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Thank you so much Nancy CRA 🌎🌍🌏📚—from DEAR EARTH (and the kids in Rm 5) #EarthDay #EarthDayEveryDay Illus. Luisa Uribe East West Literary

YOU DESERVE A BEACH DAY! BAT, CAT & RAT #3: ⛱️THE BEACH DAY⛱️ THREE-AND-A-HALF STORIES 📝 by me! 🎨 by #MarkTeague! Beach Lane 📚, Simon Kids! 🎂: ⭐️4/29/25⭐️! Order TODAY, laugh TUESDAY! 🦇🐈🐀: “THANK YOU! ❤️!” #kidlit

It's our favorite Month of the Year: National Poetry Month! Kidlit writers, we're here to help you help that rhyming or lyrical picture book project bloom! Check out our blog and services at rhymedoctors.com Patricia Toht 📕 Eileen R. Meyer Michelle Schaub

Happy #IndependentBookstoreDay Shout out to my fave The Bookstore Plus in #LakePlacid! Do you have a favorite #indiebookstore ?

Happy #IndieBookstoreDay !! 📚❤️instagram.com/reel/DI7bM1UPz…

Some nice reviews rolling in for one of my 2026 books. ALWAYS grateful for a STAR! Neal Porter #MelissaCrowtonillustrations #farmbooks4kids #cornharvest

Today is My Book Birthday for The Traveling Taco & 10 Book GIVEAWAY! buff.ly/FREIdch via PragmaticMom Red Comet Press #ReadYourWorld #picturebook #giveaway #immigrant #food

DON'T LOSE MR CUDDLES (the 3rd installment of Dev Petty's and my Life Lessons from Chip the Dog) is NOW OUT!

Fun fun FUN in Minnesota, sharing Dancing with Daddy and Willow and Bunny, and chatting with readers about writing the stories you want to read! 💚

This Sunday, May 11, we celebrate all amazing moms, grandmothers, fur-baby moms, and mother figures in our lives. How do you plan to make it special? *pictures from “Mommy Love” by Susan Verde #happymothersday

"Just when you think you have come to terms with the harsh realities of the forest food chain ecosystem, there is a delightful twist that brings the book a clever sense of playfulness." Thx so much, Mary Duffy #justreadjournal! Christopher Silas Neal Knopf BFYR Random House Children's Books Teachers & Librarian Random House Children's Books

Our May workshop is now open for registration! Check it out here: keap.page/wfa867/worksho… We'll be giving away 3 PB critiques from Jon to random winners. I hope you'll join us! #kidlitcommunity #picturebooks #editorworkshop #publishing Tielmour Press

Save the date, #Omaha friends! I’ll visit The Bookworm Omaha on May 15 to read and sign DANCING WITH DADDY - illustrated by Ziyue Chen - and WILLOW AND BUNNY - illustrated by Christopher Denise. Details here! bookwormomaha.com/event/anitra-r… Omaha World-Herald

Jasmine Warga's brilliant and heartfelt storytelling made my heart soar. While spending time with Chase and Finnegan, words like friendship, family, connection, love, light, and joy kept racing through my mind. Most of all, the story filled me with HOPE! mrschureads.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-un…

We are pleased to host a giveaway of the picture book PRECIOUS, written and illustrated by Carlos Aponte (Nancy Paulsen Books) out on May 27. To enter, L + RP and confirm your entry in our Friday weekly update: kidlit411.com/2025/05/the-we… (+ more ways to win)

What happens when Dawg takes himself for a walk? #picturebook #interview #kidlit #bookblogger jenabenton.com/2025/05/16/sim…

Happy Friday!

OCA Reads: A Virtual Conversation with Mia Wenjen buff.ly/CIE6mro via PragmaticMom OCA – Asian Pacific American Advocates #ReadYourWorld #AsianPacificAmerianHeritageMonth #AAPI #KidLit

That’s a wrap for spring school visits! Connected with Omaha students this week to talk about favorite things, fiction, and friendship, and my path to published. Cannot wait for the fall to resume - a favorite part of the author journey, without a doubt!

Mid-May #libraryhaul 🌱📚💙 Titles by Jeanette (Fazzari) Jones #JaclynSinquett #TwoLions #CynthiaLeitichSmith #KateGardiner #JessHernandez #RuymanHernandez #TeresaMartinez #AmyHest Renata Liwska #MarcyCampbell #FrancescaSanna Alfred A. Knopf #HopeLim #QinLeng #kidlit #picturebooks