Children's & Young Adult Authors of the Granite State
Happy Paperback Release Day to Amy Makechnie! https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-McNifficents/Amy-Makechnie/9781665918985Have you picked this lovely middle grade up, yet? It features a miniature schnauzer named Lord Tennyson who takes on the role of nannying the McNiff children. Hand to all your middle grade pet lovers!
Publisher’s Weekly called it a “lively role-reversing family story.”
We’re excited to see Matt Forrest Esenwine’s The Thing to Remember About Stargazing all around New Hampshire, this October. See the press release, below!
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PRESS RELEASE
Library StoryWalks® Across NH to Feature Local Author’s New Picture Book
WARNER, NH – Nearly twenty libraries across the state will be featuring the same picture book, The Thing to Remember about Stargazing (Tilbury House, 2023) by Warner, NH author Matt Forrest Esenwine, on their respective StoryWalks® this autumn.
To celebrate its national publication on Oct. 3, the libraries are installing prints of the book in their StoryWalks® for October and/or November. StoryWalks® usually consist of small, waist-high kiosks where readers can enjoy an outdoor walk while reading the pages of a picture book along their journey.
Esenwine says he’s not sure if this sort of coordinated effort has ever been done before, but he is grateful for the support of the libraries and, specifically, the children’s librarians who manage the StoryWalks®.
“I love being able to share my writing with young people and families, and now in addition to the many libraries and schools I visit, I’ll be able to share Stargazing in the great outdoors – the precise setting for the book itself,” he said.
Participating libraries include Rochester, Litchfield, New London, and Hampstead public libraries as well as many others including Esenwine’s hometown library, Warner’s Pillsbury Free Library, which plans to have his book installed in their StoryWalk® in time for the 76th annual Warner Fall Foliage Festival on Oct. 7 & 8.
Stargazing, which encourages readers to get outside and enjoy the night sky in spare, poetic text, is Esenwine’s eighth children’s book and is illustrated by Italian artist Sonia Maria Luce Possentini.
Newbery Honor Winner author Joyce Sidman has praised Stargazing for “its playful, poetic voice” and national award-winning author/poet Padma Venkatraman says, “Esenwine’s carefully crafted, elegant yet simple words will be treasured by young and not so young readers.”
According to its organizers, the StoryWalk® Project was originally created by Anne Ferguson and developed in collaboration with the Vermont Bicycle & Pedestrian Coalition and the Kellogg-Hubbard Library in Montpelier, VT.
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Happy StoryWalking! And happy book birthday, Matt!
We’re excited to welcome Don’t Worry Wuddles by Lita Judge into the world. This story follows an energetic little duckling who is eager to keep his friends warm by sharing Wuddles’ warm wool only to leave the benefactor bare! Publishers Weekly called it “downright luscious, rendered in creamy whites, warm browns, butter yellows, and blush pink.” How delightful!
You can also stop by and see Lita in her beautiful studio this October as part of the Monadnock Art Tour! She’s stop number #44. See the full map and more information, here.
Happy Book Birthday to In the Woods written by David Elliott and illustrated by Rob Dunlavey! This beautifully illustrated picture book in verse celebrates woodland creatures from the “stealthy bobcat” to the “dignified bear.” Would pair well with a walk in the woods, a picnic and a story time.
Publishers Weekly called it “pleasant and gently funny.”
On bookshelves today!
It’s launch day for Growing Season by Maryann Cocca-Leffler and we are SO ready for spring! Burst forth like the buds of May to your nearest bookstore to pick up your own copy — or a whole bouquet!
Guys, whatever the question is, Don’t Ask a Dinosaur. That’s just good advice! Unless the question is, “Should I run to the bookstore or library right now and get my claws on this awesome new picture book by Deborah Bruss and Matt Forrest Esenwine, illustrated by Louie Chin?” In that case, every book savvy dinosaur will answer you with a roaring, “Yes!”
What’s that tingling sensation in your fingers and toes? It’s the exciting feeling of a new book from the lovely and legendary Tomie dePaola! In a Small Kingdom, illustrated by Doug Salati, is on shelves now.
Tomie dePaola’s Strega Nona’s Magic Ring is refreshed and revamped, sporting an enchanting new cover. The new version hits shelves today!
In the Past, a new dinosaur poetry picture by David Elliott and illustrated by Matthew Trueman, is here! May we all be poet-paleontologists. ❤
This important new anthology, edited by Erin E. Moulton, raises the voices of survivors of childhood sexual trauma and assault.
“This book will save hearts. This book will save minds. This book will save lives.” — A. S. King, award-winning author of Still Life with Tornado and Crawl Through It
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