I'll be at Sun Prairie, WI's new bookstore, Prairie Pages, at 11 a.m., May 2, for an all-ages storytime.
I'll read LUPE LOPEZ: ROCK STAR RIVALS and REMARKABLY YOU, a great graduation or baby gift.
I'll have coloring pages, bookmarks and stickers for all. #sunprairie #wisconsin #booksky
It’s National Library Week!
Celebrate by visiting a library near you. You might be surprised by all the services they offer.
I personally recommend the Sun Prairie Public Library, which has been recently remodeled and expanded and exudes coolness.
#libraryjoy #ala #librarysky #skybrarian
I saw this @nytimes.com
headline and laughed, because it pretty much sums up my fashion aesthetic. Although I’m usually also wearing tennis shoes that coordinate with the sweater.
#sweater #glasses #fashion #style
The third Lupe Lopez book can be preordered. It’s out 4/21.
See what Lupe gets up to when a classmate seems ready to steal her spotlight in LUPE LOPEZ: ROCK STAR RIVALS.
Authors: e.E. Carlton-Trujillo + me. Illustrator: Joe Cepeda. Publisher: Candlewick. #booksky
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100% true!
Yes.
Personally, I think there should be a hyphen in “fuck-it” because it’s modifying “era.”
Got to visit Rowan Childs of the Madison Reading Project today at their shiny new location. Brought copies of my latest books. She’ll get them to kids who need them!
#literacy #booksforkids #kidlit #picturebooks #booksky #skybrarian
Remarkably You came out in 2019. Today, @harperkids.bsky.social releases a new format. Same words by me. Same art by Patrice Barton. No dust jacket and a lower price.
May it help a new group of readers see how they’re remarkable!
#remarkablyyou #picturebooks #megakidlit #booksky
Easter shoes!
Lupe Lopez’s new adventure arrives April 21 from me, @eecharltontrujillo.bsky.social and @joecepeda.bsky.social.
What happens when Lupe has to share the spotlight? Can Hector P. Garcia Elementary handle two rock stars?
Missed the other Lupe books?Grab them in English or Spanish! #megakidlit
Pssst … Next week, there will be a new REMARKABLY YOU in the world. Same words by me. Same art by Patrice Barton. Same publisher, @harperkids.bsky.social.
The only difference? There’s no dust jacket. But there is a lower price point.
Get it for someone remarkable you know.
#megakidlit #booksky
I want to hug this book. I also want to feed it chicken-noodle soup, tuck it safely into bed, and sing it a lullaby.
TAKING FLIGHT, by Kashmira Sheth and Nicolo Carozzi is out soon from @penguinkids.bsky.social. Learn more at
tinyurl.com/yy8vwbfc
I write picture books, but they’re not the only thing I read. This one’s for my fellow Heated Rivalry fans. Side note: My sister is a very good sport.
#heatedrivalry #allthethingsshesaid
#Hollanov
This is a bit of my childhood on a plate. Apple turnovers from my grandma’s recipe. The dough is cottage cheese, shortening, flour and salt. The filling apples, sugar, cinnamon and butter. My sister and I made them Saturday.
Jasmine Fang put a 2nd copy of ONE CAN BE in a CA Little Free Library. (Illustrator Annie May Cron left the 1st!)
Jasmine wrote BENEATH THE SAME ROUND MOON about family togetherness and the Mooncake Festival coming 9/15 from Beaming Books. Rong Pham and Vinh Nguyen illustrate . #onecanbe #50states
I visited Caramel Crisp Corner in my hometown of Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The shop has homemade caramel corn, amazing cookies and, of course, books. I signed a bunch of mine.
Match Day is over, and Gwen will spend the next five years as a general surgery resident at South Brooklyn Health after she graduates from the University of Wisconsin medical school May 8.
Gwen’s happy to be heading to New York, and Mark and I could not be prouder of how hard she’s worked.
Thanks to Paul Sonnleitner and his wife, Kari, ONE CAN BE is in a New York @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social.
Paul is a lighting designe for Broadway shows, concerts and events like the Times Square NYE ball drop. He’s a two-time Emmy nominee and Telly Award winner. #onecanbe #50states #newyork
There's snow in my yard, but spring starts tomorrow. If you want a book to remind you no winter lasts forever and no spring skips its turn, try WIDE-AWAKE BEAR by me and Jean Kim from @harperkids.bsky.social. It's a bedtime book, a story of parental love and an ode to spring.
#megakidlit #spring
Hey picture book people. Tell me your favorite picture book with LAYERS and why you like it! #megakidlit #kidlit #scbwi #booksky
My sister-in-law, Julie Braun, read WHEREVER YOU GO to a fourth-grade class she’s subbing for. She shared one student’s responses with me and asked me to sign a book for her. It’s great to see a reader really get the book’s message.
#megakidlit #booksky #readaloud
It’s my husband’s birthday. He likes spice drops, so I bought him a bag. I described them as: “Old-man candy. The kind sitting in a crystal dish on your grandpa’s coffee table.”
He disagreed, saying: “It’s just candy. With no age restrictions.”
Which side do you fall on?
And, she put ONE CAN BE in a @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social on Atlantic Street in Portland, Maine. ONE CAN BE has now been in LFLs in 48 states.
Melissa’s new book is GOLDFINCHES, where she beautifully illustrated the poem by Mary Oliver. It came out March 3 from @vikingbooks.bsky.social
If you know picture books, you know Melissa Sweet. She’s illustrated more than 100 books and written several, as well.
She’s won two Caldecott honors, been on the NYT bestsellers list, and won a bevy of other awards
#onecanbe #50states #maine #megakidlit #booksky
This whiteboard from the basement of my mom’s condo has decades of notes and doodles from my kids and their cousins.
My mom recently moved into memory care. I took this video before we had to take the whiteboard off the wall.
#glimmers #memories #family
In Wisconsin, right by Madison.
