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Ernie vs. author shamelessness

Who will win? It’s remarkable to me that, as uneasy as Ernie appears in his promotional role in the first photo, he somehow seems even less comfortable with it in the second one. Not me, though. I’m an old hand at this, and I could not be more enthusiastic about sharing with the world Fire […]

Celebrating Constitution Day with What Do You Do with a Voice Like That?

Something terrific happened across the Houston area on Tuesday: And then I saw the sign-up page nearly completely filled with volunteers! Wow!!! Thank you to everyone in @thehba — and to anyone else who reads WHAT DO YOU DO WITH A VOICE LIKE THAT? right along with them next Tuesday. pic.twitter.com/ROVWxKddou — Chris Barton (@Bartography) […]

How to Diversify Your Kidlit-Related Lists flowchart (for attendees of the Bill Martin Jr. Symposium)

Greetings to those of you attending my Saturday-morning keynote at Texas A&M University–Commerce’s Bill Martin Jr. Symposium. Near the end of that talk, I mention this How to Diversify Your Kidlit-Related Lists flowchart, so I’d like to also extend this greeting to anyone else interested in making use of this tool. You can read here […]

“I told my editor, ‘I want to write a Pakistani American version of Little Women, but Beth can’t die and Jo can’t marry the old guy.’” (2-question Q&A and giveaway for September 2019)

Welcome to the Q&A and giveaway for the September edition of my Bartography Express newsletter, which you can read here and sign up for here. This month my Q&A is with Maryland author Hena Khan, whose new middle-grade novel, More to the Story, was inspired by Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. More to the Story […]

“I told my editor, ‘I want to write a Pakistani American version of Little Women, but Amy can’t die and Jo can’t marry the old guy.’” (2-question Q&A and giveaway for September 2019)

Welcome to the Q&A and giveaway for the September edition of my Bartography Express newsletter, which you can sign up for here. This month my Q&A is with Maryland author Hena Khan, whose new middle-grade novel, More to the Story, was inspired by Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. More to the Story is published by […]

Literacy in Action: next Saturday’s Bill Martin Jr. Symposium in Mesquite, TX

Dallas area literacy educators: The Bill Martin Jr Symposium is back! Attend in Mesquite on 9/14 and earn 3 CEUs. There are a variety of sessions planned & award winning author @Bartography Chris Barton will be the Keynote Speaker. Register at: https://t.co/lXRG2nWA7F today! pic.twitter.com/U1KQJFM8YZ — TX Assoc for Lit. Ed (@TXLiteracyEd) September 1, 2019

All the college kidlit conferences (as of August 2019)

Or, more formally, “A Comprehensive List of U.S. College- and University-Sponsored or -Hosted Children’s and Young Adult Literature Conferences, Festivals, and Symposia.” (All of them that I could find, anyway). Several years ago, I was looking for such a list, wondered why I couldn’t find one, and decided to just go ahead and make one […]

Knowing where I’m going, and who was there before

I’ve added a new step to the planning I do for my school visits and appearances at conferences and festivals: using the map tool from Native Land Digital to learn about the Indigenous histories of the places I go and current information about the nations represented. So, for instance, over the summer I appeared at […]

What Do You Do with a Voice Like That? is the 2019 Texas Great Read!

I’ve got some pretty exciting news — Texas-sized news, if you ask me. What Do You Do with a Voice Like That? The Story of Extraordinary Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, written by me and illustrated by Ekua Holmes, has been named the 2019 Texas Great Read. This is a program of the Texas Center for the […]

Introducing Fire Truck vs. Dragon

I’d like you to meet Fire Truck and Dragon! I’m happy as can be to offer this first look at the cover of Fire Truck vs. Dragon, written by me and marvelously illustrated by Shanda McCloskey. (Shanda is also the author-illustrator of last year’s delightful Doll-E 1.0 and the soon-to-be-published T-Bone the Drone.) Fire Truck […]