I could not love my poetry club kids more. They are creative and hilarious!

🚨GIVEAWAY ALERT! 🚨STRAW w signed bookplate by Amy Krouse Rosenthal & me. Also includes Straw “action figures.” Like, RT &/ or follow for chance to win one of three FREE copies/figures! Winners announced 1/25/20 🕙 PM EST. US addresses only. Disney Books Thanks & ☘️! #giveaway #STRAW 🥤

The Westmore School WE Wednesday was “South Pole pig” themed! 🐷 We drew our dream adventures, went on VR expeditions to Antarctica, skiied on paper plates, did a Follow @Kahoot about the book, made “pig-loos”, painted piggy banks, and much more! Flora would be proud! Read to Them

Looking to be the winner! Give me all the comics.

Current book baskets at the Westmore LRC include: unicorn books, superhero stories, valentine and love stories, stories about special talents and talent shows, books with frozen settings (for those inspired by South Pole pig), and baskets for black history month. Get reading!

All this plus books! #gettheminthelibrary Westmore School

So many connections being made to our one book one school novel - recreating a setting, poetry and classroom crafts

One more month until THINGS YOU CAN'T SAY comes out! To celebrate, I'm raffling off my *last* signed ARC + a classroom set of bookmarks + a Del's lemonade keychain. (You'll understand once you've read it.) RT & follow by 2/7 for a chance to win! (US only) #giveaway

Future archaeologist and paleontologists working on freeing the dinosaur remains. Working our small motor and having fun. School District 45 #wedonttaketheeasyroute

Here’s a new #KidsNeedBooks giveaway! EDUCATORS and LIBRARIANS: RT/follow to enter to win these books for your classroom or library. 💛📚💛📚💛

THE COPYCAT releases Tuesday March 10th! To celebrate, I’m giving away a great prize pack: a hardcover, two ARCS, my other books, bookmarks and your very own plush harbour seal! RT/F before March 10th to be entered! US/CAN ⁦HarperKids⁩ ⁦HarperCollinsCa⁩

A challenge from Mrs Peterson for the weekend or next week: Get one of your favorite picture books and open it to a page that inspired you. Recreate that page. You can use legos, craft materials, pose your family or toys and take a photo or just draw it out. Then post pics!

Kids need books for summer reading! So, I’m giving away 50 signed, doodled-in copies of each of the first 2 books in my EngiNerds series (25 of each here, 25 of each on Instagram)! If you want these books, and can get them into kids’ hands, RT/follow to enter to win them!

Jarrett is the man and he must know “books in their hands” is our motto! The kids at westmore elementary Lombard would love this win.

When the amazing principal of the best school ever treats you to the ice cream man after day 1 of material pick up, you know you are part of the coolest team in town. Thanks Mr. Dart! #howdoueatwithamaskon

You can only hope the world is headed towards some normalcy when you can’t see your kiddos at school so they come to see you at your second restaurant job. I missed these smiling faces! Thanks M&M #tradedbooksforspaetzeltonight

PUBLICIST: When the advanced copy of your book arrives, be sure to take some good photos with it to post online and build some buzz. ME: No problem. Will do.

MANY people have sent this to me this morning and I cry each time I watch it. Libraries make manifest our most aspirational qualities. When we fail to support them, we fail to support the BEST versions of ourselves.

When those become that and turn into this- teamwork = reading magic #wildcatfamily #sticktogether

Boosting this amazing opportunity! I ❤️ this book!!