How can you introduce food allergies to children? Read picture books like these! imaginationsoup.net/best-kids-bo... #kidlit #foodallergies
Posts by Melissa Taylor
When you’re an adult beginner using lesson horses, every week you ride someone different. This week was Khalifa who was spooky and disliked moving forward. But at least he was cute. Fun times!
#bookmarketing strategy: Add your book to any and all Reddit threads. I did last week, and now I’m on the first page of the Google search. If you don't promote your book, who will?
What!? I’m in the March Edelweiss newsletter thanks for my amazing publisher @redcometpressbooks.bsky.social !! #kidlit
Best part of my week: cantering for the first time!! SO MUCH FUN!
As I transition from blogging at Imagination Soup to kidlit publicity with Imagination Soup Consulting and other consulting projects, I'm grateful to my editor at Random House for extra writing assignments! www.readbrightly.com/contributor/...
Thank you!
FREE webinar! I'm once again teaming up with this amazing group of children's book authors @writerjolene.bsky.social @nellcrossbeckerman.bsky.social Laura Purdie Salas and the SNWP team to share how we use mentor texts to inspire our own and student writing. Sign up: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
I got my author copies of my first picture book, TOVA’S SWEET SOLUTION (4/21/26, Red Comet Press), about a bear who learns she’s allergic to honeygrain, the (made-up) ingredient in her family’s bakery baked goods, and a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard selection!
Get your kids writing & thinking creatively in a writing workshop where kids get to invent and write about their own chimera. Sign up here: www.denverwrites.org/creativewrit.... @denverwrites.bsky.social
The art is perfection!
Tips from Amy Storey of Eerdmans Books for Young Readers for working with your publicist -- open.substack.com/pub/melissat... #bookmarketing #kidlit
🍞BREAD IS LOVE is an exquisitely crafted, sensory experience of kids and their mama baking bread. 🥯This figurative language-filled gem has 3 stars! 📖 BREAD IS LOVE is written by my client Pooja Makhijani, illustrated by Lavanya Naidu, and published by Roaring Brook/MacKids. #kidlit
@imaginationsoup.bsky.social named AFIA IN THE LAND OF WONDERS by #SerendipityLit author-illustrator @miaaraujo.bsky.social as one of the Best Middle Grade Books of 2025!
Full list: imaginationsoup.net/best-middle-...
Available now from Scholastic.
#BookSky #MiddleGradeBooks #BestBooks
Thanks @fuse8.bsky.social for featuring TOVA’S SWEET SOLUTION in the @redcometpressbooks.bsky.social spring and fall preview! afuse8production.slj.com/2026/02/05/p...
Thank you, Publisher's Spotlight! You're the best!
Thank you for the shout out, Roxanne!
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the shout out!
Text says, "HAPPY BOOK BIRTHDAY" and there is the cover of the picture book, "ANYONE ELSE AWAKE?" by Carmela LaVigna Coyle and Bonnie Kelso. On the cover is a picture of a robin singing while perched on a pine branch. There is a birthday cake graphic in the lower left hand corner and the PBSpree logo in the right hand corner.
Happy book birthday to @bonniekelso.bsky.social and Carmela LaVigna Coyle!!! 🥳 ANYONE ELSE AWAKE? is a beautiful lyrical #picturebook about songbirds that describes the unique voices of eleven common species. Look for it at your bookstore or library! #kidlit
Just walking a horse…❤️
Can’t wait for this @kellyyang.bsky.social and Kate!
This will be amazing!
It was a good year for books!
Karen and I discuss amazing middle grade books of 2025 on Book Huddle with ReadGab. #kidlit podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/6...
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It’s a good day when I can get on a horse! 💕🐴
Always happy to teach writing workshop! Thanks @denverwrites.bsky.social ! 🧡
Thanks for sharing, Kate! Talked to a kiddo yesterday who is resting it and loving it!!
YAYYYYY!!!!
Loved my first signing (of prints) for my upcoming book TOVA’S SWEET SOLUTION (4/21/26) with @redcometpressbooks.bsky.social yesterday at #ncte!