Pleased to post a one question interview with @zombicatures.bsky.social #kidlit #middlegrade #graphicnovel @scbwirockymtn.bsky.social bethsbiblio.blogspot.com/2025/11/inte...

Today on the blog: October’s Book of the Month is AGGIE AND THE GHOST, by Matthew Forsythe lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/10/octo...

Today on the blog: October Recommendations! lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/10/octo...

I am so happy to be able to share the wonderful cover, by artist Matt Rockefeller, for my forthcoming book CALLIOPE CALLISTO CLARK AND THE SEARCH FOR WISDOM, coming out from Holiday House Books for Young People in March. Available for preorder now! #kidlit @holiday-house.bsky.social

#ReVISIONweek Day Five is up! Learn the Magic of Musicality with @shannonstocker.bsky.social Today's writing goals: 1. Begin revising back matter with musicality and kid-sensibility in mind. 2. Read and review mentor texts. 3. Take a walk. What are your goals? #kidlit #kidlitart #WritingCommunity

What a fabulous opportunity! www.seasonsofkidlit.com/post/trick-o...

Today on the blog: my Shelf Awareness review of Moonleapers, Margaret Peterson Haddix's suspenseful series opener featuring 12-year-old Maisie who experiences a life-changing summer in which she learns how to take apart and reknit time. lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/10/shel...

Today on the blog: my Shelf Awareness review of The Spy in the Museum, a gripping picture book about how Rose Valland spied on Nazis as they stole, sold, and burned masterpieces from her Paris museum during World War II. lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/10/shel...

Today on the blog: My Shelf Awareness review of Broken, yet another winning picture book by author/illustrator X. Fang, which describes a passionate, child-centered experience that includes boredom, crisis, redemption, and... cake! lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/10/shel...

Today on the blog: Late Again, September Recommendations! lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/10/sept...

Ahoy, mateys! I’m grateful to @coloradoauthors.bsky.social for sharing this post about Monsters in the Briny today!!

Today on the blog: Guest post with Lisa Rogers, author of Woody’s Words: Woodrow Wilson Rawls and Where the Red Fern Grows! Please stop by! @lisaljrogers.bsky.social @picturebookgold.bsky.social lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com?m=1

Today on the blog: my Shelf Awareness review of The Blue Velvet Chair, a poetic rumination on the world outside young child’s window, from the familiar comfort of a favorite chair. lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/09/shel...

Today on the blog: my Shelf Awareness review of Squirrel and Bird, in which an increasingly irritated Bird is frustrated by the story’s narrator typecasting them and their friend Squirrel. lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/09/shel...

Today on the blog: the deceptively simple, sweetly creative board book YOUR FOREST, by Jon Klassen. lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/08/augu...

Today on the blog: Six Picture Books for August! lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/08/augu... @karenjameson15.bsky.social @ishaalobo.bsky.social @lourdesheuer.com @maxwelleaton.bsky.social @jashar.bsky.social @elizakinkz.bsky.social @barneysaltzberg.bsky.social @scbwirockymtn.bsky.social

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Ahoy! If you’ve in the Denver area, I hope you’ll come out and have a kraken good time at the farmers market this Sunday! Get some swag (and vegetables ?) and support a local indie bookstore!

Today on the blog: my Shelf Awareness review of YA Immortal Consequences, in which six competitive souls stuck in purgatory become “unfortunate acquaintances” as they investigate corrosive shadow magic in their school. lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/08/shel...

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Check out this great article! 5 Research-Backed Strategies to Reduce Students’ Social Anxiety www.edutopia.org/article/5-re...

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We are a few days late in celebrating National Moon Day. These two beautiful books are perfect for today's new moon! Aliana Reaches for the Moon by the talented @ljrwritenow.bsky.social and June Moon by the talented @lynnbbooks.bsky.social #STEM #K12 #Moon #PB #STEAM #STEMEDUCATION ❤️📚🍀⭐🌜

Happy International Friendship Day! Check out these beautiful friendship books by our talented members @ljrwritenow.bsky.social @writerjolene.bsky.social @jilldanabooks.bsky.social @judithvaldesb.bsky.social @lynnbbooks.bsky.social @alicebianchini.bsky.social ❤️📚🍀 #k12 #PB #friendship

Today on the blog: July’s book of the month, the captivating, kirigami-based picture book, THE PAPER BRIDGE. lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/07/july...

Today on the blog: My Shelf Awareness review of the enchanting Millie Fleur Saves the Night, a not-to-be-missed follow up to bestselling Millie Fleur’s Poison Garden, in which Millie Fleur encourages her neighbors in Garden Glen to be friends of the Dark. lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/07/shel...

Today on the blog: July recommendations feature 6 terrific picture books! lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/07/july... @jesshgn.bsky.social @matthewburgessj.bsky.social @rebeccaglevington.bsky.social @rahele.bsky.social

Today on the blog: June’s Book of the Month is JIM! SIX TRUE STORIES ABOUT ONE GREAT ARTIST: JAMES MARSHALL, creatively written and illustrated by Jerrold Connors. lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/06/june...

