Looking for a Thanksgiving book to share with students? THANKU: POEMS OF GRATITUDE features diverse poems from 32 children’s poets and writers.

Get your students in the attitude of gratitude with this beautiful collection illustrated by Marlena Myles. Proceeds benefit We Need Diverse Books.

“[T]his attractive and accessible collection should be popular with browsers and useful for creative writing classes.” —Booklist

“An anthology of diverse voices united by the theme of giving thanks. Lovely lyric lessons in appreciating the ordinary.” —Kirkus Reviews

“I highly recommend Thanku: Poems of Gratitude, due out in September from Millbrook Press. It is #OwnVoices at its very best!” —Debbie Reese (Nambe Pueblo), American Indians in Children’s Literature

Now available for order here.

Educators & Writers!
Baptiste Paul and Miranda Paul have both contributed a personal essay to Melissa Stewart’s NONFICTION WRITERS DIG DEEP, which takes you behind the books and research of 50 of today’s top nonfiction authors for children and teens. Released at the 2020 NCTE conference, this educational resource can be used within a classroom or to improve one’s own writing.

Click here to read the press release, or here to order.