh discusses how he overcame his insecurities to achieve his dream of becoming a picture book author. He also recounts the transformative experience of writing the biography of the beloved Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh, and shares an absolutely breathtaking story about their encounter. Minh shares his philosophy on why we should all blur the lines between the real and the imaginary.***Connect with Jordan and The Reading Culture @thereadingculturepod and subscribe to our newsletter at thereadingculturepod.com/newsletter. ***Minh expands on his stories about meditation on the podcast with his reading challenge, "Meditative Picture Books." With this curated list, Minh invites young readers and their grown-ups to embrace the present moment fully. Download the list at thereadingculturepod.com/minh-le***This episode's Beanstack Featured Librarian is Erin Baker, media specialist at Durham Middle School in Georgia. She tells us her secret sauce for getting the whole school on board with reading initiatives and why it involves some unlikely allies.ContentsChapter 1 - The Vietnamese Mini Van (2:17)Chapter 2 - As Few Words as Possible (6:38)Chapter 3 - You Haven't Even Tried (10:44)Chapter 4 - Dreamtigers (12:19)Chapter 5 - Lucid Dreaming (19:34)Chapter 6 - Even Fewer Words (a silent retreat) (22:28)Chapter 7 - Meditative Picture Books (35:19)Chapter 8 - Beanstack Featured Librarian (37:15)Chapter 9 (Bonus) - Baby Minh and Baby Dan (39:17)LinksThe Reading CultureThe Reading Culture Newsletter SignupMinh LeMinh Lê (@bottomshelfbks) • Instagram photos and videosDreamtigers by Jorge Luis Borges | GoodreadsThich Nhat Hanh | Plum VillageDurham Middle SchoolThe Reading Culture on Instagram (for giveaways and bonus content)Beanstack resources to build your community's reading cultureJordan Lloyd BookeyHost: Jordan Lloyd BookeyProducer: Jackie Lamport and Lower Street MediaScript Editors: Josia Lamberto-Egan, Jackie Lamport, Jordan Lloyd Bookey
I'm Brenna Jeanneret, children's lit author, mother, rock climber, outdoors person, and podcaster joined by Josh Monken, children's lit author, father, science communicator, and podcaster. Josh and I found that with our powers combined, we could make Captain Planet. Maybe not, but at least our powers combined can make a pretty rad podcast with the help of behind-the-scenes wizardry from Jon Seymour. Our guest for this conversation was Laurel Snyder. You can find Laurel Snyder on Instagram. DON'T MISS AN EPISODE! Sign up for our newsletter here! This episode's book reviews: THE BAD SEED written by Jory John illustrated by Pete Oswald THE PERFECT SEAT written by Minh Le and Gus Gordon THERE'S A ZOMBIE IN THE BASEMENT by Stan Yan The artwork for You May Contribute a Verse features our new quokka mascot, Versey, and was generously created by the great Maddie Frost! Find her on IG @hellomaddiefrost or on her website Maddie-Frost.com Our theme music is So Happy by Scott Holmes you can find more of his music at scottholmesmusic.com Don't forget to get your Community Shout-Outs in for our next episode! WE HAVE MERCH!! Check it out and support the show here! And special thanks to our sponsor Justin Colon and his new venture The Kidlit Hive. Find us on Bluesky @joshmonkwords, @brennajeanneret, and @jonseym0ur as always, let us know what you think via a rating, review, or comment! Thanks and see ya next time. You May Contribute a Verse is a homespun production, produced, edited, recorded, conceptualized, and marketed by Josh Monken, Brenna Jeanneret, and Jon Seymour.
EPISODEIn this episode, we are joined by several guest speakers, to do a round table SDA discussion. We were invited to sit and film individually with Tania, from Tania Gomez Consulting, to discuss separately different matters of SDA for her audience, them being Providers across Australia.We figured that while we were all there, might aswell record a podcast session, and do it in a way where we just 'wing it' and talk about random topics pertaining to SDA.Speakers are:- Tania Gomez- David Whitelaw- Brendon Woolf- Debbie Kindness- Minh LeLEAVE US A GOOGLE REVIEW!--FOLLOW US ON:LinkedIn InstagramFacebookTwitterGOALS:It is our goal to see Participants with high-needs disabilities being appropriately housed in accommodation that is right for them. Purpose-built homes promote opportunities for social and economic participation, enhance self-determination, and create conditions for Participants to lead vibrant, safe, and independent lives.www.robustdesign.com.auwww.highphysicalsupport.com.auwww.improvedliveability.com.auwww.fullyaccessible.com.auwww.participants.com.auCONTACT:Please feel free to call us at 1300254397 to talk to one of our friendly staff, otherwise, just pop on over to our website to find out more info on www.ndispropertyaustralia.com.auDISCLAIMER:Information contained in this podcast is general in nature only. It does not take into account the objectives, financial situation, or needs of any particular person. You need to consider your financial situation and needs before making any decisions based on this information and should seek independent and professional advice for your personal circumstances.For any podcast related queries or suggestions, please contact our podcast manager via info@ndis.propertywww.sdahousingpodcast.com.au
EPISODE"How does the recent SDA Price changes, affect SDA Providers?"Our team recently met up in a video studio in Brisbane with Tania Gomez, from Tania Gomez Consulting (TGC) to talk about many things SDA individually and as a group, in a film setting environment. One of these video recordings was the final session with Tania, Minh, and Dan Acfield, from Everhomes. This podcast is the audio of that final film session, and is primarily about the recent changes to SDA Pricing which affects SDA Providers. Tania interviews Dan and Minh about their thoughts on the good and bad of these recent changes, and also how the SDA market will react long term to these changes. Tania asks some great questions to help our listeners better understand 'terminology' being used in our SDA space.On a side note, you may recall our recent podcast episode where Debbie was interviewed in another show, called 'The Profitable NDIS Provider Podcast'. This was hosted by Tania, and Debbie had a great time giving an SDA 101 interview. We also did a massive Provider networking event together with Tania in Brisbane in early July, just to celebrate all the hard work that Providers do in the NDIS community. It always great to meet both of these experts in their field, while also being on the speakers circuit at events and conferences across Australia in this SDA space. Both Dan and Jessica have been repeat speakers on our show, and as always we greatly appreciate their time on our show to help listeners better understand more about the NDIS and SDA space.For more information about each of the 3 featured speakers, please refer to the websites below:www.taniagomezconsulting.com.auwww.everhomes.com.auwww.ndis.property--GOALS:It is our goal to see Participants with high-needs disabilities being appropriately housed in accommodation that is right for them. Purpose-built homes promote opportunities for social and economic participation, enhance self-determination, and create conditions for Participants to lead vibrant, safe, and independent lives.www.robustdesign.com.auwww.highphysicalsupport.com.auwww.improvedliveability.com.auwww.fullyaccessible.com.auwww.participants.com.auCONTACT:Please feel free to call us at 1300254397 to talk to one of our friendly staff, otherwise, just pop on over to our website to find out more info on www.ndispropertyaustralia.com.auDISCLAIMER:Information contained in this podcast is general in nature only. It does not take into account the objectives, financial situation, or needs of any particular person. You need to consider your financial situation and needs before making any decisions based on this information and should seek independent and professional advice for your personal circumstances.For any podcast related queries or suggestions, please contact our podcast manager via info@ndis.propertywww.sdahousingpodcast.com.au
The journey of parenting a transgender child can be different for each family and today, we sat down with Minh and her son, Parker to discuss their journey. Here's an open and honest conversation about raising and supporting a transgender child. ABOUT MINH Minh Le (@magical_minh_ ) has been a longtime advocate for empowerment of the Asian and Vietnamese community in the U.S. She owns her own business as an Empowerment/Business Coach, helping to empower women in business, civic engagement, and their personal lives. Minh Le is married and has two children. She also has a friendly dog called Tabasco.
Twelve award-winning and bestselling East and Southeast Asian American authors explore themes of identity and belonging in You Are Here: Connecting Flights, edited by Ellen Oh. With interwoven stories all taking place in a teeming Chicago airport, the book details the entwined experiences of young people whose family roots may extend to East and Southeast Asia, but who are themselves distinctly American. An incident at a TSA security check point sows chaos and rumors, creating a chain of events that impacts twelve young Asian Americans in a crowded and restless airport. As their disrupted journeys crisscross and collide, they encounter fellow travelers—some helpful, some hostile—as they discover the challenges of friendship, the power of courage, the importance of the right word at the right time, and the unexpected significance of a blue Stratocaster electric guitar. With stories from Linda Sue Park, Erin Entrada Kelly, Randy Ribay, Grace Lin, Traci Chee, Mike Chen, Meredith Ireland, Mike Jung, Minh Le, Ellen Oh, Christina Soontornvat, and Susan Tan, YOU ARE HERE: CONNECTING FLIGHTS is the premier release from HarperCollins Children's Books' new imprint, Allida. Created to publish books for children and teens, the imprint's mission is to encourage marginalized writers and artists to explore the stories they are most passionate about and to craft narratives that defy expectations.
Twelve award-winning and bestselling East and Southeast Asian American authors explore themes of identity and belonging in You Are Here: Connecting Flights, edited by Ellen Oh. With interwoven stories all taking place in a teeming Chicago airport, the book details the entwined experiences of young people whose family roots may extend to East and Southeast Asia, but who are themselves distinctly American. An incident at a TSA security check point sows chaos and rumors, creating a chain of events that impacts twelve young Asian Americans in a crowded and restless airport. As their disrupted journeys crisscross and collide, they encounter fellow travelers—some helpful, some hostile—as they discover the challenges of friendship, the power of courage, the importance of the right word at the right time, and the unexpected significance of a blue Stratocaster electric guitar. With stories from Linda Sue Park, Erin Entrada Kelly, Randy Ribay, Grace Lin, Traci Chee, Mike Chen, Meredith Ireland, Mike Jung, Minh Le, Ellen Oh, Christina Soontornvat, and Susan Tan, YOU ARE HERE: CONNECTING FLIGHTS is the premier release from HarperCollins Children's Books' new imprint, Allida. Created to publish books for children and teens, the imprint's mission is to encourage marginalized writers and artists to explore the stories they are most passionate about and to craft narratives that defy expectations.
Your host, Catherine Cantey talks with Founder and Fashion Designer, Minh Le.Minh Le is a serial entrepreneur. With her desire to share love in each piece of fabric, Minh Le designs clothing for busy men and woman, to compliment and bring out the best in them. 831MinhLe has been in the Charleston fashion week, New York Fashion Week, and Paris Fashion Week, and this year has added Milan Fashion Week to her goals!To learn more about Minh Le's work, visit 831minhle.com.If you'd like to be a guest on The Business Vitality® podcast, click HERE.
A weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asians and Pacific Islanders from all corners of our community. The show is produced by a collective of media makers, deejays, and activists. This episode highlights a wonderful hybrid book club event from AACRE, Asian Americans for Civil Rights and Equality a collective of Progressive Asian organizations that APEX is a part of. It was hosted at the East Wind Bookstore in Berkeley, CA. Ko Kim of “We are the Gems” joined us in a conversation about books people enjoyed reading growing up and later Innosanto Nagara is interviewed by Miko Lee. This book club event was so sweet and so lovely, and admittedly was very eye-opening for me as someone who has quote unquote graduated from children's books, but more about that later. We came up with a list of books people enjoyed reading growing up! AACRE Thursdays is monthly radio show featuring an organization from the AACRE: Asian American for Civil Rights and Equality. AACRE Thursdays premiers every third Thursday of the month at 7pm. Find more APEX Express Shows here. APEX Express is a weekly magazine-style radio show featuring the voices and stories of Asians and Pacific Islanders from all corners of our community. The show is produced by a collective of media makers, deejays, and activists. Miko's Favorite AAPI Children's Books (live from East Wind Books in Berkeley) With author Ko Kim All books written and illustrated by AAPI authors/artists unless noted Ko Kim Ko Kim's Book We are Gems attached is the watermarked PDF only for the AACRE community. Board Books A is for Activist Counting on Community Round is a Mooncake: A Book of Shapes Red is a Dragon: A Book of Colors The Story of Rap Picture Books It Began with a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way biography on artist Gyo and the impact of the Japanese American incarceration during WWII Drawn Together. A boy and his grandfather draw and talk story. Deals with intergenerational drama and imagination. Check out a lesson plan for this book I helped develop with Agency By Design in Oakland Juna's Jar Juna goes on adventures and collects things. Good STEAM book. Check out this lesson plan for this book by Agency By Design in Oakland Dad Bakes -Formerly incarcerated Cambodian dad bakes with his daughter The Paper Kingdom – Janitor parents take their son to work at night and he imagines a kingdom. A Friend for Henry – Focused on Henry, a young boy with autism The Ugly Vegetables – Chinese family grows Chinese vegetables and daughter is embarrassed and longs for the neighbors flowers, until mom makes soup that everyone longs for. Whoever You Are – Mem Fox's beautiful book about our diverse world (non AAPI writer, but beautiful book with great message) The Paper Crane – A paper crane transforms a town (non AAPI writer, but beautiful book with great message) The Sound of Colors: A Journey of the Imagination – a young woman, who is going blind reimagines the NY subway Positive Body Image Eyes That Kiss the Corners – a girl learns to love her Asian eyes Eyes that Speak to the Stars – a boy learns to love his Asian eyes Happy to Be Nappy – a child learn to appreciate her black hair Laxmi's Mooch – a girl learns to appreciate her body hair (mustache) Global First Laugh–Welcome, Baby! Indigenous writers share Navajo story about baby's first laughter ceremony. Enough! 20 Protesters Who Changed America picture book about protests Bread, Bread, Bread, Families, Houses and Homes White writer Anne Morris photo compilations showcase commonalities around the world. We March African American writer Shane Evans picture book about 1963 March on Washington Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness White writer talks about privileged. This is the book for your white friends kids who want to use a book to spark a family conversation about racism. Audience Recommendations of Children's Books Book Recommendations with Links Coffee Rabbit Snowdrop Lost by Birkjaer — https://enchantedlion.com/all-books/coffee-rabbit-snowdrop-lost It Might Be An Apple, Yoshitake — https://bookbugsanddragontales.com/product/9780500650486 Julian is Mermaid by Jessica Love — https://jesslove.format.com/julian-is-a-mermaid His Own Where — https://www.nationalbook.org/people/june-jordan/ Dragon Hoops by Gene Yang — https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781626720794/dragonhoops Little One or We Sang You Home by Richard Van Camp — https://www.orcabook.com/We-Sang-You-Home American Born Chinese by Gene Yang — https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250811899/americanbornchinese In the Beautiful Country by Jane Kuo — https://janekuo.com/book/in-the-beautiful-country/ Hush by Min Fong Ho — https://www.bfbooks.com/Hush-A-Thai-Lullaby Rob Liu Trujillo — http://work.robdontstop.com/ Who Turned on the Sky by Marielle Atanacio — https://www.bymatanacio.com/ Juna and Appa by Jane Park — https://www.leeandlow.com/books/juna-and-appa A map into the World — https://lernerbooks.com/shop/show/17915 A Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen — https://solrad.co/refugee-fairytales-the-magic-fish-by-trung-le-nguyen All these below you can buy at East Wind Bookstore! Lunchtime with Samnang Our Little Kitchen by Tamaki A Place Where Sunflowers Grow When the Cousins Came by Playing at the Border: A Story of Yo-Yo Ma A Different Pond by Thi Bui Places to buy your books: https://www.asiabookcenter.com/ aka East Wind Bookstore https://diversebooks.org/resources/ https://socialjusticebooks.org/ https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/peoples-history-of-the-united-states https://www.learningforjustice.org/ Transcript: AACRE Children's Book Club [00:00:00] Swati: Good evening everyone, and happy Thursday. This is Swati Rayasam, your very special guest editor for tonight's episode of APEX Express. Tonight we're going to listen in on a wonderful hybrid book club event from AACRE, Asian Americans for Civil Rights and Equality a collective of Progressive Asian organizations that APEX is a part of. [00:00:55] Swati: This book Club event was so sweet and so lovely, and [00:01:00] admittedly was very eye-opening for me as someone who has quote unquote graduated from children's books, but more about that later. I wanted to also flag for listeners that because this was a hybrid event, there are some weird bumps and pops as a result of the recording that impact the audio quality just a bit. Hopefully it's not too distracting, but whatever you may not be able to fully hear, we've tried our best to capture in either the transcript or the show notes. [00:01:29] Swati: Now, without further ado, I'll pass you along to Miko over in Children's Book Landia, AKA East Wind Books in Berkeley. Stay locked in! [00:01:43] Miko Lee: We are thrilled to be here and every time we talk about getting a book, of course where you go to buy that book is here in Berkeley at East Wind Books or online. So we are thrilled to see you all and as some of you know, initially today [00:02:00] was gonna be with Innosanto Nagara and I sent stuff out on Ino and then just, we had this whole last minute mix up. We're gonna showcase some of his books, but instead, B was amazing to recommend Ko Kim. And then I learned about Ko's book, which was just so exciting. So we're gonna start off just with Ko reading through the book and having you all ask questions of Ko, and then Ko and I are gonna talk about our favorite AAPI children's books so that you all can get your gift ons for the holidays and for baby stuff that's coming up. [00:02:33] Miko Lee: There's so many. When I was growing up, I was longing for books that represented our community and now there are so many that represent our intersectionality, our diversity, our specific communities. So there are so many things that we will share with you soon. [00:02:51] Miko Lee: But first, I wanna take a moment to just introduce Ko. We are so happy that she joined us last minute. She worked with two amazing illustrators, Christine [00:03:00] Yoon and Andrew Hem and co grew up 10 minutes from the US Mexico border and like so many of us just felt invisible in school. She didn't see herself in textbooks and in bookshelves or anywhere. And that isolation motivated her to become an educator, a public school teacher in title one schools. So she got the traditional education with a masters at Stanford, but keeping it real in the community with low income students showcasing what progressive education can be about. And I'm gonna now throw it to Ko. Thank you Ko, so much for joining us. [00:03:37] Ko Kim: Wow. Thank you Miko, for that introduction. I wanna carry you everywhere I go, and just have you introduce me. Cuz, that was such a beautifully done one. And I just wanna say thank you everyone for the honor of being here. I love community. I love learning in community. I really want this to be a learning space, so before we begin, it sounds like from the audience, I heard a lot of folks saying they like picture books. They're looking [00:04:00] for more resources, they have nieces and nephews in their lives or a baby on the way. [00:04:05] Ko Kim: So I wanted to share a quick resource. I'm sure a lot of you follow Bookstagrammers on Instagram. There is a whole ecosystem of children's book Instagrammers. Some of them are Berkeley native slash assistant principal Shuli who runs Asian Lit for Kids. [00:04:21] Ko Kim: And then there's also my story books who's based in Southern California. Just a little heads up there. [00:04:27] Ko Kim: So as Miko mentioned, I created a book with Christine Yoon and Andrew Hem called We Are Gems: Healing From Anti-Asian Microaggressions Through Self Love and Solidarity. What a title. Christine Yoon is by the way, an ER doctor who's also an artist, Andrew Hem started off as a street artist and now his work is seen globally and his murals are in over, I believe 10 countries. [00:04:50] Ko Kim: Andrew identifies as Cambodian American. Christine and I identify as Korean American, and I think context is important here because I think stories in our own voices are really important. [00:05:00] [00:04:59] Ko Kim: We are Gems shimmering with wisdom handed down from our Asian and Asian American elders. You may face cuts and scrapes called microaggressions, but like those before you, your inner luster will blaze if placed in shared liberation. Shared liberation is solidarity with our Black and Indigenous neighbors against systemic racism, lost traditions and behaviors that harm people with African and Indigenous roots from classrooms to courtrooms, only through solidarity will we glisten. [00:05:32] Ko Kim: So when people ask you where are you really from? Reply that you are at home as long as you hold sacred the air, water, soil, animals and plants. Reply that you are at home when you honor Indigenous elders. Then ask in return, how are we taking care of all that has life? When Indigenous youth and elders resist polluting pipes, how do we respond? [00:05:56] Ko Kim: Our liberation is bound to the life and dignity of Indigenous [00:06:00] peoples. When they advise you to speak up, tell them to listen closely, our voices have been roaring for generations. Then ask, how intently do you listen to the hopes and dreams of Black activists leaders? For seven decades, Grace Lee Bogs rallied for fair wages and housing alongside Black community organizers [unclear] introduced civil disobedience to the Highlander Folk School, helping Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. prepare for the fight for freedom. Our liberation is tied to Black joy. When people try to commend you with, you are unlike the others. Reply that you're not straining yourself toward the dull cast of saying this and tell them, I am blooming as myself under the light of the divine and the glow of our grandmothers, our liberation is self love. [00:06:49] Ko Kim: Thank you so much. [00:06:51] Miko Lee: So thank you Ko for sharing your new book with us. I wanna open it up to see if anybody has any questions for [00:07:00] Ko And while you're thinking about those questions, I wanna just ask Ko to tell about what inspired you to create this work. [00:07:06] Ko Kim: Yeah, two things. One, I'm an auntie to many nieces and nephews, and it pained me to not see our voices represented on the bookshelves. Public school teacher as well, former public school teacher and it really pained me cuz I would see my students experiencing microaggressions, but it'd be hard to process that with them. Lastly 2020 during shelter in place a man holding a tray of sushi started to say all the racial slurs at me at a grocery store and came so close to my face, I felt the spit on my cheek. And I was like, oh, great, I'm gonna get COVID and verbally assaulted today. And when that happened, there were children around who witnessed that, and the educator in me was like, in pain. Made me wonder, okay, here's this episodic explosive event, how are caregivers and explain that to their children and then the other thought I have [00:08:00] had was what about the everyday racism that Asian American face? Right? How are we helping caregivers, teachers, parents talk about everyday anti-Asian racism? [00:08:11] Miko Lee: I just wanna point out that Ko also has a presentation that she does in schools. So if you know teachers that are interested in that, she has a whole presentation, reads some of the book and then breaks down who is Grace Lee Boggs, what is the background. So it's really helpful. And also talking about not just the times we are in right now with the microaggressions that our community are facing, but who are our solidarity leaders historically and who are people that are working in the community now. So does anybody else have a question for Ko, the author in the space? [00:08:44] Paige: Hi, Ko, thanks for reading your story, and I'm really sorry that a person assaulted you verbally. [00:08:50] Paige: I, I was looking at the title and wondering if there was any association with the TV show where they're like all gems and then they like sing [00:09:00] songs. Stephen Universe. [00:09:00] Ko Kim: I'm just gonna lie and be like, yes. I, I planned that . No, there isn't, but I actually pulled a lot of my teacher educator friends. To think about how could we self love our and love our Asian Am AAPI children? And that's what I came up with. But, great question, Paige. [00:09:23] Miko Lee: And Ko, you did a non-traditional method for publishing. Can you share a little bit about that and why you chose that route? [00:09:30] Ko Kim: Yeah, I would love to share that cuz I do know there's someone in the audience who talked about possibly writing a children's book of their own. [00:09:37] Ko Kim: So I think we use the tools we're most familiar with, and I'm really used to reaching out to mutual aid, through my community. I'm sure this is something that everyone knows a lot of public school teachers fund their own libraries, fund their own field trips, right? And so I often reached out to my community to help fund those activities, resources , and I had no connection to the publishing world. [00:10:00] So I did this unconventional way and I made sure to recognize the folks in my community that made this book possible. If you look at the very back, their names are listed on the Kickstarter. I also, maybe I was like creeping on fans, people that I really like, but I DMed a bunch of authors on Instagram and asked them for some advice. And Innosanto Nagara has also been very gracious in that process. I have no idea if he remembers that I DMed him, but he gave me some really good tips. He himself started off as a Kickstarter, as you know, and his book was picked up by [00:10:33] Ko Kim: Seven Story Press. [00:10:36] Jasmine: Thanks. I'm curious, Ko if you've read this book with your students and your nibbling, how have the kids received it? [00:10:46] Ko Kim: It's really interesting. I thought only middle grades or like upper elementary children would be interested in this, but I actually presented this to a bunch of high schoolers in Hayward and there was a huge response from them. They loved [00:11:00] it. I think we do this false age designation where we're like, oh, by the time you're 18 you don't like pictures. Which is not true, right? Like if the look at the popularity of TikTok, it's such, such a visual medium, right? People rely on visuals and I think art is actually a great activist tool and way of being. And so, I've seen K through 12, a lot of warmth about the images. I had one Jamaican American teacher email me and say, these things happen to me all the time and I brush them aside, and this book helped me heal. I had another teacher in the audience write me that they went to therapy after the book reading, which I think is a great next step. I'm all about healing ourselves. Thanks for that question, Jasmine. [00:11:49] Miko Lee: Thank you. Anybody else with questions for Ko? [00:11:52] Paige: I have another question related to the topic, we were reading the Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead in college my [00:12:00] freshman year. And I remember someone asked in class like, how early is it to talk about these things? Like kind of how you're talking about the age of what you had imagined, the children reading the book. And my teacher was like, I don't think sixth grade is that early for this book. And that book it was really, it's quite violent , so I was just, yeah. How were you thinking about that when you were writing this book? Can you say more about thinking about the violence, about introducing that to children? [00:12:29] Ko Kim: Yeah, for sure. I did try really hard to be age appropriate, if you notice. I intentionally focused on microaggressions and not the explosive physical violence just cause I know our children, they can't handle things, but it has to be done in a way that's scaffolded. There's that piece of it, but I also wanna cite, a really well known Instagram Spanish educator, she goes by the woke Spanish teacher. She co-wrote an academic article with a college professor in education. [00:13:00] It's called The Myth of Teaching Social Justice to Elementary School Students. And it kinda debunks some of the ideas that our children cannot handle these experiences because it's fact of the matter is they are experiencing these racialized moments and they're turning to adults to make sense of this, or turning to each other to make sense. Right? And it feels weird to just neglect that and wish them good luck versus addressing it and centering their lived experiences. [00:13:28] Miko Lee: The other person I'd shout out in that vein is that woke kindergarten, and that's an amazing educator who's introduces all these topics with kindergarten students and recognizing that the world we live in, you have to, because that's the only way that we can create children that understand a greater sense of justice in the world. They do such amazing work, check out their website and they've done teach-ins and. [00:13:55] Miko Lee: Other questions for Author Ko Kim? [00:13:57] Ko Kim: Bring it. Everyone. Just give me the questions.