Torrey Maldonado
@torreymaldonado
Author of HANDS, the ‘24 MS/JHS Global Read Aloud, and three more award-winning MG books. Close to 30 years teaching in Brooklyn NYC where I was born & raised.
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An author with this on a shirt who actually helps make the 🌎 better is 1 whose book we want in the world. Nikki Shannon Smith Nikki Shannon Smith is that author writing in the same room as me in Highlights. Check out STRANDED by her with Scholastic
On 9/26/24, #Center4BlackLit w/Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts presents the Killens Literary Salon, featuring YA & Middle Grade Authors. Spend the evening w/#IbiZoboi, Olugbemisola Adeniji, Tracey Baptiste & Torrey Maldonado who will read excerpts from their works. Register: bit.ly/3yCa50D
Some say get over it. Poverty I’m from isn’t something to get over. When I was a boy, I didn’t know a life beyond my projects or my life could go passed 18. Now at Highlights completing projects my projects hoped I’d create—books. Hope this is another #GlobalRead like #Hands
On 9/26/24 join us at the Killens Literary Salon featuring YA & Middle Grade Authors. Celebrating & amplifying stories across the Diaspora. Olugbemisola Adeniji Tracey Baptiste #IbiZoboi #Center4BlackLit w/Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts Register: bit.ly/3yCa50D
So much upliftment today. The amazing Amanda Jones on @msnbc uplifted our world of young readers, Kid Lit, librarians, and #Freadom 🇺🇸 📚 Added upliftment from Amanda Jones: Defender of Libraries & Wonder — the release of THAT LIBRARIAN. Happy Book Birthday, Amanda!
I think this is HANDS’ Spanish paperback😳 Publishes 2 days after #hispanicheritagemonth starts & in time for its Pernille Ripp MANOS: 9/17. Vintage Español Penguin Random House 🐧🏠📚 #latinxheritagemonth #latinx #spanish #readers #kidlit #kidslit #children #kids #bilingual
Doing the Global Read Aloud this year? FREE resources 👇🏽 #GRA24 Pernille Ripp
My James Earl Jones story. I student-taught & 1 boy’s writing was so WOW his name stuck: Jones. Time flies, the Vassar College president hosts a party & VADER’S VOICE makes me look. It’s him!🤯 We chat. Him: “Where do you student-teach?” I say. That boy? His son! 🤯 R.I.P. to a great!
Reading HANDS for the Global Read Aloud? There’s “Where in the Word is Waldo?” Let’s play “Where in the Word is NADO?” (Maldo-NADO). Here’s how: 🤜🏽 click the link & pin yourself on the map 🤜🏽 repost link. Pernille Ripp Penguin Young Readers School & Library Nancy Paulsen padlet.com/karen107/hands…
23 days to the Pernille Ripp of Hands. Fun “roll-call” time. Now ‘til Oct. 7th, I’ll shoutout places reading Hands. Read or reading it? Shout out your area, or click this link & pin it on the map. All hands in for Hands in Switzerland 🎉 padlet.com/karen107/hands…
22 days to Hands Pernille Ripp . Roll-call 🎉 All hands in for Hands in Turin, Italy & Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam 👏🏽 Will your area be the next shoutout? Read or reading Hands? Shout out your area, or click link, pin you on the map, & I’ll do it. padlet.com/karen107/hands…