“If you don’t believe that the picture book is real literature, then in some level you don’t believe that children are real people. And that’s unacceptable.” Thank you, Mac Barnett. #ala25.

Happy Make Music Day! Celebrate this day by reading these two beautiful books about music and musicians: Mamiachi and Me by the talented @writerjolene.bsky.social BEAUTIFUL NOISE: THE MUSIC OF JOHN CAGE by the talented @lisaljrogers.bsky.social ❤️📚🎼🎼

Today on the blog: Dream for the Land movingly portrays one child's experience farming in the drought-stricken Southwestern U.S. while eloquently bringing hope in the form of the wish-granting horned toad. lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/06/shel...

Books from the Southwest and Southeast Divisions nominated for a Crystal Kite Award. Please vote for your favorites! @picturebookgold.bsky.social @writerjolene.bsky.social @ljrwritenow.bsky.social @bonniekelso.bsky.social @lynnbbooks.bsky.social

Happy National Pollinators' Month! Celebrate this month by reading these beautiful and informative books by the talented @martamagellan.bsky.social #Nonfiction #pollinators #NationalPollinatorsMonth #k12 #kidlit

Today on the blog: May recommendations feature 6 terrific picture books! @picturebookgold.bsky.social lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/05/may-...

Today on the blog: My Shelf Awareness review of Hurricane, Jason Chin's gripping look at these powerful storms, as well as the importance of weather monitoring, and specifically hurricane science, to keep residents safe. @picturebookgold.bsky.social lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/05/shel...

Revision! Figuring out how to make a manuscript 'better' is a challenge...for EVERYONE! Stop by the Official SCBWI blog - I'm sharing tips and techniques & actual endings from my books - comment on the post for a chance to WIN an AMA chat with me! #giveaway scbwi.blogspot.com/2025/05/stai...

Thank you so much, Heather, for your insightful review. ❤️🍀🎉🌺🎈🥟 @albertwhitman.bsky.social @picturebookgold.bsky.social #AAPIHeritageMonth #AAPIMonth #aapipb #bio

Today on the blog: two distinctive picture book biographies illustrated by Lauren Soloy. lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/05/mays...

Put another copy of June Moon in the wee free library, just in time for warm summer evenings! @picturebookgold.bsky.social

Four years out from publication, and this little book just hit the NYT list for the 4th month in a row. Thanks to all the ALONE and AWAY fans who keep reading and sharing! @ssedlib.bsky.social @simonkids.bsky.social @scbwirockymtn.bsky.social @mgauthorcade.bsky.social

Happy #AAPIHeritageMonth ! Love seeing young readers enjoying A Case of Sense written by me, illustrated by the talented @shennen.bsky.social @picturebookgold.bsky.social ❤️❤️❤️📚📚📚🍀🍀🍀🌺🌺🌺#aapibooks #k12 #pb #aapiheritagemonth

Today on the blog: my Shelf Awareness review of I Come from Another Galaxy, a picture book using humor, heart, and a healthy dose of cuteness to beautifully illustrate how space-traveling Earthling James finds things very different in outer space. lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/05/shel...

We're over the moon 🌙 celebrating #NationalSpaceDay w/JUNE MOON by @lynnbbooks.bsky.social illustrated by Nate Carvalho & ALIANA REACHES FOR THE MOON by @ljrwritenow.bsky.social illustrated by Ariel Boroff! #STEMbooks #PictureBooks #SpaceBooks

📸 from today’s storytime @barnesandnoble.com Boulder, CO with 💜 children & writing friends Signed ✍🏼 copies of AN ACCIDENTAL HERO, with art by Debbie Palen & ALIANA REACHES FOR THE MOON with art by Ariel Boroff are available in the store! 📚📚

Had a wonderful #IndieBookstoreDay at @nwawomenExpo last Saturday. Met new friends and greeted old ones! ❤️📚🌱 @albertwhitman.bsky.social @picturebookgold.bsky.social #k❤️🌱📚 #nonfiction #kidlit #AAPI #women #garden #k12

From a student whose librarian read Just Wild Enough to grades 2-4. @picturebookgold.bsky.social @steamteambooks.bsky.social

Another new book??? YES! YES! YES! Please join me in singing Happy Book Birthday to THE PEDDLER AND THE PRESIDENT, written by Ann Koffsky, illus by Pedro Rodriguez & published by Apples and Honey Press Stop by the blog to read a VERY humorous moment Ann had: viviankirkfield.com/2025/04/29/h...

Time to sing and dance with joy...it's a Happy Book Birthday for CALL ME GEBYANESH...PLEASE STOP BY THE BLOG FOR AN INTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHORS and A #gIVEAWAY viviankirkfield.com/2025/04/28/h...

Happy Arbor Day! This recent book of mine culminates in an Arbor Day school assembly, fitting for a story that stars an heirloom apple tree, lone survivor of a vanished orchard, and the secrets concealed in its bark and branches.

Takes for joining POEM SHARE today, @patriciatoht.bsky.social! POEM SHARE: A great way to weave some poetry into your day all April long! www.poetryboost.com @ncte.org #kidlit #poetry #NationalPoetryMonth