SUPER excited for the North Texas Teen Book Festival tomorrow! Will I see YOU there? #NTTBF26 @nttbfest.bsky.social

Early Chapter Books for Animal Lovers! Are you familiar with @katemessner.com's wonderful WILDLIFE RESCUE series? It's perfect for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders. The third book in the series, HOW TO SAVE A TORTOISE, arrived this week. Happy book birthday and welcome to the world! Congrats, Kate!

Some gopher tortoises and I are celebrating a book birthday! WILDLIFE RESCUE: HOW TO SAVE A TORTOISE, illustrated by Jen Bricking, is out today from @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social!

Some terrific March reads here! penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/posts/6-upli...

Happy #pubday to HOW TO SAVE A TORTOISE by @katemessner.com! Bestselling author of the Ranger in Time series Kate Messner continues with the third book in this fun, science-based series about a family dedicated to rescuing animals. On sale now! katemessner.com/wildlife-res...

WHEN TOMORROW BURNS -- A Book Birthday for @taekeller.bsky.social! Three middle school students embark on a quest to find a book that may just save their lives in this novel about fate and friendship--from the Newbery Award-winning author of WHEN YOU TRAP A TIGER Welcome to the world!

Happy book birthday to @loreegriffinburns.bsky.social and EXTREME BIRD WATCHING: MEASURING CHANGE ON A GALAPAGOS ISLAND! This is the second book in Loree's amazing Discovery Chronicles STEM chapter book series with @candlewickpress.bsky.social! bookshop.org/p/books/extr...

Some gopher tortoises and I are celebrating a book birthday! WILDLIFE RESCUE: HOW TO SAVE A TORTOISE, illustrated by Jen Bricking, is out today from @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social!

FIRST ASCENT spotted in the wild at Yosemite National Park! (Thanks to author pal Laura Shovan for the photo!)

Just donated - maybe you’d like to do that, too?

Always grateful to be featured in my hometown newspaper! www.pressrepublican.com/news/award-w...

Where are my bookseller, librarian, teacher, & author friends who fall at the intersection of this Venn diagram? (The book is a mystery, and so is this question for now.) * cue spooky music *

Where are my bookseller, librarian, teacher, & author friends who fall at the intersection of this Venn diagram? (The book is a mystery, and so is this question for now.) * cue spooky music *

Whenever someone in the news offers a weak apology, I just want to send them @kylelukoff.bsky.social's book. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/696788...

It's a starred review for THE WHALE'S TALE AND THE OTTER'S SIDE OF THE STORY! Coming from @clarionbooks.bsky.social, @brianbiggsstudio.bsky.social, and me in April! (While you wait, give some thought as to whether you are #TeamWhale or #TeamOtter. Launch party hijinks to come...)

Happy book birthday, @traceybaptiste.bsky.social!

And I'm a week late with this one but happy book birthday, @heidieys.bsky.social! So excited for this snowy owl adventure!

While we wait for an apology from the men's hockey team, it's worth noting that the locker room video is a teachable moment for kids. Talk with them about how to respond when someone makes that kind of demeaning comment. "Dude, women won 8 of the USA's 12 gold medals" might have been a good start.

On my way right now & hope to see lots of Florida reader friends this weekend!

Have YOU met the Yetis in charge of CAMP MONSTER yet? I'll be at the Florida Children's Book Festival in Orlando this weekend - come say hello and get your copy signed. (Word is we'll be raffling off a few of these very cool CAMP MONSTER baseball caps, too!)

Next time I feel anxious about awards or bestseller lists, I'm just going to remind myself: Write like Alysa Liu skates. www.cnn.com/2026/02/19/s...

Thrilled for Alysa Liu, for the sport, and for all the young skaters who just saw a joyful example of an athlete prioritizing her autonomy and mental health. www.nbcnews.com/sports/olymp...

Have YOU met the Yetis in charge of CAMP MONSTER yet? I'll be at the Florida Children's Book Festival in Orlando this weekend - come say hello and get your copy signed. (Word is we'll be raffling off a few of these very cool CAMP MONSTER baseball caps, too!)

Y'all...these texts & photos that librarians are forwarding from parents of kids who saw me on the CAMP MONSTER graphic novel book tour this week are EVERYTHING. #CampMonster @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social @falynnk.bsky.social

So excited to read and rep Camp Monster by @katemessner.com and share it with my neighborhood readers! Thank you @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social !

Cute graphic novel, perfect for younger readers. Tasha is a Yeti & her family used to run Camp Yeti. With so few yetis left, they’re reopening as Camp Monster. Will the stories be the same as what Gramp Abominable told her? Follow her fun journey as Camp Monster takes shape. @katemessner.com

It's a cover reveal!! She's Cinderella... She's an axolotl... She's...AXOLOTL-ELLA! Illustrated by @liantomato.bsky.social & coming from Ten Speed Press in June!

