Coloring Between the Lines

reflections on race, culture and children’s books

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Tuesday, March 14, 2017

MOVED!

In 2016, I moved this blog to ColoringBetweenTheLines.com where the discussion of race, culture and children's books continues. Come o...

Friday, October 2, 2015

Picturing New Neighbors

On September 30, in the midst of torrential rains and flash flooding in the city, I still managed to get in from the island to hang an exhib...

Celebrating I'M NEW HERE

The September 19 launch party and film preview for I'm New Here was wonderful. Master-minded and MC-ed by the ever brilliant and ...

Sunday, September 6, 2015

Launch party!

Thursday, September 3, 2015

Serendipity

An artist friend, Jo Israelson, has been working for months on an art installation called, "Welcoming the Stranger: Building Understand...

Monday, August 31, 2015

Why #BigFiveSignOn? #WNDB

Dear Publishers, Please sign up for the Diversity Baseline survey designed by Lee & Low. As they state, Our goal with the Diversity...

Saturday, August 29, 2015

Story First: Using Children's Books to Explore Korean Culture & Identity

Once again I participated in a National Association of Korean Schools teachers conference - the second in a week - this one the New England...

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About Me

Anne Sibley O'Brien: Anne Sibley O’Brien is a children’s book writer and illustrator who was raised bilingual and bicultural in South Korea. She has received the National Education Association’s Author-Illustrator Human & Civil Rights Award for the body of her work with Margy Burns Knight (TALKING WALLS and other books); the Africana Award for AFRICA IS NOT A COUNTRY by Knight and Mark Melnicove; and the Aesop Award and the Asian-Pacific American Award for Literature for THE LEGEND OF HONG KIL DONG: THE ROBIN HOOD OF KOREA, a graphic novel which she wrote and illustrated. She has illustrated WHAT WILL YOU BE, SARA MEE? (Charlesbridge 2010) by Kate Aver Avraham and MOON WATCHERS: SHIRIN'S RAMADAN MIRACLE (Tilbury 2010) by Reza Jalali. A PATH OF STARS (Charlesbridge 2012), a picture book about a Cambodian-American family which she wrote and illustrated under commission from the Maine Humanities Council, was named an Honor Book of the Asian Pacific American Award for Literature. In 2014 she received the Katahdin Award for lifetime achievement from the Maine Library Association. Her latest title is I'M NEW HERE, a picture book about 3 immigrant children.

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