Praise for The Traveling Taco

A 2026 Notable Social Studies Trade Books Award Winner
National Council for the Social Studies and Children's Book Council

?? California Reading Association Silver Award Winner
CA Reading Assn.

A brightly colored exploration of the origins and evolution of popular foods, from ice cream to pasta and pizza to french fries. . . he crisp, full-page illustrations elucidate the text . . . Fun facts for future foodies.
Kirkus Reviews

A Summer Reading Guide Selection 2025
Reading Rockets

About the Author

Mia Wenjen blogs about parenting, children’s books, and education at PragmaticMom.com and is the cocreator of Read Your World, celebrating Multicultural Children’s Book Day, a nonprofit celebrating diversity in children’s books. She is the author of several illustrated nonfiction children’s books, including We Sing From the Heart: How The Slants Took Their Fight for Free Speech to the Supreme Court also published by Red Comet Press. Wenjen lives in Boston with her husband and three kids. Follow her at #PragmaticMom on Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, and Facebook. Kimberlie Clinthorne-Wong is an illustrator, designer, and ceramicist from Hawaii. She received a BFA in drawing from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and a BFA in illustration from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. She has illustrated several picture books and currently lives and works in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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