Woke up to the amazing news that HOOPS has been nominated for the Sakura Medal in Japan! Thank you, Sakura Medal committee!

Back in high school, there was a kid 1 grade below me who was so obsessed with basketball, he literally carried a basketball with him all day at school, every day. Today he was named head coach of the Washington Wizards. Congrats, Brian Keefe! Go Wizards!🏀🙌

Remember #MemorialDay

Red Sox mark 26 years of the Boston K Men posting Ks at Fenway. Pitch in and join the movement of citizens committed to the success of our city’s kids at The BASE. Details at bostonkmen.org h/t Matt Tavares

ThanK you to the ⁦Red Sox⁩ for highlighting our crazy tradition and efforts to raise funds and awareness for ⁦The BASE in Roxbury⁩. Pitch in, folks, and win the full K Men experience at bostonkmen.org.

This is the book based on the Warsaw, IN team that won the very first IHSAA girls' championship!

HOOPS made the Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Books of the Year list! Honored to see my book included alongside so many great books. 🏀📚🥂

Seems like a good day to share a peek at something I’ve been working on. Coming in 2025…

'Matt Tavares's communicates the urgent human need to chisel, paint, draw, and code as a way of fixing our location in time and space.His sublime images will surely launch a million art projects, encouraging kids to devise creative maps of their own.'-Dean Robbins Alfred A. Knopf

I chatted with Dean Robbins and Matt Tavares about The Shape of Things: How Mapmakers Picture Our World: mrschureads.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-sh…

.John Schu kindly ran a cover-reveal Q&A with me and illustrator @TavaresBooks for THE SHAPE OF THINGS: HOW MAPMAKERS PICTURE OUR WORLD. It shows how people from different cultures, over thousands of years, have combined art and science to create their own unique maps.

'For the cover, I decided to focus more on the maps themselves, incorporating several maps from different times in history into one image.' —Matt Tavares mrschureads.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-sh…

'The Shape of Things: How Mapmakers Picture Our World’s cover was a lot of fun to create.' —Matt Tavares mrschureads.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-sh…

Author Dean Robbins and I share the cover of our upcoming picture book and finish John Schu’s sentences, over on his “Watch. Read. Connect.” blog. Thanks, John Schu ! 🙌🗺️🧭🌎

English, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Ukrainian, Romanian…

Surreal and amazing to know that kids all around the world are reading my story. On, Dasher! 😊

Love the camaraderie in the Graphic Novel world, so much incredible work going on there.

#GraphicNovels for the win. #LetThemRead

Thanks so much, Jerry Craft! Really means a lot. 🙏😊🙌

Author-illustrator Jerry Craft recommends some amazing graphic novels you’re bound to love. booktrust.org.uk/news-and-featu…
Jamar Nicholas Dan Santat Jarrett J. Krosoczka Johnnie Christmas Matt Tavares

Bring the crew to G. Willikers! today— I’ll be part of Children’s Day event, meeting young readers, parents to read & sign copies of my new book by @chiarabcolombi, ROCKET SHIP, SOLO TRIP & more. Be sure to get your special ROCKET mission sticker! 12-4. Hope to see you & thx!

Congrats to Matt Tavares on his Lupine Award for HOOPS at the #Maine Reading Round Up Library Conference on May 1st.