Iyana Jones

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The TLA hosted its annual conference on April 1–4 in Dallas, welcoming guests for four days of book signings, events, and panels featuring celebrated authors such as Kwame Alexander, Erin Entrada Kelly, and Pam Muñoz Ryan. This year’s theme, “Library Renaissance, Our Quest for Renewal,” focused on innovative ways that librarians can fosters resistance. Check out our roundup of the festivities.

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Kwame Alexander’s chickens are finally coming home to roost. PBS Kids in collaboration with production company GBH Kids is releasing a slate of short-form episodes and an hour-long special adapted from Kwame Alexander’s picture book Acoustic Rooster and His Barnyard Band. Alexander’s rocking roosters first hit shelves in 2011 published by Sleeping Bear Press, followed by a sequel, Acoustic Rooster’s Barnyard Boogie Starring Indigo Blume, in 2020.

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In celebration of Earth Day, we spoke with the creators of three picture books highlighting underappreciated processes of nature and the conservationists fighting to protect the environment. Martha BrockenbroughWhen did you first learn about the importance of the Saharan plumes? I was poking around the NASA website, as I often do when I need some inspiration. I had no idea dust could be photographed from space.

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Tahereh Mafi marks a highly anticipated return to the Shatter Me universe with Watch Me, a new spin-off series set to release from Storytide, a new imprint of HarperCollins Children’s Books, on April 15. In Watch Me, solider James Anderson, younger brother to Shatter Me protagonist Aaron Warner Anderson, hopes to follow in his brother’s footsteps by sneaking into Ark Island, the stronghold of the authoritarian regime The Reestablishment.

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Author Adam Gidwitz recently hit the road to present Max in the Land of Lies, the second book in his middle grade duology that started with Max in the House of Spies. Gidwitz traveled to nine cities to meet readers at five public events and spoke with students at 14 schools. Here are the highlights from his travels. On February 22, Gidwitz kicked off the tour with a launch event at Brooklyn Heights Public Library, in partnership with Books Are Magic.