Here are all the activity guides for my books:
- We Sing From the Heart: How The Slants® Took Their Fight for Free Speech to the Supreme Court
- Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World
- Sumo Joe
- Changing the Game: Asian Pacific American Female Athletes
- Junior Library Guild Gold selection
- California Eureka! Nonfiction Children’s Book Award
- Orbis Pictus Award® for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children
Here is the music video of The Slant’s song, From the Heart. They wrote this song about their battle to trademark their band’s name. Why not start a book presentation off with this short video?
We created a podcast with Dorktales Storytime about Simon Tam.
- Free Activity Guide for Dorktales Storytime about Simon Tam. Go here.
- Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.
apple.com/us/podcast/simon- tam-hidden-hero-of-history/ id1527642350?i=1000673407584 - Spotify: https://open.spotify.
com/episode/ 4MVtVmjHC8CwQcE6SXP821?si= 4M055Z3EQSCMdhPbTFe7zw - You can find all the other platforms via the icons on our website: https://
jonincharacter.com/simon-tam/
A video version is here:
Simon Tam has many excellent TedTalks:
From ReasonTV: An Asian-American band takes the fight over its name all the way to the Supreme Court:
- ⭐ 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
- Imagination Soup’s 35 Best Nonfiction Books of 2023 for Kids
Food for the Future Teacher’s Activity Guide.
Bank Street College’s The Best Children’s Books of the Year
Sumo Joe Teacher’s Guide is on the Lee and Low website.
Sumo Joe craft round-up on PragmaticMom.com.
Sumo Joe easy sumo origami on PragmaticMom.com.
Sumo Joe Virtual or In-Person Class Visits.
Sumo Picture Books on PragmaticMom.com.
Changing the Game: Asian Pacific American Female Athletes Resource Page
