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

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

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

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

Research is always a high priority in my fiction. Songs, fashion, politics, television, movies, trends - I try to get those details right.

- Mitali Perkins

It’s a lovely adaptation that honors Lois Lowry’s vision and authority…the film…illuminates and explores the beauty, danger and pain of our free, cre…

- 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

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