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From the Publishers Weekly review of the picture book PUNCH! A STORY ABOUT KINDNESS by @NYTimes best-selling author-illustrator @MichaelHall66: "Wordplay propels Hall’s witty and compassionate story about kindness as one response to difficult behavior": publishersweekly.com/9780062866219

From the "Chat with Vera" review and giveaway of KINGDOMS OF LIFE by @CarlyDraws: "School libraries need this. Elementary classroom libraries need this. Elementary and early Middle School science classrooms need this. Homeschools need this": chatwithvera.com/2025/05/kingdo… #libraries

Thanks to Michelle Maguire, Accessions and Acquisitions Archivist at The Ohio State University Libraries, for sending this image of the Eisner nominated A VISIT TO MOSCOW, illustrated by @YNayberg, on the shelf of the University Libraries OSU Cartoon Library: bit.ly/43PBI1O #library #librarian

Congratulations to Margaret Peot! CROWS: AN EGG-TO-SKY STORY, her picture book describing how crows meet, mate, nest, raise their young, learn to fly, and communicate, is a finalist for the Ohio Book Award in the Juvenile Literature category: ohioana.org/announcing-the… #library

In honor of Sewing Machine Day, here's a peek at LADY SEAMSTRESS, a debut picture book by Abigail H. Kim about a girl who realizes that her mom holds her family together, like the seam that holds a fabric together. Now out on submission. #editorsguide #kidlitart #kidlit #illustrator

The Great Ginger Cat taking a nap after reading the Eisner nominated A VISIT TO MOSCOW, illustrated by @ZNayberg, to human companion Uri Kurlianchik, a science fiction and fantasy author who happened to have been born in Moscow and now writes from Israel: urikurlianchik.com

In honor of Father's Day, a glimpse at MY FATHER'S ERHU, a new picture book by author-illustrator Rich Lo about the Chinese musical instrument his immigrant father loved and the loss of status and career his father experienced when he came to America. Now out on submission.

As part of Asian American & Pacific Islander Month, WBTV in Charlotte, North Carolina, interviewed THE LAST CHERRY BLOSSOM author Kathleen Burkinshaw🌸Romanian translation out NOW about preserving the memory of her mother, who survived the bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima: wbtv.com/video/2025/05/… #library

I've donated a 30-minute "Ask Me Anything" session to the Literary Auction for Change, an annual fundraising initiative of Literary Agents of Change. Bidding is from June 16-23. I'm willing to read partial manuscripts, so gather your questions and bid! 32auctions.com/organizations/…

From the review by Marjorie Gann on the CAMERA Education Institute site of A VISIT TO MOSCOW, illustrated by @ZNayberg: "Frame after frame of this graphic thriller forces the reader to confront the hell of lives lived under Marxist totalitarianism": camera-edu.org/review/7300

From now until July 11, please vote for CROWS: AN EGG-TO-SKY STORY by Margaret Peot, her picture book describing how crows meet, mate, nest, raise their young, learn to fly, and communicate, in the Ohio Book Award Readers' Choice Survey: survey.typeform.com/to/dQmyBAp7 #library

Celebrate "National Typewriter Day," a tribute to the first typewriter patented in 1868 and the social change it accelerated for women in the office, with TYPEWRITER by @ZNayberg, her immigration story of a typewriter that discovers a new life in America: bit.ly/3NbO1wZ

Eugene Yelchin was born in 1956 in a Jewish family in the USSR. That makes him the same age as Zev in A VISIT TO MOSCOW. Had Zev's parents been devoted communists, he might have had a childhood similar to what Eugene Yelchin described in his award-winning THE GENIUS UNDER THE TABLE.

From July 13-October 5 the Katonah Museum of Art invites visitors into the world of artist Leonora Carrington by viewing Amanda Hall's illustrations from the picture book OUT OF THIS WORLD: THE SURREALIST ART OF LEONORA CARRINGTON, written by Michelle Markel: katonahmuseum.org/exhibitions/ex…

It's summer when bats are active, particularly in the evening hours. Enjoy this look at BAT'S MOONLIGHT FEAST by Gordon McMillan with art by @CarlyDraws, the story of a tube-lipped nectar bat and her nocturnal search for the rare flower that sustains her: globepequot.com/9781493036608/…

Happy July 4th! Celebrate the American dedication to the pursuit of freedom for all people with A VISIT TO MOSCOW, which the Jewish Voice and Opinion called "a graphic memoir about a time when the American Jewish community was activated to respond to the plight of Soviet Jewry."

Summer and kites go hand-in-hand. Here's one from CHINESE KITE FESTIVAL by Rich Lo, his stunning picture book that introduces children to Chinese animal names and their significance in Chinese culture through simple text and accessible back matter: holidayhouse.com/book/chinese-k…

Join author and illustrator Michelle Markel and Amanda Hall on July 24 for a virtual conversation about the making of their book OUT OF THIS WORLD: THE SURREALIST ART OF LEONORA CARRINGTON. Sponsored by the Katonah Museum. Register free: simpletix.com/e/artists-in-c…

The TALK by Turner Books Storefront is now live on Amazon with curated picks in one destination. Explore genre spotlights from Historical Fiction to YA, where you'll find bestselling and gift-worthy books including A VISIT TO MOSCOW, illustrated by @ZNayberg: bit.ly/4eZNEDn

Author @JSandler1978 interviews THE MIRACLE SEED author-illustrator Martin Lemelman about his graphic memoir for adults, Mendel's Daughter, which Martin subsequently adapted into the graphic novel for young readers GOLDIE'S FOREST, now out on submission: graphicmemoir.co.uk/f/wwii-graphic…