Dear Readers I am super pumped to announce that I will be appearing on the Reading With Your Kids Podcast on www.readingwithyourkids.com. The podcast will be recorded and shared – look out for updates. Please subscribe to the podcast to… Read More »EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: Reading With Your Kids Podcast
Fry Bread Author: Kevin Noble Maillard Illustrator: Juana Martinez-Neal Publisher: Roaring Brook Press There are so many things I love about this book. The prose is lyrical, gentle, nostalgic. The illustrations make you feel warm and happy. The content is… Read More »Book Review: Fry Bread
This season’s isolation has proven to the most introvert of us how much we need each other’s company. Coupled with the bad air quality in some places of the country, keeping spirits up is not an easy job. But humans… Read More »REMEMBER TO DANCE
This is such a powerful book written by David A. Robertson illustrated by Julie Flett and published by High Water Press, a Canadian Press. Next week, on October 12th, we observe Indigenous Peoples’ Day. I thought what better way to… Read More »BOOK REVIEW: WHEN WE WERE ALONE
UPDATE: I am so thrilled to share that I was one of the winners in this contest. I am looking forward to the critique from the generous Erin Siu @erinsiu. Can’t thank @KaitlynLeann17 and @LydiaLukidis enough for organizing this! I… Read More »#Fallwritingfrenzy 2020 Winner!
This morning my six-year-old logged in early to his class. It was their pre-class chat time. The time where pre COVID, kids would have stood in line outside class and bonded with each other. The kids have adapted to this… Read More »IT’S LIKE AAAAHH!
How many seeds in a Pumpkin by Margaret McNamara, illustrated by G.Brian Karas: I found this gem in the library while hunting for books about pumpkins for my son’s class. I loved the story, the characters, the counting lessons it… Read More »Book Review: How many seeds in a Pumpkin
“Your Name is a Song” by Jamilah Thompkin Bigelow is a celebration of unique names. Her prose flows like music turning into poetry. The illustrations by Luisa Uribe makes the story come alive and sing on the page. As I… Read More »Book Review: Your Name is a Song
The air quality in my neighborhood was recently affected by the wildfires. For days, there were no blue skies; a pall of smoke hung stubbornly in the air. One morning I looked out and wondered how we came to this.… Read More »Saving Pando
Published on KQED (NPR) Perspectives Sep 3, 2020 https://www.kqed.org/perspectives/201601140236/sandhya-acharya-all-better When the first day of school rolled in, the teachers had a surprise planned for the first graders. We stopped at school to wave and say a socially distanced hello and… Read More »All Better
Ocean Haiku An ocean simmersToes wiggle and wait ashoreWaves whisper welcome – Sandhya Acharya
I am dealing with a problem this summer. I am sure a lot of you are too. In the absence of our usual travel plans and summer camps, the kids are at home – the entire time. And every few minutes during the day, the sultry air is punctured with this poignant phrase, “Mamma, I’m bored!”
A few years ago I came to the University of Notre Dame to do my M.B.A. The first week there we were invited to view the July 4th fireworks. I had just gotten to know my roommates and together we… Read More »First July 4th
Under the shade of the tall Redwood,⠀Young saplings grow their roots.Gently as the wind enters the wild,⠀They sway together, Father and Child. – Sandhya Acharya
We were taking a walk around the neighborhood. My kids ran a little ahead of us and found two sticks lying below some tall redwoods. They were giggling uncontrollably when we caught up to them. They had figured out a… Read More »PLAY