Padma, author & speaker

Back home after a marvelous tour for The Bridge Home. So this week, I'm just going to post my video and say thanks again to you all for sharing Viji, Rukku, Muthu and Arul's feelings and for befriending them and for your empathy. I loved how many people from all over the world told me [...]

Hi everyone. Sorry for the delay this week, and for the confusion. I answered some of these questions on instagram today, but I'm uploading this video as well, and I may edit this post and add another video later with some of the same questions. I did this video the same way as last week, [...]

Week 3! I can hardly believe we're at the halfway mark already! Here are answers to some of your questions: Now for some of the other questions I received this week. How did I get the idea for Rukku selling necklaces? (Hutchinson Middle School, TX, USA) I've grown up seeing bead sellers like this beautiful [...]

I'm so grateful to every teacher and every reader who has the courage and strength to read THE BRIDGE HOME. I hope you've all enjoyed laughing with Muthu, Arul, Rukku and Viji this week. I've had a wonderful week - it's been such a joy to see photographs of readers from around the world. It's [...]

Thank you! Thank you for visiting this page, for participating in the global read aloud, and for choosing to read #TheBridgeHome. Many of you (e.g. Baker School, Troy, MI, USA; Our Lady of Fatima Convent School, Durban, South Africa; Kurtztown Area Middle School, Kurtztown, PA, USA) asked about inspiration and if THE BRIDGE HOME was [...]

Hi everyone! I just wrote a poem about how grateful I am for the invention of the zero (in an anthology collection entitled ThankU edited by Miranda Paul, which was just released this fall), and so I thought  I'd number my weekly videos with video # 0, below, as it just answers a few very [...]

Having #TheBridgeHome chosen for the global read aloud means the world to me! If you haven't already, please: sign up to follow this website and follow my twitter (or ig / fb) feed to stay updated leave me questions by THURSDAY 5:00 p.m. United States Eastern Standard Time (at the very latest; preferably by Wednesday [...]

So ... last Friday, I received my 20th starred review (my 8th star for #TheBridgeHome - which includes 3 for the audiobook that I read aloud). Such an honor - I'm so GRA-teful! Ordering copies: I hope those of you who want to give your voices a bit of a rest as you read will [...]

 By Kelly McWilliams   Reading the Dry Bones In the book of Ezekiel, the great prophet dreams of a valley of dry bones. Dry, very dry. Old skeletons near to dust. God asks, “Son of man, can these bones live?” Ezekiel knows they can’t. But when God orders him to prophesy to the bones, he [...]