Please join us for our Multicultural Children’s Book Club. We host a FREE multicultural children’s picture book virtual book club on the first Thursday of every month from 7 pm to 8 pm EST. November’s event will be held on November 2nd and we are celebrating Indigenous People’s Month using, illustrated by Julie Flett. …
Category: Reading Lists: Picture Books
Best picture books for kids including Caldecott and other award winning books for children.
10 Picture Books about Listening to the World Around Us & GIVEAWAY!
Please welcome my friend and fellow author, Lisa Rogers, with her 10 Picture Books About Listening to the World Around Us list! Her newest picture book celebrates musician John Cage. We are giving away a copy of Beautiful Noise AND a picture book critique for a manuscript that is less than 700 words and non-rhyming….
When It Rains It Spores — Fun Fungi Books + A FUNGI GROW GIVEAWAY!
Please welcome my guest author today, Maria Gianferrari with 8 Children’s Books about Fungi and Mushrooms: When It Rains It Spores — Fun Fungi Books! She has had a busy year with six new picture books released!! Her newest is on fungi. True story! I just so happen to be signed up for a mushroom…
Join Us for a 3 Farm Picture Book Event at Newtonville Books!
What a lucky day at Chappaqua Children’s Book Festival to catch Nancy Castaldo just as she was headed out. I was able to invite her to join us for our farm book event, and … the stars aligned because she lives quite far away in update New York … but she is joining us!!!! We…
Wow! I’m in Publisher’s Weekly for ALAAC23
My friend Tim told me that I was included in the photo gallery for the ALA 23 in Chicago in Publisher’s Weekly. I was thrilled to see this photo! From Left to Right: Barefoot CEO and co-founder Nancy Traversy with authors Shirin Shamsi, Mia Wenjen, Baptiste Paul, and marketing director Jeanne Stafford Other authors were kind…
9 Halloween Picture Books & Signed Book GIVEAWAY!
Please welcome my guest author, Vicky Fang, with her 9 Halloween picture books just in time for Halloween. Here is a spread from the book! We are giving away a signed copy of her newest book, The Book Crew Needs You! To enter, please fill out the Rafflecopter at the bottom. How about you?…
Food for the Future: Sustainable Values in Children’s Books at ALAAC23
I was thrilled to get the opportunity to speak at the ALA Conference 2023 on the Diversity in Publishing stage for Food for the Future. My topic was Sustainable Values in Children’s Books. While only a handful of people attended, the CEO of Barefoot Books, Nancy Traversy, recorded it for me. That’s the extra mile…







