The Booking Biz

Looking forward to instructing with the amazing faculty for Successful School Visits and meeting the talented authors and illustrators working on their school visit programming with The Highlights Foundation. Online Class runs from Aug 29-Oct 25, 2024 Carmen Oliver Join us!

Register Here:
https://www.highlightsfoundation.org/workshop/successful-school-visits-a-three-part-online-course/

Excited to share the news that our client Chang Compestine newest illustrated memoir, GROWING UP UNDER A RED FLAG has received three starred reviews from the School Library Journal, Booklist, and Publisher's Weekly!

★"A fascinating memoir of living during a tumultuous time...matched with rich illustrations and will engage readers...Strong first buy."
-Tamara Saarinen, School Library Journal
Read the full review here:

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Bravo to our client Mitali Bose Perkins!

Pre-order your copy at your favorite neighborhood bookstore!

Cover reveal! JUST MAKING: A GUIDE FOR COMPASSIONATE CREATIVES is a nonfiction book for adults coming May 2025. Isn’t the cover gorgeous? I had nothing to do with it; all credit goes to the publisher, Broadleaf Books. Find out more about the book at https://www.justmakingguide.com.

Also, if you’re anywhere near Roanoke, Virginia this Thursday, I’ll be presenting on the topic during my public lecture at Hollins. https://www.hollins.edu/event/2024-childrens-literature-writer-in-residence-and-symposium-keynote-speaker-mitali-perkins/

“…while working on her new novel RED BIRD DANCED (HarperCollins/Heartdrum, Jun. 2024), author Dawn Axness Quigley says, ‘I began to see how a writer can use fonts, spacing, bold/lightened colors to create art, mood, and tone in stories.'” —from Eight Verse Novels that Illuminate Disability Experiences by Margaret Kingsbury from School Library Journal: https://www.slj.com/story/Eight-middle-grade-verse-novelists-illuminate-disability-experiences-libraries-books HarperKids Books HarperStacks We Need Diverse Books EMLA

A 4th starred review for RED BIRD DANCED and our client Axness Quigley.

Get your copy of REDBIRD DANCED at your friendly neighborhood bookstore! Not to be missed!

★ “Quigley seems to have carefully and painstakingly placed every word on the page in such a way that, like the red bird, the entire novel spreads its wings and dances.” — Booklist

RED BIRD DANCED by Dawn Axness Quigley, cover by Carla Joseph (Heartdrum, 2024) has also received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, and Kirkus Reviews. HarperKids Books HarperStacks We Need Diverse Books

Help us welcome the BIBSY CROSS chapter book series from our client Liz Garton Scanlon!!! Books 1 & 2 as seen on We Are Austin today!!

Starred Reviews from Kirkus Reviews & Publishers Weekly!

Welcome to the world!! Random House Children's Books

When you see all three of them together, you see how much the colors pop on my three books with Little, Brown!