This summer I'm an SCBWI guest blogger. Watch for my posts every Thursdays throughout August on the SCBWI Official Blog. #1 of 4 is up--a focus on connections and volunteering. scbwi.blogspot.com/2025/08/scbw...

Thrilled to learn that LISTENING TO TREES: George Nakashima, Woodworker, with text by me and illustrations by Toshiki Nakamura is an SCBWI Crystal Kite Award winner! @artoftoshi.bsky.social @holidayhouse.bsky.social

My GrubStreet summer course 6 Weeks 3 Picture Books starts June 2, meets 6 Mondays via Zoom, 6-9 pm EDT. Generative, supportive, inclusive. Join us? Only 3 spots left! Scholarships available. Details: grubstreet.org/workshop/6-w... #picturebookwriting #kidlit #picturebooks #creativewriting

So much energy and fun at #SeaweedSaturday in Portland, ME. Good eats, art and demos. Thanks to all those who made this happen for the second year in a row. Copies of #TheWakameGatherers went home with many new friends : )
Thank you @leeandlow.bsky.social

Seaweed Saturday is 4/26 at Gulf of Maine Institute, Portland & I'll be there w/ The Wakame Gatherers. Seaweed Saturday features arts, seaweed panels, marketplace, tastings, hands-on activities, food trucks & more!
#SeaweedSaturday #Maine #Wakame #picturebooks @leeandlow.bsky.social

Ready to craft narrative poems/verse novels in Nat'l Poetry Month? My GrubStreet class NARRATIVE POETRY begins April 2 on Zoom, 6-9 pm EDT, for 4 Tues eves. Join us?
See grubstreet.org/workshop/nar...

#narrativepoetry #versenovels #poetry #poetrywriting #creativewriting #nationalpoetrymonth2025

Grateful to Doylestown Living magazine for 2 features: Mira Nakashima & the Nakashima Foundation for Peace, plus tribute to George Nakashima w/ Q&A with me! See pages 25-30 for this double feature. Get a copy in Doylestown, PA or visit my HATbooks blog--link in my bio. #picturebooks #NF #biography

Florida friends--I'm doing 3 #ListeningtoTrees events this week in Palm Beach & Broward counties. Join and learn more about the life of woodworker George Nakashima. For makers ages 6 and up. Link to Hatbooks blog in bio. #GeorgeNakashima #nonfiction #picturebooks @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social

My 2025 Zoom picture book writing classes--SOON at GrubStreet.org :
INTRO TO PBs: Mon 1/27 & 2/3 6-9 pm--overview & writing explorations.
6 WEEKS, 6 PBs: 6 Mondays fr. 2/24 6-9 pm Craft, revise 3 text for 3 PBs w/ group feedbac, revision. #picturebookwriting #Zoom #PBclasses hatbooks.blogspot.com

I'm thrilled to be presenting with MFA Boston curator Asako Katsura at this Japan Society Boston event on George Nakashima & my #picturebook Listening to Trees. Free event. Join us? Dec. 10, 6 pm EST. Register: loom.ly/qcvYK_4
@holidayhouse.bsky.social
#ListeningToTrees #nonfiction #biography

Hooray! Listening to Trees: George Nakashima, Woodworker is a 2025 NCTE Orbis Pictus Recommended title! Such an honor for Listening to Trees--Orbis Picture Award is for outstanding NF for children. Thanks to @holidayhouse.bsky.social @artoftoshi.bsky.social #biography #NealPorterBooks

In LA for college and school visits, Japanese American National Museum exhibits and signing copies of #ListeningtoTrees. All is well! 😀
#georgenakashimawoodworker @nakashimawoodworkers #japaneseamericanhistory #picturebooks #woodworking @holidayhousebks @nealporterbooks

Coming soon...LISTENING TO TREES: GEORGE NAKASHIMA, WOODWORKER. Pre-order now from your favorite bookshops. Words by me, illustrations by Toshiki Nakamura, written in haibun form, with pages of back matter, plus a foreword from Mira Nakashima. #ListeningToTrees #GeorgeNakashima #PictureBooks

Thrilled that my Zoom summer course 6 Weeks, 6 Picture Books course at grubstreet.org is full! But you can still join the waitlist. We'll read PBs, study mentor texts, learn more PB craft, write, revise, share feedback. And if you can't join this course, maybe next time : ) #picturebooks #kidlit

This month @worldkidlit features Seeking a Publisher, showcasing global kidlit books available now for translation into English. Today features books orig. pub'd in Japanese & Arabic; two are books I've translated that are now #seekingapublisher! hatbooks.blogspot.com/2024/03/worl...

Editors, are you following the Seeking a Publisher posts at #WorldKidLit? So far children's to YA works from Europe, Africa, Americas have been shared. More global stories available for translation TK! #translation #worldlit #kidlit #YA #MG #PB
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My picture book The Wakame Gatherers, illustrated by Kazumi Wilds, has been chosen as the 2024 Read Maine Agriculture book, and I'm heading to Maine soon!
Details: maine.agclassroom.org/programs/read/
More about The Wakame Gatherers at www.hatbooks.com
Hooray and thank you @leeandlow.bsky.social ❤️