Stopped by my wonderful local indie bookstore in Sonoma, CA - Readers' Books - and pleased to see this terrific #BlackHistoryMonth display including our ABLAZE WITH COLOR! 💖

🌟What great opportunities to connect children's picture books and art together! Thanks for sharing!🌟

🚲🌟📚Our critique group discussed this intriguing story this afternoon! Looking forward to reading it!🚲🌟📚

Hooray, another new kidlit publisher accepting manuscripts directly, without an agent! Check out the revised list that includes over 80 others: BitsyKemper.com/publishers #amwriting #kidlit #WritingCommunity

Excited to see Joan Schoettler & Claire Noland at the San Joaquin Valley Bookfest while meeting more local authors too. ❤️📚 #BookJoy #kidlit #LibraryLife

Wow! I had no idea LEGO and @nationalparkservice had created a vignette for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial with Maya Lin, the designer. Thanks for sharing Jeff ❤️ Vietnam Vet Memorial Dow Phumiruk 💫 เทียมดาว ภูมิรักษ์ East West Literary Henry Holt & Company National Park Service

I'm so looking forward to ELSE B. IN THE SEA! Gorgeous illustrations to draw all readers into this amazing story!

CONGRATULATIONS to 93rd California Book Awards winners: GOLD: Justin Torres, Ruth Madievsky, Fae Myenne Ng, Rosanna Xia, Joan Schoettler, Dashka Slater, Mary-Alice Daniel, Roberson Taj Frazier SILVER: Kathryn Ma, Yunte Huang Huang, & Elana K. Arnold commonwealthclub.org/events/califor…

Congratulations, Jeanne! Else B. in the Sea invites readers to plunge into the amazing world of undersea life!

Well deserved STARRED review!!! Congrats!!!

Tremendously honored by the 男2人で まったりトーク to receive the CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARD, Juvenile for The Honey Jar; An Armenian's Escape to Freedom. @bushelandpeckbooks.com

A second orange flag just now?! WOO HOO! #1 in New Releases in Children's Art Biographies AND Children's Science Biographies! Thank you readers & everyone who has shared ELSE B. IN THE SEA!!❤️🩵💙💜💚

Wonderful to see all of these! Yay Joan Schoettler was recently honored by the 男2人で まったりトーク to receive the CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARD, Juvenile for The Honey Jar; An Armenian's Escape to Freedom.🌟

Oh my!! ELSE B.'s🌟starred🌟review is @ala_booklist's Review of the Day! "Readers will feel as if they have taken the plunge, too..The illustrations...will hook readers, both with the drama of Else’s dives & with the delicious creepiness of some of the sea creatures." ABRAMS Kids

Newly Updated! 32 Immigration & Refugee Experience Books for Kids buff.ly/3q1o3RU via PragmaticMom #ReadYourWorld #immigrant #refugee #KidLit

Fabulous news for ELSE B. IN THE SEA @JeanneHarvey, a very deserving book!

Thank you for highlighting Armenian books!

Newly Updated! 12 Children’s Books about Unconventional, Inspirational Artists buff.ly/4ckdhMI via PragmaticMom #ReadYourWorld #artist #KidLit

▪︎ “We Are Grateful Otsaliheliga” by Traci Sorell & Frané Lessac (2024) ▪︎ “Toypurina” by Cheyenne M. Stone, Glenda Armand, & Katie Dorame ▪︎ “It’s Powwow Time!” by Martha Troian & Hawlii Pichette ▪︎ “Wisdom Weavers” by James Vukelich & Marcus Trujillo

Thrilling (and surreal) to see Loveis Wise (they/he)'s gorgeous illustrations and my text from our ABLAZE WITH COLOR - A Story of Painter Alma Thomas book 🌈on the windows of the MLK Library in D.C. as part of the amazing Beyond the Book program that's giving out our book!! ❤️ 📚 ❤️