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August 9, 2025
Dollar-for-dollar grant funding available for my Texas author visits in winter and spring 2026
As a Texas Commission on the Arts (TCA) Texas Touring Roster artist, I have some timely info that might be of value to you or a school, library, or nonprofit organization you know: There's a November 1 deadline for applying for Arts Respond Performance Support grant funding for an author visit from me in winter [...]
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August 4, 2025
Coming from me in early 2027: Not Today, Blue Jay
From Publishers Weekly a couple of weeks ago (right as I was getting ready for a two-part trip to Chicago and the Adirondack Mountains, hence my delay in sharing this news): "Rebecca Davis while at Astra Young Readers has acquired world rights for Not Today, Blue Jay by Chris Barton (l.) (Shark vs. Train), illustrated [...]
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August 2025 giveaway: Win 1 of 4 copies of We Match! signed by me and illustrator Sharon Glick!
I'll be hitting the road this month for Bozeman, Montana, which is not only the home of We Match! illustrator Sharon Glick and the place we first met at a children's literature festival in November 2021, but also the inspiration for the name (and birthday) of one of the characters in our book: If you [...]
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July 20, 2025
Want to celebrate my 25th book at Austin’s BookPeople on 8/10? Well, WE MATCH!
This past Tuesday saw the publication of We Match! -- my 25th book for young readers -- which was illustrated by Sharon Glick and published by Astra Young Readers. It's been 16 years since I celebrated the launch of my first book, The Day-Glo Brothers, at BookPeople in my home city of Austin, Texas. So I'm [...]
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July 8, 2025
1 We Match! giveaway, 4 events & as many trading cards as you can print
We Match! -- written by me, illustrated by Sharon Glick, and published by Astra Young Readers -- comes out one week from today. It's my 25th book, and one of the ones that has taken me the longest, as this slide from my new school-visit presentations shows: I'm in a celebratory mood, and I hope [...]
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July 7, 2025
Mango, Lucille Snowball, and a book that’s “both a delight to read and a sight to behold”
Texas may be known for its illustrious literary figures like McCarthy and McMurtry, but the state is home to acclaimed children’s book authors as well, including Chris Barton. The Austin-based writer is known for works like Shark vs. Train, and his newest title is both a delight to read and a sight to behold with [...]
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July 3, 2025
Armando, Scurry, and “a fetching reminder to look for what brings us together”
Visitors to a dog park find common ground, even though they don't look the same — or even belong to the same species. Actually, Armando and Scurry — a border collie and a border collie mix, respectively — do resemble one another (“I mean,” says one, “we totally match.” “Yup. You said it”), but that’s [...]
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June 22, 2025
Chris Barton? Chris Baron? Join us both on July 15!
Middle grade author Chris Baron (All of Me, The Magical Imperfect, The Gray) and I know which of us is which, but sometimes we feel like the only ones. For a while now, we've been collecting and sharing stories of folks getting us mixed up. So when we learned that our new books -- his [...]
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June 14, 2025
My message to booksellers: “You’re not alone: We all match!”
Want more information about We Match! (coming July 15 from Astra Young Readers, with illustrations by Sharon Glick)? Here you go.
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June 8, 2025
Download the discussion guide for We Match!
We're still a month and a week away from the publication of my 25th book, We Match! -- but there's already a discussion guide available. The discussion guide has lots of great questions for getting conversations going, and these are some of my favorites: Before reading We Match! study the characters on the front and [...]
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