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Carol Hinz @carolhinz.bsky.social · 22h

Thank you!!

Carol Hinz @carolhinz.bsky.social · 23h

Thrilled by the first review for A HOME ON THE PAGE by @kaokaliayang.bsky.social and Seo Kim! Kirkus calls it, "A resonating, inspiring story that encourages creative resilience and strength." 💕

Full review: www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

A HOME ON THE PAGE | Kirkus Reviews

After a shattering racist incident, a Hmong American girl defines her own sense of home.

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Carol Hinz @carolhinz.bsky.social · 3d

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Melissa Manlove @mmanlove.bsky.social · 5d

Psst! I am opening up to unagented children's book submissions *just for the month of October*! This is an exciting experiment. The email to send submissions to is [email protected]. You can find out about what I'm looking for at www.manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/me...

Melissa Manlove – The Official Manuscript Wish List Website

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Carol Hinz @carolhinz.bsky.social · 5d

Okay, I kind of love the choose at random element here!

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Carol Hinz @carolhinz.bsky.social · 6d

Also happy book birthday to two fab science-themed photo books!

SO RUDE! is great for younger kids and DINOSAUR SECRETS REVEALED! is excellent for middle grade. Both of these books have received starred reviews from School Library Journal!!

Front cover of the photo book So Rude! Animals Behaving Badly by Jessica Fries-Gaither. It features two penguins on a sloped, snow-covered hill. One appears to be about to snap its beak at the other one, and the title So Rude! appears in an orange speech balloon as though emerging from the penguin's open beak.

Front cover of the photo book Dinosaur Secrets Revealed! How High-Tech Tools Spark Discoveries by Sandra Markle. It features the head of a large, fossilized dinosaur with menacingly large teeth on the left half of the cover. The title is in large type on the right half of the cover, with a very dark brown background with a bit of texture evoking dirt or stone behind everything.

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Carol Hinz @carolhinz.bsky.social · 6d

Happy book birthday to three amazing picture books!

We have big sagebrush (a vitally important plant); World War II, peace, and reconciliation; and a big rig delivering toys. All nonfiction, and all utterly different. (Though all with fab back matter, of course!)

Front cover of The Big Empty: A Sagebrush Survival Story by Kirbi Fagan. The word EMPTY in white looms in the background of a sparse scene with brown ground, a few small pushes, and a big sagebrush plant in the distance, under which a small, dark brown horse is grazing. A vast blue sky is in the background.
Front cover of The Big Empty: A Sagebrush Survival Story by Kirbi Fagan. The word EMPTY in white looms in the background of a sparse scene with brown ground, a few small pushes, and a big sagebrush plant in the distance, under which a small, dark brown horse is grazing. A vast blue sky is in the background.

Front cover of the picture book Returning the Sword: How a Japanese Sword of War Became a Symbol of Friendship and Peace by Caren Stelson, illustrated by Amanda Yoshida. A young American soldier is pictured in the center of the cover. He has medium-brown hair, pale skin, and striking blue eyes. He's wearing a tan military uniform and is somberly looking down at the curved blade of a Japanese katana (sword). Reflected in the blade are military planes and a hint of the atomic bomb mushroom cloud. One one side of the soldier are the branches and leaves of a white ash tree, and on the other side are the branches and blossoms of a Japanese cherry tree.

The front cover of the picture book I Truck: A Big Rig's Epic Trip by Kelly Rice Schmitt, illustrated by Jam Dong. It features the large, red cab of a semitruck hauling a bright yellow trailer with farm fields, a blue house and red barn, and a hint of gray hill or mountain in the background. The truck's driver is a woman with black hair done up in a bun, medium brown skin, and a pink shirt. In the passenger seat is a white and black dog with a red collar.

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Carol Hinz @carolhinz.bsky.social · 6d

Congratulations!! 🎉

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Carol Hinz @carolhinz.bsky.social · 11d

Happy birthday, Dan, and thank you for sharing your reflections!

