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Stay tuned...Teacher Appreciation Week Twitter Giveaway
The Soaring '20s will host a book bundle giveaway May 3-7 in honor of Teacher Appreciation Week. Make sure to follow @Soaring20sPB on Twitter and look for our giveaway Tweet starting May 3rd. Then follow the instructions to follow/retweet/comment for your chance to win. Good luck!
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Soaring '20s creators are not afraid to tap into their silly sides. Several members pitched in to celebrate the launch of YOUR MAMA by NoNieqa Ramos, illustrated by Jacqueline Alcàntara.
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April 17: Soaring '20s are on two panels for the National Science Teachers Association Engage 2021 Spring Conference:
Session ID #33293: Integrating Hands-On STEM and Literacy Through Picture Books (Kirsten Larson (Author), Vicky Fang (Product Designer and Author-Illustrator), Jen Malia (Norfolk State University), Candy Wellins (Author), Colleen Paeff (Author), Lindsay Metcalf (Author))
Session ID #33343: Taking Flight with NASA Aeronautics and Literature (April Lanotte, NASA Headquarters, Lisa Wininger, West Shore Educational Service District, Kirsten W. Larson, author)
April 17: Dr. Jen Malia (TOO STICKY!) will teach “From Logline to Draft: Writing Children’s Picture Books,” for the Hampton Roads Writers Traveling Pen Series (virtual). Learn more and sign up here.
April 17: Candy Wellins (THE STARS BECKONED) will present at Books of Wonder as part of a “Great Picture Book Biographies” panel at 3 p.m. EDT. Learn more and register here.
April 18-19 – Missouri Association of School Librarians Spring 2021 conference, featuring "Sharing STEAM Stories: Storytime and Beyond," April 18, 4 p.m. Central with Kirsten W. Larson, Lindsay Metcalf, Jen Malia, Vicky Fang, and Rajani LaRocca. "Practicing Perseverance with Picture Book Biographies," April 19 at 8 a.m. Central with Saira Mir, Lindsay H. Metcalf, Candy Wellins, and Kirsten W. Larson. And the on-demand session, "Empowering and Enriching Learning Communities through Cultural Appreciation, Not Cultural Appropriation with Valerie Bolling, NoNieqa Ramos, Rajani Narasimhan LaRocca, and Munevver Mindy Yuksel.
April 18: Virtual Ramadan Story Time with M.O. Yuksel, Hatem Aly, and Rahim Snow from Little Shop of Stories at 11 a.m. Pacific.
April 22: Carrie Finison (DON’T HUG DOUG) and Katey Howes will appear at This Is a Bookstore (virtual) at 3:30 p.m. PDT. Learn more and register here.
April 22: Vicky Fang has a virtual library program via the Mountain View Public Library, "STEAM with Product Designer and Author Vicky Fang: Amusement Park for Dogs."
April 22-24: Texas Library Association Annual Conference featuring Candy Wellins (THE STARS BECKONED) will present “The Hopes and Dreams of Texas” on April 23. Also on April 23rd, Kirsten W. Larson and Lindsay H. Metcalf will appear in the Boyds Mills & Kane booth for the conference. And from 4-5 PM CDT Rajani LaRocca will be on the panel: “This is my story: #ownvoices for Children.” April 24, 11:15-12:15 PM CDT she will appear on the panel, “Bridging Two Worlds: Children of Immigrants in Middle Grade Fiction” Learn more and register here.
April 24: Valerie Bolling teaches Tension is Good...In a Story! at Westport Writers Workshop. Learn about this class, and all Valerie's courses, here.
April 27: Angela Burke Kunkel will showcase DIGGING FOR WORDS at the Booksmith Picture Book Club at 4 p.m. Eastern.
April 29: IN MY MOSQUE book event at 2 p.m. with author M.O Yuksel and illustrator Hatem Aly at IdeaExchange.
May 5: Author Melanie Ellsworth and illustrator John Herzog will host a CLARINET AND TRUMPET event at Print: A Bookstore in Portland, Maine, from 6:30-7:30 p.m. Eastern.
May 8: Kirsten Larson (WOOD, WIRE, WINGS) will teach “Noodling with Nonfiction Text Structures” at the Writing Barn at 10 a.m. CDR. Only $25. Sign up here.
May 8-16 Vicky Fang will appear at Oregon STEM Week, including an Invent-a-Pet reading and Layla & The Bots activity
Soaring '20s in the news
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Kirkus Reviews called Shelley Johannes’s MORE THAN SUNNY, “A bouncy and buoyant take on the changing seasons.” Find the full review here.
Melanie Ellsworth has been everywhere celebrating the launches of HIP, HIP…BERET! and CLARINET AND TRUMPET (illustrated by fellow Soarer John Herzong). HIP, HIP...BERET! was reviewed on Imagination Soup along with Joana Pastro's LILLYBELLE. CLARINET AND TRUMPET was featured on Writing and Illustrating,Vivian Kirkfield's blog, and GoodReads with Ronna (interviewed by Soarer Colleen Paeff).
