🌎💚Happy #EarthDay2024 from Milton, Fig, and Lord Snarlsy!

Authors will literally write another book to avoid writing their book

How I think I look at author events vs how I actually look

Reading HARRIET THE SPY to my 10yo reminded me that an older girl once stole my notebook & read it aloud on the bus.

A few months later, she tried to do it again and I, in a panic, whacked her over the head with said notebook, leading to my first ever principal’s office visit.

Rachel (R.L.) Toalson Love it! We just introduced Blackout poems to our 6th graders today using the text from The Miraculous Jess Redman Love these kinds of poems

🐝 Prepping for a July program about bees at my nature center. If you work with kids and you’re open over the summer, you know why!

Also - I love this book series! Wacky+informative=perfect read aloud

Happiest #MG Book Birthday to ISABEL IN BLOOM—this tender, joyful book of my heart—out TODAY!!!🌸 Isabel is a 12yo girl who reunites with her mom in California after years apart, since Mama left the Philippines to work in the U.S.—all to give her daughter a better life. 🧵 It's:

#KeepingPace is out today! I’m so proud of this #upperMG novel about distance running, friends-turned-rivals-turned-crushes, & the true meaning of success. I hope you check it out, and I hope you love Grace & Jonah as much as I do! 💚🏃‍♀️

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Reading HARRIET THE SPY to my 10yo, and when I got to this scene, she lost it, and then we both laughed until we couldn’t breathe, and now all day we’ve been shrieking, “I absolutely REFUSE to be an onion!” at random.

Anyway, highly recommend reading to your kids. 10/10 ⭐️

We have a new baby at my nature center!🐊 ❤️

Roseate spoonbill sighting!

I haven't been around here as much lately, but #mgbookchat will forever be part of my author journey. I've made so many friends, built up a sky-high TBR stack, and learned so much about the book world through these chats. ❤️📚

🦈 Love this cover and this story!

🍊❤️ Happy book birthday, Gillian McDunn!! Coral and I can’t wait to read!!

🃏 Happy book birthday, Lindsay Currie!! We can’t wait to read!

This is part of my 7yo’s report on teachers. He understands the work involved!

Listen, I wasn’t even going to write today, but I did. And now, somehow, I’ve cracked this story wide open and I know exactly what it’s about and where it’s heading and who is telling it and why. Writing is the most mundane and mysterious magic.