I find it hard to believe it has been 4 years since the day I left Malta and moved to Norway. Where did the years go? My husband and I left Malta with a 3-year-old and a baby in the belly, and now the kids were old enough for me to leave them behind, and […]
Happy New Year everyone with a super cute photo that one of you sent me (thank you!), and the best wish meme (writer anon) I came across on FB. I hope you’re doing well -or at least not terrible- and that the first two weeks and the back-to-school days have been OK. Here COVID is on […]
I have some news to share that is of particular interest for my friends who live in Greece, as the bilingual books “Happiness Street” and “Cousins Forever” will be available shortly for purchase locally. A couple of years back, I got to meet online a fellow author, Christina Konstantoudaki (Χριστίνα Κωνσταντουδάκη), who was the admin […]
Cousins Forever & Happiness Street in more languages! Hi everyone, I hope you’re doing great :). I wanted to thank all of you who downloaded the eBook editions of my bilingual books Happiness Street and Cousins Forever for free during the last 6 months as part of the big collaborative author campaign. 3,833 eBooks were downloaded during the campaign, plus many more from the […]
AUTHORS COMMITTED TO GIVING BACK TO OUR MULTILINGUAL COMMUNITIES Hi friends, As you know, amongst the different things that I do, I write and publish bilingual books for children (for the ones who are new here, I’m Elisavet Arkolaki 🙂 ). Acknowledging that times have been difficult for many families around the world during the […]
Anzelika, a mum who read our journey with raising multilingual children, sent me the following email. I thought of replying via a blog post, with her permission, instead of a personal email as this might be of interest to more moms out there who find themselves in a similar situation. ‘Hi Liza! There are not […]
This is our story on how we managed to save our family’s minority languages, and how our eldest developed language skills in two additional languages. Intercultural and interracial marriages are on the rise according to studies, whilst more parents, particularly in USA and Europe, are adopting children from other countries. As a result, our communities […]
Janie Reinart is a fellow author from the USA. I met her online in a small authors’ group where we came together to brainstorm marketing ideas about our debut children’s books. I was so impressed to see she has worked with so many different things prior to the publication of When Water Makes Mud, and […]
Hi, I hope you’re all well :). I’d like to take this opportunity and wish you Happy Holidays! We’re getting ready to celebrate Christmas here, and we hope we will have a lovely time with the kids. I’ve been thinking about what could I offer to you all as a gift for the holidays, and […]
Hi everyone, let the festive season begin, and Happy Holidays to all of you celebrating! In 2020, I presented to you some of my favorite books from fellow independent authors. Now it’s time for the 2021 list, with books that I read this year and loved them. Actually, there were more than 25 so I […]
Good morning friends, my heart is bursting with joy and I need to share this with you. But let me start with a story… As you know, I love stories :). There have been lots of things during my years on earth that I have wanted and wished for, some of them happened, some of […]
It’s been a year since Ana Elisa Miranda and Ute Limacher-Riebold published The Toolbox for Multilingual Families, and I’d like to celebrate with them by sharing with you all my book review. I had the pleasure of being entrusted to read the manuscript as a beta reader long before it got published, and I was […]
Hi friends, I hope you’re all doing great. For the ones that the summer holidays are over and the kids are back to school, I hope that you’ve recharged your batteries and that this scholastic year things are smoother. In Norway, the pandemic measures have been lifted – the authorities have officially classified Covid as […]
Today I’d like to introduce you to one more fellow writer that I admire a lot. It’s rare to discover writers that have their very own, unique way of telling stories, and Kristine Hokstad-Myzyri is one of them. She’s the creator of the Kate the Kitty series for kids aged 1-6, and one quickly notices […]
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