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🎉 🎉 🎉 Happy #bookbirthday to debut novelist Anne Coray and #lostmountain! 🎉 🎉 🎉 Meet Anne in our blog today (check out the beautiful photos of Lake Clark, Alaska -- where Dick Proenneke also lived) and see the her author video at: https://www.westmarginpress.com/book-details/9781513264455/lost-mountain/ Environmental fiction meets romance in this debut novel set in Alaska about conflicted residents in an artist's community threatened by a proposed mine. Want to know more? Join Anne and our friends at BookBar for a special virtual event on Earth Day, Thursday April 22. #savethedate #environment #conservation #writer #ecofiction #bristolbay #pebblemine #ecoromance #clifi #alaskareads #alaska #alaskabooks #fictionnovel #alaskalife #donreardon #womenwriter #womensfiction #womenshistorymonth #EarthDay2021 #onemanswilderness #aloneinthewilderness #dickproenneke #cabinlife

Zee's a California 🏖girl trying to make it in a UK world. ☔️ One song at a time! Her favorites to sing along with? Billie Eilish’s Bad Guy and pretty much everything on the "Tween Girl Party" Spotify playlist. What are you listening to? 🎉 🎉 🎉 We're celebrating this special #bookbirthday week with a Goodreads giveaway of #allthatglitters. 🎉 🎉 🎉 ENTER TO WIN: https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/320426-all-that-glitters-the-zee-files-book-2 🎼🎸 Available exclusively at 🎯. #thezeefiles @tinawells_ @stefsmith @veronicajamisonart (book 1) @mikesegawa (book 2) #thezeefiles #mackenzieblue #target #bookstagram #books #reading #readingtime #booklover #teen #teens #bookseries #westmarginpress #middlegrademagic #childrensbooks #middlegradefiction #ownvoices #authenticcharacter @targetstyle

Take a tour of London with Zee in 23 seconds! 🎉 🎉 🎉 We're celebrating this special #bookbirthday week with a Goodreads giveaway. 🎉 🎉 🎉 ENTER TO WIN: https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/320426-all-that-glitters-the-zee-files-book-2 #thezeefiles @tinawells_ @stefsmith @veronicajamisonart (book 1) @mikesegawa (book 2) #thezeefiles #mackenzieblue #target #bookstagram #books #reading #readingtime #booklover #teen #teens #bookseries #westmarginpress #middlegrademagic #childrensbooks #middlegradefiction #ownvoices #authenticcharacter @targetstyle

Ooolala! Not only will Zee show us around London this week, in her new book she goes to... Paris! We're celebrating this special #bookbirthday with a Goodreads giveaway. ENTER TO WIN: https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/320426-all-that-glitters-the-zee-files-book-2 #thezeefiles @tinawells_ @stefsmith #thezeefiles #mackenzieblue #target #bookstagram #books #reading #readingtime #booklover #teen #teens #bookseries #westmarginpress #middlegrademagic #childrensbooks #middlegradefiction #ownvoices #authenticcharacter Target Style

Hey followers -- here's a Goodreads giveaway for #CometoLight by Paul Madonna! Enter to win one of five boxed, three-volume sets of this exquisitely illustrated mystery that was featured by @literaryhub 's Crimereads. Go to the book's page on Goodreads and enter by March 3. Find the link and learn more here: https://www.westmarginpress.com/book-details/9781513263052/come-to-light/ #cometolight #detectivestory #paulmadonnastudio #paulmadonna #closeenoughfortheangels #allovercoffee #emithopper #emithoppermysteryseries #drawing #art #comics #pleinair #penandink #sanfrancisco #thailand #travel #europe #rome #floodingofpiazzanavona #piazzanavona #mystery #crimedrama #pulp #noir #fiction #illustrated #illustratedfiction #gaudibarcelona

Celebrating the #thegreatkindness challenge with @dawnprochovnic , here is a video preview of Lucy’s Blooms, with gorgeous music by @maiahwynne. Illustrated by @pickledaliceart Preorder now through @bookshop_org Enter to win an advanced reader copy by commenting below about an act of kindness you’ve received or witnessed (enter before noon, PST 1/29.) Bonus #kindness points if you share on your story, or tag a friend! . . . #lucysblooms #dawnprochovnic #alicebrereton #pickledaliceart #westmarginpress #maiahwynne #picturebooks #bookstagram #authorsofinstagram #everychildareader #kidlitart #kidlit #childrensbooks #diversebooksforkids #bookshop #grandparents #gardens #circleoflife #resliance #empathy #beautyinnature #friendship #gardeningwithchildren #intergenerationalfriendships #perseverance #socialemotionallearning #sel #giveaway . . .

The Zee Files

🎉 Happy #bookbirthday to #thezeefiles and Tina Wells ! 🎉 . . The Zee Files is a spin-off of Tina’s best-selling series Mackenzie Blue. In this new adventure, Zee moves to London and then to a creative arts boarding school in the Cotswolds. It's full of new characters and a few originals from Mackenzie Blue. . . This series is exclusively available at Target stores and Target.com starting today! Written with @stefsmith , art direction by @ringthealam , and illustrated by @veronicajamisonart . . . Watch for interviews with Tina in the coming weeks arranged by @SkaiBlueMedia . . #thezeefiles #mackenzieblue #target #bookstagram #books #reading #readingtime #booklover #teen #teens #bookseries #westmarginpress #childrensbooks #middlegradefiction #ownvoices #authenticcharacter https://www.target.com/c/zee-files/-/N-b5z2z?Nao=0 Video by Anika Grevstad, @Kerry.Lee.11, Alison Grevstad.

