Superheroes don't always have special powers or fancy suits -- sometimes they look like a young boy with otherworldly courage and armed with an inspiring journal left behind by his father: tinyurl.com/ydrvsnym Kelly J. Baptist #nationalsuperheroday #mglit #childrensbooks

Whatever you starve will eventually die.

🕺'The Electric Slide and Kai' written by Kelly J. Baptist and illustrated by Darnell Johnson

Author Kelly J. Baptist has published six books for children and young adults. She is the winner of the 2017 Lee and Low New Voices Honor Award

Learn More: kellyiswrite.com

The BookSmitten podcast is going to Iowa! We'll be podding from the SCBWI Midwest conference. Children's book writers and creators - can't wait to see you there. SCBWI Michigan SCBWI Wisconsin BookSmitten Kelly J. Baptist scbwi

“Mom, it’s a snow day…do I HAVE to read”
Me: 📖👓📚but you can choose the book.
Him: Kelly J. Baptist book plz ❤️

Thank you ⁦Kelly J. Baptist⁩ for sharing your books at Literacy Night last evening and then today with two amazing assemblies!

🎞️ ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
▪︎ “Iveliz Explains it All” by Andrea Beatriz Arango
▪︎ “More to the Story” by Hena Khan
▪︎ “Isaiah Dunn is My Hero” by Kelly J. Baptist
▪︎ “Room to Dream” by Kelly Yang
▪︎ “Brown Girl Dreaming” by Jacqueline Woodson

Ready, Set, Dough! by Kelly J. Baptiste. A spunky sixth-grader devises over-the-top ideas to win the laptop of her dreams by selling cookie dough in her school fundraiser. Will she win? #butlermidweekmorris #readysetdough Kelly J. Baptist Penguin Random House 🐧🏠📚

School Year Read # 60 #msfoleyiscurrentlyreading #audiobooklove #bookstagram #librarylife #read #weneeddiversebooks Kelly J. Baptist

Introducing our Author Mentors for the 2024 Black Creatives' Revision Workshop!

Huge thank you to Nia / N.E. Davenport 🔜 YALLWEST, Zelda Lockhart, PhD,ninafoxx, Shauna Robinson, Julian Winters is Kind of Here, Deborah F. Savoy, Kim Johnson, Pamela Harris, Kelly J. Baptist, & Barbara Binns ❤️

We're excited to announce that Isaiah Dunn is my Hero, by Kelly J. Baptist is one of our 2025 IL Bluestem Award nominated books! #BluestemAward
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'I wasn't talking back, I was starting a new sentence.'🙄 Things an Author Mom hears🤦🏿‍♀️🤦🏿‍♀️🤦🏿‍♀️

Does it get more fun than this?! We learned the electric slide after reading The Electric Slide and Kai by Kelly J. Baptist! On the 💯 day of 🏫. #OwnVoices #WeNeedDiverseBooks HISD Library Services MemorialPTO

Thanks Mrs. Greer for “gifting” us with an amazing book for #WorldReadAloudDay ! We were truly inspired! Mrs. Lahey Marlboro Twp Schools

Congratulations to Kelly J. Baptist 'Eb and Flow' is nominated for an NAACP Image Award in Youth/Teen literature. Way to go! First novel in verse. I loved this book. naacpimageawards.net/nominees/

So incredibly honored & grateful to the committee for selecting Saints. Mia mia! 🙏🏾

Books that have won & been finalists for the Pura Belpré have been of the most influential books in my life.

I'm so very grateful to the committee & can't wait to pay this forward 🩶

These students are rooting for 'Eb & Flow' by Kelly J. Baptist to win the Newbery Medal & had a virtual meet w/ her! They asked questions about writing the book & decisions that went into it. Plus they found out she likes red Doritos (Nacho Cheese) more than blue (Cool Ranch).

January #NotesfromtheHornBook : For #BlackHistoryMonth , 7 books w/ Black protagonists who rise to the occasion hbook.com/story/rising-t… Random House Children's Books Astra Books for Young Readers Feiwel and Friends MacKids Books Simon Kids Levine Querido BloomsburyUS Kids/YA

Check out the Mich Reading Assoc secondary author's luncheon guests! Today is the last day for Early-Bird conference pricing. Supriya Kelkar Caleb Roehrig Ebony LaDelle (on hiatus) Nandi Comer Kelly J. Baptist michiganreading.org Macomb ISD ELA

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