Welcome to SCBWI-MI's Book Birthday Blog! Where we celebrate new books from Michigan's authors, illustrators and translators.   Co...

Two reviews today! Sierra Blue is enthralling, captivating and very well written. Suzanne Morgan Williams penned an incredible novel for th...

  Welcome to SCBWI-MI's Book Birthday Blog! Where we celebrate new books from Michigan's authors, illustrators and translators.   C...

  I had the amazing opportunity to be a featured author at the same event series as Award-Winning Author, Derrick Barnes . Derrick was the ...

If you have ever had questions, wonderings, or any curiosity about Detroit...Daralynn Walker has granted you your wish.  In her book, Super ...

What makes a good kid a good kid?   In  Property of the Rebel Librarian ,  June Harper is considered a good kid  by many parents, educators,...

Books are works of art that teach, entertain, train, and enlighten. I always think about the significance of the books that encouraged as a ...

Have you ever had a friend...find another friend...and then you wonder if you are still your friend's friend? Dori Durbin recognizes th...

  Sharing an important and affordable webinar by Tara Michener this Sunday, Aug. 14, at 3:00 PM! This Community-Wide Webinar focuses on the...

With You Wherever You Go by Martine Foreman illustrated by QBN Studios (One Nine Press) When I was a kid I used to pretend that I had my own...

Speak up. Use your words. Express yourself.  These suggestions might sound easier than they are. This is especially true if you are a middle...

Imagine a life of being enslaved, brutalized, pained and oppressed.  Did you take a moment to do that? If you did not...I ask you to take a ...

Jean Alicia Elster invites the reader into her own historical journey that is profound, educational, and inspirational. Jean has the ability...

February is Black History Month! This tradition began in 1926 in America it was started as Negro History Week and was founded by Carter G. W...

By Tara Michener Around our globe, the world is looking at our incredible leader... Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I have been thinking very int...

@ What has 50,000 words, is in November and is bound to make you a better writer? NaNoWriMo ! NaNoWriMo is National November Novel Writing M...