It's that time! Today our blog shares fun and inexpensive gift+book pairings for kids. Check it out! https://www.westmarginpress.com/blog/get-these-5-fun-and-easy-holiday-gift-pairings-for-kids/ Saturday is "Small Business Saturday" so #shoplocal, if possible, and support your community. (One easy way is to order through Bookshop .) And thank you for supporting us and our books and authors this year. To learn more about the books we've featured today and discover other authors, artists and books, visit westmarginpress.com . #giftguide #picturebook #picturebooks #childrensbooks #bookstagram #instabook #read #kidsbooks #kidsbookstagram #raisingreaders #kidlitpicks #earlylearning #screenfreekids

Today is World Toilet Day. Mosey on over to Dawn Prochovnic ’s website/blog if you’re looking for lesson plans and resources related to World Toilet Day ( OR wondering what the heck World Toilet Day is, and why you should care.) . . . #wheredoesacowgirlgopotty #wheredoesapirategopotty #authorsofinstagram #dawnprochovnic #jacobsouva #twofishillustration #bookstagram #potty #pottybook #pottyhumor #funnybooks #laughoutloud #toilethumor #pottytraining #everychildareader #kidlitart #kidlit #pirate #cowgirl #westmarginpress #worldtoiletday #toilets #cleanwater #watersanitation #water1stinternational #worldtoiletorganization #picturebooks #childrensbooks #diversebooksforkids Two Fish Illustration & Design @water1st @water1styouthadvocates @worldtoiletday @worldtoiletorg

The Front Steps Project How Communities Found Connection During the COVID-19 Crisis By Kristen Collins and Cara Soulia

Pre-order now from Bookshop for holiday gift-giving and support your local Indie bookstores. https://bookshop.org/books/the-front-steps-project-how-communities-found-connection-during-the-covid-19-crisis/9781513265858 Curated from the grassroots social movement of the same name, this inspiring, uplifting portrait series documents how people coped with living in isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Front Steps Project™ demonstrates that even in the most challenging of circumstances, incredible kindness, love, courage and hope exists to build, bind, and connect communities around the globe. Created on March 18, 2020, The Front Steps Project™ began when friends Kristen Collins and Cara Soulia chose to unite their neighbors through images of life in quarantine. Along with other local photographers, they committed to take a few hours each day to go to neighborhoods around Needham, Massachusetts to photograph residents in front of their homes in exchange for donations to their local food pantry. Within days, #TheFrontStepsProject became a grassroots social mission, connecting thousands of people across the globe and currently raising over $3,250,000 for vital non-profit organizations and local businesses including food pantries, frontline workers, homeless and animal shelters, hospitals and more. Hundreds of thousands of images and stories of love, sacrifice, joy, compassion, kindness, pride, perseverance, and – ultimately hope – are flooding social media. Featured on Good Morning America, The Today Show, People Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe and more, The Front Steps Project brings communities together virtually, despite being – and maybe feeling – isolated. This heartwarming keepsake commemorates a massive effort of unity, courage and commitment to community goodwill in gift book form with over 400 photographs and dozens of stories. Participating photographers as well as their subjects from across the United States, Canada an

#Repost @thedebtproject with @make_repost ・・・ The Debt Project: 99 Portraits of Debt Across America book has launched! Available today wherever you buy books. 🚀 • Please join me for a launch event this Thursday, 10/29 at 7pm EST/4pm PST More info and to signup: Tinyurl.com/debtprojectlaunch • A huge thank you to the many, many people who volunteered and participated in this project as subjects. Thank you for your bravery and willingness to invite me into your homes and share so many of your personal stories and experiences with me. Without you taking the chance to share publicly about a very stigmatized subject, this book would never have been made, and the difficult conversations so necessary to change that narrative wouldn’t be possible. My gratitude is endless. • #endstudentdebt #studentdebt #studentdebtcrisis #thedebtproject #debtslave #enddebtslavery #studentdebtcancellation #studentdebtforgiveness #cancelstudentdebt #cancelstudentloandebt #wearethe99percent #99portraitsofdebt

Today in Book Riot -- @#henoisyclassroom by Angela Shanté , illustrated by Alison Hawkins! 7 BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS WHERE SCHOOL IS THE SOCIAL SETTING As a kid, school is everything to you. It’s where you meet friends, find your crushes, have your first confrontation, and let your real personality soar. For kids and teens, school is their entire world and it’s not a major shock to anyone that a lot of books use schools as the social setting for their protagonists. There is so much you can do with a school setting—the opportunities are endless. This short list of books for young readers set in school shows how a school can bring out the good in a protagonist. In these titles, schools bring out the best in people and just like a family TV show, the problems are solved and everyone is happy by the end of the episode. This is my daughter’s favorite book despite the fact she isn’t in school yet. This is a great early reader book that even younger kids will be captivated by. Every page is inviting and colorful. You follow a soon-to-be 3rd grader who is scheduled to be in Ms. Johnson’s class—the noisy classroom. Ms. Johnson is always singing and playing music with the students, so they can’t possibly be learning, right? I love that this book helps younger kids navigate their anxiety with the new school year. https://bookriot.com/books-for-young-readers-set-in-school/ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #teachersofinstagram #teacher #librarian #education #backtoschool #teachersmatter #amwriting #bookstagram #goodreads #teachersmakeadifference#backtoschool #thenoisyclassroom #thenoisyclass #responsiveclassroom #teach #blackteachersmatter #blackteachers #picturebookblogger #authorsofinstagram #picturebooks #picturebooks #angelashante #picturebookauthor #kidlit #alisonhawkins #quarantine #momlife #parenting #school #review