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📚 Exciting News! "Laxmi's Mooch" is now available in Spanish! 🌟

We're thrilled to announce that "Laxmi's Mooch" has been beautifully translated into Spanish by ! 📖✨
Celebrate this milestone with us as we embrace the magic of storytelling in another language. Get your copy today and share the joy of "El Mooch De Laxmi" with friends and family! 📚🇪🇸💫

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Really enjoyed sharing my books with the ladies for the adult book fair with . Stay tuned for our book club on identity!!! ❤️🙏🏽🧿

Thank you to my fellow picture book saheli for writing this beautiful book about a little girl processing her mother’s miscarriage. As an only child who always wanted a sibling and witnessed my mother go through 2 miscarriages, this was the book I didn’t know I needed. ❤️🙏🏽

Excited to be talking children books at the grown up book fair next week with 🙏🏽🧿❤️ Come by!

Laxmi spotted at in Portland! ❤️🙏🏽🧿

SUMMER READING BONANZA ☀️

This event will start with story time and be followed with crafts and carnival-style stations. Come kick off summer with me at the Lilburn Branch ☺️ I hope to see you there!!

vashti and me ❤️

The Greensboro Bound Literary Festival is happening May 18-20. Join me on May 20th at 10a for a read along of I Love My Body Because 🥰

Located at the Greensboro Cultural Center GreenHill Center (2nd Floor)

Check out the other events and authors through the link in my bio. I hope to see you there!!






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FEATURE FRIDAY 🎉

A huge thank you to Rebecca Johnson for this fabulous feature on her AAPI heritage book list!!! You can check out the whole list by visiting the link in my bio ☺️






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Tonight!

Desi Kid Lit meet up with some of my faves ❤️🧿🙏🏽

Friends sent me pictures of Laxmi at their local libraries in Gwinnett County and Philly. 🥰🙏🏽❤️🧿

ANNOUNCEMENT 📢

I Love My Body Because is a 2023 Rise Honoree 🤗🤗🤗

More about Rise: A Feminist Book Project —
Each year Rise: A Feminist Book Project recommends recent books with significant feminist content for readers from birth to 18 years old

Rise: A Feminist Book Project is part of the Feminist Task Force of the American Library Association. You can learn more about this awesome project and read the complete list of recommended titles by checking out the link in my bio!!

Join me this Saturday at for their first author event of the new year ☺️ The event will take place upstairs and starts at 11am. Can’t wait to see you there. Location details linked in my bio!!!

With just 5 days left in the year, will you consider making a donation to help reach our end of the year giving goal? We have already reached 26% of our goal and we know with the help of dedicated supporters like you, we’ll hit $20,000 by December 31. Link in bio ☺️

Special thank you to for this great ILMBB feature. Catch the full list of wonderful reads by clicking the link in my bio ❤️

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TODAY IS THE DAY! It’s !!! Donate today to help reach its goal of raising $10,000 to continue building worker power inclusive of immigrants in the Deep South. Your gift will enable Sur Legal Collaborative to continue fighting alongside immigrant and working-class communities in the struggle to end abuses in the workplace and in our country’s inhumane immigration system. Every donation counts – are you with us?

Donate now to bring knowledge, power, and justice to workers across the Deep South and disrupt the labor-abuse-to-deportation pipeline. Support Sur Legal Collaborative today with a donation–any amount will be greatly appreciated.

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Loving Guatemala 🇬🇹

It was such a pleasure celebrating Diwali with College Heights in Decatur. Thank you for having me 🧿🧿🧿🧿 ❤️❤️☺️☺️☺️☺️

Happy Monday ☀️ Check out this lovely interview with on . “Can We Read?” is a weekly guide to children’s books, raising readers, and how to build a culture of reading in your home. What an honor to be featured ☺️ 📖 Read the full interview by clicking the link in my bio and story!

Join us to discuss Thenmozhi Soundararajan’s necessary work The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation of Survivorship, Healing and Abolition 📚 Link in my bio and story to register!

Today is the last day to early vote Georgia! Let’s do this!

Love finding my books out in the wild! So excited to find this gem of a bookstore in McDonough Square

Today a new podcast episode was released on the show All the WRITE Marketing and guess who the featured guest is? Find out more about my interview where we talk about writing to heal ❤️❤️🧿🧿🧿☺️☺️☺️ Link in my bio

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Happy Diwali 🪔!

