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2018, November: New Mexico

  • NM AZ Book Coop Award for best bilingual children’s book, Playing with Osito | Jugando con Baby Bear.

2018, March: New York

  • Reading of Playing with Osito | Jugando con Baby Bear with Susan L. Roth at Worldfest, BASIS Independent Brooklyn.

  • Reading of Playing with Osito | Jugando con Baby Bear with Susan L. Roth at WordUp Community Bookshop in Harlem.

2015, March to April: Beijing, China

  • Reading of Juma's Dhow Race at the Bookworm Cafe.

  • Author visit to the International Montessori School of Beijing.

  • ​​Author visit to the Dulwich College of Beijing.

Children reading about Tanzania Juma at the Bookworm Cafe.

Children reading about Tanzania Juma at the Bookworm Cafe.

2014, March: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

  • Book event at A Novel Idea Slipway.

  • Author visit to the International School of Tanganyika Elementary.

  • Author visit to the Dar es Salaam International Academy.

  • Author visit to the Aga Khan primary.

Lisa Maria says, “we need more storytellers. We need a thousand voices and more in Tanzania. I hope that my writing inspires someone else to write as well,” in an interview with Esther Mngodo for The Citizen (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania).

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2013, July: Taos, New Mexico

  • Launch of the Tanzania Juma Stories with Moby Dickens Bookshop at Twirl Toy Store and Playspace.

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Matopos, Zimbabwe by LMB Noudehou