NoNieqa Ramos (YOUR MAMA) wrote Marginalized People Are Taught to Be Embarrassed by Our Mothers for We Need Diverse Books. The BeLatina blog spotlighted the book in "Spanglish Book, 'Your Mama,' Pays Homage to Latinx Moms Everywhere." The book has earned three starred reviews. Don't miss it!
Valerie Bolling had an essay published on the NCTE blog called, Poetry Is the Light: Children Need to Let Their Words Shine. And, she celebrated the one-year birthday of LET’S DANCE with a huge dance party.
Julie Rowan Zoch appeared in Publisher’s Week’s @PWPics for her I’M A HARE, SO THERE! book signing. She’s also promoted her newest title on Writers Rumpus, Susanna Hill’s Tuesday Debuts, GoodReads with Ronna (interview by Colleen Paeff), Vivian Kirkfield’s blog, and Laura Roettiger Books.
Larissa Marantz (CLYDE THE HIPPO series) blogged about Creating Color Scripts for your Graphic Novel.
The Horn Book gave Susan Kusel’s THE PASSOVER GUEST a lovely review. Read it here.
Angela Kunkel’s RESCATANDO PALABRAS was named to the 2021-2022 Tejas Star Reading List. The English version, DIGGING FOR WORDS, is on Carter Higgins’ Undies Case Cover Awards list along with Julie Rowan-Zoch’s I’M A HARE, SO THERE!
Hope Lim appeared on Beth Anderson’s Mining For Heart. Hope’s MY TREE and Christina Soontornvat’s ALL THIRTEEN were both featured in Parents Magazine’s 15 Asian American Children's Books to Read As a Family Right Now.
Jen Malia’s TOO STICKY! was featured on Romper’s 20 Children’s Books To Read On World Autism Awareness Day and PBS SoCal’s From Awareness to Acceptance: 10 Children's Books that Accurately Portray What It Is To Be Autistic, TeachingBooks.net's 15 Books to Read for Autism Acceptance Month, Not an Autism Mom’s Autism-Positive Books for Teachers to Read During April, A Mighty Girl’s A Different Way of Thinking: 30 Books About Autistic Mighty Girls, as well as The Virginian-Pilot. Jen had a Facebook Live event with the Lincoln Park Public Library and did a faculty reading at the William Carroll Writers Festival at Norfolk State University. Her essays recently appeared in HealthyWomen and The New York Times.
Vicky Fang Did an INVENT-A-PET writing activity at Nerdcamp Jr for Washington State along with Kjersten Hayes (AN ELEPHANT’S GUIDE TO HIDE-AND-SEEK). Vicky’s I CAN CODE was featured in PopSugar’s These 15 Coding Books Might Spark the Inner Programmer in Your Kid. She also was featured on #bookbreak with Pam Allyn.
Rajani LaRocca is promoting her newest titles, especially her middle grade RED, WHITE, AND WHOLE. Find her on the Kidlit Craft Blog, Nerdy Book Club Live with Colby Sharp, Story Monsters Ink, KidLit Takeaways, Solve It Podcast for Kids, WonderCon@Home, Detoxing from Life DT Talks podcast, Reading With Your Kids Podcast, and SLJ’s Eleven Diverse Audiobooks in Verse. Plus her next middle grade, MUCH ADO ABOUT BASEBALL got a Kirkus Starred Review.
Read Joana Pastro’s (LILLYBELLE) “kerplunked into onomatopoeia” ReFoReMo post, which included Kirsten W. Larson’s WOOD, WIRE, WINGS.
Mindy Yuksel (writing as M. O. Yuksel) appeared on Inky Girl to discuss IN MY MOSQUE.
Lindsay H. Metcalf participated in the Texas Council of Teachers of English Language Arts Advocacy Day, speaking about NO VOICE TOO SMALL during their webinar, "Challenge Accepted: Advocating for the Classroom. The Los Angeles County Library hosted a book talk for NO VOICE TOO SMALL.
Candy Wellins’s SATURDAYS ARE FOR STELLA was featured on Storytime at the Met.
Anna Crowley Redding (@authoranna), Rajani LaRocca (@rlarocca) and Lindsay H. Metcalf (@lindsayhmetcalf) have started a couple clubs on the Clubhouse app where they host regular chats, including Write Talk 4 Kidlit and Write Kids&YA Nonfiction.
Colleen Paeff (THE GREAT STINK) appeared on Beth Anderson's blog.
Kirsten W. Larson (WOOD, WIRE, WINGS) answered a “Quick Question with Author Kirsten W. Larson,” for the Oroville (WA) Library where she recommended several women in STEM book titles for all ages.
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