Tanya Konerman, Kidlit Author 📚

Utah 🙂

Anna’s hummingbird
strikes a pose in the canyon
modeling good form

#haikusaturday #haiku #poetry #hummingbirds #utah #birding
Photo: ©️2026 Tanya Konerman

Exciting news! Thanks for sharing @weboflifebooks.bsky.social 📚
#finalist #indies #picturebooks

Wind, water—weighted,
weaving, winding through red rock—
carve windows through time

#haikusaturday #haiku #poetry #utah #nature
Photo: ©️Tanya Konerman 2026

Utah’s Bee Tree stands
hollow, buzzing; five hundred
years of tangled tales

#haikusaturday #haiku #poetry #utah #beetree #ponderosapine #history #bees #nature 📷🐝🌲
Photo ©️Tanya Konerman 2026

catching the sunrise
from above, soaring to new
Valentine’s Day heights

#haikusaturday #haiku #poetry #love #valentinesday ❤️

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My newest kidlit author newsletter focuses on nonfiction writing to help kids of all ages understand the ever-changing world around them and to discover how they themselves can help make changes for the better. Click through to read more! 📚🖋️🌎 tanyakonerman.wordpress.com/2026/02/

It's #ReadYourWorld Day and I'm happy to share a delightful book-part of a series-I was able to review. Click thru to find out more! #kidlit #toddlers #boardbooks #music #readingtime #multiculturalchildrensbookday #IDiscoverWorldMusic 📚🎶 @pirouettekidsbooks tanyakonerman.wordpress.com/2026/01/

It's #WorldEnvironmentalEducationDay, and #KidLitGrove's amazing #STEAM curriculum tie-ins for K-5 using Mud to the Rescue! meet #nextgenerationscience and #CommonCoreScience standards. Perfect for #teachers, #parents, and #homeschoolers! Check it out at link below. 🌎🐘🐾📓🔎 @weboflifebooks.bsky.social

The #NorthernFlickers love snowy days at my feeder, but aren’t always so great at sharing. 🪶❄️ #birds #addBirder #Indiana #outmywindow

Looking forward to this fantastic new #STEAM resource by @lindsayamoretti.bsky.social | KidLit Grove for #educators and #parents using Mud to the Rescue to explore #WorldEnvironmentDay on 1/26! @weboflifebooks.bsky.social #edusky #projectbasedlearning #kidlit #homeschool 📚🐘🌳🌎

Sinners was absolutely fantastic…in my top spot too!

This is such a hard industry! And as for the clearing-my-inbox editors right now: ouch! If it helps at all, I’m a big fan 😍

Oooh I’m loving this so much!

I'm so excited Mud to the Rescue! is on this list of Outstanding Science Trade Books by the National Science Teaching Association! What an honor! #nonfiction #STEM #kidlit 📚 #K12Reading #ScienceLiteracy @weboflifebooks.bsky.social @greatdoglit.bsky.social Full list at: www.nsta.org/outstanding-...

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After a busy year, it's time to refill my creative well. My Dec/Jan newsletter talks about why that's so important for creatives...click through to read more! 📚✍️
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Yes…I’m feeling particularly seen right now! 📚😍

Depends on my internal dialogue that day:
You have too many already: 1 📚
I’m an Adult it’s my $ (plus these are all for research anyway): 2-3 📚
At this rate the 🌎 is ending soon,
so might as well: 7-35 📚

Had a fantastic time in Cincinnati at #booksbythebanks Saturday signing Mud to the Rescue! and discussing writing for kids. I also got to share table space with the amazing @kimlongmg.bsky.social and Jessica Fries-Gaither! #kidlit #picturebooks 📚🥳 @weboflifebooks.bsky.social

Yes and we had a blast meeting kids and parents, talking and signing books, and discussing our fab friend Teresa! 🥳📚

Looking forward to Saturday’s #booksbythebanks in Cincinnati! I’ll be signing Mud to the Rescue! and joining other #kidlit authors on a panel about writing for kids. 📚 #books #bookfestival #STEM #weekend

Looking for the perfect gift this season? SCBWI BookStop has you covered! 🛍

Support SCBWI authors by checking out their books and purchasing them at scbwi.org/bookstop

I love when that happens…it’s the universe offering a gift at just the right time!

The Weekly 411 (10/31/25) A one-stop place for all your kid lit information needs.

Our weekly big list of kid lit links is up (Oct 31): kidlit411.com/2025/10/the-... Inside: Purpose of the Second Act, Free PB webinar, School Visit Primer, more. Thanks @mirandakramos.bsky.social for the illustration, @cindyschrauben.bsky.social & Scholastic for the giveaways.

Thank you so much! 😍

I am so excited…Mud to the Rescue! has won a silver EUREKA! HONOR BOOK AWARD! 🥳🎉🎊📚🐘

KY and Southern Indiana peeps! Tomorrow is the Louisville Book Festival…FREE/open to the public! I’m signing Mud to the Rescue! and will be on an author’s panel 10am-11am. #kidlit #louisvillebookfestival #mudtotherescue #picturebooks #reading #books #STEM #weboflifechildrensbooks #ingram

My publisher @weboflifebooks.bsky.social has just published this wonderful book by @juliehonanjohnston.bsky.social and @megsodano.bsky.social. It is beautiful and fun! Read my review to find out more: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
#nonfiction #nature #oceans #picturebooks 🐋🦈🐠

I was the guest blogger recently for kidlit author Alisha Gabriel, discussing Mud to the Rescue!...so fun! 🐘🦩🐊🐖📚 alishagabriel.com/interview-wi...