May is Mental Health Awareness Month - take a look at our new and upcoming titles featuring characters dealing with mental health challenges via our resource center (including books by raCquel marie✨updates, Ari Tison, @elshenwrites & more!): bit.ly/4aIS260

Encourage your students interest in Space on National Space Day with SPACE: THE FINAL POOPING FRONTIER by @connorandab & Lars Kenseth - a funny & factual picture book about the scientific history of astronauts pooping in space! bit.ly/3UEyRVN

When it's been YEARS since you've seen Loren Long and you're at Texas Library Assn. and you BUMP INTO HIM, but you're both in a hurry, so you can't talk, and then you're on the road for a while, but when you finally get home, this is waiting for you.

Loren, The Yellow Bus is amazing!!!

Wow!!! 🤩 The Yellow Bus by Loren Long is even more spectacular in person!! 🥰😍 Thank you so much MacKids Books Macmillan Children's School & Library 📚 for this 💛 beautiful 💛 signed treasure! 🚌🩶

Love how the messy, scratchy charcoal looks on this splendid book box from the Roaring Brook Press team at Macmillan Publishers. Thanks so much for this effort, MacKids Books! The Yellow Bus publishes June 25,2024. Macmillan Children's School & Library 📚 Macmillan Publishers

Brothers and Sisters Day is celebrated every year on May 2nd! Looking for a book that honors the bond siblings share? Look no further than INVADER FROM MARS: THE TRUTH ABOUT BABIES by Peggy Robbins Janousky & Karen Obuhanych, out now! bit.ly/3WjO9AE

Three Summers Dr. Amra Sabic-El-Rayess Macmillan Children's School & Library 📚 is a powerful coming of age memoir in Bosnia as things started to become dangerous for Muslims. Each summer leads to more uncertainty. But Amra learns to live to fullest in between. #BookAllies

Incredible news! The Great Cool Ranch Dorito in the Sky was chosen as a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection! This honor is awarded to the very best in children’s literature. Thank you, Junior Library Guild! #JLGSelection @fiercereads MacKids Books Macmillan Children's School & Library 📚 HarveyKlinger Agency

May is AAPI Heritage Month and to celebrate we recommend picking up a copy of THE TRUTH ABOUT DRAGONS by Julie Leung | 梁婉君 & Hanna Cha, winner of the 2024 Asian Pacific American Award for Literature and a Caldecott Honor. Download our Activity Kit here: bit.ly/3UG73jW

National Poetry Month is almost over-but poetry never ends! Thankful for poets & poems-& to have written these novels in verse, ALL OF ME & THE MAGICAL IMPERFECT, & more coming soon. Here is one of my favorite poems from The Magical Imperfect. 'Shyness'

It’s International Jazz Day! To celebrate the spirit of Jazz, pick up the picture book biography, HOW JELLY ROLL MORTON INVENTED JAZZ by Jonah Winter & Keith Mallett and be transported to the musical, magical streets of New Orleans. bit.ly/3G9TrWG

Absolutely love the 'Book Résumés' initiative from UniteAgainstBookBans and SchoolLibraryJournal.

Book résumés are a free resource for frequently-challenged books, complete with reviews, accolades, and more tools you can use to combat censorship. New titles added regularly! bookresumes.uniteagainstbookbans.org

Celebrate the spoken word during the #2024OdysseyAwards at #ALAC24 ! Join us Monday, 7/1 at 3:30 p.m. PDT in the Pacific Ballroom at the Marriott Marquis to celebrate this year's winning and honor titles! 🏅📚🎙️Add to your scheduler now: cdmcd.co/arrpPM

April 28th is Poetry Reading Day, the perfect way to round out National Poetry month! Pick out your favorite poetry month title from our resource center and get reading! 📖 bit.ly/4c7Iof2

Baby’s first starred review! 🥹🥹🥲😭😭😭😭 THANK YOU, Publishers Weekly! MacKids Books Henry Holt & Company Macmillan Children's School & Library 📚 Macmillan Publishers HarveyKlinger Agency publishersweekly.com/9781250907714