Check out the interview about my monarch butterfly book, beautifully illustrated by my brother, Mauro Magellan.
Picture Book Gold Penny Eifrig #butterfly NF Fest Latinx in Publishing Latinx in STEM

Fabulous news!!! Congratulations to you both. So exciting. 🎉🎉🎉📚❤️

Thank you, Junior Library Guild! You've been so kind to my books over the years. I appreciate YOU and all you do for children's literature 💙

Lerner Books MacKids Books East West Literary STEAMTeamBooks ⭐️The Dream Team!⭐️ Soaring20sPB

Happy Earth Day! We’re celebrating with these favorites by Songju Daemicke - Our World: China Vivian Kirkfield Marta Magellan 📚 Jolene Gutiérrez--preorder THE OFRENDA WE BUILT Laura Author of An Accidental Hero 2/24 and Bonnie Kelso ~ SEA SMILES 🦷 Available now!! #nonfiction #kidlit

Such a joy to spend the afternoon with all these beautiful and talented #kidlit authors and illustrators in the greater Sacramento area. ❤️📚❤️📚❤️

Wow! What an honor! OLD TO JOY was selected as a 2024 Children’s Book Council Librarian Favorites Award for grades Kindergarten-2nd. Thank you #librarians for sharing this book with your young readers. Gnome Road Publishing CBC Book #kidlit #BlackCreatorsHq #BlackCreatorsInKidLit Picture Book Gold

Happiest of Book Birthdays to this beautiful book!! Marta Magellan @efrigpublishing #monarchbutterflies #nonfiction @pollinators

Celebrate National Gardening Day by picking up one of these fabulous books!

‘Drop Everything and Read Day’. That’s a new day to me, but I would love to celebrate reading these books by my Picture Book Gold friends. Thank you Picture Book Gold for introducing me to this day. And thank you for including the Butternut series in this lovely graphic.
#read 📚

On #NationalPetDay , we had a dog lie-in...oh, wait, that happens every day! #lovedogs #bestfriends

Happy Perfect Picture Book Friday. April is #NationalDonateLifeMonth We're celebrating w/ a very important new book from Rachelle Burk A GIFT OF LIFE: A Story About Organ and Tissue Donation illus by Benjamin J Hummel - please RT to raise awareness
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We're proud to share ANIMALS IN SURPRISING SHADES: POEMS ABOUT EARTH'S COLORFUL CREATURES is a Keystone to Reading Book Award Nominee! Congrats to Susan Johnston Taylor (she/her) (and illustrator Annie Bakst) on this special honor!

It's not too late to get a copy for Poetry Month!

Happy Garden Month from Gnome Road!

Checking out the solar eclipse with our students here in California

Are you excited for ALPACAS MAKE TERRIBLE LIBRARIANS to release this fall? (Of course you are!)

Now. . . get ready for OWLS MAKE TERRIBLE TEACHERS, by the same awesome team of Kristi Mahoney and Chantelle and Burgen. Heading your way in the spring of 2026.

A call for submissions that might interest fellow wordsmiths!

HOME FOR A BUNNY by Margaret Wise Brown & Garth Williams-my absolute favorite childhood book that gave me warmth & comfort. Happy this #LittleGoldenBook still reaches littles w/its comforting message of finding home. #Easter #Easter Books #bunnybooks #kidlit Random House Children's Books

Such a blessing and joy to celebrate Easter with family. I know my redeemer lives!!! 🙏🏽

A great post on the MOWMT blog from ALPACAS MAKE TERRIBLE LIBRARIANS author Kristi Mahoney on writing in second-person. YOU don’t want to miss it!

#50PreciousWords UPDATE!!
Still happily wading our way thru 672 AMAZING stories & still collecting books for the #literacy initiative at Bookery Manchester - 70 ordered so far that will be donated to Manchester schools in need. Please join this worthy effort - kids need books! #kidlit