Arushi Raina, author of When Morning Comes, appeared at the Jaipur Literature Festival on Saturday, January 26, 2019. Raina participated in the event “We That Are Young”. In conversation with writer and journalist Veena Venugopal, they discussed youth and experience, tradition and innovation and old, new and timeless ways of telling and sharing stories. When […]
CBC News Alberta shared Nhung N. Tran Davies’s story of fleeing Vietnam, which also inspired her new book A Grain of Rice. “Nhung Tran-Davies remembers her mother giving food away to hungry neighbours when her own family members — then living in a war-torn, flood-ravaged village in rural Vietnam — were themselves starving. … Those powerful […]
The UK School Library Association published a review of When Morning Comes, by Arushi Raina, in the Spring 2018 edition of The School Librarian. Sammie Steward wrote that, “Apartheid is a subject that, until now, has remained sorely under explored in young adult fiction. Raina’s account of the Soweto Uprising is compelling, and both the […]
Kirkus has published a review of On My Walk, written by Kari-Lynn Winters and illustrated by Christina Leist. Read the full review here: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/kari-lynn-winters/on-my-swim/
Author Uma Krishnaswami recently interviewed Arushi Raina, author of When Morning Comes, on her blog, Writing with a Broken Tusk. They spoke “about writing in multiple voices, fiction vs. life, and the power of the children’s and YA writing community.” Read the full interview here: https://umakrishnaswami.org/2018/06/19/arushi-raina-on-when-morning-comes/