Keep reading and writing, learn how to revise, and push through rejections. My second book, Monsoon Summer, was rejected over 20 times and finally came out 11 years after my first book! I'm glad I didn't give up. Neither should you.
Good humor pokes fun at the powerful — not the weak. - Mitali Perkins
Good humor pokes fun at the powerful — not the weak.
- 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
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…
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
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…
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
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…
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
There weren't too many books featuring other cultures and countries when I was growing up as an immigrant kid here in the States.
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
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…
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
America inevitably "brings the distant near" because apart from members of the Native Nations, all of us originated in faraway places. Sadly, proximi…
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 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.
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
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…
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