Thanks for sharing this post--4th of my 4 posts for "The Official SCBWI Blog"! #translation #SCBWI

This summer I'm an SCBWI guest blogger. Watch for my posts every Thursdays throughout August on the SCBWI Official Blog. #1 of 4 is up--a focus on connections and volunteering. scbwi.blogspot.com/2025/08/scbw...

Thrilled to learn that LISTENING TO TREES: George Nakashima, Woodworker, with text by me and illustrations by Toshiki Nakamura is an SCBWI Crystal Kite Award winner! @artoftoshi.bsky.social @holidayhouse.bsky.social

Savored a pre-event visit with Japan- and Massachusetts-based author Holly Thompson @hatbooks.bsky.social. My journey toward translating Sachiko Kashiwaba’s The Village Beyond the Mist began with translating a story by Kashiwaba-san for the #YA anthology TOMO, edited by Holly. www.hatbooks.com

Great to see this feature w/ Dr. Linda Weste, editor of DiVerse, the anthology of children's and YA verse novelist author interviews, including one with me on craft in THE LANGUAGE INSIDE. Thank you, Cynsations! #versenovels cynthialeitichsmith.com/2025/05/auth...

My GrubStreet summer course 6 Weeks 3 Picture Books starts June 2, meets 6 Mondays via Zoom, 6-9 pm EDT. Generative, supportive, inclusive. Join us? Only 3 spots left! Scholarships available. Details: grubstreet.org/workshop/6-w... #picturebookwriting #kidlit #picturebooks #creativewriting

So much energy and fun at #SeaweedSaturday in Portland, ME. Good eats, art and demos. Thanks to all those who made this happen for the second year in a row. Copies of #TheWakameGatherers went home with many new friends : ) Thank you @leeandlow.bsky.social

Seaweed Saturday is 4/26 at Gulf of Maine Institute, Portland & I'll be there w/ The Wakame Gatherers. Seaweed Saturday features arts, seaweed panels, marketplace, tastings, hands-on activities, food trucks & more! #SeaweedSaturday #Maine #Wakame #picturebooks @leeandlow.bsky.social

Ready to craft narrative poems/verse novels in Nat'l Poetry Month? My GrubStreet class NARRATIVE POETRY begins April 2 on Zoom, 6-9 pm EDT, for 4 Tues eves. Join us? See grubstreet.org/workshop/nar... #narrativepoetry #versenovels #poetry #poetrywriting #creativewriting #nationalpoetrymonth2025

Grateful to Doylestown Living magazine for 2 features: Mira Nakashima & the Nakashima Foundation for Peace, plus tribute to George Nakashima w/ Q&A with me! See pages 25-30 for this double feature. Get a copy in Doylestown, PA or visit my HATbooks blog--link in my bio. #picturebooks #NF #biography

Breathtaking! "The Dance of the Divine Crane" video by longtime Japan resident, friend and photographer Hans Sautter. url: www.nippon.com/en/japan-vid... #hokkaido #cranes #naturephotography #japan

Florida friends--I'm doing 3 #ListeningtoTrees events this week in Palm Beach & Broward counties. Join and learn more about the life of woodworker George Nakashima. For makers ages 6 and up. Link to Hatbooks blog in bio. #GeorgeNakashima #nonfiction #picturebooks @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social

My 2025 Zoom picture book writing classes--SOON at GrubStreet.org : INTRO TO PBs: Mon 1/27 & 2/3 6-9 pm--overview & writing explorations. 6 WEEKS, 6 PBs: 6 Mondays fr. 2/24 6-9 pm Craft, revise 3 text for 3 PBs w/ group feedbac, revision. #picturebookwriting #Zoom #PBclasses hatbooks.blogspot.com

I'm thrilled to be presenting with MFA Boston curator Asako Katsura at this Japan Society Boston event on George Nakashima & my #picturebook Listening to Trees. Free event. Join us? Dec. 10, 6 pm EST. Register: loom.ly/qcvYK_4 @holidayhouse.bsky.social #ListeningToTrees #nonfiction #biography

Hooray! Listening to Trees: George Nakashima, Woodworker is a 2025 NCTE Orbis Pictus Recommended title! Such an honor for Listening to Trees--Orbis Picture Award is for outstanding NF for children. Thanks to @holidayhouse.bsky.social @artoftoshi.bsky.social #biography #NealPorterBooks

Teachers & librarians! Want to Zoom with an author for World Read Aloud Day? Here's all the information about how WRAD Zoom visits work, plus a list of over 300 author & illustrator volunteers! katemessner.com/zoom-with-an...

In LA for college and school visits, Japanese American National Museum exhibits and signing copies of #ListeningtoTrees. All is well! 😀 #georgenakashimawoodworker @nakashimawoodworkers #japaneseamericanhistory #picturebooks #woodworking @holidayhousebks @nealporterbooks

Coming soon...LISTENING TO TREES: GEORGE NAKASHIMA, WOODWORKER. Pre-order now from your favorite bookshops. Words by me, illustrations by Toshiki Nakamura, written in haibun form, with pages of back matter, plus a foreword from Mira Nakashima. #ListeningToTrees #GeorgeNakashima #PictureBooks

Thrilled that my Zoom summer course 6 Weeks, 6 Picture Books course at grubstreet.org is full! But you can still join the waitlist. We'll read PBs, study mentor texts, learn more PB craft, write, revise, share feedback. And if you can't join this course, maybe next time : ) #picturebooks #kidlit

For those were at #KidLitAMA or anyone else interested in kidlit illustration, I highly recommend listening to @literaticat.bsky.social's excellent interview with Scholastic Executive Art Director @brianlarossa.com: www.jenniferlaughran.com/literaticast... #KidLitArt

Hey #KidLit Community! Official #KidLit Mega Feed launch is tomorrow 12p ET w/ @boringstorybook.com @charlenedraws.bsky.social & me! Hoping you'll all post. Special thx to advisors & cheerleaders @brianlarossa.com @bossett.social @rose.bsky.team @danirabaiotti.bsky.social @blueskyfeedcreator.com!

