Books By Me

Becoming America’s Stories series

The Heart of Bakers and Artists
The Dreams of Singers and Sluggers
Becoming America’s Food Stories

More Books By Me

All of us have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, including the kids. The lock down is not an overextended school holiday. Children struggle through the new routines and limits. They need their thoughts and ideas acknowledged, and a means to practice patience and kindness toward others and themselves. Journaling through the quarantine is a productive way to reflect calm and appreciation. Through writing, observations sharpen, and feelings sort so that paths to peace and solutions reveal themselves. 

Journal On! Thoughts Gleaned While Quarantined is available NOW! Contact me to request your free digital copy. 

Hug Everyone You Know: A Year of Community, Courage, and Cancer chronicles my first year battling breast cancer treatment as a wimpy patient. Through journaling and sending emails to family and friends—My Everyone, I was engaged in life’s stories and somehow, found courage.  I signed the emails with the reminder to “hug everyone you know.” Those emails and journal entries are at the heart of my story. It was serendipitous that I was able to hone the elusive bravery because less than five years later, metastatic breast cancer popped into my life and onto my vertebrae. Writing a hopeful memoir became an imperative goal. I couldn’t leave the stories unsaid.

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  My first children’s picture book! Famous Seaweed Soup was a labor of love and holds a special place in my heart. Sadly, it is out of print BUT you can view video links and fun facts here.   

Hope you are hungry. Becoming America’s Food Stories recalls the tales that have been told around my family’s dinner table. The histories explain the motivations over bowls of macaroni, antics play out while slurping soup, and laughter echoes throughout the dining room. Pull up a seat. There’s always room.
The Heart of Bakers and Artists is set in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, 1911. The story follows nine-year-old Lily, an American-born child of Sicilian immigrants, who wants to prove she is not a little kid. To be a big kid in the crowded tenement neighborhoods, she must tackle bigotry, bullies, disasters, dotty bakers, and learn to cross the street by herself
The Dreams of Singers and Sluggers picks up where The Heart of Bakers and Artists left off.Lily has big dreams to sing out with her powerful voice, but must do EVERYTHING, since Mama fell into a deep depression, the baby is sick, and the “Black Hand” terrorizes the neighborhood, threatening her chance to sing at the New York Highlanders Fourth of July baseball game.
Antoinette Truglio Martin is the author of Hug Everyone You Know: A Year of Community, Courage, and Cancer. The memoir is a wimpy patient’s journey through her first year of breast cancer treatment.