🤩📚🌟 It's another #PBStudyBuddy feature of *fabulous* picture books! EVEN STEVEN, GILBERT AND THE GHOST, and IF MY SISTER WERE A WORM. Love these must-reads!!! 📚👍🏼 #PBStudyBuddy* #Kidlit #Edusky *For a closer-up view and more, visit pbstudybuddy.com

🤩🗳️💫 Oh wow! SPARKLES FOR SUNNY is a FINALIST in the 2026 SCBWI Crystal Kite Award (Atlantic Division). Final voting is open through July 17. Thank you so very much if you vote!! 🥰 www.scbwi.org/crystal-kite @scbwi.bsky.social #SCBWINJ @penguinkids.bsky.social #ThaiMyPhuong

😍📚🤩So happy to share this next #PBStudyBuddy feature for CHOPSTICKS ARE, WE ARE AMERICAN, TOO, and NOOR AND THE STORYTELLER. These are such incredibly crafted picture books! 👏📚👍🏼 #PBStudyBuddy* #Kidlit #Edusky *For a closer-up view and more, visit pbstudybuddy.com

🤩📚🌟 I’m delighted to share this next #PBStudyBuddy feature for POST OFFICE BAY, MONKEY’S SWEET SURPRISE, and LOWRIDER FOR SALE. Check out these *fabulous* books! 🎉 📚👍🏼 #PBStudyBuddy* #Kidlit #Edusky *For a closer-up view and more, visit pbstudybuddy.com

😲🤩🥳 Oh wow! TRICKY CHOPSTICKS is the 2025-2026 VA Reads Picture Book Winner! Thank you to all the amazing students in Virginia who voted and supporting educators too. It's a true honor—hope you keep enjoying!!!🥢🎉 @simonkids.bsky.social @ssedlib.bsky.social @fannyliem.bsky.social @vaasl.bsky.social

🖊️📚🤩 Just in time for summer! Over 5 months, I signed 20+ library copies of TRICKY CHOPSTICKS & 26+ of SPARKLES FOR SUNNY for 33 NJ libraries in the BCCLS system. Thank you all for granting me permission+*huge* thanks to #MillburnLibrary for helping place many item-level holds!

🎉📚🤩 Thrilled to share this next #PBStudyBuddy feature for MY HEART SPEAKS KRIOLU, THE LEGEND OF BAN-DAL, and MY PONY WONDER. Check out these excellent picture books! 💫 📚👍🏼 #PBStudyBuddy* #Kidlit #Edusky *For more, visit pbstudybuddy.com #MyHeartSpeaksKriolu #TheLegendofBandal #MyPonyWonder

For anyone going to ALA, I am very very close to confirming a Kidlit Happy Hour (aka Kidlit Drink Night, but in the afternoon) for the Saturday afternoon. If you'd be interested, encourage the effort (which is costing me money this time) & like this post!

😲📚🤩 Wow! SPARKLES FOR SUNNY is on the K-2 suggested list for the ALL RISE Summer 2026 Book Club by Aaron Judge! Such an honor, and it’s so cool to see this literacy initiative for kids too. 🌟Thank you!!!🌟 #AllRiseOfficial #AllRiseFoundation @penguinkids.bsky.social @penguinschoollib.bsky.social

🤩📚🌟 I presented two workshops at the SCBWI NJ conference! Thanks to all who attended my sessions. Loved chatting with so many #Kidlit attendees and hearing others present too! @scbwi.bsky.social #SCBWINJ @simonkids.bsky.social @fannyliem.bsky.social @penguinkids.bsky.social #ThaiMyPhuong

🤩📚🌟 So happy to share this next #PBStudyBuddy feature for BENEATH THE SAME ROUND MOON, WHEN SCIENCE STOOD STILL, and BROKEN. Love these stellar picture books! 💫 📚👍🏼 #PBStudyBuddy* #Kidlit #Edusky *For a closer-up view and more, visit pbstudybuddy.com

🌟🗳️💫 Will you vote? SPARKLES FOR SUNNY is up for the 2026 SCBWI Crystal Kite Award in the Atlantic Division. First round voting is open through June 22. Thank you if you vote! 🥰 Thank you if you vote! www.scbwi.org/crystal-kite @scbwi.bsky.social #SCBWINJ @penguinkids.bsky.social #ThaiMyPhuong

So excited to have @sylviaichen.bsky.social on my blog today! She's sharing all the details of her books, #PBStudyBuddy and more! Thanks so much, Sylvia! brandi-annuyemura.com/blog/qanda-w...

