My Book News
NOVEMBER 2025
NEWTON, MASS. (WHDH) – Area kids got the chance to meet their favorite authors at the 2nd annual Newton Children’s Book Festival on Sunday. Watch the 7 News Boston coverage.
OCTOBER 2025
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AUGUST 2025
JULY 2025
New Title … for my picture book A PLACE TO CALL HOME
The new title is Green Homes, Happy Planet: Sustainable Houses Around the World, and the new publication date is February 2026!
JUNE 2025
We Sing From the Heart is Carter G. Woodson Book Award Honoree!
Thank you to NCSS for this award, and congratulations to everyone on this list! More here.
We Sing From the Heart has been selected as Bank Street’s Best Children’s Books of the Year 2025! Congratulations to everyone on the list, and thank you so much to Bank Street College of Education for this honor! More here.
MAY 2025
THE TRAVELING TACO was featured in Booklist
APRIL 2025
We Sing From the Heart gets a few stickers!
- ALSC Notable Children’s Book
- 2025 Carter G. Woodson Book Award Middle Level Honoree
- Orbis Pictus Recommended Book for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children
- 2024 Julia Ward Howe Prize for Children’s Literature Winner
- California Eureka Non-Fiction Award Honor Book
- Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People Winner (from National Council for the Social Studies and Children’s Book Council)
- Bank Street Best Children’s Books of the Year 2025
- Junior Library Guild Gold Selection
MARCH 2025
Thank you to Canvas Rebel for Featuring Me!
KIRKUS REVIEWS: The Travelling Taco
FEBRUARY 2025
Book Announcement!
Postcards from Malcolm X:
How Yuri Kochiyama Became a Civil Rights Activist
by Mia Wenjen, illustrated by Keith Henry Brown
I am thrilled to be making a picture book biography with Red Comet Press!
Keith Henry Brown will illustrate! Publication is slated for 202
Releases January 2027.
January, 2025
2024 BOOK NEWS
Food for the Future Gets Some Awards
- ⭐ Starred review from School Library Journal!
- Junior Library Guild Gold selection
- Massachusetts Book Award Long List
- dPICTUS 100 Outstanding Picture Books of 2023
- Chicago Library’s Best of the Best
- 2023 INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist
- Green Earth Book Award Long List
- Nautilus Silver Winner, Nonfiction Children’s Picture Book
- Sunshine State Young Readers Award Orange Blossom List for Nonfiction
- Imagination Soup’s 35 Best Nonfiction Books of 2023 for Kids
Cover reveal for The Traveling Taco by
An exploration of the history of kids’ favorite foods from around the world
From pizza to pasta and ice cream to French fries, some of our favorite foods have a surprising history, and many of them have traveled far from where they originated! Did you know many well-known dishes are food immigrants? The Al Pastor Taco traveled from Lebanon to Puebla, Mexico! French fries originated in Belgium! And pasta arrived in Italy long before Marco Polo visited China. This fascinating nonfiction book featuring rhyming text takes the reader on travels around the world to celebrate foods, their history, and surprising origins. Join Mia Wenjen for a fact-packed journey of discovery that will make your mouth water as you travel the unexpected road of some of our favorite foods. [picture book, ages 5 and up]
Releases May 6, 2025. Pre-order here.
Kirkus reviews The Traveling Taco.
Picture Book Announcement: Fortune Cookies for Everyone by Mia Wenjen, illustrated by Colleen Kong-Savage, and published by Red Comet Press.
Releases Fall 2025.
Picture Book Announcement: Barbed Wire Between Us by Mia Wenjen, illustrated by Violeta Encarnación, and published by Red Comet Press.