[00:14:00] [00:14:02] Tran: Hey Ko, this is Tran! How are you? [00:14:04] Ko Kim: Oh my gosh. Can I just take a moment to thank you for being such a model to me? When I was at UCLA? I was such an undergrad. I was such a poop head and you really helped me understand, solidarity. [00:14:14] Tran: Oh, thank you. Yeah. Small world that we went to college together and now you're a children's book author. That's amazing. so I'm actually a mom to a toddler, and so of course making sure that I have a library of books that he can see himself, in and relate to, right. And not just like Asian American, but other like BIPOC books as well. And I actually didn't know about this book until this event, so I'm really glad, that y'all are hosting those events. So now I know about it and added to my collection, but I was curious, Ko do you have, other ideas for books that you wanna do in the future? Are you planning on doing more books? Cause I'd love to hear if you are. [00:14:55] Ko Kim: Yes. Oh my gosh. I do wanna create an ethnic study series for children. [00:15:00] I've been toying with the idea of debunking the American Dream myth, just trying to figure out how to do that in a way that's accessible to young readers. Another one I've been toying with is the idea of how do we talk about the anti-Blackness that does exist in the Asian American community, even though we do have a long history and legacy of solidarity with, Black folks. I've been toying with those and have been drafting. Thank you Tran. [00:15:24] Miko Lee: Exciting coming soon, Ko Kim's latest work. Yay. [00:15:28] Swati: You are tuned in to APEX express at 94.1 KPFA and 89.3 KPFB in Berkeley. And online@kpfa.org. Coming up is Ka BJ or Puzzle by Diskarte Namin from the album Kultural Guerillas. [00:16:00] [00:17:00] [00:18:00] [00:19:00] [00:20:00] [00:21:00] [00:21:45] Swati: That was Ka BJ by Diskarte Namin from the album Kultural Guerillas. And now. Back to the children's book club with Miko [00:21:57] Miko Lee: We can start talking about some of me and Ko's [00:22:00] favorite books that you all can have access to. I wanna first talk about who we talked about in the very first place, who was a mentor and was supposed to be here today. Innosanto's work A is for Activist, people often ask me, what children's books I get, I as a few of you mentioned love children's books. I personally try to never keep adult books because I read 'em and I pass 'em on to other people or I'm a big library person, but the only books I buy all the time are children's books because I like the art, the vibe, what it's about and my go to little kids, like when somebody first has a baby, are these books, A is for Activist and Counting on Community. And I like them because they're board books, which kids can chew on, but they're also like teaching their alphabet books. But they're teaching. Our values about activism, about community, about movement, about growth, and about where we are in our world. The other thing I wanted to mention is the other Ino book for [00:23:00] older kids, to the question about, when do you start introducing social justice concepts? You start as early as possible. And with my own kids, you start when they're babies, you start teaching sign language. So you're talking about different access to learning and understanding. But then as we know, people grow and they get more sophisticated and they want more information. So actually this is one of, Ino's more recent books. It's called The Wedding Portrait the under title is the Story of a Photograph and Why we Sometimes Break the Rules, and this would be good for like fourth graders because it breaks down how critical it is for us to take action. So it talks about from the Dakota pipeline to nuclear weapons to the farm workers boycott and it breaks it down in a way that's accessible and understandable and really brings it home for older kids that want a little bit more information. So I will follow up with all these books linked [00:24:00] and how you can buy them along with a bunch of others that we might not talk about, because literally I came in here 45 minutes ago and just pulled things off the shelf that were interesting. But I have a whole list of other go-tos. Ko, What are some of your favorites? Or anybody here? What are some of your, like right when somebody's gonna have a baby, books that we give people? What are your go-tos? [00:24:21] Ko Kim: Yeah, I would love to share some, but I would love to hear from the folks first. [00:24:25] Miko Lee: Anybody have some go to children's books that they just love getting every time? [00:24:31] Jasmine: I bought the book Julian is a Mermaid. It's a really beautiful book about this little kid and it's kind of magical and like just exploring gender in different expansive ways. [00:24:42] Miko Lee: Thanks Jasmine for sharing that , I really like the artwork on that too. [00:24:47] Ko Kim: I wanna say everyone likes all categories of books. I understand that. And if you so happen to wanna focus on that topic of gender identity, sexual orientation, there's actually a really cool mobile children's Book Bus. [00:25:00] Maybe you've heard of them. It's called Out and About and they're based in the Bay Area and they have the most beautiful lavender school bus full of books. [00:25:09] Tori: I just read a picture book called Coffee Rabbit, Snow Drop Lost, I think it's Danish, perhaps it's in translation. But it's about dementia and the relationship between a grandchild and grandparents. And it like made me cry in just a couple of minutes that it took to read it, which I wasn't expecting. It was very powerful. [00:25:29] Miko Lee: I'm not familiar with that book. I love it when books break things down in a way that helps to bring an issue to light. [00:25:39] Paige: I also read this in college. I only read two children's book as a child, and one of them is actually my favorite The Giving Tree. When I was little I was like, why am I so sad reading this book? It's so sweet and this tree loves this little boy. And then it felt like when I read that book, it reminded me of my relationship with my parents, like, why do my parents love me so much? [00:26:00] And then, the second book I actually read in college was His Own Wear by June Jordan, it's so beautiful. I love June Jordan. So I would definitely get that for your babies. [00:26:11] Miko Lee: Anybody else wanna share some? [00:26:14] Tracy: I'll just share some thematic books that I can't remember the names of them. But as a child since I grew up in San Francisco I got exposed to a lot of books around Chinese folklore about the moon festival and like where the moon festival came from, and the woman who ended up in the moon and like the moon goddess. And it's like the shape of a rabbit. So I really loved thematically those kinds of books that taught me about my culture, but through like children's books, but then in terms of an actual book name, I don't know what range we're doing, but because I read a lot of graphic novels, I really loved everything Gene Yang has done, like American Born Chinese. And his latest book is Hoop Dreams and it's about him being a teacher in Oakland at a private high school. And I love, love, [00:27:00] love, everything because it breaks down a difficult topic. So the one about him being a teacher in Oakland was about the different students who are on a basketball team there and their backgrounds. You learn about each of the students, whether they're Black, Asian, or Arab, learn about their specific kind of stories and the ups and downs they have and how like basketball kinda brings them together. [00:27:25] Miko Lee: I'm so glad. Gene I love him. A local person. And there actually, as some of you might know, making a whole TV series based on ABC and the Monkey King thing. So I, I really appreciate his work. There's a ton of graphic novelists we could talk about that I also adore, so we could go down that road. Ko what about you? [00:27:46] Ko Kim: Yeah, I just wanna thank everyone. I'm learning a couple new title. So there's a book that was published this year by Julia Kuo it's called Let's Do Everything and Nothing. Maybe you're familiar with this book.[00:28:00] I love it shows the intimacy and affection between a mother and a daughter in each page. And the illustrations are stunning. I never knew burnt orange and navy blue can make me cry but it made me cry in this book for sure and then I know folks are familiar with this book from 2018, Drawn Together. I love it because just like Julia Cole's book, it talks about the affection between family members, but this one kind of centers a common grief that a lot of AAPI families have where there's a generational language, cultural difference between grandparents and their grandchildren. It talks about bridging that gap. [00:28:36] Miko Lee: Can I add to that one? So I love that book and I actually, um, built a curriculum on that book, which I'm sending to you, and it's linked and I did it with an organization in Oakland called Agency by Design and During the Pandemic, we put together kits for all Title One School Kids in Oakland that included that book and then all the art supplies you could to make on it because it's about imagination and bringing imagination alive. [00:28:59] Ko Kim: [00:29:00] Miko That's, that's amazing. How can I get my hand on a kit? [00:29:05] Miko Lee: I don't, I don't know if they're remaking the kits right now, but you could get your hands on the curriculum and I will say we intentionally made the kits very accessible. So basically even if you didn't have the kit, you could pull it from things at home or have free access. whenever I'm making an arts inclusive kit, I try and make it with high quality supplies, but then also just things you can get from your house. So it makes it more accessible to everybody. [00:29:30] Ko Kim: Great to know. And then I have two other titles [00:29:33] Ko Kim: I'm so glad I was recommending ABC American Born Chinese. This book breaks down what does it mean to acclimate versus assimilate to American culture, right? And that's a huge heavy topic for adults alike. And in fact, Minh Le the author and illustrator of that book he just posted on Instagram under the campaign of Books Save Lives how reading this book in college really helped him stay afloat. [00:29:57] Ko Kim: And then the last middle grade [00:30:00] recommendation I have is called, In the Beautiful Country by Jane Kuo this came out in June, 2022. She's a local Bay Area author and artist actually and each chapter is pithy and painfully beautiful it digs into the richer life of an Asian female protagonist in Southern California. It was very healing. And in talking to Jane she was talking about how this book was supposed meant to also be healing for the caregivers reading the book as well. So I couldn't put this book down. I finished it in one sitting. [00:30:31] Kenny: So I got this as a gift from my newborn coming in it's called Hush and it's a very simple book, it goes through different animals and just the different sounds that other languages make to represent those animals. And I think it's just really fun to go through that and learn all the different noises that they make. And it's a story about a mom who's just telling all of these animals to be quiet cuz the baby is sleeping just something that I feel like is cool to [00:31:00] introduce to my son since he's gonna be half Thai. [00:31:02] Miko Lee: I wanted to throw out some more artist based ones because I think one of the things is sometimes we just get it. For me, I feel like having raised two artists and realizing the importance of art and life, bringing that into our young people is so critical and I love how Drawn Together does that in terms of inter generations. And really talking about intergenerational trauma. There is an another book about an artist, it's about Gyo Fujikawa, who is an amazing artist, and it's called, It Began With a Page and it outlines what is in an artist's imagination and how they create things, how they use and bring the world alive. And there's another one called The Sound of Colors, A Journey of the Imagination by Jimmy Liao and it is about a blind woman and it's the colors that she sees while she's blind and how she navigates through the world. And [00:32:00] it's just such a mix. It's so beautiful. The other is a lovely book about an artist, a kid, whose parents work as janitors in San Francisco and they're low income workers. And because they don't have childcare, they take their kid with them and they're Asian American and the kid uses their imagination while their parents are working. It's just such a good book talking about imagination and labor. Do you have some more? Should I keep going or does anybody wanna throw some out here? [00:32:30] Ko Kim: I wanna shout out a longtime author illustrator named Rob he's one of the organizers of the sixth annual Children's Social Justice book Fair. [00:32:37] Miko Lee: He's also works with Janine Youngblood on this, collaborative that is around trying to publish BIPOC voices, but it's very, very small, they don't have like huge budgets. There are a lot of children's books that have curriculum that go with them. So I don't know if some of you're interested in that, especially during our time of, COVID-y time when people have had to shelter in [00:33:00] place and stay home. Sometimes having activity books for single kids are really great. [00:33:04] Miko Lee: This is one that's about Filipino mythology and culture, Who Turned on the Sky, and it comes with this whole coloring and activity book. The book actually has a whole series of different, Filipino mythology and culture, and I think Tracy was talking about that earlier about how we grow up learning some of these things around culture. So that's one that actually comes with a curriculum. And then this other one, a really sweet one. Called Juna and Appa which is a Korean girl, and it's about her and her father. And it has magical realism in it. And it's again about emotions and intergenerational work. And this also has a curriculum. This was another project I did with Agency by Design that comes with a whole series of questions that young people can do for doing interviews with their elders. Even if you can't write, it's how do you draw an interview process? [00:33:57] Tracy: Ko you mentioned earlier about this [00:34:00] idea of, we should talk about race as early as possible with kids, but, as educator scaffolding is important, I would literally love to hear your ideas of ways we can scaffold learning. I'll give you an example, I have a bunch of children's books that I gave to my sister to give to her kids. And then she took out three of 'em and was like, these are not appropriate for the kids. And I was like, oh, what do you mean by not appropriate? And I didn't get into it, but I was like, she's actually a math teacher, so she also understands scaffolding. so I'm really interested in your ideas of scaffolding and what that means to introduce material at the right level. [00:34:39] Ko Kim: Yeah that's a great question cause I think sometimes the work of Social Justice, I tend to leave out the joy of social justice work sometimes. Cause I get so serious and bogged down. I forget that social justice work, it means wellness for me, wellness for us. Wellness for all of us. So you're right, it has to be age appropriate. Teaching for Justice has really great lesson plans and [00:35:00] they pair books. It goes by grade level. And then as you get to higher grade levels people's history, you know, the Howard Zinn open resource lesson plans also have a great one. I think it, to your point, it's really important to introduce a topic where folks are at. Cause that's also true for adults, right? Just because you're an adult doesn't mean you're ready for that topic either. There's a lot of pre-work and scaffolding that has to happen regardless of our age and reading skill. Yeah. Did that help answer your question, Tracy? [00:35:32] Tracy: Yeah. Thanks for the resource. I think that like some of the principles you're sharing is like meet people where they're at and I used to be an environmental educator and my framework I use with kids and adults is appreciation, education, action. So it's like no one's gonna wanna take action on something that they don't appreciate first. So once you feel the joy, like you said, then you learn more about it. Also, you don't wanna learn about anything you don't really like. So it's like you appreciate it, you like [00:36:00] it, you bring joy, then you learn more and then there'll be those like desire to learn. [00:36:04] Tracy: Then you actually wanna take action. It's really hard to get people to take action if they don't really appreciate or understand. So you're reminding me that is a framework, but, the meeting people where they're at is if they're already past appreciation, then maybe they're ready for an education or action book. [00:36:21] Miko Lee: And the only thing I would add to both of your great words is partly part of our work is to just show representation and to show different types of AAPI voices in this context. For instance, this is a lovely book called, a Map Into the World, and it's not, you know, Political, but it's about a Hmong girl and how she feels and how she walks through the world. And then there's another book that I was just introduced to, which is, Incarcerated Dad. I have it in my stacks of books around here, but it's a dad who is Cambodian and he's [00:37:00] incarcerated and it doesn't make a big deal about his incarceration. How great is that? It's about a dad who bakes, but the dad was formerly incarcerated. So just to show this representation is also a political act, right? We are saying that there are many different types of people within our community. Our community is broad. They come from different places, they have different experiences. So that doesn't have to be overly like we are being political , but it's really saying, look, our community is diverse. [00:37:30] Miko Lee: On the same vein I have stacks of children's books around me by the way that I put into categories. So I was going like, food is such an easy fit in for people because, we're looking within the network about narrative power, right? And there's all this research that, what's the number one thing people think of with Asian people? They think of food. Okay? Some people think that is such a drag. Why is it just around food? Why is it on Christmas? You know, everybody's eating at the Chinese restaurants, right? But there's a way to use that to our [00:38:00] advantage. It can be an in for people to understand culture. And so there are tons of books that are just about food and about culture. [00:38:10] Paige: I wanna just mention Magic Fish. I read all the recent children's books that I know in the last three years, or like the last three to five years. That book is so pretty. Like the art is so emotional. [00:38:23] Miko Lee: Yes. Beautiful. Lovely book. We haven't been talking enough about the graphic novels, so I love this. This is such an amazing book. [00:38:33] Miko Lee: This author, Grace Lynn has a bunch of books. Both picture books and board books. This one's called Dim Sum for Everyone, it's really cute. The artwork is quite adorable. She actually has another one that I love that's called The Ugly Vegetables, and it is about how her family grows traditional Chinese