Happy September, everyone! Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com I hope you're doing well. It's been a busy start of the school year, but lots of fun, too. We just got our state testing data and my students were #1 in our county, so I'm happily celebrating that incredible achievement in my teaching. And if you … Continue reading Update: Fall Writing Frenzy and Queries
#KidlitZombieWeek 2025, Day 2
#KidlitZombieWeek 2025, Day 2
#KidlitZombieWeek 2025, Day 1
The spring fling kidlit contest is officially open to submit your entry!
Official entry form for 2023's Fall Writing Frenzy!
Dear Kidlit and Fall Writing Frenzy friends, With ONE MORE DAY until the entry form for the 2023 #FallWritingFrenzy is open, we have a HUGE surprise in store! For all of you amazing rhymers, we have a treat better than a Halloween bag full of candy because the one, the only, the Queen of Rhyme … Continue reading Fall Writing Frenzy SURPRISE Prize Donor
Dear Kidlit Community, Now that it's officially fall, it's the time you've all been waiting for! The official announcement of all of the wonderful, generous, AMAZING prize donors for the Kidlit Fall Writing Frenzy 2023! Please share this post and share on social media how you're supporting our generous donors for their donation and tag … Continue reading 2023 Fall Writing Frenzy PRIZE Donors!
Dear Kidlit Community, With two weeks left to get your Fall Writing Frenzy pieces all set to submit, I'm over-the-moon delighted to share about our donors and guest judges! To start off, we are beyond lucky to have my best agent friend, the wonderful: Ameerah Holliday as our first guest judge! Annnd, since we don't … Continue reading 2023 Fall Writing Frenzy Guest Judges!
Dear Kidlit Community, After last year’s successful 4th edition, the Fall Writing Frenzy contest is back! (Unfortunately, as some of you already know, we’ll be without our wonderful co-host, Lydia Lukidis, this year, but we still have a great event in store for you!) A bit about the Fall Writing Frenzy The Kidlit Fall Writing … Continue reading Fall Writing Frenzy 2023 RULES, Images, and Information
Two big events coming soon: aworkshop and a free contest!
Hi Wonderful Readers, I'm beyond stoked to feature my personal writing hero and incredible mentor today for our Kidlit Zombie Week post, the master rhymer and mermaid extraordinaire: Diana Murray! If you haven't heard about Kidlit Zombie Week - a week of collaboration, connection, and revision, check it out here. Without further ado, I hope … Continue reading How To Revise (and Rhyme) Like a Mermaid – Guest Post for Kidlit Zombie Week with Diana Murray
Hi Wonderful Readers, I hope you're already enjoying Kidlit Zombie Week - a week of collaboration, connection, and revision - because today we have another fantastic treat to inspire you! One of my amazing clients, who can make any STEAM subject lyrical, the amazing Laura K. Zimmermann! Once you're done reading this inspiring post about … Continue reading Recycling Research and Words – Kidlit Zombie Week Guest Post by Laura K. Zimmermann
Hi Wonderful Readers, I'm so delighted to feature one of my best writing friends today for our Kidlit Zombie Week post, the brilliant and ever-kind Ana Siqueira! If you haven't heard about Kidlit Zombie Week - a week of collaboration, connection, and revision, check out here. Without further ado, I hope you enjoy this enlightening … Continue reading What to Cut and What to Add – Finding and Keeping the Must-Haves – Kidlit Zombie Week Guest Post by Ana Siqueira
Hi Math is Everywhere Readers, Surprise! We have one final blog post before I officially go on hiatus, and I hope you’re all as excited as I am because it’s the talented, the wonderful, the incredibly kind Pat Zietlow Miller here to talk about one of her newest picture books, which is wonderfully heartfelt and … Continue reading Author Interview and GIVEAWAY with Pat Zietlow Miller about SEE YOU SOMEDAY SOON, illustrated by Suzy Lee
Hi Math is Everywhere Readers, I'm so delighted to share about one of my favorite books in 2022, and as you'll see below, it's such a bittersweet post as my last post before my blog hiatus. Please welcome Shannon Stocker, author of LISTEN: How One Deaf Girl Changed Percussion, illustrated by Devon Holzwarth. Description of … Continue reading Author Interview and GIVEAWAY with Shannon Stocker, author of LISTEN: How One Deaf Girl Changed Percussion, illustrated by Devon Holzwarth
Hi Math is Everywhere Readers, I'm over-the-moon excited to introduce you today to the team that's part of the very first book we sold on team Sanchez: OLD FRIENDS, which comes out July 26th!! Please join me in welcoming Margaret Aitken (author), Erin Siu (editor), and Rachel Diebel (editor) for OLD FRIENDS, illustrated by Lenny … Continue reading Interview and GIVEAWAY with author Margaret Aitken and her editors, Erin Siu and Rachel Diebel, chatting about Margaret’s debut picture book, OLD FRIENDS, illustrated by Lenny Wen
Hi Math is Everywhere Readers, Happy women's history month! I'm super excited to have Beth Anderson as our guest to talk about her amazing new picture book: Revolutionary Prudence Wright: Leading the Minute Women in the Fight for Independence, illustrated by Susan Reagan! About the book, from Calkins Creek: Here is the first-ever picture book about … Continue reading Interview and GIVEAWAY with Beth Anderson about her new picture book: Revolutionary Prudence Wright: Leading the Minute Women in the Fight for Independence, illustrated by Susan Reagan
Hi Math is Everywhere readers, Are you ready… ? Are you set … ? Because we’re about to go! It’s a cover reveal day! And this one is with our incredible friend and wonderful human being Matt Forrest Esenwine for his newest picture book that is beautiful and empowering, and that I think you’re all … Continue reading COVER REVEAL and DOUBLE GIVEAWAY with Matt Forrest Esenwine about his new picture book I AM TODAY, illustrated by Patricia Pessoa
Hi Math is Everywhere Readers, I’m so excited to share that today we’re talking with James Solheim about his beautiful picture book Grandmas Are Greater Than Great, illustrated by Derek Desierto, that subtly teaches children the concept of exponential reasoning! That’s right, James and Derek made a fun and beautiful book AND it has math. … Continue reading Author Interview and triple GIVEAWAY with James Solheim about his picture book Grandmas Are Greater, illustrated by Derek Desierto
Hey all,Just found an incredibly fun photo contest from one of my favorite publishers, Blue Whale Press. The contest is about my wonderful friends' Lydia Lukidis and Tara J. Hannon's book No Bears Allowed.The contest: take the picture and create a funny or heartfelt caption related to Thanksgiving. Super fun, right?!When I saw which picture … Continue reading Not the Stuffing!
Amanda Jackson's Debut picture book, My Shape is Sam, comes out this September! She has been generous enough to agree to an interview and TWO GIVEAWAYS! Stay tuned till the end to get the details. Book title: My Shape is Sam Author: Amanda Jackson Illustrator: Lydia Nichols Publisher: Page Street Kids Distributed by Macmillan Release … Continue reading Interview with Debut Picture Book Author Amanda Jackson
Kaitlyn Leann Sanchez 