“Toasty”(Holiday House) is featured in a New York Time’s article titled “8 Picture Books about Imagination and Identity”.  In the article, Jennifer Krauss commends author and illustrator Sarah Hwang for her “smart, subtle yet laugh out loud wit”, and calls her “a young author to watch”!

Meanwhile in a starred review, School Library Journal says that Toasty’s tale is as uplifting as the come!

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Adweek reports that Johson & Johnson and Some Spiders Studio have teamed up to create a video titled “Mommy & Me and Daddy Too” to help parents navigate the conversation about racism in a way that is accessable to young audiences. The video features an arts and crafts break with Vanessa Brantley Newton.

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Sharuko (Lee & Low) by Monica Brown, illustrated by Elisa Chavarri, Bedtime for Sweet Creatures, (Jabberwocky/Source Books) by Nikki Grimes, illustrated by Elizabeth Zunon and Just Like Mama (Simon & Schuster) by Alice Faye Duncan, illustrated by Charnelle Pinkney Barlow, have been named to the CCBC Choices best-of-the-year list. This list is created annually by the librarians of the Cooperative Children’s Book Center. See the full list here

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Kirkus calls When My Cousins Come to Town (West Margin Press) by Angela Shante and illustrated by Keisha Morris “An adorable book about being true to yourself and the joys of family, especially cousins.”  The book will be published May 4, 2021.

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In a review of Toasty (Holiday House) by Sarah Hwang, Publishers Weekly says “Newcomer Hwang’s quirky plot has the meandering joy of a small child’s storytelling logic, while acrylic paint, colored-pencil, and digital pictures give the triumphant Toasty a sketchbook immediacy as he engages in doggy doings.”

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Joanie Stone, illustrator of Secrets of the Sea (Clarion) is interviewed on Jena Benton’s blog, along with the book’s author Evan Griffith.

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“Just Like Me” (Penguin Random House) by Vanessa Brantley-Newton has been selected as a “recommended title” by the Kansas National Education Association’s Reading Circle Commission.

Congratulations Vanessa!

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