vegetables in her neighborhood and the kid hates it because everybody else grows flowers. And then at the end of [00:39:00] the season, the mom cooks the most amazing bitter Melon Soup, and all the neighbors smell the food and they all come and they wanna have the food. And so the whole neighborhood has celebration together over food and they bring flowers. So again, it's using food as a road in. There's also these great books about cultures coming together and making food together that are just titled by like bread or rice and all the different people around the world that eat bread and rice in the ways in which they do that. This one it's called Lunchtime with Samnang, and it's about learning, imagination, exploration, and about this kid's favorite Cambodian dishes as he hears tales from his grandfather. [00:39:43] Miko Lee: I think back to Tracy's original question around, how do you introduce hard topics, the first thing I was saying was representation, which I think is really critical. And then I think the other part is introducing some kind of like soft more deeper threads. [00:40:00] And so this is one that actually talks about a Rohingya, which are the oppressed minority peoples in China. And it's about a kid and his love of this bird. And so you could look at this as this allegory, right? About the oppression of peoples. Or you could read it as a boy and his bird. So you could take it multiple ways and have as in depth conversations as you want to have. But it really depends on who's the reader, right? And what are they reading with it? And there's a few more that are like this. There's a really good one. There's a few good ones about the Japanese, internment that I think, helped to tell that story. Like this one, A Place Where Sunflowers Grow. And it's really sweet and the art is quite lovely and it just tells about the Japanese incarceration, through a lens of a young girl. And I will say, what I find remarkable about this is there's a lot of books about the Japanese incarceration, a lot of children's books. [00:41:00] Almost all of them are about a boy or a male's perspective. Boys play baseball, boys go fishing, boys do this. So this is specifically about a girl and what she goes through and the lens that she leaves the world. I will say to you all, that I am incredibly biased. I raised two daughters and because I felt like the world is always introducing them to male writers and particularly white male writers that the only books I ever, ever read to them were written by BIPOC women, some men, but usually BIPOC women. and so I think it's also about the intentionality when you're picking children's book out about what you want to be able to share with your young people. [00:41:44] Miko Lee: Any other questions or thoughts? Oh, let me share one more one that I just saw, which was so fun. I love this one because this is an intersectional one and it's about a Japanese American and family, but their cousin is African American [00:42:00] and it's about when our cousins come. And so it has the family. And there this author has written a bunch like this I have them all at home. They're all about growing up in the inner city. And it's really this Blasian experience. What is it like to be Blasian and to be living in the inner city? So I think that's really fun. And what do we have to teach each other about our different cultures and how are we creating a new kind of Blasian culture? [00:42:26] Miko Lee: While we have a two more min, few more that's left is, many folks know about Yoyo Ma and his amazing work and how he does this work playing at the borders. The author Johanna Ho, who wrote it, and she's written a lot of other lovely books. But there's a great breakdown too, and if you wanted to do this with your young person, you could also play that actual music and see some of the real videos. So there's a way of reading the book, but then taking it to the next level and really showing with your young people how a book can push you off into additional learning. [00:42:57] Miko Lee: This one Eyes that Kiss in the Corners is [00:43:00] another about body affirmation. You know, a lot of us grow up with like slanting eyes or those stereotypes. And this is about just appreciating your body. Loving your body. [00:43:09] Ko Kim: And Johanna Ho has a male version of that one. Eyes stare into the sky, I think. Cause I think it's different, right? For how that topic is addressed by gender. [00:43:21] Paige: Jasmine, you were gonna say something? [00:43:25] Jasmine: Something I'm curious about, and maybe we'll need to write the book for, but a book for kids who are mixed white and Asian, around understanding their white privilege specifically, yeah. [00:43:39] Miko Lee: Ooh, that would be good. Jasmine. There was a bunch of books with half white kids, but nothing, I haven't seen anything. Ko have you seen anything about white privilege? Jasmine? There you go. There's your opening. Take it, write it. [00:43:55] Ko Kim: I'm here for a jasmine. I would love to see that. [00:44:00] [00:44:00] Miko Lee: Love that. thank you all so much. You know, last book club we talked about Thi Bui's book and I just wanted to point out Thi's Children's book, A different Pond. This is a amazing, Caldecott honor book, which is like the best that you can get in Children's book Landia. And it is just a really beautiful. It was written by a different author, but Tui illustrated it and is really about a boy and his dad and, their relationship. Tui has two more children's books, one actually that she wrote with her son and, another one with the author of the Sympathizer Viet Thanh and his son and they co-wrote them. Okay. We have one minute left. Thank you so much everybody for joining us. Thank you Ko Kim and all of you for joining us today for our AACRE Book Club on children's books. Thank you all. Have a great rest of your day and a lovely weekend. [00:44:52] Swati: Hey folks, Swati here. Miko was so bummed about not being able to have Innosanto Nagara come [00:45:00] to the children's book club but lucky enough she and Inno were able to sit down for a bonus interview! So we're going to play that for you now. [00:45:09] Miko Lee: Welcome Innosanto Nagara to APEX Express. [00:45:12] Miko Lee: We had an AACRE book club event and I was talking about your brilliant books. As I was saying that my go-to gifts for people that I have bought many time is A is for activists and C is for community. Can you tell me a little bit about how you got started writing those? [00:45:33] Innosanto: Thank you so much. Well I wrote a as for activist because I wanted to have the book that I wanted to read to my child. You know, I live in this community, cosent community and my son was the youngest of eight to be born into our community and I'd been reading children's books to children for quite a while. And as you know, when you have kids, you read these books to them [00:46:00] often over and over and over again. And some of those books you love reading over and over and over again. And sometimes, not so much , but that's what they want, so you do it. But, when my own kid was born, I realized I was gonna be reading all these books to my kid over and over and over and over again, and I wanted to have the book that I wanted to read to my kid over and over and over again. So I wrote A is for Activist . [00:46:22] Miko Lee: And that was your first book? [00:46:24] Innosanto: Yes. I had no, aspirations towards becoming a children's book author at that point, my idea was I was just gonna write this to share with my kid, and once I had written it and I was illustrating it, I thought, well, maybe you'll print out, Maybe a dozen or maybe even a hundred and get them out as presents to friends and community members. And I found out that it turns out to do a proper board book, you couldn't only print, a couple hundred. I had to actually print a couple thousand. And so I went into this whole process of trying [00:47:00] to figure out how to finance it and, I had this idea that it was gonna be a five year project and I was borrowing money from friends and family that I would pay back over time and I would put it on a credit card if at the end of the five years it didn't pay off. [00:47:14] Innosanto: But as it turns out, I underestimated how many other people wanted a book just like this. And it took off on its own. And, the rest is history. [00:47:22] Miko Lee: So you self-published A is for Activist? [00:47:24] Innosanto: Yeah. The first time around I self-published it. I had two pallets of books in my living room, in our community living room and every morning I was packing up books to drop off at the post office and every evening I was getting all the labels printed and all this stuff. [00:47:41] Innosanto: So it became a bit of a second job. [00:47:45] Innosanto: What then happened was after we sold it out, all the books, I had to decide whether I was gonna reprint them myself and keep on doing this. Or if there would be a publisher that wanted to take it on. And I think at that point it was actually 3000 books were sold. I thought that was good proof of [00:48:00] concept and a lot of the bookstores were saying, yeah, you should approach this publisher or that publisher, they'll be really happy to publish it a lot of people want this book. [00:48:08] Innosanto: But as it turns out, at the time, self-publishing was seen as the kiss of death for books and no publishers would want to take on a book that had already been self-published. but that's changed since then and one of the publishing companies that changed that as Seven Stories press, they had published, What Makes A Baby by Corey Silverberg, which was originally self-published. And they were realizing that the fact that something was self-published did not make it something that they couldn't produce and distribute more broadly. And so they actually took on A is for Activist as well. And all my books have been published by them ever since. [00:48:45] Miko Lee: That is so interesting. Almost like filmmakers and TV shows that have come off of social media accounts it's just changing the industry in a way. [00:48:54] Innosanto: Yeah, I think there's been some experiences where the industry is opening its mind a little bit. [00:49:00] Publishing has always been a hard to break into industry with a lot of gatekeepers that represent particular demographics and what they think makes a good book. And I think, one of the positive things that's come out of people being able to do things like self-publish and Put your work out in the world without going through those gatekeepers, is that we're discovering that there's actually a lot of missed opportunities, a lot of really good things that have people are producing that perhaps those experts have somehow, missed. [00:49:37] Innosanto: And I think that's been the case in all kinds of media and music as well. So some people like, Maya Christina Gonzalez, who has been working on this field for a long time. She is the author of numerous books on multiculturalism and Gender, and she's pretty much decided to really promote self-publishing to try to fill the gap [00:50:00] of the missing number of books by and for people of color in America. [00:50:08] Miko Lee: Who's that? [00:50:09] Innosanto: Maya Christina Gonzalez. OG has been doing it for a long time. [00:50:12] Miko Lee: Love it. So I also think it's amazing that you've stayed with the same publisher all of these years and your latest book. The Wedding Portrait, I loved discovering that and one of the things we were talking about at the book club is at what age and how do you start to talk with kids about difficult topics? And I really think the wedding portrait really delves into that. Can you share with our audience what the book is about and what inspired you to create it? [00:50:42] Innosanto: Yeah, the wedding portrait. Is essentially about direct action and civil disobedience. And why sometimes to make change and pretty much all the time to make change. It requires breaking the rules. And for kids that can be a complicated Topic because they're being told [00:51:00] to follow the rules all the time. [00:51:01] Innosanto: And so much of schooling and so much of life is learning how to play by the rules. And yet to make change, we have to be able to identify the times and places when we break the rules. And so that, that book, it came out a few years back right when trump was elected, so we were all expecting that there would be a lot of rule breaking that was gonna have to happen on our side. And I guess to answer your question as to when, it's gonna be different for different kids depending on what their experience is and what their life situation is. But, the main question here is who is talking to kids about difficult subjects, right? They will be talking about difficult subjects amongst themselves in a schoolyard. They're gonna be seeing things on tv, they're gonna be talking to other adults, teachers, and so on. And so the question of how do you approach difficult subjects with [00:52:00] kids, it's really a question of who do you want to have had those conversations with them first and through these processes, through the times that we're living in. For me I think it's when they start having questions and when they start wanting to have these conversations, there's really not a time that's too early to be able to address their concerns and question. [00:52:22] Miko Lee: Thanks. So talk to me about your latest book. [00:52:24] Innosanto: Since the wedding portrait there's been a few I did a middle grade book called M is for Movement, which is set in Indonesia. The way that I talk about my books is, A is for Activist is about the issues, counting on community is about how we live. my night in the planetarium, is about art and resistance and colonialism, and of course I say they're about these, but those are sort of the underlying themes. But, My night in the planetarium is about a kid. Me, it's a true story about how growing up under the dictatorship in Indonesia and an experience that I had,[00:53:00] the wedding portrait is about direct action civil disobedience. So it's about tactics and it stems from a personal experience when my partner, I got married, we went and did a direct action civil disobedience action, and there's a photograph of that but the broader context of the book is these vignettes about the different types of direct action and civil disobedience and tactics that have been used throughout the history of social justice movements. M is for Movement is kind of like bringing all those things together. And that one's actually fiction, but it's about overthrowing the government for children. And that's a middle grade chapter book. And then after that I did, Oh all the things we're for, which is very dear to my heart because it's a lot of these other books are about direct actions civil disobedience, protests, the things that we're fighting against. But I think it's really important to also talk about the things that we're for and the solutions and [00:54:00] the better world that we can envision in terms of democracy, in terms of human rights, in terms of environmental justice. And I feel like we have lots of solutions, but we tend to focus on the problems. And it's important to have a vision of the possibilities in order to be able to be motivated to fight for change. And then the last book, I didn't write it, but I illustrated it was written by my friend, Mona Damluji, and it's called Together. And that's also board book format. And it's a bit of a poem about, You'll have to read it, but, the theme that I think comes up a lot when we're talking to children about social change is the idea of collective action. But she does it in a way that, that I found really exciting because there's a lot of really good stories about people coming together to make change. But she does it in a way that is, poetic and accessible. [00:54:55] Miko Lee: Very exciting. I have M is for movement right by my side here, and I really appreciate you [00:55:00] going into middle school, which I think was a new venture for you, right? To write for middle school age? [00:55:06] Innosanto: Yeah, pretty much. I mean, all my books have followed the age of my kids, I basically write for him. [00:55:13] Miko Lee: Does that mean you're gonna be working on a high school book coming soon? [00:55:16] Innosanto: That's always a possibility. [00:55:19] Miko Lee: I also appreciate oh, the things we are for that you're talking about the irresistible future because it's hard we get bogged down in the problems without mm-hmm. imagining the beautiful future. So thank you for that. [00:55:32] Innosanto: Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. And you know, I do believe in protest and confronting injustice, and so it's not an either or, but I do think that we do need both especially for those of us who've been in this fight for a long time, I think having the vision is important as well as having the willingness to fight against the problem. [00:55:52] Miko Lee: Absolutely. It's a yes and [00:55:54] Innosanto: yeah. Yeah. [00:55:55] Miko Lee: Thank you so much for spending some time chatting with me. I always sure look [00:56:00] forward to hearing your voice and I so appreciate your art and your contributions. Thank you, Inno. [00:56:05] Innosanto: Thank you so much for having me. [00:56:07] Swati: Thank you so much to Miko for holding this amazing AACRE book club event. the children's book hour. Thank you to Kim Ko for subbing in last minute and being completely lovely. And thank you to, Innosanto Nagara who came in for a surprise interview. I loved being able to hear about children's books that impacted everyone, children's books that they love, and children's books that they still hope to write. [00:56:33] Swati: I absolutely agree that you know, no matter how old you are, you are never too old for a picture book, especially if it has a good message. There were of course, a ton of books mentioned in the show today, and even more that weren't mentioned. We'll drop a full list into the show notes with links, so please feel free to go to kpfa.org/program/apex-express to check [00:57:00] that out. And of course, as always, we hope that you buy small and local for your nibbling and yourself. [00:57:06] Swati: Finally, thank you so, so much to East Wind Books now and for always for co-hosting these events with AACRE and allowing Miko a chance to get lost in your shelves and emerge with these treasures. We really hope that you enjoyed these recommendations and strongly encourage you to share your own recommendations with us. [00:57:25] Miko Lee: Please check out our website, kpfa.org backslash program, backslash apex express to find out more about the show tonight and to find out how you can take direct action. We thank all of you listeners out there. Keep resisting, keep organizing, keep creating and sharing your visions with the world. Your voices are important. Apex express is produced by Miko Lee Jalena Keane-Lee and Paige Chung and special editing by Swati Rayasam. Thank you so much to the KPFA staff for their support have a great night. The post APEX Express – 12.22.2022 – Children's Books at East Wind Bookstore with Ko Kim appeared first on KPFA.
