In 2023, the American Library Association (ALA) awarded Love, Violet the Stonewall Book Award – Mike Morgan and Larry Romans Children’s Literature Award. This was the honor of a lifetime! And it means many more children will enjoy Love, Violet — in spite of all the soft censorship and book bans. Illustrator Charlene Chua and I… Read more »
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Why I Wrote LOVE, VIOLET
Back in 2011 when I began my first draft of Love, Violet, I knew exactly why I was writing it. I was a kid like Violet. I had young crushes on girls. But I never had a story like this one to show me that I wasn’t a mistake. That I could exist. That I… Read more »
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