Hello!
Welcome to my website. I'm Carmella. I write books for curious kids and ones who like to read funny, heartfelt stories about surprising yourself.
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"YOU GOTTA MEET MR. PIERCE!" The Storied Life of Folk Artist Elijah Pierce
co-authored with Chiquita Mullins Lee & Illustrated by Jennifer Mack-Watkins has received 3 starred reviews.
It's also been selected by the Ohio Center for the Book to represent Ohio in the Great Reads From Great Place initiative at the 2024 National Book Festival in Washington, DC!
As well as a 2024 Ohioana Book Award finalist!
Other honors:
2023 Booklist Editor's Choice list
Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature Best Books of 2023 Black Caucus ALA Best of the Best 2023 list for grades K-4 , Black Caucus ALA Honor book 2024
Cooperative Children's Book Center University of Wisconsin-Madison Choices 2024
Check out more at Kokila Books.
Now available (Paperback coming 2025)
FROZEN IN TIME: WHAT ICE CORES CAN TEACH US ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE
A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
Books for a Better Earth collection from Holiday House
Order now here from Holiday House.
NOW IN PAPERBACK!
NOTHING IS LITTLE was reviewed in The New York Times
And it's got some nominations:
2023 Ohioana Book Award Finalist
2024 Rhode Island Children's Book Award for grades 3-5
Find it at Holiday House