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Cover for Becoming Boba. Cute colorful, personified milk tea with big eyes and a straw in a village setting.

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Becoming Boba
Joanna Ho & Amber Ren
@joannahowrites.bsky.social
@amberren.bsky.social

Look at that cute Boba! A story with something for kids (and adult) at every level. Learn about milk tea, accepting differences, or just enjoy the art!

Cover for In the World of Whales. Shows two whales pushing a baby sperm whale to the surface and a free diver watching from beside them.

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In the World of Whales
Michelle Cusolito & Jessica Lanan
@mcusolito.bsky.social
@jessicalanan.bsky.social

Here were my notes: "Gorgeous. Lyrical and touching. Quiet book about birth of sperm whale and a free diver. Well done."

I feel like 80% of my time is spent making food. 🙄

Cover for The Marvelous Now. small cartoon kid with a sparkly blue creature on it's head. Background filled with flowers and colors.

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The Marvelous Now
Angela DiTerlizzi & Lorena Alvarez Gomez

What amazing, vivid, colorful images. I love stories that l focus on mindfulness and grounding.

Picture Book Connect: Let's Polish Up Your Manuscript! Bring those first 250 words of your picture book manuscript to share. Feel free to drop by to meet SCBWI picture book writers.
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Cover for Patchwork. Shows a small girl and a patchwork of colors floating from her heart.

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Patchwork
Matt De La Pena & Corinna Luyken
@corinnaluyken.bsky.social

Here are my notes from this one: "We are a multitude, not defined by any one thing. Lovely lyrical language. Powerful."
Yup.

A mark of an awesome PB text is that @dansantat.bsky.social is the illustrator 😜

Cover for The Great Santa Stakeout showing kid in a red santa hat looking at a snow globe of santa

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The Great Santa Stakeout
Betsy Bird & Dan Santat
@fuse8.bsky.social
@dansantat.bsky.social

I should probably wait until Dec to share this, but fun, kid-friendly books don't have a specific "season". My family loved this.

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I need a list of debut #picturebooks out in the past 5 years. Shoot me your favorite titles to grab!

I'm doing an exercise during a writing retreat and want to focus on debut texts.

Thank you in advance!

Cover for A little Bit of Everything

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A Little Bit of Everything
Meghana Narayan & Michelle Carlos
@michellecarlos.bsky.social

The art in this is outstanding! Checkout out this gorgeous book!

Cover for Nellie's Big Splash. shows little sea turtle on a beach with a big wave about to crash down.

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Nellie's Big Splash
Cori Doerrfeld

Look at this adorable little sea turtle! Great story about overcoming fears. As always, the art is *chef's kiss*

Cover for The Problem with Problems, bright splotches representing problems dot the cover.

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The Problem with Problems
Rachel Rooney & Zehra Hicks

Well done. Kid friendly approach to problems - both big and small.

Agreed. I totally cracked up. Makes me want to try an unreliable narrator story.

Cover for In The Neighborhood. shows a bunch of small houses and a giant flying overhead

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In the Neighborhood
Rocio Bonilla

Read this beauty for the community building, for the tearing down of the assumptions about others. We all need a little neighborhood these days.

It's here! Laken Slate's debut picture book envisioning a whale fall as a haunted house for fish! Illustrated by Bindy James, published by Charlesbridge @seymouragency.bsky.social @charlesbridge.bsky.social

Cover for Don't Trust Fish shows the words in large blue with skeptical looking fish.

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Don't Trust Fish
Neil Sharpson & Dan Santat
@unshavedmouse.bsky.social
@dansantat.bsky.social

Get this book. The facts are awesome. Or maybe not. You can't trust the narrator 😉
I was here for all of it.
You'll laugh & so will the kids.

Oooooo!

You can often put in requests at your library. At mine there's a place on the website to suggest a book or I've e-mailed the librarian.

Right! Me too! I'm so glad another generation will have it too.

Yasss!

Always. I love sharing my favorite books. I was so thrilled to learn that we are both repped by @joycekay.bsky.social too!

Cover for Forts shows a treetop scene with a small blue tree house and a little girl with a white cat sitting in the door to the fort.

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Forts
Katie Venit & Kenard Pak
@katievenit.bsky.social
@kenardpak.bsky.social

This is a story I wish I wrote. Lyrical. Gorgeous. My little talked about all the forts we have around the house now and have had in the past. So lovely.

I'm so happy about this! #kidlit

100% Glad you pushed onwards! And I can't wait to read your new release, Cat Nap!!

Cover for Nearly Exactly Almost Like Me, shows two brown boys eating ice cream together

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Nearly Exactly Almost Like Me
Jennifer Bradbury & Pearl AuYeung

My family loved this story. As my kids are always comparing each other, and this took an adoption twist. There is so much heart in these pages.

Should I Query Yet? A Brutally Honest Checklist for Writers on the Fence So you’ve got a draft.

Querying too soon = like entering a baking contest with raw dough. You’ll leave with a mess and a sudden desire to throw your laptop into a lake. I wrote the checklist you actually need 👉 buff.ly/uBvGZMt

Submitting Your Work: Digital Portfolios and Dummies for Illustrators and Author/Illustrators.
Bring your digital portfolio or dummy to share. Hosted by Kate Woodle, published illustrator, PAL member, and Illustrator Connect Facilitator.
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Cover for I'm going to Make a Friend, show kid carrying a box filled with stuff

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I'm Going to Make A Friend
Darren Chetty & Sandhya Prabhat
@darrenchetty.bsky.social

Plays on the word "make" in a clever and kid-friendly way. Very cute. I can see this story being useful every year at the start of school. PIck it up!

Cover for the Sad Little Fact showing a blue circle with eyes being rained upon

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The Sad Little Fact
Jonah Winter & Pete Oswald

More than ever, books like this are crucial. A little older (outside "comp-ing" age) but ever so important. Check this out if you haven't read it.

Absolutely!