Polishing my pitch and sample translation for the #SCBWI Pitch-Perfect Translation Grant submission. So glad to see this #translation opportunity in SCBWI! www.scbwi.org/pitch-perfec...

We're just about at 1K followers on here :) Happy to see you and talk about excellent books, authors, and illustrators!

Happy release day to Nahoko Uehashi's The Deer King, vol. 2—Returners (trans. Cathy Hirano). I haven't read this one myself, but I've heard good things about it. And I *have* read Uehashi's The Beast Player (also trans. Hirano), which is a must-read Japanese fantasy novel.

There shall be a #kidlitchat at 9 PM Eastern tonight, and it shall also be at 6 PM Pacific cuz we are so good at multitasking in that way. No matter what time it is for you, I hope you'll join us!

The Wakame Gatherers goes to Maine! Thank you to all the librarians, teachers and students who invited me into their schools to talk seaweed harvesting share the story of Nanami and her two grandmothers. @leeandlow.bsky.social #wakame #TheWakameGatherers #picturebooks #Maine #authorvisit

This month @worldkidlit features Seeking a Publisher, showcasing global kidlit books available now for translation into English. Today features books orig. pub'd in Japanese & Arabic; two are books I've translated that are now #seekingapublisher! hatbooks.blogspot.com/2024/03/worl...

This week's Book of the Week at the Cooperative Children's Book Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, is 2024 #PrintzHonor book FIRE FROM THE SKY by Moa Backe Åstot, translated from Swedish by Eva Apelqvist! #SCBWITranslation #YA ccbc.education.wisc.edu/fire-from-th...

Editors, are you following the Seeking a Publisher posts at #WorldKidLit? So far children's to YA works from Europe, Africa, Americas have been shared. More global stories available for translation TK! #translation #worldlit #kidlit #YA #MG #PB worldkidlit.org

Yikes! #kidlitchat is weekly! I have to speed up my writing!

What I've been doing lately: writing a biography PB, drafting a comedy PB, revising a math PB, teaching PB writing, reading tons of PBs, lugging tons of PBs, loving new PBs, loving old PBs, drafting more PBs, dreaming PBs...but I think I'm supposed to be writing a novel. #kidlitchat #picturebooks

For those of you in Japan: #kidlitchat happening shortly Wed. 11am Japan time.

My picture book The Wakame Gatherers, illustrated by Kazumi Wilds, has been chosen as the 2024 Read Maine Agriculture book, and I'm heading to Maine soon! Details: maine.agclassroom.org/programs/read/ More about The Wakame Gatherers at www.hatbooks.com Hooray and thank you @leeandlow.bsky.social ❤️

Do you have a kidlit or YA book launching in the next few months? Feel free to reply in the appropriate thread below: March 2024 launches April 2024 launches May 2024 launches 2024 Kidlit/YA Book Launches: debbieohi.link/Bluesky-Book... #EduSky #Skybrarians #KidLitSky #BookBirthday

You will not read a better essay on the state of book banning in America. I implore you to give Malinda Lo’s words your attention. www.malindalo.com/blog/2023/10...

Looking forward to this!

Excited to interview Kao Kalia Yang about the background of her new book and offer a sneak peek at this poignant and powerful picture book - The Rock in My Throat. www.mariacmarshall.com/single-post/... Jimei Lin Carolrhoda Books LernerBooks #interview #kidlit #nonfiction

Hi again #KidLitArtPostcard day! I'm Toshi, a kidlit illustrator. I’m currently wrapping up a book and looking for more Picture book & board book projects to work on! Rep’ed by Hannah Mann at Writers House Thank you in advance😊 artoftoshi.com/illustration [email protected]

This illustration is from a picture book I illustrated, Listening to Trees, written by Holly Thompson. Will be published in October!

猫の日 Apparently today 2/22 is Cat Day in Japan🐈

"Sing along to this rollicking counting song set in the Bronx and celebrate Latinx culture including dance and Spanish words” w/ BOOGIE IN THE BRONX from Barefoot Books www.pragmaticmom.com/2018/09/ownv...

In the first of our two-part series on this, one year after the War in Ukraine, we talk to Oleksandr Shatokhin about creation, reception at home and abroad, and impact of 2023's YELLOW BUTTERFLY. #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2024/02/23/t...

8 Books For Aspiring Writers and 5 Book Giveaway of UNSTUCK by Barbara Dee! bit.ly/3wyOC7j via @pragmaticmom @barbaradee.bsky.social #ReadYourWorld #middlegrade #giveaway

Delighted to be Debbie's guest!

Hey#kidlitsky! The Kweli Color of Children's Literature Conference is April 19-21, and if you're a BIPOC author or illustrator, it's a wonderful weekend of learning, connections, and community, with an incredible presenter lineup. More info & registration here: www.eventbrite.com/e/2024-kweli...