How a book idea forms, how an editor makes it a better book idea, how critique buddies help, and how to stay connected to the #writingcommunity . Thanks to my scbwi region scbwi_ksmo for the feature! Beaming Books Liz Schleisman Amélie Videlo 😊🌋

Elementary teachers, have you entered?

Yay! I'm so excited to read this book with my daughter and do the activities! Thank you, Nicole Garnett, for doing this and your awesome blog, and thank you Jody Jensen Shaffer and Beaming Books!

Have YOU sung 'I'm a Little Angry' to the tune of 'I'm a Little Teapot' yet? You haven't?!! It's my best, okay ONE of my best original songs. Pretty sure it's about to go viral. But that's okay, because surely you've made a volcano erupt. NO??!!!!! Go➡️shorturl.at/orvD7 😂

Happy #IndependentBookstoreDay to a few of my favorites, KD’s Books in Lee’s Summit Watermark Books & Café The Learning Tree The Novel Neighbor ! Thanks for everything! 📚

Happy #ArborDay ! I planted this white pine at our farm in Nebraska. 🌲

🗣 GIVEAWAY!
#writingcommunity don't miss this opportunity to get your own copy of Sometimes I am Hot Lava by Jody Jensen Shaffer and Amelie Videlo!

Check out the blog for how to enter + 3 FREE printables for extension activities. Winner chosen tomorrow!
nicolegarnett.com/blog/kxr5mo37r…

Thanks so much for featuring SOMETIMES I AM HOT LAVA and for these great extension activities, Nicole!

Friends, read the post below and enter this #giveaway !

#HappyEarthDay2024 with beautiful art by Christopher Silas Neal

COVER REVEAL!

Please join me in gushing over Porcupine, who clearly HAS a red sweater (or does he?!), illus Angela Edmonds pubbed Magination Press and Katie Ten Hagen and available for preorder now! NetGalley for reviews! Out 9/17!

Hey, Wichita! I hope to see you Watermark Books & Café on April 20! Be sure to get your free ticket! 🌞🌱🦗🐭🐍🪶🦊🐻🪻

Sending a very heartfelt thank you to everyone who has ooh'd at, ahh'd at, and formally reviewed my new books. It means the world to me. From the #MMW conference to MO School Librarians to Goodreads and Amazon...❤️❤️❤️Here's the latest from Goodreads rb.gy/3nknsf

See you Thursday, April 18 at 6:30pm at the Colbern Road MidContinent Library, everyone! Activities, singing, signing.🌱🦗🐭🐍🪶🦊🐻

Christopher Silas Neal Rotem Moscovich Random House Children's Books School & Library Random House Children's Books

#STEM #PictureBooks #animals #literacy

School Librarians! 👇

That bear! That beaver!

🚲My friendship story has friends Kirkus Reviews!

“The tale delivers an important message about forgiveness and the importance of taking responsibility for wrongdoings... A touching exploration of the complicated dynamics of friendship.”

June 4
Preorder tinyurl.com/24t6kdj9

So excited to be joining Missouri school librarians and these authors and illustrators at the MO School Librarians spring conference! Will you be there, too?

Everything begins with the sun
#Eclipse2024

Fun (and baking soda) ERUPTED Saturday at my launch for Sometimes I am Hot Lava at KD’s Books in Lee’s Summit! Thanks for coming out kids, adults, and best buddies ⁦Sue Lowell Gallion⁩ ⁦Ann Ingalls⁩. ❤️

Today at 10! See you soon!