Terry Farish's Blog
June 29, 2025
Maine Educators include GO HOME in their summer “Migration Reads”
We are proud that GO HOME is included in Maine educators’ summer reading list along with Kareem Between and Brownstone. Also, co-author Lochan Sharma will speak on a panel at the MCSTAYA culminating conference of the summer book club. The panel is on being a first-gen author and creating a first-gen main character.
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In the Schools: Seeing Haiti Through a Young Girl’s Eyes
I’m Your Neighbor Books has a mission to provide books in translation whenever possible in students’ mother tongue. That does three things – helps kids comprehend English, supports dual language learning, AND brings kids’ joy to see a book in the language they speak at home. I’m Your Neighbor Books provided Auntie Luce’s Talking Paintings...
The post In the Schools: Seeing Haiti Through a Young Girl’s Eyes first appeared on Terry Farish | Author.March 29, 2025
Discussion Guide for Go Home
The Authors Terry Farish and Lochan Sharma spent four years writing Go Home. Lochan was born in Nepal after his family was exiled from their home country, Bhutan. Now the family lives in Concord, New Hampshire and he’s studying at Keene State College. Terry writes novels in Atlantic Heights, a small neighborhood on the New Hampshire seacoast....
The post Discussion Guide for Go Home first appeared on Terry Farish | Author.February 26, 2025
Planning the Derry Author Fest, Adi Rule, Sara Lesley Arnold, Erin Moulton – April 5th
Three children’s book writers with the Derry Author Fest on their minds. Adi Rule, Sara Lesley Arnold, and Erin Moulton. Sara and I are presenting on creating author visits that are welcoming to English Learners and also some craft tips on writing for all, including diverse students. Here’s the flyer. DerryAuthorFest.wordpress.com
The post Planning the Derry Author Fest, Adi Rule, Sara Lesley Arnold, Erin Moulton – April 5th first appeared on Terry Farish | Author.February 24, 2025
Discussion Guide for Go Home, a working draft.
The Authors Terry Farish and Lochan Sharma spent four years writing Go Home. Lochan was born in Nepal after his family was exiled from their home country, Bhutan. Now the family lives in Concord, New Hampshire and he’s studying at Keene State College. Terry writes novels in Atlantic Heights, a small neighborhood on the New Hampshire seacoast....
The post Discussion Guide for Go Home, a working draft. first appeared on Terry Farish | Author.October 14, 2024
Kate DiCamillo Talks with one Boy
This is Kate DiCamillo. 1,300 children filled the Capital Center in Concord, kicking off New Hampshire’s first NH Book Festival But this event was just for kids. Kate showed them it’s ok to live under the spell of stories, in wonder at the world, and if they didn’t, she showed them what it felt like...
The post Kate DiCamillo Talks with one Boy first appeared on Terry Farish | Author.October 9, 2024
Elizabeth Yates Award, 2025. Thank you Concord Library Foundation
This awed me. The Concord Library Foudation gave me an award for my books for children and support of literacy, especially my work with refugee and immigrant kids and I’m Your Neighbor Books. Not just any award. It’s called the Elizabeth Yates Award, for the Newbury-winning author Elizabeth Yates, author of Amos Fortune, Free Man. I’m...
The post Elizabeth Yates Award, 2025. Thank you Concord Library Foundation first appeared on Terry Farish | Author.I Just Got the Elizabeth Yates Award, 2024-2025
This awed me. The Concord Library Foudation gave me an award for my books for children and support of literacy, especially my work with refugee and immigrant kids and I’m Your Neighbor Books. Not just any award. It’s called the Elizabeth Yates Award, for the Newbury-winning author Elizabeth Yates, author of Amos Fortune, Free Man. I’m...
The post I Just Got the Elizabeth Yates Award, 2024-2025 first appeared on Terry Farish | Author.I Will Receive the Elizabeth Yates Award, 2024-2025
Two of my favorite writers for children received the Elizabeth Yates award in the past two years, Deb Bruss and David Elliott. I have followed their careers and loved their books. Now, I’ve just heard that I will receive the Yates award from the Concord Library Foundation this year for my work with children and...
The post I Will Receive the Elizabeth Yates Award, 2024-2025 first appeared on Terry Farish | Author.August 5, 2024
Find Her by Ginger Reno, a review
FIND HER by Ginger Reno is a gift to young readers to gently help them understand a reality of the lives of some contemporary Native people in the U.S.
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