👩🏻‍🏫📚👥Going to the NJ SCBWI conference this Sun, June 7? I’m presenting two workshops—Secret Writing Tricks, and Let’s Chat About Swag: Recommended Practices for Picture Book Promo. Hope to see you if you go! #SCBWINJ @simonkids.bsky.social @fannyliem.bsky.social @penguinkids.bsky.social #ThaiMyPhuong

🥳📚🤩For my next storytime before school's out, I’m at Chatterbox Books in South Orange, NJ! I'll read both Tricky Chopsticks & Sparkles for Sunny, with chopsticks challenges, swag & book signing! #ChatterboxBooks @penguinkids.bsky.social #ThaiMyPhuong @simonkids.bsky.social @fannyliem.bsky.social

🥳🥢🎉I had an amazing time doing a TRICKY CHOPSTICKS storytime w/STEM activities—chopsticks challenges + 3D lucky star origami—at my local Millburn Library! Thanks to all who came plus the librarian hosts & teen volunteers!🥰 @simonkids.bsky.social @fannyliem.bsky.social @millburnlibrary.bsky.social

🥳🥢📙 I’m super thrilled to visit my very own local Millburn Library in NJ this Thurs May 28 4-5:15pm with a TRICKY CHOPSTICKS storytime and STEM activities (chopsticks challenges + 3D lucky star origami). All are welcome! @simonkids.bsky.social @fannyliem.bsky.social @millburnlibrary.bsky.social

😍🥢🪭🥳 I had a blast holding a double storytime for TRICKY CHOPSTICKS and SPARKLES FOR SUNNY at #WordsonWarren in NYC, followed by a fun chopsticks challenge and sparkly fan craft, plus book signing and swag handouts! Thank you for hosting me and a heartfelt thanks to all who came! 🤩✨

🤩📚😍 Happy to share this next #PBStudyBuddy feature for BECOMING BOBA, MY AMERICA BLOOMS, and TOGETHER WE REMEMBER. Check out these incredible books! 📚👍🏼 #PBStudyBuddy* #Kidlit *For a closer-up view and more, visit pbstudybuddy.com

🤩💫🌟 I had the most *stellar* time at the @goldcoastbkfair reading SPARKLES FOR SUNNY! Loved being a part of this amazing event close to my childhood home! @penguinkids.bsky.social #GoldCoastBookFair #TheodoresBooks #HeatherEng #RobCameron #HyewonYum @dellarossferreri.bsky.social #SueHodara

📙🥢🥳 I love doing library events! Thank you #NorwoodPublicLibrary for hosting me. It was so fun to read TRICKY CHOPSTICKS, answer Q&A, run chopsticks challenges, and sign a copy someone brought plus hand out swag. Hope you all enjoyed! @simonkids.bsky.social @fannyliem.bsky.social

These high quality diverse books should be at your local library! Amy Wu and the Perfect Bao, One of A Kind, I'm Sorry You Got Mad, Lift, Molly's Tuxedo, Dad Bakes, Joyful Song, Some of Us #BeAnAmbassador #WeNeedDiverseBooks

That Flag, My Hands Tell A Story, Mario and the Hole in the Sky, All the Way to the Top, Thank You Omu!, Don't Touch My Hair!, Julian Is A Mermaid, Jabari Jumps And these are just the picture books! I haven't even gotten started on middle grade yet! #BeAnAmbassador #WeNeedDiverseBooks

#BeAnAmbassador #WeNeedDiverseBooks A Map Into the World, Tia Fortuna's New Home, Mango Abuela and Me, A Knot Is Not A Tangle, The Music Inside Us, Laxmi's Mooch, That's Not My Name

Now some middle grade... #BeAnAmbassador #WeNeedDiverseBooks Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All, Red White and Whole, A Sea of Lemon Trees, Ghost, A Kind of Spark, Amari and the Night Brothers, Brady Mason's Perfect Fit, The Queen Bees of Tybee County, Merci Suarez Changes Gears, How to Say Goodbye in Cuban

100 Chapatis, Chooch Helped, Federico and the Wolf, Home in a Lunchbox, Dim Sum Palace, Dancing Hands, While We're Here, and Song in the City I could do this ALL DAY. #BeAnAmbassador #WeNeedDiverseBooks

📚💖🤩 So very happy to uplift these *fabulous* picture books with #PBStudyBuddy: I AM A BON DANCER, CAN YOU IMAGINE?, and BINNA’S DALGONA. Please share and support them too! 📚👍🏼 #PBStudyBuddy* #Kidlit #Edusky *For a closer-up view and more, visit pbstudybuddy.com

📣📕🎉 UPDATE! I’ll be at Norwood Public Library, Gold Coast Book Fair, Words on Warren, Millburn Library, Chatterbox Books, and the SCBWI NJ conference with SPARKLES FOR SUNNY & TRICKY CHOPSTICKS these May/June dates! Would love to see you if you can come to any of these events!

#Reading #Books #KidLit #Readers #childrensliterature

I love the way Meg Medina used her time as National Ambassador for Young People's Literature to lift up so many voices in our amazing community of creators. Such a great example of what leaders do when they're offered a platform. Check out her interview series here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Have you seen the amazing #PBParty Showcase? Everyone is welcome to browse the finalists & Illustration Showcase. Comments are only for agent/editor/AD requests. I love these entries & illustrations so much...and can't wait for them to be out in the world. 💗 mindyalyseweiss.com/pbparty-2026...

