Thank you SchoolLibraryJournal for this amazing review of MAYBE A WHALE! A thrill to see HeyCrystalSmith Art + Illustration 's work getting the recognition it deserves! 🐳 An honor to be linked in any way with Michaela Goade Carole Lindstrom 🪶🦬 Grace Lin & Drew Breckmeyer! 💙Groundwood Books Looking Glass Literary & Media

I am so excited that someone out there thinks SPRECKLE'S SNACK SURPRISE is a funny picture book and not just "weird" or "kind of a lie, because there are actually slugs in the book."

This is just the HUGEST HONOR! I’m completely blown away by this. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Kirkus gave us a star! I hope you will, too. What are you hoping happens in the DnDoggos graphic novel series? Pre-order now! 2/27/24

When you get stickers from the author/illustrator, you have to immediately read the book while wearing them—I don’t make the rules! Thank you Sandra Salsbury for the stickers and for making an adorable book!!

#cookiepitch dreams coming true! 🤣 This is all because of Mark Wright! (And also Frances Gilbert for being willing to wrestle my half-baked joke into an actual book.)

Could not be more proud that this incredibly funny book started out as a cheeky #cookiepitch With a *perfect* pitch and all the “I feel seen” comments, I knew I had to acquire it. Super-excited. Thanks, Mark Wright! Sandra Salsbury, you’re brilliant.

It's official! I'm illustrating my first picture book! Lee Wind's beautiful story, LIKE THAT ELEANOR, about finding the courage and compassion to be an ally when it counts most. I'm so grateful & excited to be working with the Cardinal Rule Press team to bring this story to life!

New projects coming from Neha Rawat, Sandra Salsbury, London Ladd + more pwne.ws/4bnRXWu

Holy biscuits! I’m going to Emerald City Comic Con! This’ll be my first time going there, let me know what I should do and see! I hope one of the things I see will be you!

#kidlit #writers: I recently heard from an agent that editors are shying away from didactic MSs, & I'm seeing more #agent #mswl notes specifying "no overt lessons." What a fine line between a #pb with meaning vs. an overt lesson. What favorite recent #picturebooks do this well?

✨New pinned tweet ✨ My duology based on Balkan folklore — about monsters, witches, and ill-advised bargains — releases this year! Foul Days is coming out on the 25th of June, and Monstrous Nights — on the 22nd of October. Pre-order and Goodreads links ⬇️

A picture book shouldn’t teach a child a lesson. It should reinforce a truth they already know about themselves or the world. (Or it should be really funny.)

Holy sniff! The wait is finally over. It's our book birthday!! I can't believe this is actually happening! Thank you all for being on this epic journey with us. I hope you enjoy this literary adventure as much as I enjoyed making it!

Since none of this year's #KidlitHaha week posts covered art, I have a special GIVEAWAY for my illustrator/author-illustrator friends. Win a copy of SPRECKLES SNACK SURPRISE and a 15 minute AMA with Sandra Salsbury. Comment with a dragon GIF below to enter.

This is a really common question, probably because the library/author relationship can seem pretty opaque from the outside. But libraries do benefit authors! A lot! Here’s how-

DFW area friends, here's a reminder that I'll be at Interabang Books this Saturday at 2PM to talk all about Duck & Moose! Hope to see you there!

I read this book so many times as a child, my parents thought there was something wrong with me because I didn’t want to read other books. 🤣

Sharing the reveal of my 2nd picture book, LULU IN THE SPOTLIGHT! & celebrating w/ art! natashakhankazi.com/lulu-in-the-sp… So much ❤️ to my agent Tanusri Prasanna editor Weslie Turner & art director Jeanne Hogle along w/ Versify Books & HarperKids Arriving Apr ‘25 #diversebooks