Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich

Librarian and educator extraordinaire Edi at Crazy Quilts asked me: Why Do You Write?

A very generous review from Nathalie at Multiculturalism Rocks!

A chat with superauthor and all round lovely person Cynthia Leitich Smith on characters, time management, and my seaside writing fantasies.

featured at Edi Campbele's Crazy Quilts!

Inspiration for Summer Artist's Dates, my guest post over at Imagination Soup -- please do stop by!

Love by any means necessary, an essay by Adrienne Maree Brown.

What We Can Do Now about the BP crisis.

Public radio's State of the Re: union featured Brooklyn recently. Check out the audio documentary and the extras, such as Place + Displaced and Place Matters.

A fabulous list of children's books about microfinance from Mitali Perkins, and Teaching The Curriculum of Generosity, from Simple Homeschool.

Ben Okri on story.

Curriculum and community resources on dealing with relational aggression, from The Ophelia Project. I have a page of resources and tips for how to start these conversations and do community-building work at all kinds of levels.

RESOURCE ALERT! Looking for book lists? Want to make your own list of top-quality literature for children and teens? Readers, educators, parents, advocates, everyone...To find more children's literature that reflects our colorful world, well, definitely look further, but check out what we've got here for a start!

Please check out Young Adult Authors Against Bullying, started by Carrie Jones, and Megan Kelley Hall. Join the conversation, become a member of the community, and share your stories and ideas for solutions.

An interview with YA author and tireless advocate Edith Cohn.

Seriously, I used to dream about this! Hanging out at Mitali's Fire Escape is such a treat.

Ari, AKA MissAttitude over at Reading in Color let me ramble about Reggie, why eavesdropping is good, and how I'm nothing like Justin.

In which I am interviewed by the tremendously incredible Rejectionist

Continuing to update links re: the earthquake in Haiti on my blog; if you know of other reliable resources, please send them along.

Check out Readers Against Whitewashing and join me in celebrating our diversity.