Thank you Betsy Bird for this great feature about CLICK!: Photographers Make Picture Books. CLICK! will be on view at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Illustration through June 7th. afuse8production.slj.com/2026/04/01/c...

Hope to see you at the Poughkeepsie Children’s Book Festival this Saturday, March 28, from 10am - 3pm! You will find over 100 of us authors and illustrators at the Falcon Hall at Dutchess Community College. Children under 17 receive a $15 book voucher and admission is free!!

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"The colors pop and glow. They shimmy, shake, and dance across the canvas. Slowly, steadily, the idea that Alma had in her mind takes shape."- @ninacrews.bsky.social My review: www.jeannewalkerharvey.com/single-post/... @lernerbooks.bsky.social @carolhinz.bsky.social @eastwestlit.bsky.social

Sharing a few favorite picture books in honor of International Women's Day yesterday. So grateful to have worked with these wonderful authors and illustrators! @mirandapaul.bsky.social @tracisorellauthor.bsky.social @ninacrews.bsky.social @lernerbooks.bsky.social

Thrilled to be speaking at the New England SCBWI conference in May!

In February, as well as all year long, we celebrate the joy, bravery, tenacity, and kindness of African American culture globally. www.kidlit.tv/2025/01/dive... Celebrate Black History this month with these special Diverse Picture Books for Black History Month we chose. #kidlit #blackhistorymonth

Check out this conversation between Steven Heller and Leonard Marcus about photo illustrated children’s books!

Oh my goodness! So proud to see so many of our books on the Center for the Study of Multicultural Children’s Literature Best Books of 2025 list. Congratulations to all!! 🎉📚🎉

Thank you Publisher’s Weekly for including Liftoff!: How the Apollo Moon Missions Made Alma Thomas’s Art Soar in your November roundup of new and noteworthy books for kids! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Happy book birthday to Liftoff!: How the Apollo Moon Missions Made Alma Thomas’s Art Soar and Revolutions Are Made Of Love!

Happy book birthday to Liftoff!: How the Apollo Moon Missions Made Alma Thomas’s Art Soar Please join me Sunday November 9th at the Brooklyn Museum Children’s Book Fair 11am-3:30pm. Read aloud at 12pm. LIFTOFF! launch party at the Sugar Hill Children’s Musuem on November 16th 2-4pm.

If you’re wondering why Mike Johnson has so much time to lie about peaceful protests, it’s because he keeps canceling House business to shield Republicans from questions about huge healthcare cuts and health insurance premium hikes: indivisible.org/campaign/sto...

Thank you Kirkus reviews for this starred review! African American artist, Alma Thomas, made more than 20 abstract paintings inspired by space exploration. This STEAM picture book looks at the creation the painting “Snoopy Sees a Sunrise” and at the Apollo 10 Mission which inspired it.

* EXTRAORDINARY MAGIC - @ninacrews.bsky.social I LIVED INSIDE A WHALE REMEMBERING ROSALIND FRANKLIN WONDERFUL GOODBYES * titles of outstanding merit

Bank Street Center for Children's Literature has chosen EXTRAORDINARY MAGIC: THE STORYTELLING LIFE OF VIRGINIA HAMILTON for their Best Books 2025 Edition & cited it for “Outstanding Merit”! Honored! @bankstreet.edu @galltzacker.bsky.social @lbschool.bsky.social educate.bankstreet.edu/cbc_awards/27/

I’m so looking forward to this story time event featuring Big Family Beach Day at Books Are Magic Montague Street this coming Sunday at 11am! www.eventbrite.com/e/in-store-s...

Happy birthday BIG FAMILY BEACH DAY! Inspired by decades of beach adventures with family and friends. Now available in stores! Please join me at story time events in June! BOOKS ARE MAGIC Sunday, June 8, 11 am BOOKS OF WONDER Saturday, June 21, 11:30am @galltzacker.bsky.social

Authors, we do not have to bow to Meta AI stealing our work. Let’s write and put Mark Zuckerberg on notice: actionnetwork.org/letters/auth... #authors #writers #poets #kidlit

“Feelings of autonomy, belonging, and camaraderie pervade the pages” of Nina Crews’s “busy slice-of-life picture book” BIG FAMILY BEACH DAY

So thrilled to be a part of this amazing lineup of authors and illustrators for the 33rd Annual African American Children's Book Fair! Don't miss this FREE event taking place on Saturday February 1, 2025! See you in Philadelphia! theafricanamericanchildrensbookproject.org

The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African American flying unit in the U.S. military. Altogether, 992 pilots graduated from the Tuskegee Air Field courses, and they flew 1,578 missions and 15,533 sorties, destroyed 261 enemy aircraft, and won more than 850 medals.

Hello Philly! I am participating in the 33rd Annual African American Children’s Book Fair on February 1, 2025 between 1-4pm. Check the link for more info. theafricanamericanchildrensbookproject.org