📢 Last Day for the Teacher Appreciation Giveaway
Teacher Appreciation Week Twitter Giveaway Ends 5/13
Click on the images above to head to Twitter for our Teacher Appreciation Week giveaway ending 5/13. Make sure to follow @Soaring20sPB and RT or comment on each tweet to be entered to win that book bundle. As a bonus, tag a teacher friend. Good luck!
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May 20th at 10 a.m. Central: CIRCLE TIME with Brad Montague, Shelley Johannes and You!, a giant virtual event for classrooms and families—to celebrate books, stories and kids! For more information and registration go here.
June 5th at 11 a.m. Eastern: Join Vicky Fang and illustrator Christine Nishiyama virtually for a Layla and the Bots Cupcake Fix launch event virtually through Cover to Cover Children’s Books. Sign up here.
June 9-Aug. 18: Dr. Jen Malia is teaching a 6-session children’s book writing workshop via Zoom for The Muse Writer’s Center. Sign up here.
June 12-13: Join Soaring ‘20s Kirsten W. Larson, Christina Soontornvat, and Candy Wellins plus a host of acclaimed authors, agents, and editors for the first-ever Nonfiction KidLit Confab at The Writing Barn. Details and registration here.
Soaring '20s in the news
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Valerie Bolling won the New England Regional Crystal Kite Award with LET’S DANCE. Congrats! Several Soaring ’20s books were finalists in their regions, including BEATRIX POTTER, SCIENTIST (Lindsay Metcalf), WOOD, WIRE, WINGS (Kirsten Larson), and DOZENS OF DOUGHNUTS (Carrie Finison).
Melanie Ellsworth did a Q&A about HIP, HIP...BERET! and CLARINET AND TRUMPET on Deborah Kalb's blog and was featured in the The Penobscot Bay Pilot. She and CLARINET AND TRUMPET illustrator John Herzog held a story time with Print: A Bookstore. Catch the recording here.
Isabella Kung is celebrating the release of two books, ABC CATS and 123 CATS. Here are here book launch post and her unboxing post. She appeared on Good Reads with Ronna and did a YouTube video about her art process for the ABC CATS cover.
Darshana Khiani and her daughter discussed growing up South Asian in America at 101 Chai Chats. Catch the convo here. Darshana also spoke at ILA on May 11th.
Julie Rowan-Zoch appeared on the Kidlit Distancing Social Episode 51: “The Delicate Dance Between Words & Images in Picture Books.” Catch the replay here. She also appeared on Speaking Volumes for I’M A HARE, SO THERE!, her author-illustrator debut.
DIGGING FOR WORDS (Angela Burke Kunkel) was included in the Association for Library Service to Children’s Dia Booklist for grades K-2. See the full list here. She and fellow author Anike Denise joined the Junior Library Guild for Celebrating the Power of Libraries. Catch the replay. She also did an event with Brookline Booksmith.
Rajani LaRocca’s read SEVEN GOLDEN RINGS for the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. The book also appeared in Chicago Parent’s “13 Books to Get Kids Excited About Math.” Her novel, RED, WHITE, AND WHOLE was included in The Horn Book’s “New for National Poetry Month 2021,” was named “Book of the Week” at the Cooperative Children's Book Center, was part of “80 Middle Grade Books in Verse in Celebration of National Poetry Month” on POP Goes the Reader!, appeared on First Chapter Friday, and in Publishers Weekly’s “Beyond Stereotypes: 2021 AAPI Books for Young Readers.” She held a book launch for BRACELETS FOR BINA’S BROTHERS at Books of Wonder. She also appeared on The Family Gamers Podcast and The Children’s Book Review: Growing Readers Podcast
NO VOICE TOO SMALL (Lindsay Metcalf) is a 2021 Elementary School Collection book club pick for the Book Love Foundation. Metcalf, along with co-editors Keila Dawson and Jeanette Bradley, will do an event for BookLove on July 8th. The book also appeared on Jena Benton’s Blog. Jama’s Alphabet Soup reviewed Lindsay’s BEATRIX POTTER, SCIENTIST, which won a Friends of American Writers Chicago Young People's Award, along with her book, FARMER’S UNITE. Lindsay appeared on The Primary Source Podcast discussing FARMER’S UNITE.
The Children’s Book Council’s included NO VOICE TOO SMALL (Lindsay Metcalf) on its Activism Booklist for Children’s Book Week and WOOD, WIRE, WINGS (Kirsten W. Larson) on its Science and Stem Booklist. Find all the lists and actives here.
Margaret Chiu Greanias (MAXIMILLIAN VILLAINOUS) appeared on KidLitCraft Blog’s Sidewriting takeover with “Ask why?”
Anna Crowley Redding’s CHOWDER RULES! earned Maine’s Lupine Honor Award. Kirkus Reviews called her next book, GRAVITY TREE, “ a sweet windfall of history and inspiration.”
Shelley Johannes (MORE THAN SUNNY) was interviewed on Jarrett Lerner’s Blog. Jarrett also co-hosted a book launch event for MORE THAN SUNNY at Literati Bookstore. Catch the adorable MORE THAN SUNNY book trailer here.
NBC Affiliate NECN feature LILLYBELLE (Joana Pastro) on its “Page Turner: These Books Will Make You Laugh, and That’s a Good Thing” segment.
DON’T HUG DOUG (Carrie Finison) was featured in The Boston Globe.
M.O. Yuksel’s IN MY MOSQUE received a starred review from Publishers Weekly and was included in Book Riot’s “7 Excellent Picture Books About EID.” And check out this book-related craft at the Jersey City Free Public Library.
It’s World Autism Month and SCBWI featured TOO STICKY! (Jen Malia) on its Autism Acceptance Book List. Book Riot interviewed Jen about disability representation in children’s books.
Vicky Fang did a LAYLA AND THE BOTS product design workshop for Mountain View Public Library. She did an INVENT-A-PET story time and LAYLA AND THE BOTS activity for Oregon’s STEM Week.
Kirsten W. Larson (WOOD, WIRE, WINGS) appeared on the STEM Women in KidLit Podcast hosted by Rajani LaRocca and Artemis Roehrig in an episode on NASA, Invention, and Embracing Opportunity.
Valerie Bolling appeared on Cynthia Leitich Smith’s blog “On the Creative Life & Writing That Moves.” She also appeared on the 12x12 blog discussing how she got her agent. She held story time with Silver Unicorn Books and hosted a conversation with author Amanda Davis and illustrator Sally Wern Comport for 30,000 STITCHES.
Rhode Island Latino Books month included THE TRUTH IS (NoNieqa Ramos) on its 2021 YA book list.
Hope Lim appeared on Beth Anderson’s “Mining for Heart” with her latest book, MY TREE.
Colleen Paeff’s THE GREAT STINK; How Joseph Bazalgette Solved London's Poop Pollution Problem, illus. Nancy Carpenter is a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection!
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