Let the I’m Your Neighbor Book Award announcements commence! 2023 New Arrival Book Award: Our Stories Carried Us Here Today, we honor Green Card Voices for their creation and publication of Our Stories Carried Us Here: A Graphic Novel Anthology. This nonprofit publisher is removing the barriers to New Arrivals telling their own stories. We… Read more »
I’m Your Neighbor Books is proud to have once again served as a founding partner of the Beautiful Blackbird Children’s Book Festival. This year we were overjoyed to bring OD Bonny back to Maine to celebrate the Sudanese / Acholi America picture book A Feast for Joseph co-authored by I’m Your Neighbor Books co-founder… Read more »
Sunday, 9/24/23 1:00 – 2:00 PM Mayo Street Arts 10 Mayo Street Portland, ME 04101 OD Bonny returns to Maine! Children and adults are welcome for a performance of traditional Acholi music and dancehall/Afrobeat by our own South Sudanese singer, songwriter, and producer! Dance to OD’s traditional hits like Lodongo Acholi, Apoka Poka, Be Mine,… Read more »
“You are very real to us.” —ELL Student, Portland Adult Education On World Refugee Day, I’m Your Neighbor Books helped to bring award-winning author Omar Mohamed, co-creator of When Stars Are Scattered, remotely to a small class of Adult ELL at Portland Adult Education (PAE). Like many of the PAE students, Omar was a refugee… Read more »
New Picture Book Schools, libraries, and communities have long needed an overview picture book on America’s many identities and how the mosaic of this country is deepened by immigration. Author Darshana Khiani and illustrator Laura Freeman have delivered one beyond our dreams. The textured profiles allow us to explore American cultural differences while showing how… Read more »
Today, debut Afghan author Dezh Azaad was supposed to be landing in New York from Germany to celebrate the launch of his picture book The Carpet: An Afghan Family Story (Abrams). The often harsh bureaucracy of migration kept that from happening. Dezh Azaad’s beautiful book shows the reader how the carpet is the center… Read more »
Happy Valentine’s Day from I’m Your Neighbor Books and Author Saadia Faruqi! Here at I’m Your Neighbor Books, we LOVE when book characters, and thus readers, are inspired to ACT in their communities for JUSTICE and CHANGE. That is why we awarded Saadia Faruqi and HarperCollins the 2022 Social Action Book Award for Yusuf Azeem… Read more »
“Переказ і запис книги Story Boat були зроблені трьома українками, щоб дати надію там, де вона потрібна.” —Liza Pedash This Story Boat translation and recording was created by three Ukrainian girls to give hope where hope is needed.” —Liza Pedash Listen to the Book Read in Ukrainian It is best to listen with a copy… Read more »
On the 75th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), I’m Your Neighbor Books and DiversifiED Consulting held a conversation with award-winning author Dina Nayeri about the 2022 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award-honored The Waiting Place: When Home is Lost and a New One Not Yet Found (Candlewick Press). If the world could uphold… Read more »
here we are On this International Women’s Day I am thinking of all of the women walking out of Ukraine with children or with elderly parents, neighbors, or animals—their nurturing becoming an act of bravery. I am thinking of all of the women walking out and leaving others behind, dividing their hearts. I am thinking… Read more »