Let’s do this GEORGIA! GOTV! Vote Democrat! Stacey! Raphael! Bee! Charlie! Lucy! Michelle! Nabilah! Early voting started 10/14. Chalo!Vamos! Yalla! Let’s Go!
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Thanks for the signs .hanhan

NEWNESS ❤️❤️❤️❤️☺️

and I had the pleasure of being on ’s podcast which was featured last week. Check it out!!! The link is in my bio and story!

About the podcast:
Burnt Toast is a weekly conversations about finding ways to dismantle diet culture and fatphobia, especially through parenting, health and fashion. (But non-parents like it too!) Hosted by Virginia Sole-Smith, journalist and author of The Eating Instinct and the forthcoming Fat Kid Phobia

As some of you know, in addition to being a children's book author and mother of 2, I have been fighting for immigrants and workers in the Deep South for over a decade as a legal aid attorney, a litigator with the US Department of Labor, and an immigrant rights attorney. After leaving my job with USDOL in January 2020, I joined an immigrant rights nonprofit organization to learn and practice immigration law, one week before the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 as a pandemic and the world shut down. Though my clients were concerned about their asylum and immigration cases, they had all been deemed essential workers and feared contracting COVID-19 at work. I quickly realized that there are few to no worker centers in Georgia and that immigrant workers in particular did not know their labor rights, especially under the Occupational Safety and Health Act. So, in October 2020, I co-founded , an immigrant and worker rights nonprofit based in Atlanta, Georgia.
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This past Sunday, we celebrated Sur Legal’s 2nd Birthday. It's been an unbelievable two years – we have educated thousands of workers and community members on labor rights regardless of immigration status, we have helped workers file robust labor complaints against abusive employers, we have been part of the movement to shut down ICE facilities in Georgia, and we have helped immigrant workers obtain deferred action and work authorization.
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Will you help us celebrate our birthday by making a contribution? Your donation will help us continue fighting alongside immigrant and working-class communities in the Deep South. With your donation, we can cover the costs of filing fees for work permits, pay our summer interns and growing staff, and continue to build our popular education materials. Are you with us? Donation link in bio.
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Shoutout to our amazing Sur Legal Team

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This was a beautiful event hosted by Bunnie Hilliard] last month. A teacher and librarian mingle 👨🏾‍🤝‍👨🏻👩🏽‍🤝‍👩🏾👩🏼‍🤝‍👨🏽 How cool!!!

If you’re in GA and haven’t heard of Bunnie Hilliard] it’s a must for every locals list. For everyone else, check out their web shop to support this black-owned, women run gem 💎

Closing out this week with another fabulous repost. Thank you to Moebius Syndrome Foundation] for featuring “I Love My Body Because” ☺️ It’s such an honor to be included!
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September’s Inclusively Reading Kids book club pick is “I Love My Body Because” by and . This book challenges us to embrace our bodies for all that they give us. Read with permission from Watch now, link in bio.⁠
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Happy National Read a Book Day!!

I figured this was the perfect time to sing the praises of this incredible children’s book “I Love My Body Because” by and 📚💛

Playing Tracy Turnblad has taught me so much about appreciating the body I am in and what it is capable of, and I’m sure she’d be just as obsessed with this book as I am.

I wish a book like this existed when I was growing up, but it makes my heart so full to know that it will be available to make children feel beautiful in whatever body they go around life in now and for years to come. Thank you to and for creating this, and thank you to for the stunning illustrations.✍️

Some news! Can’t wait to share In This Family, a tribute to our Desi Midwestern/Punjabi Irish family, with all of you! ❤️😭🙏🏾🧿

Fun feature of I Love My Body Because from my alma mater ❤️

Praise for I Love My Body Because ❤️

Required reading by

Caption Uma! drawn by !!

We LOVED meeting you at last week’s reading in Unceded Coast Salish (Vancouver)

Issue 022 — The Beauty of Acceptance

“I wanted to teach my two children that all bodies are worthy, that all bodies are good bodies. No matter their size, colour or ability” -

I am wildly excited about this feature for Issue 022 of 🙂 This issue explores how I've found self-acceptance through writing children's books and the importance of teaching self-love to our young ones.

This glorious newsletter is available in multiple languages. Sign up now so you are looped in on all the goodness it has to offer!!!

Sharing with in Vancouver!

spotting in Vancouver!

Check out this A Mighty Girl interview with and myself 🧿❤️❤️❤️❤️☺️☺️🧿❤️❤️☺️

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