Little Libraries Big Heroes

What Little Free Library would be complete without a book ... about Little Free Libraries?! 🤗

Three Cheers for Kid McGear Book Signing!

Signing a few (thousand!!!) copies of THREE CHEERS FOR KID MCGEAR! for your local B&N. Debut day is coming soon: September 24th!

Win ALL THREE personalized book covers

“Three Cheers For Kid McGear” debuts in just THREE WEEKS! 🤗 Like this post and comment below by tagging a friend for a chance to win ALL THREE hardcover books, personalized! 🥰 My manager will select the winner at random on debut day, September 24th. Good luck!

Here and Now

A gorgeous, poetic book about being aware of our place in time and the beauty and possibilities of THIS moment. 🌎 On sale today.

Big Day of Signing

I signed and signed and signed. 📚 I loved seeing kids’ excitement about the new Kid McGear book, but I’m always equally honored to sign old, war-torn, well-loved copies of my other titles. ❤️📚 Thank you,

Smell My Foot

🐥 Cece Bell, the author/illustrator of the Newbery-honor winning graphic novel, “El Deafo,” had me in stitches during the #natbookfest presentation of her new “Chick and Brain” series — one of the funniest and most spirited early readers/chapter books I’ve ever seen. 🐥 Am I the only mom whose children have demanded that I smell their foot (or finger, or butt, or...?!) 🤷🏻‍♀️ I ordered this months ago when I first saw the cover, because, I mean: Come ON! 🐥🐥🐥 Debuts this week!

Exciting News!

Happy September! GOOD NEWS: Kid McGear is comings this month (on 9/24)! Add THREE CHEERS FOR KID MCGEAR to your Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site book collection. Go to BOOKS page to pre-order!

Such Wonderful Fans

They had me at “hello.” 😃 (The cool kidlit shirts didn’t hurt, either!)

National Book Festival a huge success!

I kid you not: this is the line to PURCHASE BOOKS at the National Book Festival. Attendance was supposedly around 200,000. 😮BUT, the line kept moving and no one was grumpy because: we’re getting NEW BOOKS, people! ❤️📚😊

So Fun

You know... just hangin’ out with a few friends. At the Library of Congress gala. Because, yep, that’s how I roll... 😳

National Book Festival 2019

Just pull up a chair at the Green Stage on Saturday, and plan to spend the day! 🤗 I’m so honored to be in such prestigious company. (And thanks to @sophieblackall for the photo!)

National Book Festival 2019

So, if you’re free on Saturday and happen to be in the D.C. area... Stop by! 😊📚

Super Fan

When you are TOTALLY into a good book...!

Pre-Order Now!

Preorder NOW; link in my bio. Debuts September 24th! 🚧 🏗

For all Bakers

Public Service Announcement: If you bake, you will LOVE these. 👩🏻‍🍳 Best. Idea. Ever.

So Beautiful!

Chinese Lantern Flowers from the garden. 🍁

Packing up...

Aaand... He’s off. ❤️

New Rose!

New rose for me this year. I L😍VE the stripes!

Extreme STEAM with The 12 Sleighs of Christmas

START DESIGNING THOSE SLEIGHS! 🔴 Extreme STEAM is a global ART + ENGINEERING + SERVICE LEARNING challenge for which PreK-12 grade classrooms design and construct a reimagined sleigh for Santa, inspired by today's modern technology and innovation. 🔴 We're ready to see how EXTREME your students' STEAM creativity can be! 🔴 REGISTRATION OPEN from August 19 - October 4, 2019

Fond Memories

Posting some fond memories of some time spent in Philly with Charlie Santore, along with @judyschachner and @thelorenlong