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Andrew Karre @andrewkarre.bsky.social · 12d

This is very bad.

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Patricia Newman @patricianewman.bsky.social · 13d

🌊 This review of GIANT RAYS OF HOPE from Nat'l Marine Educators Assoc makes my heart soar! I'm thrilled they understand the hope + inspiration I tried to include throughout the story.
👉 bit.ly/4ctWczl

@lernerbooks.bsky.social @steamteambooks.bsky.social #edusky #greensky @eastwestlit.bsky.social

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Morgan Gaynin @morgangaynin.bsky.social · 18d

Josée Bisaillon’s newest illustrated nonfiction picture book is here!

Rewriting the Rules: Illustrated by @joseebisaillon.bsky.social, written by @drzathome.bsky.social, and published by @lernerbooks.bsky.social.

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#kidlit #kidlitart #booksky #STEMbooks

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Carol Hinz @carolhinz.bsky.social · 14d

A good reminder to me to request all of these from the library! 😊

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Carol Hinz @carolhinz.bsky.social · 17d

I learned so many fascinating things while working with Danna on this book! Happy, happy birthday to Jeanne!! 🎉

Danna Staaf @dannastaaf.bsky.social · 18d

🎉 Happy birthday, Jeanne Villepreux-Power! 🎉
I wrote a biography, THE LADY AND THE OCTOPUS, about this inventor of aquariums, sleuth of octopus mysteries, first woman in many scientific societies and consummate polyglot.
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The Lady and the Octopus: How Jeanne Villepreux-Power Invented Aquariums and Revolutionized Marine Biology

Born in a small village in eighteenth-century France, Jeanne Villepreux wasn’t expected to transform marine science. Curious, creative, and clever, Jeanne ventured to Paris by foot as a teenager.

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Carol Hinz @carolhinz.bsky.social · 18d

This is such a gorgeous book!! 😍

Jilanne Hoffmann | Kidlit @jilanne.bsky.social · 28d

So excited to FINALLY be able to share some of Khoa Le's amazing art! THE OCEAN'S HEART releases March 3, 2026!!! Get some goodies by preordering from Noe Valley Books!! viviankirkfield.com/2025/09/15/_... #kidlit #picturebooks @steelworksliterary.bsky.social @lernerbooks.bsky.social #edusky

Cover Reveal: THE OCEAN’S HEART: The Tiny Creatures Essential to Life

Hip hip hooray!!! Time to lift the curtain and REVEAL a beautiful new picture book COVER! And this one is for a dear friend, author Jilanne Hoffman who has a new book launching March 3, 2026 from M…

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Carol Hinz @carolhinz.bsky.social · 18d

Incredible to see UNSPEAKABLE by Carole Boston Weatherford and Floyd Cooper on Slate's list of the 25 Greatest Children's Books of the Century! 🎉📚🎉

Slate @slate.com · 21d

Picture books are not the same as when we were little. In many ways, they’re better.

The 25 Greatest Picture Books of the Century

There’s been a revolution in children’s storytelling—and it’s not just that the stories are more diverse.

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Carol Hinz @carolhinz.bsky.social · 20d

Ahhh, so interesting. Thanks for sharing!

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Amy Fitzgerald @amyarielfitz.bsky.social · 20d

Me, a rube: What is up with journalists being so credulous and/or disingenuous about [insert issue, pretty much any issue]? Do they not realize how ridiculous they sound? How could they possibly think this is responsible coverage?

