Travis Jonker

Predictions! New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Books 2025 Trying to predict the 2025 New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children's Books list.

These are just, like, my opinions, man. 100scopenotes.com/2025/10/07/p...

A sneak peek at part of the cover of Lucy’s annual Halloween minicomic, titled MICHY #4, the Lake Michigan monster in The SPOOKY SWITCHAROO.

This will be the fourth year I’ve made a MICHY minicomic to give out (along with candy) on Halloween! We’re not as great as “the caramel apple house,” but I’ll take “the comic house!”

Night Birding (3 of 6)

#drawing #penandink #ballpointpen #art #artist #artistsoninstagram #illustration #illustrator #illustratorsoninstagram #sketchbook

The undies and endies! #kidlit #kidlitart

Oooooo!

Two of my favorite awards are now open for nominations!

Nominate Your Favorites for the 2025 Undies and Endies Awards! The best (see: only) case cover and endpaper awards in children’s literature are back! That’s right, the 2025 Undies and Endies are officially up and running. It’s time to submit your favorite case co...

Nominations are now open for the 2025 Undies Case Cover Awards and Endies End Paper Awards! Anyone can nominate a book. Head here to get started: 100scopenotes.com/2025/10/01/n...

A STARRED review for the upcoming sequel to SIDEKICKS! Thank you, Kirkus Reviews ❤️

SIDEKICKS: THICK AS THIEVES coming Jan 6, 2026 from Scholastic and Graphix Books

YouTube video by Jerrold Connors BIG RHINOCEROS LITTLE RHINOCEROS BOOK TRAILER

It's time to celebrate BIG RHINOCEROS LITTLE RHINOCEROS out next week from Boxer Books! Starting with THE ALL NEW BOOK TRAILER!

🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶

🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈

#FollowTheRainbow

10 to Note: Fall Preview 2025 Don’t mind me, I’m just looking through 2148 books publishing in September, October, and November, and picking out the ten books I’m most looking forward to this fall. Picture Books A Snow Day for Amo...

Here are 10 books I'm excited about this fall. 100scopenotes.com/2025/09/29/1...

Here's a page from my book POETRY COMICS, out now in paperback from @chroniclekidsbooks.bsky.social!

My Kid Loves Dav Pilkey Books. What Should They Read Next?

Over at the New York Times, I share a group of books for all the Pilkey heads out there. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/b...

Coming in October!

2026 Newbery/Caldecott Fall Prediction Edition Our penultimate prediction post before final considerations. Here are the titles I think have the best show at the two major literary awards. Do you agree? Disagree? Find out!

Fall prediction time! Our penultimate prediction post before final considerations. Here are the titles I think have the best show at the two major literary awards. Do you agree? Disagree? Find out! #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2025/09/17/2...

Endangered Series #31: Allie Finkle’s Rules for Girls Should it stay or should it go? Let's discuss.

Should it stay or should it go? Endangered Series #31: Allie Finkle’s Rules for Girls 100scopenotes.com/2025/09/09/e...

A Steven Weinberg! A Q&A! A Cover Reveal! And a Special Secret Guest?!? We Discuss I Am the Mountain Is it too early to start calling Caldecott 2027 contenders? That's not an idle question since today we're talking to Steven Weinberg about a book that, honestly? You're going to need to see this thing...

Is it too early to start calling Caldecott 2027 contenders? That's not an idle question since today we're talking to Steven Weinberg about a book that, honestly? You're going to need to see this thing. #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2025/09/10/a...

TOWED BY TOAD turns ONE! What a wild ride this year has been

Celebrate TOWED BY TOAD’s first birthday by taking a peek behind-the-scenes!

jashar.substack.com/p/towed-by-t...

The book of our librarian dreams and we’re making it?! 👀

Rights Report: Week of September 1, 2025 New deals for Tiffany Wang, Clare Edge, Byron Graves, and others.

Announcing new deals for @tiffanyjwang.bsky.social @diterlizzi.bsky.social @carterhiggins.bsky.social @100scopenotes.bsky.social + more

Very excited to announce that @carterhiggins.bsky.social and I are making a book! She's writing the words, and I'm making the pictures: 100scopenotes.com/2025/09/05/s...

New books on the way from @stevenrowley.bsky.social @carterhiggins.bsky.social @100scopenotes.bsky.social @melindabeatty.bsky.social + more buff.ly/9sPHt6A

Thank You, Kathy An appreciation of SLJ legend Kathy Ishizuka.

Thanks, Kathy 100scopenotes.com/2025/08/21/t... @kishizuka.bsky.social

You're right!

Can you Guess the Guest? Find new episodes of Origin Stories with JJK wherever you get your pods—new episodes drop on Saturday mornings.

Here’s a hint about this Saturday’s guest: she hails from the Beehive State. 🤔

102 by Matthew Cordell

#Bookaday I added @cordellmatthew.bsky.social's 102 to my 2026 Books I Love presentation: www.pinterest.com/mrschureads/...

Teachers! Librarians! Start the school year off right - read CABOOSE with your students. It's a laugh-out-loud look the high-stakes world of . . . lining up. store.abramsbooks.com/products/cab...

Do You Remember These Lines From Five Popular Children’s Books? Lines from popular storybooks can stay with you long after you’ve read them. See how many you recognize in this short quiz.

Do You Remember These Lines From Five Popular Children’s Books? | New York Times

This is awesome! Thank you!!

Not a wave in sight. Liam tries waiting, implores seagulls to help, builds a sandcastle. But NOTHING disturbs this lake. Liam kicks a rock. An idea ripples. Travis Jonker’s Just One Wave makes a wonderful splash. A timeless story perfect for after-beach-before-nap reads.

#breakfastandabook