Today, we'll tell you a story about the development of Half-Life: Counterstrike. Our story includes the career of its creators, Minh Le and Jess Cliff. We'll also briefly look at Counter-Strike as a competitive sport. Join us for today's modified trip down Memory Card Lane.
January 2023 Solicits Comic Reviews: DC Batman: One Bad Day – Penguin by John Ridley, Giuseppe Camuncoli, Cam Smith Flashpoint Beyond 6 by Geoff Johns, Tim Sheridan, Jeremy Adams, Xermanico, Mikel Janin, Gary Frank, Romulo Fajardo Jr, Jordie Bellaire, Brad Anderson Rogues 4 by Joshua Williamson, Leomacs G.C.P.D.: The Blue Wall 1 by John Ridley, Stefano Raffaele, Brad Anderson Harley Quinn: Animated Series – Legion of Bats 1 by Tee Franklin, Shae Beagle, Roberto Poggi, Lee Loughridge Green Lantern: Alliance by Minh Le, Andie Tong Marvel Crypt of Shadows 1 by Al Ewing, Ramon Bachs, Rain Beredo, Danny Lore, Karen Darboe, Cris Peter, Rebecca Roanhorse, Geoff Shaw, Arif Prianto, Chris Cooper, Ibrahim Moustafa, Neerag Menon, Chris Condon, Fran Galan, James Campbell, Adam Warren, Guru eFX Deadly Neighborhood Spider-Man 1 by Taboo, B. Earl, Juan Ferreyra Miracleman by Gaiman and Buckingham: The Silver Age 1 by It's Jeff by Kelly Thompson, GuriHiru Image Marked Halloween Special by David Hine, Brian Haberlin, Geirrod Van Dyke Silver Coin 15 by Michael Walsh IDW Sonic the Hedgehog: Scrapnik Island 1 by Daniel Barnes, Jack Lawrence, Nathalie Fourdraine Dark Horse Hellboy in Love 1 by Christopher Golden, Matt Smith, Chris O'Halloran Climate Keepers: Agents of Project Zero by Nadia Shaik, Caitlin Like Boom Eve: Children of the Moon 1 by Victor LaValle, Jo Mi-Gyeong, Brittany Peer Archie Fear the Funhouse 1 by Magdalene Visaggio, Micol Ostow, Michael Northrop, Diana Camero, Ryan Caskey, Lisette Carrera ComiXology Night at the Belfry by Xavier Saxon OGN Head Wounds: Sparrow by Robert Johnson, John Alvey, Brian Buccellato, Christian Ward Prunella and the Cursed Skull Ring by Matt Loux Gunning for Ramirez vol 2 by Nicolas Petrimaux Ray's OGN Corner: Heartstopper vol 1 by Alice Oseman Additional Reviews: Andor ep7, Black Adam, Doctor Who: The Power of the Doctor Longbox of Horror 2022 part 4: The Haunting News: Lucha Libre wrestling show coming to Disney+, Cavill returning as Superman, short horror movie from Tynion IV and Elsa Charretier, Geiger TV adaptation, final season of Flash Trailers: Creed 3 Comics Countdown: Deadly Class 56 by Rick Remender, Wes Craig, Lee Loughridge Bone Orchard Mythos: Ten Thousand Black Feathers 2 by Jeff Lemire, Andrea Sorrentino, Dave Stewart Night at the Belfry by Xavier Saxon Flash 787 by Jeremy Adams, Fernando Pasarin, Matt Ryan, Jeromy Cox Wynd: The Throne in the Sky 3 by James Tynion IV, Michael Dialynas Rogues 4 by Joshua Williamson, Leomacs Batman: One Bad Day – Penguin by John Ridley, Giuseppe Camuncoli, Cam Smith Flashpoint Beyond 6 by Geoff Johns, Tim Sheridan, Jeremy Adams, Xermanico, Mikel Janin, Gary Frank, Romulo Fajardo Jr, Jordie Bellaire, Brad Anderson Batman: The Knight 10 by Chip Zdarsky, Carmine Di Giandomenico, Ivan Plascencia Avengers 61 by Jason Aaron, Ivan Fiorelli, David Curiel
This week on the Handsell, Spider-Man's Social Dilemma author Preeti Chhibber recommends some of her favorite comics! Follow the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. BOOKS DISCUSSED Spider-Man's Social Dilemma by Preeti Chhibber Spidey Vol. 1: First Day (Robbie Thompson / Nick Bradshaw) Ms. Marvel Vol. 1: No Normal (G. Willow Wilson, Sana Amanat, Adrian Alphona) Green Lantern: Legacy (Minh Lê/Andie Tong) Drawn Together, Minh Le & Dan Santat DC vs Vampires Vol. 1 (James Tynion IV, Matthew Rosenberg, Otto Schmidt) Avengers Assembly by Preeti Chhibber Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week, Lasya sits down with Michael Minh Le, an MD Candidate at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. He is very knowledgeable about the pre-medical path and mentors many students. Make sure you check out more of his content on Tik Tok @michaelminhle. Through this episode, he shares the 6 components that make a competitive medical school applicants. He emphasizes the importance of authenticity working through pre-medical years through pursuing interests you truly enjoy and how to find such activities. Furthermore, he explains how exactly pre-meds can make a plan and self-assess to make sure they don't fall behind on their path to medical school. Sometimes pre-meds do fall behind, but Micheal describes how to self-assess and compensate for any gaps on your application. Overall, this episode can be informative to anyone interested in pursuing medical school! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lasya-marla/message
Find a free literary database containing the books we’ve discussed here:Books reviewed in this episode:Links on the website are affiliate links- they don’t cost you any extra to use but they greatly help support the cost of running this site. Thank you! Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom by Ursula Nordstrom,Leonard S. Marcus (Editor), Maurice Sendak (Illustrator)Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White illustrated by Garth WilliamsJo’s Boys by Louisa May AlcottThe Romance of the Forest by Ann RadcliffeThe Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann RadcliffeEliott Family Trilogy by Elizabeth GoudgeThe Bird in the TreeThe Herb of Grace/Pilgrim’s Inn in the USAThe Heart of the FamilyThe Blue House by Phoebe WahlBe Kind by Pat Z. MillerNature All Around: Plants by Pamela Hickman illus. by Carolyn GavinNature All Around: Trees by Pamela Hickman illus. by Carolyn GavinA Year in Our New Garden by Gerda Muller- *since recording we’ve found this title has been republished by a Canadian publisher and is now available on Amazon!*Irena’s Jars of Secrets by Marcia Vaughn Edith Cavell by Adèle de Leeuw (Spies of the World series)The Ark by Margot Benary-IsbertRowan Farm by Margot Benary-IsbertDrawn Together by Minh Le illustrated by Dan SantatThe Thief by Megan Whalen TurnerMore Stories from Grandma’s Attic by Arleta RichardsonA Green and Ancient Light by Frederic S. DurbinBooks mentioned84, Charing Cross Road by Helene HanffLittle House Books by Laura Ingalls Wilder- Correction-Garth Williams illustrated the Little House books, not the Little Women books. Ambre got the “Little” right! ha!Sonja’s Chickens by Phoebe WahlA Year Around the Great Oak by Gerda MullerWhere Do They Go When It Rains? by Gerda MullerA Circle of Seasons by Gerda MullerLinnea Books by Lena AndersonGreen Dolphin Street by Elizabeth Goudge Belinda by Maria EdgeworthLittle Men by Louisa May AlcottJo’s Boys by Louisa May AlcottLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottEcho Mountain by Lauren Wolk This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.reshelvingalexandria.com
Minh Le is the General Director at Tyme Vietnam. Minh takes his leadership roles in managing and operating the technology team with the mission of designing and building digital multi-country banks. While traditional banks often focus on big enterprises, digital banks target individual customers. Although there are not many differences between these two types of banking services, the digital bank has been a more favored option of many customers, offering a fluid, quick, and convenient experience along with user-oriented financial solutions with the help of advanced technology. In this podcast episode, Minh Le shares with host Hao Tran about the process of building and developing digital banking chains in developing markets. Listen to this episode on YouTube And explore many amazing articles at the website vietcetera.com.Tyme is one of the world's fastest-growing digital banking groups globally, building high-tech and high-touch banks in fast-growing, emerging markets. Established in 2016, Tyme Vietnam has been the Technology Hub for Tyme, bringing together engineering and product people, who share a global mission to become serial bank builders, shaping the future of banking through technology.
Producing a branded podcast is only part of the job; promoting it effectively is the other. Minh Le is vice president at DVL Seigenthaler, a Finn Partners PR, integrated marketing, and advertising firm responsible for producing popular podcasts like Around the Barrel, the official podcast for Jack Daniel's. Minh joins us to share tips on how to promote your podcast, including creative ideas like using your own employees as a built-in first audience and why it's important to publish your episodes on a platform that makes engaging with the content seamless for your listeners. > Transcript > Ready to start your own branded podcast? Let us help you get started with a free consultation.
Ce vendredi 31 décembre, Sandra Gandoin et Guillaume Paul ont reçu Minh Le, directeur général de PKvitality, Nicolas Goldberg, expert en énergie chez Colombus Consulting, Alexandre Millon, directeur général du groupe Millon, et Jean-Louis Bourlanges, député MoDem des Hauts-de-Seine et président de la commission des affaires étrangères de l'Assemblée nationale, dans l'émission Good Morning Business sur BFM Business. Retrouvez l'émission du lundi au vendredi et réécoutez la en podcast.
Minh Le, directeur général de PKvitality, était l'invité de Guillaume Paul dans Good Morning Business, ce vendredi 31 décembre. Ils sont revenus sur K'Watch glucose qui mesure la glycémie des patients diabétiques en temps réel et de manière indolore, sur BFM Business. Retrouvez l'émission dulundi au vendredi et réécoutez la en podcast.
Mentioned in this episode:The Disenchantments by Nina LacourThe Electric Slide and Kai by Kelly J. Baptist; Illustrated by Darnell JohnsonIsaiah Dunn Is My Hero by Kelly J. BaptistThe Griffins of Castle Cary by Heather ShumakerAmerican Road Trip by Patrick Flores-ScottJumped In by Patrick Flores-ScottI Am Drums by Mike GrossoFrederick by Leo LionniAll American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan KielyAdiós, Nirvana by Conrad WesselhoeftWe Are All That's Left by Carrie ArcosOn the Come Up by Angie ThomasWith the Fire On High by Elizabeth AcevedoDrawn Together by Minh Le; Illustrated by Dan SantatOur Books for Children and Young Adults:Flying Lessons & Other Stories Edited by Ellen Oh- Kelly's short story in this middle grade anthology is “The Beans and Rice Chronicles of Isaiah Dunn.”Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero by Kelly J. BaptistThe Electric Slide and Kai by Kelly J. Baptist; Illustrated by Darnell JohnsonSee You in the Cosmos by Jack ChengJumped In by Patrick Flores-ScottAmerican Road Trip by Patrick Flores-ScottThe Griffins of Castle Cary by Heather ShumakerFind us online:Kelly J. Baptist: kellyiswrite.comJack Cheng: jackcheng.comPatrick Flores-Scott: patrickfloresscott.comHeather Shumaker: heathershumaker.comEmail us hello@booksmitten.usProduced by Josie Schneider and Corey SchneiderMusic by Duck Duck Chicken
Minh Le (‘12), Co-founder & COO of In-Between Studios, talks with host Vi Payulert (DCP'12) about the leap he took moving to the West Coast to Los Angeles, where keeping your network of Gator Alumni helps you in any stage of life.
