Good humor pokes fun at the powerful — not the weak.

- Mitali Perkins

There weren't too many books featuring other cultures and countries when I was growing up as an immigrant kid here in the States.

- Mitali Perkins

Keep reading and writing, learn how to revise, and push through rejections. My second book, Monsoon Summer, was rejected over 20 times and finally ca…

- Mitali Perkins

American and Vietnamese characters alike leap to life through the voice and eyes of a tenyearold girl-a protagonist so strong, loving, and vivid I lo…

- Mitali Perkins

I learned to read when I was three, so I skipped right over picture books and didn't learn to appreciate art in books until much later.

- Mitali Perkins

I hope and pray that despite an unhealed past full of atrocities and deep divisions in the present, God can and will make "the distant near" and a "b…

- Mitali Perkins

If you have a chance to see Children Of War, you can watch expert trauma counselors try to help bring healing to young people who have experienced at…

- Mitali Perkins

America inevitably "brings the distant near" because apart from members of the Native Nations, all of us originated in faraway places. Sadly, proximi…

- Mitali Perkins

Books have always been my home. I ransacked the library regularly from the time we moved to the States. I read on the fire escape. I read at the dinn…

- Mitali Perkins