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a quick intro to Mitali Perkins' life and work Mitali Bose Perkins was born in Kolkata (Calcutta), India. Her name means "friendly" in Bangla, which she tried to live up to because the Bose family moved so often – they lived in India, Ghana, Cameroon, London, New York City, and Mexico City before settling in the San Francisco Bay Area when she was in middle school. Mitali studied political science at Stanford University and public policy at U.C. Berkeley, surviving academia thanks to a steady diet of kids’ books from public libraries and bookstores, and went on to teach middle school, high school, and college students. She lived in India, Bangladesh, Thailand, and California with her husband and twin sons before the Perkins family moved to Newton, Massachusetts, where they live now.
Mitali's books include Monsoon Summer (Random House), an ALA Quick Pick, a Bank Street Best Book, a New York Library Book for the Teen Age, and a Texas Library Association TAYSHAS Best Book for Young Adults. She also wrote The Not-So-Star-Spangled Life of Sunita Sen (Little Brown), which was an ALA Book for Reluctant Readers and the winner of the Christian School’s Association’s Lamplighter Award, Rickshaw Girl (Charlesbridge), which won the Maine Lupine Honor Award and the Julia Ward Howe Honor Award, and First Daughter: Extreme American Makeover (Dutton), which was followed by a sequel, First Daughter: White House Rules (Dutton). Forthcoming titles include Secret Keeper (Random House, 2009), and The Bamboo People (Charlesbridge, 2010).
Mitali also enjoys visiting schools and libraries to discuss “books between cultures” and the life-changing power of story. She's proud to be a readergirlz diva, on the editorial advisory board for Kahani Magazine, and a member of PEN, SCBWI, the Kidlitosphere, and the Boston Author's Club. Here are some interviews where you may find out everything you want to know about the author but were afraid to ask — and more:
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