Hooray for book news!
Many thanks to this book team and to my wonderful agent Molly O'Neill and Root Literary!

Quick #KidLit4Ceasefire Fundraiser Update:

We're waiting for donation confirmations from about 100 people. If you won an item, please check your spam folders for an email from us!

We have about 40 item winners in the queue to be connected with item donors.

THANK YOU ALL! 💛

Happy happy book birthday and gratefulness day to illustrator Faith Pray & author Dianne White! Sharing this book is such a gift, and makes you appreciate so many things!

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What does gratitude look like to you?💙

Finding Grateful by @DianneWrites & @FaithPray7 celebrates embracing the moment and finding gratitude in the present. This warm picture book encourages young readers to pay attention to the little things in life.✨

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Happy book birthday to Dianne White and Faith Pray's Finding Grateful!

On Beagles & Books’ #IMWAYR , Bella & I are celebrating early book birthdays for #picturebooks with themes of observation, patterns, gratefulness & acceptance & a new #graphicnovel series with a precocious pup & cantankerous cat. Reviews ➡️ beaglesandbooks.com/2024/04/14/its… #beaglesandbooks

Thank you, Kathy Temean, for your lovely post and giveaway for FINDING GRATEFUL, illustrated by the very talented Faith Pray. Many thanks to Naomi Kirsten and Chronicle Kids for steering this book into the world! 💙💙💙

For the length of my entire publishing career, I have wanted to work on a YA theatre nerd book & then Adib Khorram wrote one!! It’s out today & it’s so so gooooood! And he’s touring this week, too! #proudagent

They just wanted to feed people who needed it
who were hungry

who were starving

who
are
dying

There’s an argument I see quite often in relation to the gradual phasing out images/illustration from books for children: It’s to build children’s reading stamina.

So here’s the thing: Reading images is reading. Reading is the process of decoding symbols to form meaning.

I learned at 3:47 p.m. MDT that Louder Than Hunger debuted at #7 on the New York Times Best Sellers List. I sobbed in a rental car in a school's parking lot. A big THANK-YOU to everyone who supported Louder Than Hunger last week. I’m beyond grateful! Susan Van Metre Molly O'Neill

HOW TO SPOT A STROKE! Today is my strokeversary, and in keeping with tradition, here’s a little graphic I made, because you never know when it might help you or someone you love.
Learning the signs of stroke might save a life, so please read & share freely!

#strokeawareness

At long last, it’s pub day for LOUDER THAN HUNGER! I’m so proud of my friend & client John Schu for gifting his brave, hopeful story to the world. If John’s zeal for books has touched your own life in some way, please support his work by buying a copy! penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746927/l…

A beautiful offering from John Schu -- and one in which he shares a special thread of his story that most people did not know about until today!

The silence of the many illustration, children's books & literary orgs on P@lestine is SO LOUD.

They ALL issued solidarity statements for Ukraine along with fundraising & creative features. Any preach of 'diversity & inclusion' & humanity going forward from them is meaningless.

I am so grateful to anyone reading MEMORY GARDEN.

We made this book to show how culture is experienced through storytelling and the senses. How we create valuable memories through shared moments.
Mom & i hope you love it.

I'm grateful for New York Times Books' thoughtful review of Louder Than Hunger. This line means everything to me: 'There is no glorification of anorexia here; Jake's misery is apparent from the first page.'

Thanks, Carrie! My book, FINDING GRATEFUL, gorgeously illustrated by Faith Pray comes out on April 16th. goodreads.com/book/show/1958…

🌟Um, I just woke up to this SURPRISE and jaw-dropping review from Betsy Bird at SLJ! (You even beat Kirkus to the punch, Betsy!)🌟