Books are so important for critical thinking and empathy. Right now, that’s what the world needs.

So, for the love of kids, please continue to bring authors to your schools, whether me or someone else. They need it but, but we as a society also need it as they are the future 🙏🏼

Super special book mail today! Thank you so much to Bank Street College for awarding #HarboringHope the 2024 #FloraStieglitzStrausAward for nonfiction for older readers. So grateful! Megan Ilnitzki HarperStacks 📚 balbusso twins

I’m so honored to share these beautiful reviews from Publisher’s Weekly & Kirkus for BOX OF DREAMS! It has been a wonderful journey. Can’t wait for it to be out in the world! Pre-order now available! Lands on bookshelves May 7. Christine Almeda Megan Ilnitzki HarperCollins Children's Books PB_Soar24

This is sooo cool!! Thank you so much for using our book in such a creative way - I would LOVE to see some of these outcomes! 😍🧡📚🍃 Harper360UK Megan Ilnitzki .

It's our first book review for BOX OF DREAMS, and a lovely one at that! 🥰 Thanks so much Publishers Weekly !! Megan Ilnitzki HarperKids PB_Soar24

Happy book birthday to TWO HOMES, ONE HEART—a picture book about changing families and enduring love! Many thanks to Chelsea O'Byrne for her luminous illustrations, and to Megan Ilnitzki & HarperKids and Kelly Sonnack (like "Sonic") for all the vision and care that brought book to life.🏠❤️🏡

So happy to see IN MY MOSQUE featured on USAToday with fabulous books about Ramadan. Thank you USA TODAY.

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#Ramadan2024 HarperKids Hatem Aly Megan Ilnitzki

Thank you Kirkus Reviews for including RAMADAN KAREEM in this lovely roundup of #Ramadan2024 books!

#RamadanKareem #ramadanmubarak

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Hatem Aly Megan Ilnitzki HarperKids

Thank you National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) and CBC Book for naming #AliasAnna a 2023 Notable Social Studies book! Congrats to all my friends on this fantastic list: socialstudies.org/notable-trade-… #gregdawson Megan Ilnitzki HarperStacks 📚

What a fantastic #WorldBookDay 2024! The brilliant Leeds SLS took me to 2 fantastic primary schools St. Anthony's Ingram Road Primary where we made our own changemaking comics!
So impressed & loved meeting all the kids & fellow autistic ppl🥰❤ #WorldBookDay 2024 #EduTwitter

As you can see - Christine Almeda is so incredibly talented. I hope to have the chance to work with her again in the future. 2 months until our book is out in the world!! ❤️

Started #WomensHistoryMonth and #MarchIsReadingMonth off in the best possible way Grandview Elementary. I read Ablaze With Color by Jeanne Walker Harvey 📚 and Loveis Wise (they/he) to my firsties and Ms. Chirunga's amazing 3rd graders. Alma Thomas was a treasure!

More wonderful #AlmaThomas inspired artwork! Thanks for sharing our ABLAZE WITH COLOR with students ❤️ INSTA@ mrsobrienslibrary #NutmegAward 💙 Loveis Wise (they/he) Megan Ilnitzki HarperKids

SO much creativity! 🎨Thanks for inspiring children and sharing our ABLAZE WITH COLOR book.🌟 Loveis Wise (they/he) HarperKids Megan Ilnitzki East West Literary

Notable new releases out this month for young readers include an unpublished work from a late Caldecott Medalist, Katherine Marsh’s middle grade tale about a school for monster descendents, Renée Watson’s poetry collection on Black girlhood + more buff.ly/3OUkXLW

★ “Lots of good-hearted, goofy verve” shepherds “a familiar message of solidarity and resilience” in Breanna Carzoo’s (Breanna Carzoo) picture book, THE SQUISH pwne.ws/48jSndZ

Official cover reveal! In 2021 wrote a story about empanadas, but it was really about how much I miss my mom’s food 💖
I got to collaborate with the amazing Sara Palacios and now this book will be out Sept 2, from HarperCollins. Preorder here: harpercollins.com/products/pocke…

Loving this cover! Designed by Erica DeChavez and illustrated by #SaraPalacios cc: Gallt & Zacker Literary Agency #PocketsOfLove

We loved celebrating our friends' M.O. Yuksel ✨SAMI’S SPECIAL GIFTavail 4 preorder ✨ & Hatem Aly book birthday for their new book, RAMADAN KAREEN!

Click the link if you missed our convo 🤓

You can watch the video or read the transcript :
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🌕 GIVEAWAY🌕
M.O. Yuksel ✨SAMI’S SPECIAL GIFTavail 4 preorder ✨ is giving away 3 copies or RAMADAN KAREEM to celebrate it! -Yes we made a new book and it's out in the world. #bookbirthday #ramadankareem