I had the great honor of sitting next to Nikki Grimes at my first Chappaqua Children’s Book Festival and it was wonderful to see her again this past one a few months ago. She told me about her newest picture book, A Cup of Quiet, and offered to share a poem.
It is such a beautiful picture book! I hope you all get a chance to enjoy it! We are giving away a copy of A Cup of Quiet. To enter, please fill out the Rafflecopter at the bottom.
A Cup of Quiet by Nikki Grimes, illustrated by Cathy Ann Johnson
From A Cup of Quiet by Nikki Grimes
“I stop by the roses…
and catch a bee making a racket.
I snap up a handful of his buzzing
and drop it in the cup,
then crouch low to the ground
at the sound of a lizard
scuttling across a dried leaf.
I spoon up that crackling sound
and add it to
the bee’s buzz…”
A Cup of Quiet by Nikki Grimes GIVEAWAY!
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p.s. Related posts:
Announcing the Inaugural Newton Children’s Book Festival!
My First Book Festival: Chappaqua Children’s Book Festival
Chappaqua Children’s Book Festival 2023
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My books:
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Barbed Wire Between Us by Mia Wenjen, illustrated by Violeta Encarnación
- ⭐ Starred review from Kirkus
- ⭐ Starred review from Publishers Weekly
- ⭐ Starred review from School Library Journal
- Kirkus: The Most Anticipated Children’s Books of Spring 2026
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- California Eureka Non-Fiction Gold Award
- Junior Library Guild Gold Selection
- Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People Winner (from National Council for the Social Studies and Children’s Book Council)
The Traveling Taco:
- California Eureka Non-Fiction Silver Award
- Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People Winner (from National Council for the Social Studies and Children’s Book Council)
- Reading Rockets’ Summer Reading Guide 2025
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Amazon / Signed or Inscribed by Me
We Sing from the Heart: How the Slants® Took Their Fight for Free Speech to the Supreme Court
- ALSC Notable Children’s Book
- 2025 Carter G. Woodson Book Award Middle Level Honoree
- Orbis Pictus Recommended Book for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children
- 2024 Julia Ward Howe Prize for Children’s Literature Winner
- California Eureka Non-Fiction Award Honor Book
- Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People Winner (from National Council for the Social Studies and Children’s Book Council)
- Bank Street Best Children’s Books of the Year 2025
- Recommended Reading for the Social Justice Literature Award 2025 (International Literacy Association)
- Pennsylvania Mountain Laurel Book Award Nominee 2026-27
- Junior Library Guild Gold Selection
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Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World
- ⭐ Starred review from School Library Journal!
- Junior Library Guild Gold selection
- Massachusetts Book Award Long List
- dPICTUS 100 Outstanding Picture Books of 2023
- Chicago Library’s Best of the Best
- 2023 INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist
- Green Earth Book Award Long List
- Nautilus Silver Winner, Nonfiction Children’s Picture Book
- Sunshine State Young Readers Award Orange Blossom List for Nonfiction
- Imagination Soup’s 35 Best Nonfiction Books of 2023 for Kids
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Bank Street College’s The Best Children’s Books of the Year
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This poetry month has opened my eyes to so many new books! My favorite multigenerational book is Nana Upstairs and Nana Downstairs by Tomie dePaola.
In the “newer” to me books, I would include ‘When Lola Visits’ by Michelle Sterling. In classics, I fall back on ‘Nana Upstairs and Nana Downstairs’, and for older kids the ‘All of a Kind Family’ and their depiction of multigenerational life.
My Papi has a Motorcycle
I liked to read fasza is a fighter with my kids!
Old to Joy by Anita Crawford Clark
Going Down Home With Daddy by Kelly Starling Lyons, Peaches by Gabriele Davis, and I have to say my upcoming release, A Season For Fishin’, A Fish Fry Tradition.