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Our weekly big list of kid lit links is up (April 11): kidlit411.com/2025/04/the-we… Inside: Writing Subtext, Critique Meet Up, Writing Hooks, more. Thanks Joni Nemeth for the illustration, HarperKids & Two Lions for the MG & PB giveaways.

There's genuinely such an alarming subtext to this statement. The implication that it was only okay for Toph to be a tomboy because she was a cartoon and therefore divorced from reality. Now that she's a 'real' girl she must behave the way Real Girls are supposed to.

Stock up for summer reading with this Book Clubs deal. Order today, offer ends April 19: clubs.scholastic.com/home?eml=SBC/s…

Our weekly big list of kid lit links is up (April 18): kidlit411.com/2025/04/the-we… Inside: Get your PB Submission Ready, Fallacy of Show don't Tell, Nonfiction class, more. Thanks Laura Petrisin for the illustration, Chelsea Tornetto for the PB giveaway.

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Excited to join ReadYourWorld's virtual panel celebrating AAPI creators on May 7, 7 p.m. ET. Register for the free event, and enter to win one of 5 book bundles: readyourworld.org/read-your-worl…

Our weekly big list of kid lit links is up (April 25): kidlit411.com/2025/04/the-we… Inside: Finding Your Voice, Adding Humor, Writing 2ndary Characters Webinar, more. Thanks Ginny Edwards Neil for the illustration, Marsha Diane Arnold & Maggie Edkins Willis for the PB giveaways.

Looking forward to teaching my webinar, WRITING VIBRANT SECONDARY CHARACTERS with Mid-Atlantic scbwi, on Tuesday, April 29, 7 p.m. ET. ($30/ $15 SCBWI premium members) Register here: scbwi.org/events/writing…

Authors don’t seem to use business cards anymore, but I’ve been at conferences recently where I would’ve like to have one to hand out, so I ordered these cute ones with my polar bear illustration. Really love them!

This is tonight! There's still time to register! (btw - my tips for writing vibrant secondary characters also apply to writing your MC)

This is great, but I also love how I misread this as deep sea scams, which tracks too… the fish that can walk have fooled us all

It's the first of the month so we have a new website banner and an Illustrator Spotlight on Angela Marise Johnson. Check out her awesome art and banner! kidlit411.com/2025/05/illust…

I'm thrilled to be a MG mentor this summer for one Inked Voices member. I'll read your completed draft and work with you to level it up - apply by May 15

Our weekly big list of kid lit links is up (May 2): kidlit411.com/2025/05/the-we… Inside: The Midpoint Slump, Power of Punctuation in Poetry Inked Voices, 2 New Query Trends, more. Thanks Aneta Cruz of the illustration and Kari Allen & Scholastic for the PB giveaways.

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Our weekly big list of kid lit links is up (May 9): kidlit411.com/2025/05/the-we… Inside: scbwi nonfiction class, Book Publicity, Combatting Writer Loneliness, more. Thanks Kira Sokolovskaia for the illustration, Penguin Kids & Bright Matter Books for the PB & MG giveaways. #kidlit

Reposting this… deadline to apply to my MG mentorship is now May 23. Dm me for details.

Hearing from a reader (a second grader) about Near and Deer means everything! 🤩

If we want to reverse the epidemic of students who can't or won't read, it starts with getting them hooked on reading at a young age. Read aloud to them. Find stories that they enjoy. Limit their screentime so that they have the time and scope to get lost in books.

Woohoo! I’m so happy for your Jenny Mattern 📚 … can’t wait to hold this book in my hands!