Local author teaches important life lessons through children’s books
Plus she shares advice on how to get your little one to read
Michelle Oliver, Multimedia Journalist, Live in the D, Detroit
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As you probably know, March is National Women’s History Month, as well as Reading Month, and Maria Dismondy fits the bill for both. She is a local children’s book author, former teacher, public speaker, she started her own publishing company, and now she is even hosting a classroom of her own online.
It all began with her first book,
Spaghetti In A Hotdog Bun, which she published in 2008. At the time she was a teacher and realized there were not many books for kids that had characters that looked like them. Instead, many children’s books had animals as the main characters. The book teaches kids to have the courage to be themselves.