Comic Reviews: DC Festival of Heroes - The Asian Superhero Celebration by Greg Pak, Gene Luen Yang, Pornsak Pichetshote, Amy Chu, Mariko Tamaki, Sarah Kuhn, Ram V, Alyssa Wong, Minh Le, Aniz Adam Ansari, Dustin Nguyen, Cliff Chiang, Francis Manapul, Philip Tan, Sean Chen, Marcus To, Marcio Takara, Sami Basri, Jim Cheung, Jae Lee, Gurihiru, Kevin Wada, Victoria Ying, Audrey Mok, Sumit Kumar, Alexandre Tefenkgi, Trung Le Nguyen, Bernard Chang, Norm Rapmund, Rain Beredo, Sunny Gho, Jordie Bellaire, Romulo Fajardo Jr., Sebastian Cheng, Jen Bartel, June Chang Future State: Gotham 1 by Joshua Williamson, Dennis Culver, Giannis Milonogiannis, Yasmine Putri Justice League: Last Ride 1 by Chip Zdarsky, Miguel Mendonca Legends of the Dark Knight 7 by Stephanie Phillips, Max Dunbar Rorschach 8 by Tom King, Jorge Fornes, Dave Stewart Giant-Size Amazing Spider-Man: King's Ransom by Nick Spencer, Carlos Gomez, Ze Carlos, Roge Antonio, Alex Sinclair Heroes Reborn: Hyperion and the Imperial Guard by Ryan Cady, Michele Bandini, Elisabetta D'Amico, Arick Arciniega Heroes Reborn: Peter Parker - The Amazing Shutterbug by Marc Bernardin, Rafael De Latorre, Ron Lim, Scott Hanna, Jim Campbell Heroes Reborn 2 by Jason Aaron, Ed McGuinness, Mark Morales, Matt Wilson, X-Corp 1 by Tini Howard, Alberto Foche, Sunny Gho Time Before Time 1 by Rory McConville, Declan Shalvey, Joe Palmer, Chris O'Halloran Silver Coin 2 by Kelly Thompson, Michael Walsh Black Hammer Visions 4 by Mariko Tamaki, Diego Olortegui, Dave Stewart House of Lost Horizons: A Sarah Jewell Mystery 1 by Mike Mignola, Chris Roberson, Leila Del Duca, Michelle Madsen Silver City 1 by Olivia Cuartero-Briggs, Luca Merli Hailstone 1 by Rafael Scavone, Rafael de Latorre, Rafael Albuquerque, Wesllei Manoel Starfall High 1 by Adam Blackhat, Mayerlin Uribe 99 Cent Theater Caspian Porter 0 by Drew Lenhart, Juan Fleites, Jonathan Wetmore Fire Queen 1 by Thea Belak, Marin Markel Princess Who Saved Herself by Greg Pak, Jonathan Coulton, Takeshi Miyazawa Softies: Stuff That Happens After the World Blows Up by Kyle Smeallie Fearless by Kenny Porter We Run by Chip Zdarsky and Elsa Charretier Additional Reviews: Line of Duty, Project Hail Mary, Suicide Squad: Bad Blood, Star Wars Adventures: Tales From Vader's Castle News: Chip Zdarsky on Hulk, Clownhunter vs. Punchline, Bitter Root movie by Bryan Hill and Regina King, War of the Bounty Hunters is six months and 33 parts, Kang mini by Lanzing and Kelly, Amphibia season finale gets an air date, Knives Out 2 casting, Round Robin updates Trailers: Wish Dragon Comics Countdown: Rorschach 8 by Tom King, Jorge Fornes, Dave Stewart Black Hammer Visions 4 by Mariko Tamaki, Diego Olortegui, Dave Stewart Joker 3 by James Tynion IV, Guillem March, Arif Prianto Birthright 49 by Joshua Williamson, Andrei Bressan, Adriano Lucas Time After Time 1 by Rory McConville, Declan Shalvey, Joe Palmer, Chris O'Halloran Seven Secrets 8 by Tom Taylor, Daniele Di Nicuolo, Walter Baiamonte, Katia Ranalli American Vampire 1976 8 by Scott Snyder, Rafael Albuquerque, Dave McCaig Guardians of the Galaxy 14 by Al Ewing, Juan Frigeri, Federico Blee Geiger 2 by Geoff Johns, Gary Frank, Brad Anderson Proctor Valley Road 3 by Grant Morrison, Alex Child, Naomi Franquiz, Tamra Bonvillain
On this episode of The Dental Student Vibes Podcast, Seth and Matt sit down with Dental student Minh Le to discuss his path to dental school and how he thrives in professional school. Minh dives deep on why he chose dentistry and how he plans on changing the lives of his patients. Check out the pearls he provides on how to prevent burnout and strengthen your application at the same time. Minh talks about his journey through undergrad and the things he did to make himself a competitive applicant. Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts or your podcast platform, we always read your feedback! Awesome merchandise & cool gifts: VIBES SHOP Be sure to check out our new Amazon E-Book:7 Hacks to Boost Your Dental School Application! Youtube:Dental Student Vibes Instagram:@dental.student.vibes Facebook:Dental Student Vibes Twitter:@DSVpodcast Website: https://dentalstudentvibes.com
Computerspillet Counter-Strike har mere end 20 år på bagen, men er i dag mere populært end nogensinde. Hvorfor er det blevet en digital evergreen, når ny teknologi og nye spiltyper siden da er kommet til i hobetal? Og hvad betyder spillet for manden, der skabte det? Mikkel og Esben får hjælp til at fortælle historien om computerspillet Counter-Strike og spillets skaber Minh Le. Medvirkende: Jakob Lund Kristensen, Søren Dalager Ditlevsen. Værter: Mikkel Malmberg og Esben Hardenberg. kortsluttet@dr.dk
Minh Le's asnwer to: Why don't I talk as much as other people? Well, I also had this problem before. In every party and conversation, I had always been the most quite person because I didn't know what to say. I was afraid that people would find me boring because I didn't talk much. Then I realize that there're these three simple solutions to this problem. Most people like to talk about themselves, what they like and dislike, their passions, etc. And it makes them feel best talking to someone who can listen. If you practice active listening, you will be able to understand people better which leads to your ability to ask open-end, interesting questions. That's how to keep a conversation going on interestingly. And by actively listening, it helps you to accumulate knowledge, experiences and stories from other people adding up to your life library and you'll be able to remember a lot of good stories well. Thus, those experiences you accumulate become your own stories to tell other people in upcoming conversations, meetings, etc. In order to become a good speaker, you first need to be a good listener. Another way to increase your knowledge in general so you can have a wide range of topics to talk about is reading. Writers sometime put their whole lifetime experiences in a book of several hundred pages, by reading a book, you absorb all of those knowledge in just a much shorter time. The more you read, the more knowledgable you are, which makes you become much more intellectually interesting. It's always a better conversation talking with someone who reads a lot more than a person who read nothing. So take at least 30 minutes a day reading book as a habit, believe me, you won't regret reading too much. Last thing, don't worry if you're not able to have much to talk about at the moment. Being a good conversationalist is all about story telling. If you pay extra attention to your everyday things and learn how to talk about them in an interesting way, that would be still much better than having an interesting story being told in a boring way. How you tell a story matters as much as your experiences and knowledge. So, to sum up, you need first to be a good listener, do reading as a habit and then learn how to tell a story well. That's all you need to make a good talk. https://qr.ae/pGXG0Z from www.Quora.com
This week Seth and Rebecca discuss their favorite books about celebrating differences. 1:55- An ABC of Equality, by Chana Ginelle Ewing 18:49- Who Are You: The Kids Guide to Gender Identity, buy Brook Pessin Whedbee 19:00- It Feels Good to be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity, by Theresa Thorn Justice, Equality, and Equity Cartoon 31:27- The Barefoot Book of Children/Barefoot Books Children of the World, by Tessa Strickland 37:55 The Baby’s Catalogue, by Allan Ahlberg and Janet Ahlberg 54:10- Lovely, by Jess Hong 1:08:40- I See You, by Michael Genhart 1:12:06- Drawn Together, by Minh Le 1:26:53- I Dissent, by Debbie Levy Find us on the web! Rad Child Podcast: www.radchildpodcast.com Facebook Twitter Instagram Contact us: radchildpodcast@gmail.com Be a guest Donate Buy Rad Merch Shift Book Box: https://www.shiftbookbox.com/ Facebook Instagram Twitter
In this book talk bonus episode, Jarrett and Jerome Pumphrey share four recent kidlit books they love. Their recommendations focus on work by collaborator teams who have released amazing picture books this year:A POLAR BEAR IN THE SNOW by Mac Barnett and Shawn HarrisTHE BARNABUS PROJECT by the Fan BrothersLIFT by Minh Le and Dan SantatMILO IMAGINES THE WORLD by Matt de la Pena and Christian RobinsonDuring the show, we mentioned a video on IGTV where Matt de la Pena and Christian Robinson discuss their collaboration on MILO IMAGINES THE WORLD. You can watch the video here.You can learn more about Jarrett and Jerome's work on their website at thepumphreybrothers.com. You can connect with them on Twitter @jpumphrey and @wjpumphrey, and on Instagram @jpumphrey and @wjpumphrey.You can support independent bookstores by purchasing the Pumphrey brothers's books through bookshop.org:THE OLD TRUCK by Jarrett and Jerome Pumphrey(Pre-Order) THE OLD BOAT by Jarrett and Jerome PumphreyThank you for listening to the show. You can connect with host Chrissie Wright on Instagram @chrissiemwright and on Twitter @chrissiemwright, and follow the show on Instagram @authorvisitspod.
Episode Notes In episode 213, I sit down with Minh Le Getty as we talk about her experiences with Cerebral Palsy, growing up with 10 adopted siblings, how a surgery negatively impacted her life, why it was frowned upon to grow up disabled in Hong Kong and so much more. Enjoy! You can follow Minh Le on Insta at: https://www.instagram.com/minh_le_getty/ Pre-order The Handi Book of Love, Lust and Disability: https://thatshandi.co/collections/pre-order You can get 50% off almost any item in store at www.adameve.com and 10 FREE GIFTS by using DARKPOD at check out! You can get 15% off your order at ComeAsYouAre.com by using coupon code AFTERDARK Also, support Disability After Dark by pledging to the patreon. www.patreon.com/disabilityafterdark
Nicole and Matthew talk about the ancestral strength and the ability to look ahead knowing who and what has already come before you. Joining us is special guest Tami Charles, author of All Because You Matter, illustrated by Bryan Collier. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s mystery thriller podcast, Read or Dead, Frankie and the Creepy Cute Critters by Caitlin Rose Boyle from Oni Lion Forge Publishing Group, and Spark and the League of Ursus by Robert Repino from Quirk Books. To get even more kidlit news and recommendations, sign up for our The Kids Are All Right newsletter! Relevant Links: Tami Charles (website) All Because You Matter book trailer Tami talks to her son about All Because You Matter Books Discussed on the Show: Picture Books: All Because You Matter by Tami Charles; illustrated by Bryan Collier The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander; illustrated by Kadir Nelson Alma and How She Got Her Name by Juana Martinez-Neal Going Down Home with Daddyby Kelly Starling Lyons; illustrated by Daniel Minter Middle Grade: Ghost Squad by Claribel A. Ortega Green Lantern: Legacy by Minh Le; illustrated by Andie Tong Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance by Nikki Grimes (releasing January 5, 2021) The Last Last-Day-Of-Summer by Lamar Giles; illustrated by Dapo Adeola The Last Mirror on the Left by Lamar Giles; illustrated by Dapo Adeola The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani Closing Note: Let us know what books or topics you’ve been sharing this week, or if you have a suggestion or book recommendation for an upcoming episode. Find us on email (kidlitthesedays@bookriot.com) or Twitter (@MatthewWinner and @ittybittyny). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Whether your family is doing e-learning, homeschooling, unschooling, striking, or hiding out in a bunker to avoid the latest natural disaster, you need The Creativity Project book to fill your time and sparkle your creativity. If you’re not sure if this book is for you, listen as the mamas give the hard sell (no, there’s no money in it for them although they’ll take your money if you’re offering) for literary advocate Colby Sharp and his unique prompt-response anthology along with tips to keep your kids learning, growing and creating. The Creativity Project, edited by Colby SharpThis collection of prompts and responses from dozens of well-known children’s authors is the brainchild of teacher and literary advocate Colby Sharp (5 Questions with Mr. Sharp), who invited some of the best storytellers in Kidlit to share a prompt. Then the artists swapped prompts and let their imaginations run wild. The results appear in The Creativity Project book in the form of stories, drawings, poems, and comics. A section titled Prompts for You, is a call to action at the end that encourages readers to create their own awesome works of art. The Mamas couldn’t call out every contributor in the book, but they did discuss the works of these authors and illustrators: Sherman Alexi, Kate Messner, R.J. Palacio, Dav Pilkey, Minh Le, Victoria Jamieson, Lemony Snicket, Jennifer L. Holm, Chris Grabenstein, Andrea Davis Pinkney, Adam Gidwitz, Sophie Blackall, Kate DiCamillo, and Kat Yeh. Pick 6: The mamas’ tips for sparking creativity at home or school1. Poetry Friday Anthology2. Scholastic Story Starter Scrambler3. Story Prompts from Think Written and Squibler4. Painting with ice5. Ice Play6. Airport Stories Episode Reference Links:Tomie’s Little Book of Poems by Tomie dePaolaWhere the Sidewalk EndsHank Zipzer by Henry Winkler
As the country experiences the first wave of school re-openings during the pandemic, Claire and Linda discuss the importance of home libraries for parents who have suddenly also become educators. We talk about organizations like Tree House Books that are providing resources to families and recommend books for different stages of development. Books recommended during the show are listed below. For more suggestions like these, peruse our online store here. Ages 4-6 I Talk Like a River by Scott Jordan, illustrated by Sydney Smith Thank You, Omu! by Oge Mora Ages 7-9 Drawn Together by Minh Le, illustrated by Dan Santat Sofia Valdez, Future Prez by Andrea Beaty, illustrated by David Roberts Ages 10-12 A Swirl of Ocean by Melissa Sarno Something Happened in Our Town: A Child's Story About Racial Injustice by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, Ann Hazzard, Donald Moses, illustrated by Jennifer Zivoin Ages 13-15 PET by Akwaeke Emezi The Great Upending by Beth Kephart May I Recommend? is a RADIOKISMET podcast. For more, visit RADIOKISMET.COM.
Jess and Trisha talk about things people love about reading romance and then offer some non-romance novel entertainment options that might share similar qualities. This episode is sponsored by TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering reading recommendations personalized to your reading life; Libro FM; and Book Riot Insiders, the digital hangout spot for the Book Riot community. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more romance recs and news, sign up for our Kissing Books newsletter! News Discussed You – yes you! – can attend the virtual Romance GenreCon from the Mid-Continent Public Library! Books and Non-Book Entertainment Discussed Tangled Playing House The Great Harlots Ms. Marvel by G. Willow Wilson and illustrated by Adrian Alphona Green Lantern Legacy by Minh Le and illustrated by Andie Tong America Vol 1: The Life and Times of America Chavez and America Vol 2: Fast and Furtona by Gabby Rivera Digital coloring, and specifically Happy Color and Color Planet Sanjay’s Super Team Purl Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin with pictures by Betsy Lewin Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett and drawn by Ron Barrett The Bold Type The Weekend Tig Imagine Me & You Kissing Jessica Stein But I’m a Cheerleader Free Solo Let us know what you love about reading romance and whether you can get any of those feelings or perspectives through other media. As always, you can find Jess and Trisha at the WIR email address (wheninromance@bookriot.com). You can also find us on Twitter (@jessisreading and @trishahaleybrwn), or Instagram (@jess_is_reading and @trishahaleybrown).
