Happy #EarthDay , my fellow earthlings! 💙🌎💚

If, like me, your passion is ocean stewardship, I invite you to dive into my debut novel, TREASURE TRACKS. It’s an ocean-loving adventure story—a quest for a real treasure and an exploration of natural treasures. #EarthDay 2024

Happy #EarthDay 2024 ! 🌍This image I created for M&S.

This year's theme is about 'Planet vs. Plastics'. There's a big push to phase out single-use plastics and achieve a 60% reduction by 2024.

#EarthDay #illustrationart #illustrator #kidlitart ist #HappyEarthDay #kidlitart

Being a teacher with #Covid means spending 5+ hours today creating Earth Day lessons and writing detailed sub plans for the next three days. Then having to email colleagues the pages to be printed. I am so thankful to my team at school. Hoping I can just rest now. So tired.😪

In anticipation & celebration of Taylor Swift’s #TorturedPoets release, my ELA colleague created “The Tortured Poets Department: Mrs. Gildersleeve’s Version” bulletin board with some educated guesses on poet & poem connections based on song titles alone!

Playing the game….is it allergies or did I catch something at school or exhaustion or related to the chemical used to fix the roof?

Slight fever, headache, tired, and my lower back hurts.

Eating, Tylenol, bedtime. Have a good night!

A posthumous sequel to Frindle!! Coming in August!

BOOK GIVEAWAY! Follow Me and Repost this announcement to win 2 autographed books! Comment REPOSTED and FOLLOWING! I will announce the winner tonight at 9! Also, if you won a book in APRIL your prize will be shipped on Monday. #GiveawayAlert

It's here and it's perfect. us.corwin.com/books/rethinki…

GREAT TIGERMARK GIVEAWAY!!!!
The orginal paintings are going to the 2024 #BookMarkProject , but I have 5 printed limited-edition Tigermarks to give away.
To bag one: Follow, retweet, and tell me your favourite tiger tale!
If more than 5 entrants, I'll choose winners Thurs @ 5pm

Classroom giveaway! Lita Judge is one of my favorite illustrators, and her new book is beautiful—it's BLESS OUR PETS, a tribute to our animal friends. ❤️

I'm giving away a class set of 30 copies. Educators, RT to enter!

I'll choose a random winner and notify them Friday, 4/19.

My wee book baby has been announced!! MYSTERY AT THE BILTMORE is coming this October from Pajama Press. It is ‘Only Murders in the Building’ meets ‘Harriet the Spy’ for the early middle years crew. Illustrations are by the amazing Peggy Collins. McNally Robinson for Kids

Now, I wonder who will win this one… 😎Quizizz

#allergies
I’ve used Aveeno’s fragrance free for years, but they just changed their formula and it caused me to not feel great this week. Yesterday I found Dove Ultrasensitive FF wash and it is so much better! 10 ingredients, no #allergy triggers. 🥰

Who doesn’t love graphic novels? I know 5th graders love them. I have so many graphic novel lists, but these grade-specific lists make for an easy reference for teachers and librarians serving the grade. buff.ly/3U0ZX7Z

Novel-in-Verse + Historical Fiction = 💯

A delight for the eyes & ears as Brenda Woods transports the reader to the sights & sounds of 1965 near the Watts neighborhood prior to the riots.

This middle grade story is full of heart & a lesson on housing zones. #BookExcursion

Just in time for summer vacation reading!