The historical record, every time: lol

Screencap from the book Martin Luther King, Jr.: Nonviolent Strategies and Tactics for Social Change by John J. Ansbro: "Many of King's critics have implied that he was guilty of a self-contradiction by practicing a nonviolent protest that generated violence. Tim in a 1964 article on him as Man of the Year asserted, 'King preaches endlessly about nonviolence, but his protest movements often lead to violence.' US News and World Report in its analysis of how he won the Nobel Peace Prize indicated that many Americans thought it 'extraordinary that this prize should go to a man whose fame is based upon his battle for civil rights for Negroes—and whose activities often led to violence.' Hanes Walton Jr in The Political Philosophy of MLK maintained that in one respect King's nonviolence was similar to violence in that it could result in the destruction of property and life. Frank Meyer, in a 1965 article in National Review, 'The Violence of Nonviolence,' accused King of employing a nonviolence that had a 'violent essence' since it involved 'the provocation of violence,' 'the use of force against civil society,' and a ' violent assault upon representative, constitutional government.' Unlike Walton, who conceded that King's intentions and means differed from the advocates of violence, Meyer charged King's Nonviolent Movement with 'hypocrisy on a grand scale' since the movement aimed to provoke the supporters of the civil order so that they would initiate the first act of violence, and proceeded by 'relying upon the terror inspired by mobs to destroy the processes of constitutional civil government.'"

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Carol Hinz @carolhinz.bsky.social · 20d

Ugh, I don't doubt it's exhausting. And all the while, you're making beautiful art! Sending you lots of love and support!!

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Carol Hinz @carolhinz.bsky.social · 24d

Delighted to be publishing THE WORLD GAME by John Coy and Phung Nguyen Quang in time for the World Cup next summer!

Carol Hinz at Lerner/Carolrhoda has bought world rights to The World Game by John Coy (l.), illustrated by Phung Nguyen Quang. Beginning with an early morning soccer game in Chicago, readers follow the game across continents and time zones in an action-packed celebration of the power of sport to unite people everywhere. Publication is planned for spring 2026; Andrea Cascardi at Transatlantic Agency represented the author, and Doreen Thorogood at Good Illustration represented the illustrator.

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Lerner Books @lernerbooks.bsky.social · 24d

As we mark the 10th anniversary of Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Pérez, we celebrate not just a literary milestone, but a decade of dialogue sparked by this bold and necessary story. Read on to download the free 10th anniversary discussion guide.

#OutofDarkness #freeresource #anniversary

Honoring a Decade of Out of Darkness

Ten years ago, Carolrhoda Lab released Out of Darkness into the world and the story quickly began to carve out a powerful space in the hearts of readers and classrooms alike. Ashley Hope Pérez’s award-winning novel—a haunting, lyrical, and unflinching look at love, racism, and tragedy in 1930s Texas—has inspired readers across the country. Now, as we mark the 10th anniversary of…

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Carol Hinz @carolhinz.bsky.social · 27d

It is at the printer, and I can't wait to see finished copies!

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Carol Hinz @carolhinz.bsky.social · 27d

Thank you so much, Betsy, for the cover reveal and your fantastic questions for Kalia and Seo!

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Carol Hinz @carolhinz.bsky.social · 27d

Stunning cover reveal and Q&A for A HOME ON THE PAGE by @kaokaliayang.bsky.social and Seo Kim! This incredible book is coming in February 2026.

Betsy Bird @fuse8.bsky.social · 28d

Seems to me the more books we can devise that confront racism, the better. But how do you confront a hate crime in a picture book? Today's title does precisely that. #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2025/09/16/t...

Tackling Topics with Integrity and Heart: A Cover Reveal and Q&A with Kao Kalia Yang and Seo Kim

Seems to me the more books we can devise that confront racism, the better. But how do you confront a hate crime in a picture book? Today's title does precisely that.

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Carol Hinz @carolhinz.bsky.social · Sep 11

This is such a fun and clever book! Congrats to @geckopress.bsky.social!!

Publisher Spotlight @pubspotlight.bsky.social · Sep 11

#StarredReviews all over! @geckopress.bsky.social receives a #StarredReview from #Kirkus for OMNIBIRD www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

OMNIBIRD | Kirkus Reviews

A charming oversize field guide that aims to transform young readers into “omnibird” detectives, encouraging them to investigate the fascinating world of birds through observation and deduction.

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