Author: Anastasia Suen

Anastasia Suen is the author (& ghostwriter) of 450+ fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and prose books for children, teens, and adults: board books, picture books, beginning readers, early chapter books, middle grade books, young adult books, and books for adults.
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The Boy Who Grew a Forest

The Boy Who Grew a Forest: The True Story of Jadav Payeng
by Sophia Gholz (Author) and Kayla Harren (Illustrator)

Booktalk: As a boy, Jadav Payeng was distressed by the destruction deforestation and erosion was causing on his island home in India’s Brahmaputra River. So he began planting trees. What began as a small thicket of bamboo, grew over the years into 1,300 acre forest filled with native plants and animals.

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Nonfiction Monday

It’s Nonfiction Monday!

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Limitless

Limitless: 24 Remarkable American Women of Vision, Grit, and Guts
by Leah Tinari (Author / Illustrator)

Booktalk: For the final day of #WomensHistoryMonth, a collection of portraits celebrating the groundbreaking achievements and indelible impact of twenty-four extraordinary American women: Louisa May Alcott, Rachel Carson, Julia Child, Shirley Chisholm, Ellen Degeneres, Ray Eames, Eve Ensler, Carrie Fisher, Dian Fossey, Aretha Franklin, Betsey Johnson, Carol Kaye, Yuri Kochiyama, Liz Lambert, Lozen, Shirley Muldowney, Tracey Norman, Annie Oakley, Georgia O’Keefe, Dolly Parton, Kimberly Pierce, Gilda Radner, Sojourner Truth, and Abby Wambach.

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