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November 29, 2022
Get Worser and Moving Forward signed at the Humanities Texas Holiday Book Fair!
Jennifer and I and 21 other Texas authors are participating in this year's Humanities Texas Holiday Book Fair on Saturday, December 10, in downtown Austin -- we hope you'll come say hello and support Texas libraries with your 'tis-the-season shopping! The other participating authors -- for readers of all ages -- include Teresa Palomo Acosta, [...]
November 22, 2022
Moving Forward is an SLJ Best Book of 2022!
There's a brand-new thing for me to be thankful for as we head into the holiday: Moving Forward: From Space-Age Rides to Civil Rights Sit-Ins with Airman Alton Yates (Beach Lane Books/Simon & Schuster) has been named by School Library Journal as one of the Best Books of 2022! You can see the full list [...]
November 17, 2022
17 “This One’s Dedicated to…” guests at NCTE 2022!
In addition to My Favorite Author in the Whole Wide World and me, a whopping SEVENTEEN past guests of "This One's Dedicated to..." will be at this week's 2022 convention of the National Council of Teachers of English -- Dashka Slater Debbi Michiko Florence Don Tate Emma Otheguy Karina Yan Glaser Kate Messner Kekla Magoon [...]
November 15, 2022
This One’s Dedicated to… (#48): Rajani LaRocca, The Secret Code Inside You
Welcome to the 48th episode of "This One's Dedicated to...," recorded live and in person at the 2022 Chappaqua Children's Book Festival! In this episode, Jennifer Ziegler and I share our quick conversation with author (and physician!) Rajani LaRocca about the dedication she wrote for her nonfiction picture book The Secret Code Inside You: All [...]
February 18, 2020
A close-up look at the illustrations for All of a Sudden and Forever
My new nonfiction book All of A Sudden and Forever: Help and Healing After the Oklahoma City Bombing (published by Carolrhoda Books/Lerner Publishing) is the picture book debut of illustrator Nicole Xu. As you can see just from the excerpt above, from the book’s final full-page illustration (two pages, actually), Nicole did marvelous work. If […]
February 9, 2020
Over at Cynsations, talking about writing stories that heal
On Cynthia Leitich Smith’s Cynsations blog — an essential resource for those who care about contemporary children’s literature — intern Gayleen Rabakukk has interviewed me about my process in creating my new picture book All of a Sudden and Forever: Help and Healing After the Oklahoma City Bombing. From Gayleen’s introduction: In February 2001, when […]
February 7, 2020
Recommended Black books at CrazyQuiltEdi
As part of Black History Month, librarian and literacy activist Edith Campbell has asked non-Black members of the children’s literature community to recommend five to ten books written or illustrated by Black people. When Edi invited me to suggest some titles, Eighth-Grade Superzero by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich was one of the first that came to mind, […]
February 4, 2020
“Like all the best picture books, this one works on multiple levels, and it deserves remembrance as well.”
Today brings the official release of my newest book, All of a Sudden and Forever: Help and Healing After the Oklahoma City Bombing, illustrated by Nicole Xu and published by Carolrhoda Books/Lerner Publishing. It’s my 19th book, and though I’ve written about some topics that may have once seemed unlikely subjects for picture books (daylight […]
February 3, 2020
“We’ve been making stuff together for so long that it’s almost like one person is doing all the work — one person with two heads, four eyes, and four hands.” (2-question Q&A and giveaway for February 2020)
Welcome to the Q&A and giveaway for the February 2020 edition of my Bartography Express newsletter, which you can read here and sign up for here. My two-question Q&A this month is with Austin-based brothers Jarrett Pumphrey and Jerome Pumphrey, whose new picture book, The Old Truck, was published last month by Norton Young Readers. […]
January 31, 2020
Rise: A Feminist Book Project honors What Do You Do with a Voice Like That?
This was unexpected, and something that I’m immeasurably proud of: During this past week’s American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting, my book What Do You Do with a Voice Like That? The Story of Extraordinary Congresswoman Barbara Jordan was named a 2020 Top Ten book by the Rise: A Feminist Book Project for Ages 0-18 […]