We’re in the full swing of summer, and Chevon and Hiba are diving into a conversation about representation in the superhero universe and the comic book world! DC Comics authors Gene Luen Yang and Minh Le join our hosts to talk about their projects “Superman Smashes The Klan” and “Green Lantern Legacy” and how their art and stories fit into the broader context around diversity and inclusion in superhero narratives. The conversation explores the origins of some of our modern superheroes, the influence of the events of WWII and the Civil Rights movement, and why comics are as important as ever to young readers of color. Next time on our season finale, we’ll be shouting out some of our fans that have left us reviews –– stay tuned, same Momentum time, same Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast! Resources (by order of mention) Wes Moore Talks Fighting Poverty, Budget Priority, Systemic Change + His New Book (via The Breakfast Club Power 105.1) https://bit.ly/38BdomY Gene Luen Yang Official Websitehttps://geneyang.com/ Twitter https://twitter.com/geneluenyang Gene Luen Yang: Comics Belong in the Classroom (via Ted Talks) https://www.ted.com/talks/gene_luen_yang_comics_belong_in_the_classroom Superman Smashes The Klan (via DC Comics) https://www.dccomics.com/graphic-novels/superman-smashes-the-klan-periodical-2019/superman-smashes-the-klan Minh Le Official Website http://minhlebooks.com/ Twitter https://twitter.com/bottomshelfbks Green Lantern Legacy (via DC Comics) https://www.dccomics.com/graphic-novels/green-lantern-legacy March (series) by US Congressman John Lewishttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/1MA/march Thich Nhat Hanh: The Monk Who Taught The World Mindfulness Awaits the End of This Life (via Time Magazine)https://time.com/5511729/monk-mindfulness-art-of-dying/ The Shadow Hero https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18465601-the-shadow-hero The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye by Sonny Liewhttp://artofcharliechan.com/ Captain America Truth: Red, White & Blackhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/670341.Truth About Race Forward: Race Forward catalyzes movement building for racial justice. In partnership with communities, organizations, and sectors, we build strategies to advance racial justice in our policies, institutions, and culture. Race Forward imagines a just, multiracial, democratic society, free from oppression and exploitation, in which people of color thrive with power and purpose. Follow Race Forward on social media Follow us on Facebook:www.facebook.com/raceforward Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/raceforward Follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/raceforward Building Racial Equity (BRE) Trainings www.raceforward.org/trainings Facing Race 2020 (more information coming soon)www.facingrace.raceforward.org Subscribe to our newsletter:www.raceforward.org/subscribe Executive Producers: Hendel Leiva and Melissa Franqui
We welcome Minh Lê to the show! His newest book (a collaboration with Dan Santat), Lift, is a charming, escapist book about the power of imagination… and the compelling urge to press elevator buttons! Honestly, who can't relate to that? Minh also recently worked with illustrator Andie Tong on Green Lantern: Legacy for DC Comics, which tells the story of the newest Lantern: 13-year-old Tai Pham. On this episode, we talk to Minh about his career, his books, working with Dan Santat, and why it's important to continue working and creating… especially now.
Minh was easily one of Gary's favorite guest to date. Gary had the chance to meet Minh last year at NCTE. Minh was kind enough to speak with Gary and his wife on a number of occasions about everything. Not just books. Not just education. Life. And that is what Gary and him chat about on this podcast. Website: http://minhlebooks.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/bottomshelfbks Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bottomshelfbks/
1. Minh Le - writer of DC Comics' Green Lantern: Legacy
Today we have the absolute pleasure of speaking with Minh Le, author of Green Lantern Legacy from DC Comics! Not
In this episode we are joined by the author Minh Le winner of the 2019 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature who's most recent project Green Lantern Legacy which is the latest graphic novel from DC's new Zoom Series : Tai Pham is only twelve years old, but he has what it takes to be a Green Lantern. Follow us on Twitter and join our facebook group. This podcast is part of the TaylorNetwork which is a home to many great podcasts all available on taylornetwork feed on Spotify, Itunes, stitcher radio and also google play
In this episode we are joined by the author Minh Le winner of the 2019 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature who's most recent project Green Lantern Legacy which is the latest graphic novel from DC's new Zoom Series : Tai Pham is only twelve years old, but he has what it takes to be a Green Lantern. Follow us on Twitter and join our facebook group. This podcast is part of the TaylorNetwork which is a home to many great podcasts all available on taylornetwork feed on Spotify, Itunes, stitcher radio and also google play
A new take and graphic novel which tells the story of a 13-year-old Vietnamese boy who stumbles on the ring and legacy of his Green Lantern grandmother.
This week, Liberty and María Cristina discuss Riot Baby, Fight of the Century, The Seep, and more great books. This episode was sponsored Book Riot’s Read Harder 2020 Challenge, Flatiron Books, publisher of American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins, and Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing. Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, iTunes, or Spotify and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW: The Blaze by Chad Dundas A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World: A Novel by C. A. Fletcher Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi The Sweet Indifference of the World: A Novel by Peter Stamm, Michael Hofmann (translator) The Seep by Chana Porter Remembrance by Rita Woods Homie: Poems by Danez Smith Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman WHAT WE’RE READING: Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death by Caitlin Doughty and Dianné Ruz Guess Who is the Happiest Girl in Town by Susi Wyss MORE BOOKS OUT THIS WEEK: Sunnyside Plaza by Scott Simon Devil Darling Spy by Matt Killeen Poison Flowers & Pandemonium by Richard Sala Year of the Rabbit by Tian Veasna Abigail by Magda Szabo, Len Rix (translator) The Angel and the Assassin: The Tiny Brain Cell That Changed the Course of Medicine by Donna Jackson Nakazawa The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism by Kyle Chayka How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish by Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties by Christopher Caldwell The Best of Iggy by Annie Barrows, Sam Ricks (Illustrator) What I Carry by Jennifer Longo Small Days and Nights: A Novel by Tishani Doshi Rogue Princess by B.R. Myers Spellhacker by M. K. England The Wife and the Widow by Christian White Off Script by Kate Watson A Queen in Hiding (The Nine Realms) by Sarah Kozloff All the F*cking Mistakes: A Guide to Sex, Love, and Life by Gigi Engle Heart of Junk by Luke Geddes Wardens of Eternity by Courtney Allison Moulton And in the Vienna Woods the Trees Remain: The Heartbreaking True Story of a Family Torn Apart by War by Elisabeth Åsbrink, Saskia Vogel (translator) The Majesties: A Novel by Tiffany Tsao The Iron Will of Genie Lo (A Genie Lo Novel) by F. C. Yee A Long Petal of the Sea: A Novel by Isabel Allende Recipe for a Perfect Wife: A Novel by Karma Brown Processed Cheese: A Novel by Stephen Wright American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins Universal Love: Stories by Alexander Weinstein Here I Am! by Pauline Holdstock Stateway’s Garden: Stories by Jasmon Drain Not So Pure and Simple by Lamar Giles The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia by Emma Copley Eisenberg Layoverland by Gabby Noone Murder Your Darlings: And Other Gentle Writing Advice from Aristotle to Zinsser by Roy Peter Clark The Criminal Child: Selected Essays (New York Review Books Classics) by Jean Genet, Jeffrey Zuckerman (translator), Charlotte Mandell (translator) Bitter Falls (Stillhouse Lake Book 4) by Rachel Caine Wife After Wife by Olivia Hayfield American Queenmaker: How Missy Meloney Brought Women Into Politics by Julie Des Jardins Agency by William Gibson The Sweet Indifference of the World: A Novel by Peter Stamm and Michael Hofmann The Janes: An Alice Vega Novel by Louisa Luna This Vicious Cure (Mortal Coil) by Emily Suvada My Red Heaven by Lance Olsen The Hand on the Wall (Truly Devious) by Maureen Johnson Tweet Cute by Emma Lord The Vineyards of Champagne by Juliet Blackwell The Wagers by Sean Michaels Follow Me to Ground: A Novel by Sue Rainsford The Teacher by Michal Ben-Naftali, Daniella Zamir (translator) Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World by Matt Parker Harvest the Vote: How Democrats Can Win Again in Rural America by Jane Kleeb Green Lantern: Legacy by Minh Le, Andie Tong (Illustrator) Gone by Nightfall by Dee Garretson Amour: How the French Talk About Love by Stefania Rousselle The Runaway Princess by Johan Troïanowski Swerve: Poems on Environmentalism, Feminism, and Resistance by Ellery Akers
Top 100, DC Solicits, Oscar noms Comics Review Details: Crisis on Infinite Earths Giant Green Lantern Legacy by Minh Le, Andie Tong Iron Man 2020 1 by Dan Slott, Christos Gage, Pete Woods Black Widow Prelude 1 by Peter David, Carlos Villa, Chris Sotomayor Spider-Man: Black Cat Strikes 1 by Dennis Hallum, Luca Maresca, Rachelle Rosenberg Ruins of Ravencroft: Sabretooth by Frank Tieri, Angel Unzueta, Guillermo Sanna, Rachelle Rosenberg Venom: The End by Adam Warren, Chamba Cruz, Guru eFX Rising Sun 1 by Ron Marz, David Rodriguez, Martin Coccolo, Katrina Mae Hao Forever Maps OGN by Michael Lagace, Todor Hristov Additional Reviews: Full Throttle, Owl House, Thundercats Roar, Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts, Flash by Johns vol 5, Spidey 2099 vol 3, Jojo Rabbit, Doctor Who s12e4, more Disney Plus reviews (Diary of a Future President, Togo, Pick of the Litter) News: X-Factor by Leah Williams, Children of the Atom by Vita Ayala, Superman and Lois series, Walker Texas Ranger, Mindhunter on hiatus, Watchmen ends after one season, Immortal Hulk one-shot by Lemire, Oscar Isaac is Mitchell Hundred Trailers: Morbius, Bloodshot Comics Countdown, 15 Jan 2020: Undiscovered Country 3 by Charles Soule, Scott Snyder, Giuseppe Camuncoli, Daniele Orlandi Skulldigger and Skeleton Boy 2 by Jeff Lemire, Tonzi Zonjic Runaways 29 by Rainbow Rowell, Andres Genolet, Dee Cunniffe Tales From Harrow County: Death's Choir 2 by Cullen Bunn, Tyler Crook, Naomi Franquiz Jimmy Olsen 7 by Matt Fraction, Steve Lieber, Nathan Fairbairn Low Low Woods 2 by Carmen Maria Machado, Dani, Tamra Bonvillain Steeple 5 by John Allison Avengers 29 by Jason Aaron, Ed McGuinness, Mark Morales, Paco Medina, Jason Keith Ghosted in L.A. 7 by Sina Grace, Siobhan Keenan Valykrie: Jane Foster 7 by Jason Aaron, Al Ewing, Pere Perez, Jesus Aburtov
Join the Acquired Limited Partner program! https://glow.fm/acquired/ (works best on mobile) Coming to you live from the University of Washington, Ben and David are joined by hundreds of awesome Seattle listeners (and a few non-Seattle listeners!) to cover the meteoric rise of trucking industry disruptor and hometown hero Convoy. How did Dan and Convoy go from nervously conducting market research at truck stops on I-5 to one of the largest logistics companies and fastest-growing startups in the world in just four short years, raising over $650m (not a typo) along the way? Tune in to find out! Special thank you to the Paul Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington and to Pioneer Square Labs for generously sponsoring the show venue. Carveouts: Mystery: https://mystery.sh Sponsor: Thanks to Silicon Valley Bank for sponsoring all of Acquired Season 5. You can get in touch with Minh Le, who you heard at the beginning of this podcast, here: http://bit.ly/2txmq4e
Karina and Matthew talk about the Youth Media Awards, educators doing mock book awards with their students, and we look back on some of our favorite Kidlit These Days episodes of the year. Joining is special guest Colby Sharp, 5th grade teacher, co-host of The Yarn podcast, editor of The Creativity Project, An Awesometastic Story Collection, and the co-author with Donalyn Miller of Game Changer: Book Access for All Kids. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot's Read Harder Journal and by Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. To get even more kidlit news and recommendations, sign up for our The Kids Are All Right newsletter! RELEVANT LINKS: The Youth Media Awards HarperCollins Children’s Books Launches Heartdrum, A New Native-Focused Imprint Episode 13: An Indigenous Peoples' History Episode 1: The Wall in the Middle of This Podcast Matthew's Mock Coretta Scott King Award with Students in Grades K-5 Colby Sharp BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW: Drawn Together by Minh Le, illustrated by Dan Santat (2019 Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature Picture Book winner) Merci Suarez Changes Gears by Meg Medina (2019 Newbery Medal winner) Dr. Debbie Reese (2019 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Award) Hurricane Child by Kheryn Callender/Kacen Callender (2019 Stonewall Book Award winner) Dreamers by Yuyi Morales (2019 Pura Belpre Illustrator Award winner) Alma and How She Got Her Name by Juana Martinez-Neal (2019 Caldecott honor) Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan by Ashley Bryan (2017 Coretta Scott King Illustrator honor & 2017 Newbery honor) The Remember Balloons by Jessie Oliveros; illustrated by Dana Wulfekotte (2019 Schneider Family Book Award Young Children's Book honor) The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill (2017 Newbery award winner) Jerome By Heart by Thomas Scotto, illustrated by Olivier Tallec and translated from the French by Claudia ZoeBedrick and Karin Snelson (2019 Mildred L. Batchelder Award honor) Let us know what books or topics you've been sharing this week, or if you have a suggestion or book recommendation for an upcoming episode. Find us on email (kidlitthesedays@bookriot.com), Twitter (@KarinaYanGlaser and @MatthewWinner), or Instagram (@KarinaIsReadingAndWriting and @MatthewCWinner).
Director of Admissions Andrew Bishop in conversation with authors Minh Le, Axie Oh, and Aida Salazar, author/illustrator Daria Peoples-Riley, author/librarian Brittany Thurman on why diverse books matter. The group was on campus in March for Dawson’s 2nd Annual We Need Diverse Books Day, a school-wide event with workshops, readings, a student-led panel discussion and other enriching activities. For more information about The Alexander Dawson School visit adsrm.org.
