Indianapolis! Come out and draw some 🐧 with me Kids Ink Bookstore this Saturday! I can promise you much fun, and a minimal amount of seagulls. #indianapolis #indianapolisbookstore #kidlit

Cincy & NKY Friends! Join me Blue Marble Books this weekend for reading, drawing, and lunch with Filipino food truck Lasang Pinoy   📚✏️🥄 Sarap!

The great green room Blue Marble Books complete with a comb and a brush and a bowl full of mush 💚 Many thanks to the shop and Fort Thomas Schools for making me feel so welcome!

This Saturday I have the good fortune of joining a panel alongside Valerie Reynolds Jashar Awan and Lindsay Bonilla - Hooray for picture books! If you're in Columbus drop by and say hello 📚🎉 Ohioana Library #kidlit

Monoprint demo from a workshop with Locust Corner Elementary 🦕 The more colors, the better! #kidlit

A translation donation for @oakparklibrary 🌎📚 I dropped a big box of books off at the library yesterday with translations of my books from Spain, Poland, Korea, Taiwan, France and the Netherlands. Happy to have the books out of storage and out in the neighborhood! #kidlit

🐢 studies

🖍️Free event!🖍️ I'm excited to be teaming up with Society Illustrators for an Umami edition of Virtual Saturday Stories next month. Bring the kids, some oil pastels, and color pencils, and be prepared for a little mess! #kidlitart societyillustrators.org/event/virtual-…

While digging through my grade school art I found a favorite! Pretty sure I was just supposed to make a house 🔥

Materials for this week's Virtual Saturday Stories with Society Illustrators 🖍️🎉 Register Here: societyillustrators.org/event/virtual-…

Chicago friends! Join me @ 10am this Sunday for an Umami storytime, draw-along, and hands-on art project with BASH kids club! 🐧🖍️🎉

Find me this Friday at the Secretary of State's Tent from 10am-12pm, giving away 100 copies of Umami! Many thanks to Alexi Giannoulias and the IL State Library for making it all possible 📚🎉 #ilstatefair

We are delighted to announce that 'Umami' by Jacob Grant has been nominated for Sakura Medal English Language Picture Books 2026! Students at international schools across Japan will vote for their favourite book from 20 titles by April 2026! Penguin Random House 🐧🏠📚

Years 1 and 2 have been enjoying 'Umami' by Jacob Grant this week. She is fed up of eating cold fish three times a day and decides to do something about it! Will she able to get the other penguins to like her new food? Viking Books The British School in Tokyo BST PTA