I loved every bit of Bologna & #BCBF24 . Every single bit! But there is nothing like how I feel when I slip into my writer’s chair. How would you describe it? Comfort? Joy? Belonging?
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Oh my goodness! Look! BEAR’S BIG IDEA is headlining the Lerner Books Bologna Catalogue! 🐻💡I couldn’t be more honored & thrilled! #BCBF24 #kidlit #books #reading

Well, my friends, it’s time to say ‘Ciao Bologna’ & here is the Centrale train station to prove it. #BCBF24 continues tomorrow, but I’ll be back home in my writer’s cave doing writerly things. Or maybe just catching up on sleep. 😴

What a thrill to find The Original Art Exhibition at Bologna! I’ve never been in NYC at the time of the show. So I was delighted to find it at #BCBF24 ! Bologna Children's Book Fair Society Illustrators

Oh my goodness! Look! BEAR’S BIG IDEA is headlining the Lerner Books Bologna Catalogue! 🐻💡I couldn’t be more honored & thrilled! #BCBF24 #kidlit #books #reading

I’m now at the We Love Reading day at the Sala Borsa Library in Bologna. Sponsored by this year’s guest of honor, Slovenia, the speakers have already brought me to tears by speaking about what books have meant to them. #BCBF24 @Bochildrensbook

The Reading For a Healthy Planet Exhibition at Bologna is so beautifully curated. Be sure to stop by if you are at the Fair! #bcbf24 Bologna Children's Book Fair Candlewick Press Penguin Kids Chronicle Books

At the Translator’s Café at Bologna with Federico Taibi. *Translation Is a Child’s Play (on Words.)* #BCBF24 Bologna Children's Book Fair

Seeing more of my favorite books at the Bologna Children‘s Book Fair! #BCBF24 Bologna Children's Book Fair Jeanne Walker Harvey 📚 Valerie Bolling Jyoti Rajan Gopal AMERICAN DESI Naseem Hrab NorthSouth Books

Seeing so many of my favorite books at the Bologna Children‘s Book Fair! #BCBF24 Bologna Children's Book Fair Kate Hosford Dianne White Lyn Miller-Lachmann 🇺🇦 Sara Levine Valerie Bolling Karen Jameson

Classic Bologna at Franco Rossi during the Bologna Children‘s Book Fair! 🇮🇹 #BCBF24 Bologna Children's Book Fair

Another fabulous day in Bologna! Lunch with Jill Santopolo, cocktails with my Candlewick editor Kate Fletcher, a stop by Lerner Books & being serenaded at Franco Rossi. Bologna Children's Book Fair #bcbf24

Some of my favorite illustrators on display at Bologna. From South Korea, Switzerland, Latvia & Switzerland again. So much talent here! #bcbf2024 Bologna Children's Book Fair

Spotted in Bologna! #BCBF24

What a way to kick off Bologna! I met up with my fabulous agent, Victoria Wells Arms, headed to the Random House party, sauntered through the city & wrapped up with a gorgeous porcini dish at Osteria Darcy! #bcbf24 Bologna Children's Book Fair

Twilight on the Piazza Maggiore in Bologna. #bcbf24

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You guys, I can’t believe I’m going to Bologna tomorrow! I’ll be posting my impressions, so keep an eye out. 👀 #bcbf24

A magical thing just happened! Maybe some of you remember that I have a book coming out with Candlewick Press next year called SEVEN, A MOST REMARKABLE PIGEON. Well, after years of having only crows & sparrows, a PIGEON just made a nest in my garden!✨ #kidlitauthor #writerslife

Congratulations Benson Shum!