It's the LAST day to vote for your favorite case covers of the year in the 2025 Undies Awards. Head over to vote and spread the word! 100scopenotes.com/2025/11/10/v... @carterhiggins.bsky.social @spikypenelope.bsky.social

Don't miss your chance to vote for the best case covers of the year in the 2025 Undies Awards! Voting closes tomorrow at midnight! 100scopenotes.com/2025/11/10/v... @carterhiggins.bsky.social @spikypenelope.bsky.social

I voted!

Thanks, Travis! It was great talking TOAD with you 🐸

I talk with @jashar.bsky.social (and reveal the cover for his next book, TOAD ON THE GO) on the blog today: 100scopenotes.com/2025/11/12/c...

I voted! #kidlitart

One of my favorites! Be sure to vote 🗳️

It's time. Vote for your favorite case covers in the 2025 Undies Awards! 100scopenotes.com/2025/11/10/v... @carterhiggins.bsky.social @spikypenelope.bsky.social

Ooooh fun #kidlit #kidlitart Vote by Friday Nov 14th

The time has come: Vote in the 2025 Undies Case Cover Awards! 100scopenotes.com/2025/11/10/v... @carterhiggins.bsky.social @spikypenelope.bsky.social

And the official trend of 2025 children's literature is... gushy yellow fruit for the win! #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2025/11/10/a...

My favorite list of the year is here! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/b...

Favorite picture book in recent memory is CABOOSE by @100scopenotes.bsky.social and @ohtruth.bsky.social. This hippo child chooses chaos by messing with the front of the school lineup. Then he gets sent to the back, and does the same exact thing. Truly an agent of anarchy.

Do you know some great 2025 endpapers or case covers you want to nominate for the Endies and Undies Awards? The deadline to nominate is TOMORROW (Oct. 31st). Head here to get going: 100scopenotes.com/2025/10/30/l...

@12x12challenge.bsky.social @joycekay.bsky.social

Our 2026 Mock Caldecott program 100scopenotes.com/2025/10/28/o...

⭐️🎉 Cover reveal for Mr. Wolf’s Class Book Six—THE NEW STUDENT (August 4, 2026) published by @graphixbooks 🎉⭐️ 📚 Preorder today with your local bookstore or wherever you get books today!

I'm not reading as much online these days as I used to, but I'll always find room for @100scopenotes.bsky.social - this roundup of NYT best illustrated kidlit predications has some beauties! 100scopenotes.com/2025/10/07/p...

Sharing the cover for the upcoming Molly Idle, Juana Martinez-Neal collab! 100scopenotes.com/2025/10/09/c...

Tomorrow on the blog I'm sharing the cover for a Caldecott Honoree collab coming in 2026.

These are just, like, my opinions, man. 100scopenotes.com/2025/10/07/p...

This will be the fourth year I’ve made a MICHY minicomic to give out (along with candy) on Halloween! We’re not as great as “the caramel apple house,” but I’ll take “the comic house!”

Night Birding (3 of 6) #drawing #penandink #ballpointpen #art #artist #artistsoninstagram #illustration #illustrator #illustratorsoninstagram #sketchbook

The undies and endies! #kidlit #kidlitart

Oooooo!

Two of my favorite awards are now open for nominations!

Nominations are now open for the 2025 Undies Case Cover Awards and Endies End Paper Awards! Anyone can nominate a book. Head here to get started: 100scopenotes.com/2025/10/01/n...

A STARRED review for the upcoming sequel to SIDEKICKS! Thank you, Kirkus Reviews ❤️ SIDEKICKS: THICK AS THIEVES coming Jan 6, 2026 from Scholastic and Graphix Books

It's time to celebrate BIG RHINOCEROS LITTLE RHINOCEROS out next week from Boxer Books! Starting with THE ALL NEW BOOK TRAILER!

🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶 🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈 #FollowTheRainbow

Here are 10 books I'm excited about this fall. 100scopenotes.com/2025/09/29/1...

Here's a page from my book POETRY COMICS, out now in paperback from @chroniclekidsbooks.bsky.social!

Over at the New York Times, I share a group of books for all the Pilkey heads out there. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/b...

Fall prediction time! Our penultimate prediction post before final considerations. Here are the titles I think have the best show at the two major literary awards. Do you agree? Disagree? Find out! #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2025/09/17/2...

Should it stay or should it go? Endangered Series #31: Allie Finkle’s Rules for Girls 100scopenotes.com/2025/09/09/e...

Is it too early to start calling Caldecott 2027 contenders? That's not an idle question since today we're talking to Steven Weinberg about a book that, honestly? You're going to need to see this thing. #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2025/09/10/a...

Celebrate TOWED BY TOAD’s first birthday by taking a peek behind-the-scenes! jashar.substack.com/p/towed-by-t...

The book of our librarian dreams and we’re making it?! 👀

Announcing new deals for @tiffanyjwang.bsky.social @diterlizzi.bsky.social @carterhiggins.bsky.social @100scopenotes.bsky.social + more

Very excited to announce that @carterhiggins.bsky.social and I are making a book! She's writing the words, and I'm making the pictures: 100scopenotes.com/2025/09/05/s...

New books on the way from @stevenrowley.bsky.social @carterhiggins.bsky.social @100scopenotes.bsky.social @melindabeatty.bsky.social + more buff.ly/9sPHt6A

Thanks, Kathy 100scopenotes.com/2025/08/21/t... @kishizuka.bsky.social

Can you Guess the Guest? Find new episodes of Origin Stories with JJK wherever you get your pods—new episodes drop on Saturday mornings. Here’s a hint about this Saturday’s guest: she hails from the Beehive State. 🤔

#Bookaday I added @cordellmatthew.bsky.social's 102 to my 2026 Books I Love presentation: www.pinterest.com/mrschureads/...

Teachers! Librarians! Start the school year off right - read CABOOSE with your students. It's a laugh-out-loud look the high-stakes world of . . . lining up. store.abramsbooks.com/products/cab...

Do You Remember These Lines From Five Popular Children’s Books? | New York Times

Not a wave in sight. Liam tries waiting, implores seagulls to help, builds a sandcastle. But NOTHING disturbs this lake. Liam kicks a rock. An idea ripples. Travis Jonker’s Just One Wave makes a wonderful splash. A timeless story perfect for after-beach-before-nap reads. #breakfastandabook

If you have a kindergartener (or a classroom of them), I updated my books for kids starting kindergarten article for the New York TImes: www.nytimes.com/2024/08/30/b...

Over at the New York Times, I share 10 books for kids starting preschool (illustration by Limoo Park): www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/b...