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By Olugbemisola

On You’re Breaking My Heart, over at SLJ’s Pearl’s & Ruby’s

MAKEDA MAKES A HOME FOR SUBWAY gets a sweet shout out from Betsy Bird over at SLJ.

Books To Help Kids Understand What It’s Like To Be a Refugee, Brightly
Justice on The Lesson Plan, The Brown Bookshelf
Madeleine L’Engle and Me, Brightly
Say That To My Face: On Teaching and Learning Diverse Literature for Empowerment and Transformation (Or, On Feeling Itchy), NCTE
The Magic of Just Being, AALBC
To Teachers in Unprecedented Times, School Library Journal
Using Media to Talk With Children About Race, PBS Parents

About Olugbemisola (And My Books!)

YOU’RE BREAKING MY HEART is Grade A YA , The Horn Book

80+ Black Children’s Book Authors To Support Now & Always!, Mother
First Madeleine L'Engle Conference Held in New York City, Publishers Weekly
Member Spotlight, Children’s Media Association
My Daughter's Summer Reading List Is Old School, And Not In A Good Way, HuffPost
Ruminating Process Alongside Kidlit Creators: Centering Our Why, Two Writing Teachers

Podcasts, TV, & Radio Appearances

MAKEDA on Good Morning America with the Book Fairies (GMA)

Celebrating with the Book Fairies Northwest Elementary School (News 12)

MAKEDA MAKES A BIRTHDAY TREAT is the Book Fairies’ 5,000,000th! (LI Press)

Author Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich, Insight
Childrens Book Author - Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich, Good News
Did you ever forget what to write?, Kids Ask Authors
Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich on freedom to read, storytelling and media, It’s Personal
Operation Sisterhood: Chatting Books with Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich, Here Wee Read
Stitching Stories for Young Readers: Author Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich, Stitch Please
Voices From the Middle podcast, NCTE