YALSA’s Best Fiction for Young Adults: www.yalsa.ala.org/thehub/2026/... @nealshusterman.bsky.social @katemessner.com @cherisaacs.bsky.social @yalsa.bsky.social #BookSky

Teacher friends! Almost everything that educators & librarians email me about - author visit opportunities, discussion guides, book giveaways - is info that gets sent out regularly in my email newsletter. If you're not signed up for it yet, please do! katemessner.us20.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...

Don't know yet who's going to lose the Super Bowl tonight, but I think we know who won.

Don't know where to start with all the things I loved about this halftime show but it was brilliant. The staging, the sugar cane, the representation, the dancing, the JOY. Yes, yes, yes.

Kicking off week 2 of the CAMP MONSTER book tour & revising a pb in my hotel room tonight, but I set an alarm so I wouldn't miss halftime!

North Carolina friends! I'll be at @bookmarksnc.bsky.social in Winston-Salem for an after-school event this Tuesday - hope to see you there! bookmarksnc.org/KateMessner

"School librarians are the stewards and defenders of knowledge." —María Dolores Águila mrschureads.blogspot.com/2026/02/newb...

Y'all...these texts & photos that librarians are forwarding from parents of kids who saw me on the CAMP MONSTER graphic novel book tour this week are EVERYTHING. #CampMonster @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social @falynnk.bsky.social

A wonderful new series from @erindowning.bsky.social for animal-loving young readers ready for longer chapters and no illustrations - a gentle story for tender-hearted readers. Perfect for after @elanakarnold.bsky.social's Bat series or @katemessner.com's Wildlife Rescue series. #mglit

To answer the question at the end of this review...yes! (More books are coming soon!)

Woke up in San Francisco for today's CAMP MONSTER book tour appearances & it's so weird that everyone at my hotel is wearing Seahawks and Patriots baseball hats. Clearly they haven't caught on to the latest trend... (Art by @falynnk.bsky.social & out this week w/ @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social!)

Happy book birthday to @katemessner.com and @falynnk.bsky.social ! A zany and imaginative story with a wild twist of an ending. Important lessons on friendship and not being quick to judge others. Heartfelt and hilarious.

Today, I am matching donations to any org in this list, up to $1000. Reply here or DM me with receipt. www.standwithminnesota.com

Want me to speak at your conference, book festival, or school/library? I'll be opening up my calendar for 2026-2027 as soon as I get home from the CAMP MONSTER book tour later this month. Here's the request form to fill out if you're interested in a visit! forms.gle/QLtfa3jgw4dU...

Have you ordered your copy of CAMP MONSTER yet? If you're one of the first 500 to order & send your receipt to @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social, you can get one of our super-cute limited edition Camp Monster baseball caps! Details are here: www.formpl.us/form/6624384... @falynnk.bsky.social

It's finally here! Happy World Read Aloud Day, friends! And a BIG thank you to @litworld.bsky.social for making this magic happen. I'll be visiting readers in person in Austin today, but here's a whole thread of my read-aloud videos to share! #WRAD26 #worldreadaloudday

Want me to speak at your conference, book festival, or school/library? I'll be opening up my calendar for 2026-2027 as soon as I get home from the CAMP MONSTER book tour later this month. Here's the request form to fill out if you're interested in a visit! forms.gle/QLtfa3jgw4dU...

Love to see these reviews by our 7th grade #DogEaredBookAward2025 readers. This one is for @katemessner.com and The Trouble with Heroes.

A Kate Messner Graphic Novel! Congratulations to @katemessner.com on the release of her debut graphic novel, CAMP MONSTER, illus. by Falynn Koch. This is the first book in their all-new graphic novel series, perfect for chapter book readers ages 6-9. Happy book birthday and welcome to the world!

Thank you, Atlanta and Austin readers!! Such a great start to the CAMP MONSTER book tour. One more morning in Austin & then I'm headed your way tomorrow, San Francisco! #CampMonster

🧌OUT NOW!🧌 CAMP MONSTER, a MG graphic novel by @katemessner.com and Falynn Koch, is about a summer camp for Monsters. Can Goblins, Werewolf, Ogre and Yeti really put their differences aside & come together when *mysterious things* start happening at camp?! Perfect for fans of THE INVESTI-GATORS!

Just FYI -Decades before Alex Honnold climbed Taipei 101, two rock climbers named Royal Robbins & Warren Harding were out there with jerry-rigged gear and tennis shoes, figuring out the sport. bookshop.org/p/books/firs...

Happy #pubday to CAMP MONSTER by @katemessner.com! New York Times bestselling author Kate Messner invites you to Camp Monster in this fun-filled young middle grade graphic novel perfect for fans of InvestiGators. Take a trip to Camp Monster now! katemessner.com/camp-monster/