For the past year or so I’ve immersed myself in reading feminist theology and wide-ranging work on the early Christ movement. This was all sparked by travels in southern France in 2023, where I was intrigued by references I encountered … Continue reading
Category Archives: For the Love of Books
I was pleased to be invited to participate in a project developed by the Public History Program at UMass-Amherst in which I was interviewed to be part of a virtual tour of Amherst’s children’s book authors and illustrators. Click here … Continue reading
I am hard at work on an exciting project that will launch in 2020 with educational distributor Steps to Literacy. They contracted with me to curate picture book bins for grades pre-k through five that will include: A copy … Continue reading
Hello Readers! Here’s the latest newsletter I sent out. If you’d like to receive it, just sign up on my contact me page. To view the newsletter outside of this blog, use this link. Dear Family, Friends, Colleagues, and … Continue reading
This post is part of celebrating Women’s History month with 31 days of posts focused on improving the climate for social and gender equality in the children’s and teens’ literature community. Join in the conversation on Twitter #kidlitwomen or on … Continue reading
Remarks at Every Child Reads Legislative Briefing, The State House, Boston , MA February 8, 2018 My name is Megan Dowd Lambert, and I am honored to be here at the State House with all of you today to advocate for … Continue reading
I was delighted to be asked to participate in this event to advocate for legislation that will provide new resources to Massachusetts schools so that they can help struggling readers before they fall too far behind. Please take a look … Continue reading
I was pleased to be invited to participate in the countdown to this year’s Multicultural Children’s Book Day as the author of Real Sisters Pretend. My publisher, Tilbury House, has offered three copies of my book, illustrated by Nicole Tadgell, for … Continue reading
My kids’ public prek-6 elementary school has done a book swap for several years. I am not a main organizer, but I volunteered on one of the book swap days this year, and I was delighted to see the impact … Continue reading
I got some really nice feedback on my prior post for the recent Blogging for LGBTQ Families Day, including several requests for book recommendations. I recently gave a presentation at the NESCBWI conference about picture book family diversity, so I thought … Continue reading