Your best MN BIPOC Kid Lit buds will be at at this book festival for all ages!! Come in from the cold this weekend and buy some books! Find out more at rewindbookfair.com

See you at the Rewind Book Fair this weekend!

Happy Black Bookstore Day!!! ❤️

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We will be tabling at iFest in downtown St. Paul next weekend! ✌🏽

Commmeee thrrrouggghh

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MN BIPOC KidLit Creators is at the Sabathani Wall Street event for Black History Month this afternoon! ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽

So excited to see books by MN BIPOC Kidlit Creators highlighted in this exhibit at the Minnesota Children’s Museum!! 📚❤️✊🏽

Shannon Gibney shared her wisdom with the young folks at Sweet Potato Comfort Pie’s annual Martin Luther King Jr Holiday of Service. There was so much wisdom, unity, and love in this space. Our Beloved Community!

Join Sweet Potato Comfort Pie in partnership with Picture Book Parade as we celebrate the 11th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday of Service. Registration 👉🏽 www.eventbrite.com/e/voices-of-...

Check out Episode #259 of PR From The Heart’s Children’s Books Spotlight Series to hear Art Coulson!

Join authors Sarah Warren and Karen Latchana Kenney tonight for Lit & Libations, a book fair celebrating great reads, local authors, and perfectly crafted cocktails. 🍸📚🎄

This book! These artists! We got to celebrate the launch of Revolutions Are Made of Love by Sun Yung Shin, Mélina Mangal, and Leslie Barlow. The room was packed full of the best people in town 🎉. Thanks to AmazeWorks and the Loft Literary Center for hosting. What a beautiful day!❤️

MN BIPOC KidLit Creator members Shannon Gibney, Rosemond Owens, and Phuoc Thi Minh Tran will be at this event with an activity, story times and free signed books!
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We’d love to see you at one of our upcoming events, in partnership with More Than a Single Story and @hclib.bsky.social !

It’s a beautiful day at One Woodbury where folks have come out to celebrate the vibrant diversity in this community! What a perfect place to share books by BIPOC MN authors!!

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MN BIPOC KidLit Creators is tabling at One Woodbury tomorrow! 🙌🏽👍🏽 Coommmeee thrrouuuuggghhh.

MN BIPOC KidLit Creators is thrilled to take part in Midtown Strong!💪🏾 It’s a free community event on Oct. 11, celebrating health and wellness, and 25 years of the Midtown YWCA.

We’ll have story times, interactive story and arts activities, and book giveaways!

Writers are hot

A story time with the great Nasra Noor!!

Readers are leaders! And princesses. And storm troopers. And Grogus.

People go bananas for our books!

A beautiful day in Minnesota!

So excited to be here connecting with community folks at the Make a Wish Foundation’s Walk for Wishes!! Special thanks to Betsy King for inviting us to join in on the fun. We couldn’t have wished for a more beautiful day!!

A community story time with the Amazing Shannon Gibney!

Come out to the Midtown Farmers Market and get a signed book from author Trisha Speed Shaskan, Shannon Gibney, or Ty Chapman. Story time with Shannon at 10:30! More at picturebookparade.com

Thank you to the MOA Community Foundation and Way to Grow for celebrating early literacy with us. We got to tell our stories on a big stage and an even bigger Jumbotron. When you read books in unexpected places, you never know who might be hearing your words for the first time. Isn’t that fantastic?

Solidarity tastes pretty good!

Big fans ❤️

McKnight Names Carolyn Holbrook 2025 Distinguished Artist A celebrated writer and leader in Minnesota’s literary arts community, Holbrook has been helping others unlock their creative power for more than 40 years.

Congratulations to our longtime friend, mentor, and frequent collaborator, Carolyn Holbrook, on winning what just might be MN’s biggest award for artists! 🤩✊🏽✊🏽

A whole gang of MN BIPOC KidLit Creators took part in the Midtown Global Market KidLit Authors and Illustrators Book Fair this weekend! ✨🙌🏽

It was a blast. 💥 Thanks to all who came out.