This month’s blog is a guest post by D Yael Bernhard and reprinted from her site with permission. Meet Yaya! This energetic young fellow is the main character in my forthcoming picture book, Yaya, Come Here!, to be published by Open Hearts Big Dreams, a wonderful literacy program that is bringing books to over 40 million …
Making Sense of Senseless Loss and Unfair Disparities Opa and grand-daughter enjoying a great book. Generations connecting through the wonder of literacy. I have not written for a bit because there has just been too much going on. As I previously shared, my dad died unexpectedly after a fall and surgery in November. Then my …
When I helped start Ethiopia Reads in the 1990s, there was little support for childhood literacy in Ethiopia. Even though the government had lofty goals for getting more children into school (and was generally meeting those goals), many schools had under-trained teachers and no books. Ethiopia Reads focused on shipping English-language books and planting libraries …
