Spring into Fall with New Soaring '20s Titles🍁

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Today we’re taking a look at new and recently released picture books from our friends Colleen Paeff, Kirsten Larson, Candy Wellins, Darshana Khiani, and NoNieqa Ramos! Read more here on the Kidlit.tv site. 

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Join us for these events

• Sept. 14, 2 p.m. Eastern: Kirsten W. Larson and illustrator Katherine Roy will speak at the Project PHaEDRA Fall Author Series, Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University & The Smithsonian, John G. Wolbach Library. Open to the public via Zoom. Please go here to register.

• Sept. 18: Lindsay Metcalf is presenting "Picture Books that Empower Kids" the Kansas Book Festival, where she’ll also accept my Kansas Notable Book award for FARMERS UNITE. Watch the Livestream here.

• Sept. 18, 11 a.m. Eastern - Rajani Narasimhan LaRocca, Anna Crowley Redding, and Melanie Ellsworth are participating in the Bath Book Bash in Bath, Maine, and will be part of a "Spotlight on Picture Books.” Learn more here.

• Oct 2: Valerie Bolling will be one of the authors at the Chappaqua Children's Book Festival.   

• October 4-November 8, 7-9 p.m. Central - RETHINKING YOUR NONFICTION PICTURE BOOK: A Revision Workshop with Kirsten Larson (A TRUE WONDER) through The Writing Barn. Learn more about this six-week course and register here.

• Oct. 5, 5 p.m. Pacific - Join Kirsten W. Larson and Katy Wu for the launch of A TRUE WONDER: The Comic Book Hero Who Changed Everything through Once Upon a Time Books. Register for this free, virtual event here.

• Oct. 6 – Dec 15 7-9:30 pm ET - Jen Malia is teaching “Writing Children’s Books” for The Muse Writers Center. Register here.

• Dec. 12, 2 p.m. Central- Jen Malia will teach “Writing Neurodivergent Characters with Sensitivity” through The Writing Barn online. Learn more and sign up here.

Soaring '20s in the news 

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• Several Soaring 20s titles made the Bank Street College of Education’s Best Children’s Books of the Year List (2021). They are: A WISH IN THE DARK (Christina Soontornvat), ISAIAH DUNN IS MY HERO (Kelly J. Baptist), WOOD, WIRE, WINGS (Kirsten W. Larson), DIGGING FOR WORDS (Angela Burke Kunkel), RESCUING THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE (Anna Crowley Redding), FARMERS UNITE (Lindsay H. Metcalf), NO VOICE TO SMALL (Lindsday H. Metcalf), and LOUIS (Julie Rowan-Zoch). Find the full list here.  Both FARMERS UNITE and A WISH IN THE DARK received stars for outstanding merit.

• ALL THIRTEEN (Christina Soontornvat) and YOUR MAMA (NoNieqa Ramos) have been nominated for the Kirkus Prize. Meet all the finalists here.

• WHEREVER I GO (Mary Wagley Copp) was a finalist for the Julia Howe Award given by the Boston Authors Club.

• LOUIS (Julie Rowan-Zoch) and DOZENS OF DOUGHNUTS (Carrie Finison) are nominated for a 2022 Redbud Read-Aloud prize. 

• AMAH FARAWAY (Margaret Chiu Greanias) is a Junior Library Guild selection. 

• LET’S DANCE! (Valerie Bolling) is a finalist for the 2021 Connecticut Book Awards. Congratulations! Winners will be announced on October 22.

• Abi Cushman (ANIMALS GO VROOM!) had two guest posts this month, “The Best Children’s Books About Transportation” (Pragmatic Mom) and “Ten Ways to Make Storytimes Interactive” (Nerdy Book Club). Booklist said of the book, “Cushman’s appealing, digitally colored pencil drawings offer plenty of action, details, and dressed-animal characters for kids to enjoy. Fun for reading aloud.” The book also was featured on a Storybook Trail in Niantic, CT.

• NO VOICE TO SMALL (Lindsay Metcalf) received ILA’s Social Justice Literature Award.

• Catch the replay of THE GREAT STINK virtual launch party (Colleen Paeff) hosted by Once Upon a Time is available of Facebook.  The book received a starred review from Shelf Awareness. And, don’t miss this interview on Good Reads with Ronna.

• Several Soaring 20’s books were featured in Publisher’s Weekly’s 2020–2022 STEM/STEAM Biographies for Young Readers: A Booklist: QUEEN OF LEAVES (Stephen Briseño), THE GREAT STINK (Colleen Paeff), and WOOD, WIRE, WINGS (Kirsten W. Larson). Find the full book list here.

• DIGGING FOR WORDS is an International Latino Book Award Finalist, a Donna Norvell Book Award nominee (Oklahoma libraries), and a Bank Street Best Children's Book of 2021.

• Angela Burke Kunkel was on a panel for the End Book Deserts Conference.

• Mindy Yuksel was a panelist for The Writing Barn’s “Connecting Our Past To The Present Through Art and Writing: Honoring, Remembering, and Teaching about 9/11.” Watch the replay here.

• Several Soaring 20s books appeared on New York Public Library’s 2021 Summer Book List. They include IN MY MOSQUE (M. O. Yuksel), THE ELECTRIC SLIDE AND KAI (Kelly J. Baptist), and ANCESTOR APPROVED (Kim Rogers). Find the full list here.

• Rajani LaRocca appeared on the MG Book Party Podcast, the DIY MFA Podcast, and the STEMelanated Podcast. Her latest middle grade, MUCH ADO ABOUT BASEBALL was reviewed in the New York Times. This month Rajani also celebrated the book birthday of WHERE THREE OCEANS MEET and MY LITTLE GOLDEN BOOK ABOUT KAMALA HARRIS. And she was interviewed on Good Reads with Ronna.

• TOO STICKY! is on That Au-Some Book Club’s list of 100-ish Inclusive Children’s Books on Autism and Neurodiversity. The book also is a part of is part of the #SensoryStories campaign to raise awareness about sensory differences, “#SensoryStories: 10+ Kids Books About Sensory Differences.”

• Valerie Bolling will be the Grand Marshall at the Pudd’nhead Festival at the Mark Twain Library in Redding, CT on September 25.  Learn more here.

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