By Edie Ching Today we're pleased to welcome Gita Varadarajan and Archana Sreenivasan to the WNDB blog to discuss their picture book My Bindi, out August 16, 2022! We previously revealed the cover for the book here. In this moving and lyrical picture book debut from Gita Varadarajan, Divya is … [Read more...] about Q&A With Gita Varadarajan & Archana Sreenivasan, My Bindi
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Shveta Thakrar’s Star Daughter Is About the Child of a Star and a Mortal
By Karis Rogerson Shveta Thakrar chose to write her debut, Star Daughter, as a YA fantasy not just because it’s a genre and age category she was already reading and therefore familiar with, but because she wanted to fill a gap. “The dearth of representation,” she told We Need Diverse Books. “I … [Read more...] about Shveta Thakrar’s Star Daughter Is About the Child of a Star and a Mortal