🤩📚🥳 It was the *BEST* at Hudson Children’s Book Festival today! So non-stop, I didn’t have a chance to take pics or videos, but I LOVED running my book activities, chatting with attendees & signing lots of books! @penguinkids.bsky.social #thaimyphuong @simonkids.bsky.social @fannyliem.bsky.social

📣📕🖊️🎉 I'll be at Hudson Children's Book Festival, Gold Coast Book Fair, Words on Warren, & Millburn Library with lots of book fun for SPARKLES FOR SUNNY & TRICKY CHOPSTICKS in May! Please come if you can! @penguinkids.bsky.social #thaimyphuong @simonkids.bsky.social @fannyliem.bsky.social

📚🤩 Thrilled to share three #PBStudyBuddy features here: MR. CHOW’S NIGHT MARKET, IGGY WHO BREATHES FIRE, and I’M SORRY YOU GOT MAD. Love these fantastic picture books! 📚👍🏼 #PBStudyBuddy* #Kidlit #Edusky *For a closer-up view and more, visit pbstudybuddy.com

Congratulations to the 2026 #PBParty finalists! 🎉 You truly dazzled us. The judges and I can't wait for the agent/editor/AD showcase on May 4 - 8. Huge hugs and cyber chocolate to those who need it. (((Hugs)))

📚💖 Sharing 3 more #PBStudyBuddy reviews for JIM! Six True Stories About One Great Artist: James Marshall, SQUAWK OF SPANISH, and NOODLES ON A BICYCLE. All such fabulous reads! 📚👍🏼

🌟📚🌟 Another stellar trio for this #PBStudyBuddy feature! A RAKHI FOR RAKESH, ONLY, and GOOD BOOKS FOR BAD CHILDREN. Hope you enjoy these picture books too! 📚👍🏼 #PBStudyBuddy* #Kidlit #Edusky *For a closer-up view and more, visit pbstudybuddy.com

🏃🏻‍♀️😍 Here's how I walked to sign SPARKLES FOR SUNNY at 9 stores in lower NYC! Loved making the rounds to support local bookstores! 🥰 @penguinkids.bsky.social #thaimyphuong #yuandmebooks #mcnallyjackson #wordsonwarren #pearlrivermart @strandbooks.com #bnunionsqnyc @booksofwonder.bsky.social

📚💗💫 Next up, #PBStudyBuddy book love for: MAYBE JUST ASK ME!, THE SHADOW AND THE GHOST, & SONG AFTER SONG—all such awe-inspiring books! 📚👍🏼 #PBStudyBuddy #Kidlit #Edusky @kdmaz.bsky.social @simonkids.bsky.social @ssedlib.bsky.social @levinequerido.bsky.social @juliefhedlund.bsky.social

😲🥢📙🤩 Oh wow! I found out PA students chose TRICKY CHOPSTICKS as the Primary Winner for the 2025-2026 Keystone to Reading Book Award. *Thank you* to all who voted—I’m thrilled you loved it as your top pick! @simonkids.bsky.social @ssedlib.bsky.social @fannyliem.bsky.social #keystonestateliteracy

🥳🌟 I *Ioved* hosting kids’ activities for TRICKY CHOPSTICKS & SPARKLES FOR SUNNY, signing books, & more at the 2026 Poughkeepsie Children’s Book Festival, *thank you*! #poklibny @merrittbookstore.bsky.social @penguinkids.bsky.social #ThaiMyPhuong @simonkids.bsky.social @fannyliem.bsky.social

📚🌟Happy to share the next new #PBStudyBuddy 3x3x3 feature with: MY BACKYARD USED TO BE, WILL AND KRILL, & AND THEN CAME YOU!🤩📚👍🏼 #PBStudyBuddy #Kidlit #Edusky @lynnbaldwinwrites.bsky.social @staceybyer.bsky.social @beamingbooksmn.bsky.social @christinashawn.bsky.social @chroniclebooks.bsky.social

Wow! I'm through my initial voting round for 775 #PBParty writer entries—it's a true honor and joy to peruse your caringly crafted excerpts plus fulls too! I'm going to revisit *many* I marked M!, and the 100+ auth/illus submissions also. Good luck all, thank you for entering! 💫

It's a Y for me for a STEAM informational fiction #PBParty entry which does such a stellar job at transporting you into the subject matter across time, with captivating facts and anecdotes. So excited to see this one!

I'm marking a Y for a diverse informational fiction #PBParty entry with an endearing and empowered MC. I love how it shows that love persists no matter our differences.

Really excited to put a Y! for a funny STEAM #PBParty entry which brilliantly entertains in the excerpt straight away and all through the full too. Love the lively wording, humorous voice, and intriguing info. So well done!

Just put in a Y? for a character-driven #PBParty entry that celebrates creativity and individuality. Love the visual potential for the full story too!

I'm voting a Y? for a diverse, informational fiction #PBParty entry which uses an engaging structure to share fascinating insight. I've always wondered about what this entry presents, so it's neat to learn more this way. Will be interesting to see how this one fares!

Marking a Y? for a humorous #PBParty entry which has a clever premise with great pacing and voice in the full. Very curious if this one will make it!

My vote is Y for a diverse #PBParty entry which captures meaningful sharing and cross-cultural connections in such a lovely way. Crossing fingers for this one!