One of my favorite pages from the DAY OF THE DEAD little golden book I illustrated 🖤 It just felt like the right thing to post as spooky season and Hispanic heritage month collide 💀

✨“There are many picture books with a bedtime theme, but this one stands out because of the diverse settings & Chan’s beautifully painted illustrations.” Thank you SchoolLibraryJournal for this glowing review of GOODNIGHT SOUNDS written by Debbie S. Miller, ill. by me! 🥳

#BannedBooksWeek kicks off today! Let’s stand together to champion our right to read and be #FreedBetweenTheLines. Find graphics to help spread the word and ways to get involved: ala.org/bbooks/banned 2024 preliminary book challenge data will be released on Monday.

Like Gotham FC Captain Ali Krieger said today, this moment isn’t about a title. It is about paving the way. That’s the power of this team. That’s the power of women’s sports.

Is that a happy smile on my face? It certainly is. Is there a slight hint of smugness that I’m holding my actual book in my hands? Maybe. Have I colour matched my top but failed to do my fingernails? Erm… Less than 2 weeks till publication! geni.us/HangingofHettie

Happy Book Birthday to #12x12PB member @jilldanabooks! Her #picturebook, BUTTERNUT & THE FLYING BUTTER, illustrated by Anusha Santosh and published by @marshallcasia, hit the shelves today. Check out her book and MANY more! buff.ly/43OXTTS #newbook #booklaunch

Yay! #12x12PB member @nadia_salomon's #picturebook, A VOICE OF HOPE: THE MYRLIE EVERS-WILLIAMS STORY, illustrated by @londonlladd and published by @philomelbooks, released today! See it here: buff.ly/43OXTTS #newbook #booklaunch

Thank you!! 🙏🏾

Celebrate #CROWS in this #PictureBook: CRICK, CRACK, CROW! Meet a Brilliant Bird! perfect for fall #nonfiction. unpackingpicturebookpower.blogspot.com/2024/09/crick-… Peachtree Books

#PunctuationDay #punctuation

Eighteen Flowers for Grandma releases today! I am thrilled to send this book out into the world. #kidlit #booklaunch

Remembering Ian Serraillier, novelist, poet, and reteller of legends. He's best known for his #ChildrensBooks, especially "The Silver Sword" that was twice adapted for TV.

Remembering Ruth Carroll. winner twice of the Juvenile Award of the American Association of University Women. #ChildrensBooks

Remembering Wilson Rawls, who kept his manuscripts hidden in a trunk in his father's workroom. No punctuation, spelling errors--his wife edited. result? Two awesome books--the one pictured and "Summer of the Monkeys!" #ChildrensBooks #kidlit

Remembering L. Leslie Brooke, English artist and illustrator of nursery rhymes and fairy tales. #ChildrensBooks #kidlitart

It's Publication Day⭐️💛 and I'm thrilled to share Jana's story . Thank you to all the early readers and bloggers that have left wonderful reviews. Another huge thank you goes to the wonderful #WritingCommunity for their support and friendship 😘 #BookTwitter #histfic

Just a reminder for voters in Massachusetts:

Remembering Jim Murphy, who was inspired by a picture of a square egg-maker in a catalog to write his first nonfiction book: "Weird and Wacky Inventions" (1978). He wrote on a wide range of subjects, over 35 fiction and nonfiction #ChildrensBooks.

Remembering Shel Silverstein, songwriter, musician, poet, and cartoonist (for Playboy!). The pictured book is the only one illustrated in full color. #ChildrensBooks