The Hong Kong Book Fair is an opportunity to celebrate many local authors while also giving visitors a glimpse of the cultural situation in other countries via their works. So, for MaryAnn Butterfield, that makes it a good opportunity to demonstrate Americas push for more inclusivity in its schools and the mounting calls to end racist attitudes still persisting even among young children. Her childrens story offers a true-to-life example of how this can be achieved.
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Global publishers often participate in the Hong Kong Book Fair to offer their authors a marketing entry point to one of Asias biggest reading markets.
On the other hand, there are others who care less about selling and really more about sharing an important cultural message about where they come from and what they hope to achieve.
Thats the mission of MaryAnn Milton Butterfield, a former non-fiction author who is now using her experiences in child development to create stories that shape young readers into better human beings.
For the Hong Kong Book Fair 2024, she arranged to exhibit Dont Call Me That! My Name is Michael, a story about the problem of racist attitudes even among Americas elementary school youth. It follows a boy named Michael Kim, an Asian-American who encounters hostile, racial bullying for the very first time and the series of troubling events that follow it because he is too scared to report the behavior.
Dont Call Me That! My Name is Michael is a book that doesnt depart from a real-life experience that Butterfield had and how its become important to educate children about when fun ends and racist bullying begins.
Readers can learn how Dont Call Me That! My Name is Michael further expounds on the issue when it goes on display at the Hong Kong Book Fair 2024. The book fair will take place from July 17 to 23, 2024, at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, 1 Harbor Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong. Attendees can find the book displayed at the self-publishing and book marketing company ReadersMagnets exhibit at Booth 1C-C37.
The book is available in paperback, hardcover, and eBook on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and ReadersMagnet Bookstore. News about MaryAnn Milton Butterfields other upcoming childrens books is available on her website at www.butterfieldstories.com.
Dont Call Me That! My Name is Michael
Author: MaryAnn Milton Butterfield
Published date: August 11, 2023
Publisher: ReadersMagnet LLC
Genre: Childrens Fiction
Author Bio
Ms. Butterfield uses her experiences in child development to craft stories that appeal to young readers. A chance encounter with a distressed child led her to write, Dont Call Me That! Previously a writer of non-fiction, she honed her writing for children at the Society of Childrens Book Writers and Illustrators and applies this knowledge to create scenarios that help children understand social behaviors that will lead them to developing positive and inclusive relationshipsskills that will serve them well in life.
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