I’ve long admired the work done by Ashia Ray in her book curating website called Books For Littles. Her list of children’s books that help children understand privilege is TOTAL FIRE: http://www.booksforlittles.com/silence-is-violence/ She opens up about her own story and why she started doing this work. We talked about why books are a disarming way to talk to children about hard topics like privilege and oppression. I asked her how we can help change the problem of the children’s lit industry being majority white and I was pleasantly surprised to find out that Rick Riordan has actually done a great job of leveraging his own fame to boost the stories of those who live a marginalized existence - how encouraging! Ashia shares her favorite book list and children’s books, but her heart and soul shines through this interview. Links (affiliates included): Ashia Ray’s website, Books for Littles - http://www.booksforlittles.com Rick Riordan Presents http://rickriordan.com/rick-riordan-presents/ Book list for Misfits - http://www.booksforlittles.com/misfits/ Drawn Together by Minh Le - https://amzn.to/2LEQPlS Spork by Kyo Maclear - https://amzn.to/2GIVRPK Books for Littles Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=8124582&redirect_uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.booksforlittles.com%2Fmisfits%2F&utm_medium=widget Deb Reese of American Indians In Children's Literature (focuses on Indigenous representation) https://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/ Zetta Eliot - example of a self- & micropress-author working to fill the creating books beyond the big 5 publishers https://www.zettaelliott.com/ Lydia X.Z. Brown - Speaking on experience of being a trans-racial adoptee https://autistichoya.net/ Join us at the Parenting Forward Patreon Team - https://www.patreon.com/cindywangbrandt
Minh Le, CEO at CityLink.AI, discusses integrating connected technology into communities. Daniel Wagner, CEO at Country Risk Solutions, talks about whether the benefits of artificial intelligence outweigh anxieties.Diana Cooper, Senior VP of Policy and Strategy at PrecisionHawk, explains how industries are being revolutionized by drones. Dr. Aleksandra Mojsilovic, Head of AI Foundations at IBM, discusses applying AI technology with human intelligence. And we Drive to the Close of the markets with Andrew Slimmon, Senior Portfolio Manager at Morgan Stanley Investment Management. Hosts: Carol Massar and Jason Kelly. Producer: Paul Brennan Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
Minh Le, CEO at CityLink.AI, discusses integrating connected technology into communities. Daniel Wagner, CEO at Country Risk Solutions, talks about whether the benefits of artificial intelligence outweigh anxieties.Diana Cooper, Senior VP of Policy and Strategy at PrecisionHawk, explains how industries are being revolutionized by drones. Dr. Aleksandra Mojsilovic, Head of AI Foundations at IBM, discusses applying AI technology with human intelligence. And we Drive to the Close of the markets with Andrew Slimmon, Senior Portfolio Manager at Morgan Stanley Investment Management. Hosts: Carol Massar and Jason Kelly. Producer: Paul Brennan
We chat with chef Minh Le about the highs and lows of owning his own restaurant, his career that’s ranged from prison kitchens to the heights of fine dining, and how a city kid has found peace in the bush. When he's not cooking up incredible food at The Peak restaurant at Spicers Peak Lodge at Maryvale west of Brisbane, you'll find him trail running and doing yoga. Minh shares his inspirational story which begins when he was just a young boy when his mother taught him to cook simple Vietnamese food for his younger siblings.
How do you follow up The Giving Tree? Well, that's a tricky one. We don't know why Amelia Bedelia occurred to Betsy. She's so ubiquitous that no one ever really questions her presence on classic book lists. Still, the more we thought about her, the more we wondered if she really warrants inclusion in the "canon" of children's literature (howsoever you define that). Show Notes: - Here is her fantastic statue, located at the Harvin Clarendon County Library in Manning, South Carolina. This was sculpted by James Peter Chaconas: https://scpictureproject.org/clarendon-county/amelia-bedelia-statue.html - Sometimes the best thing in the whole wide world is getting to see a group of boys reenact Amelia Bedelia without the one playing the lead feeling at all embarrassed about his awesome performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uESgbsQAlEI - Here you can find the Daily Dot piece I Accidentally Started a Wikipedia Hoax? https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/amelia-bedelia-wikipedia-hoax/ -And be sure to check out Minh Le's 2013 Bookriot piece Zooey Deschanel as Amelia Bedelia: A (Hypothetical) Match Made in Quirk Heaven: https://bookriot.com/2013/06/04/zooey-deschanel-as-amelia-bedelia-a-hypothetical-match-made-in-quirk-heaven/ - Grace Lin's newest podcast is Kidlit Women. Check it out today! She does transcripts and everything! https://www.kidlitwomen.com/http/kidlitwomenpodcastlibsyncom/ - For the full Show Notes please visit us at http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2018/08/06/fuse-8-n-kate-amelia-bedelia-by-peggy-parish
Have you always wanted a close relationship with your grandparent? Do you dream of writing a children’s book and have no idea where to start? Do you struggle with juggling your professional and personal responsibilities while writing? We get into all of that (and way more) with today’s special guest: Minh Le. Minh is a national early childhood policy expert, author of “Let Me Finish!”, and has written for the New York Times, the Horn Book, and the Huffington Post. A first-generation Vietnamese American, he went to Dartmouth College and has a master’s in education from Harvard University. Today's episode is proudly brought to you by Fab Fit Fun! (Be sure to use the promo code 'TEA' for $10 off your first box) The conversation with Minh is so full of heart. I can’t even begin to explain how much this discussion filled my soul and I’m thrilled to finally share this episode with you! Say 'Hi' to Minh on Twitter and be sure to head over to his shownotes page. It's PACKED with highlights of the topics that are covered from his episode along with our favorite quotes and a list of all the helpful books and resources that he mentions throughout our conversation. We also included the WRITING PROMPT he created just for our community over in the shownotes page. Click here! Xo, Yin --- If you got some awesome takeaways from this episode and would love to show your appreciation, the best way would be through any of the following: • Help sustain 88 Cups of Tea by making a monthly gift in any amount through our ‘tokens of love’ page • Pick up our carefully crafted writing prompts with your gift of $10 or more • Sign up to receive email updates about 88 Cups of Tea • Subscribe to us on iTunes and leave a rating and a review • Hang out with us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, or in our private Facebook group • Tell your friends about our podcast and why you believe it would benefit them We dedicate a ton of heart and soul into fostering a space that encourages learning, creativity, growth, and community. The most sincerest thank you for your love and support! --- Have you checked out our archive of episodes by yet?
I am very pleased to have children's book illustrator and author, Dan Santat on the show. We talk about his career and the effect that winning the Caldecott Medal has had on the way he approaches his work and his place in the children's book industry. Dan has a pretty laid-back attitude about parenting and truly feels there is never a right time to have kids; you just have to do it and work it out as you go along. He's also no stranger to being a workaholic and he talks about how he was forced to relax. Dan also has a new book out with author Minh Le called Drawn Together. You should definitely check this one out. Thanks for everyone who listens to the show and who has shared it with a friend. Please rate, review, and subscribe if you haven't yet! You can follow me on Twitter and Instagram. Creative Playdate's theme music was created by Thomas James and Jason Ritz and we are syndicated at IllustrationAge.com.
Kate and Betsy celebrate their episode yet! Both had a LOT to say about this book and along the way they learn some very important lessons about themselves. Like the fact that someone with a retainer may have a very hard time saying the words "pacifist" and "pacifism". Let's all say "passive pacifism" together now three times fast! Show Notes: - We able to find the Ferdinand balloon! In Wired Magazine you can find a piece called Amazing Old Pics of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade with lots of amazing images: https://www.wired.com/2013/11/the-macys-thanksgiving-parade-was-way-cooler-in-black-and-white/ -- Here's the 1938 Disney short: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN62cxSs5Q8 - Here's the popular song about Ferdinand as sung, in this particular case, by The Lennon Sisters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q1KmGMsLsk - And here was the most recent iteration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBXVM7oUPVk - On the picture book poll it showed up as #17: http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2012/06/14/top-100-picture-books-17-the-story-of-ferdinand-by-munro-leaf-illustrated-by-robert-lawson - Yay! Here's the Bottom Shelf Books take on Ferdinand and mortality. Go, Minh Le, go! http://www.bottomshelfbooks.com/2007/08/story-of-ferdinand.html - Confused about what Betsy meant about the Caldecott Award winning book They Were Strong and Good being racist? No one ever summarized the situation better than Peter Sieruta at Collecting Children's Books: http://collectingchildrensbooks.blogspot.com/2009/04/they-were-strong-and-good-enough-for.html -Kate mentioned the podcast Armchair Expert so check it out: https://armchairexpertpod.com/ - Want to see the full Show Notes? Just go to: http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2018/03/26/fuse-8-n-kate-the-story-of-ferdinand-by-munro-leaf-robert-lawson
In this episode the sisters make it clear that Strega Nona has committed a cardinal sin. Not the creation of magic (the priest and nuns seem a-okay with her on that point). No we're talking about the moment she snatches away a pregnant woman's fork. What's up with that? Amidst Italian draculas and injured space monkeys, Kate and Betsy attempt to ascertain if Strega Nona really does deserve to be considered a classic of children's literature. Show Notes: - To know more about the life of Big Anthony, check out Big Anthony: His Story : https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-399-23189-6 - For the sequel with Strega Amelia, you'll want Strega Nona Meets Her Match : https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-399-22421-8 -Minh Le's bit on Strega Nona can be found here but its brilliance belongs to the masses: http://www.bottomshelfbooks.com/2007/06/strega-nona.html - Can you crack The dePaola Code? It's a doozy: http://discomermaids.blogspot.com/2006/05/depaola-code-nana.html -You can find Handsome Big Anthony in Big Anthony and the Magic Ring: https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/books/big-anthony-and-the-magic-ring-by-tomie-depaola/ -Kate mentions the Freelance Wrestling Show in Chicago: http://freelancewrestling.com/ -Cannot recommend this book enough. Cake Magic by Caroline Wright : https://www.workman.com/products/cake-magic For the complete Show Notes please visit http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2017/11/27/fuse-8-n-kate-strega-nona-by-tomie-depaola/
The illicit wildlife trade is a multi-billion-dollar business that spans the globe. Unfortunately, efforts to control it have often fallen short, and massive numbers of organisms are regularly removed from ecosystems and sold as pets, food, and traditional medicines. Writing in BioScience, Dr. Mary Blair, Dr. Minh Le, and their colleagues describe an integrative framework to help characterize and mitigate the wildlife trade. Based on Elinor Ostrom's social–ecological systems thinking, the framework incorporates biological, anthropological, socioeconomic, and other types of data to paint a holistic picture of the problem. Drs. Blair and Le join us on this episode of BioScience Talks to describe the ways in which this holistic view will help practitioners and stakeholders untangle the complex dynamics underlying the wildlife trade. Learn more about the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research Annual Meeting. Read the article. Learn more about wildlife trade in Vietnam. The search for slow lorises (video). Subscribe on iTunes. Subscribe on Stitcher. Catch up with us on Twitter.
In this episode, Betsy and Kate decide to try to steer clear of Seussian controversy, unaware that even as they record this there is a debacle brewing with a school librarian, Melania Trump, and a host of Dr. Seuss books. Fortunately, while this book has been challenged in a library system (we'll get to that) it was not one of Ms. Trump's donations. Thank goodness for small favors. Along the way Kate identifies the most terrifying person in the book, Betsy has flashbacks to an old Smurfs episode, and the sisters talk seriously about why you can't put a skirt embedded with lights on a blow-up T-Rex costume. Show Notes: - The horrifying Smurf Rage Zombies. ComingSoon.net had exactly the same reaction to the episode that Betsy did and even makes a very strong case for why this story originally (in comic form) preceded George Romero's zombies by years. http://www.comingsoon.net/horror/news/749789-terror-tv-gnap-gnap-zombies-vs-smurfs-purple-smurfs - Washington State University says that any spelling of "good-by" is legitimate and that "goodbye" is simply the most popular right now. https://brians.wsu.edu/2016/05/19/good-by-good-by-goodbye/ - Here, for your reading enjoyment, is a fully written complaint against Hop On Pop: http://www.cbc.ca/newsblogs/yourcommunity/2014/04/toronto-library-asked-to-ban-violent-dr-seuss-book-hop-on-pop.html?cmp=fbtl - If you wish to follow The Niblings on our Facebook page you may do so here: https://www.facebook.com/TheNiblings/ - Here is Minh Le's full post on Hop On Pop. http://www.bottomshelfbooks.com/2007/04/hop-on-pop_09.html - All the Dirty Parts by Daniel Handler: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/all-the-dirty-parts-9781632868060/ - Kate's magnificently cool skirt can be purchased here: http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/jhsu/?srp=18 - For full Show Notes visit Betsy's blog here: http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2017/10/03/new-fuse-8-n-kate-episode-hop-on-pop-by-dr-seuss/
The two of the members of Epsilona, Minh Le and Chandler Hale, stopped by to chat for Episode 126. Minh, Chandler, and I chat about which band member is the mother of the group; the influence of School of Rock; The post Episode 126: Epsilona appeared first on Serious Talk. Seriously..
In this interview episode, Jeff talks with two children's books authors about how children's publishing works, from idea to finished copy: Minh Le and Rita Meade. Minh's book: Let Me Finish Rita's book: Edward Gets Messy This episode is sponsored by Still a Work in Progress by Jo Knowles
Minh Le (@bottomshelfbks) and Isabel Roxas (@studioroxas), author and illustrator respectively of Let Me Finish!, stop by the podcast to talk about writing yourself into a corner, putting an idea out into the world to fail, and how much the interplay between text and illustration makes or breaks the book.
Many of the most significant industrial and technological innovations in the U.S. were discovered, commercialized and expanded with government support. Turn the clock a century or two and you can see how the government was behind oil drilling and refining, transcontinental railroads and our electric grid. More recently the government's been successful with the space program, the internet and the biotech revolution. And these government efforts continue with solar. To quote the DOE: "In 2011, the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) was tasked with achieving the goals of the SunShot Initiative: to drive down the cost of solar electricity to be fully cost-competitive with traditional energy sources by the end of the decade." [no one else uses verbs like "tasked'] Suffice it to say that over the past few years SunShot has already been the motivating factor behind dozens of solar innovations, including new financing concepts (Connecticut Clean Energy Finance and Investment Authority's "Green Bank,"), new flat roof and sloped roof PV mounting systems, clever CSP technologies, SolarTech's work to reduce permitting costs, and the Rooftop Solar Challenge. There is considerable momentum behind the dozens of projects that are in the midst of their funding stages, may of which are focused on making solar more affordable by reducing soft costs. SunShot staffers get into the field to understand real world problems and potential solutions. Sometimes that "field" is a steeply sloped roof -- which is where I started this week's interview with Minh Le, the Director of SunShot. After we moved to a more stable platform on the ground we had a good opportunity to talk about the overall SunShot program and how they reach out to solar industry participants. Please join me on this week's Energy Show on Renewable Energy World as Minh Le talks about SunShot's progress in reducing solar hard costs (equipment) and soft costs, as well as their efforts to help new companies and technologies get into the hands of customers where they can do the most good.
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