Focused Artists proudly supports this literacy initiative.🤝Every Child A Reader is a non-profit dedicated to inspiring a love of reading in children and teens. It supports the vital work of librarians and educators. 📚Thank you @everychildareader for all of your contributions to improving literacy in our kids!
Happy Book Birthday to Brenna Darling’s SMALL TOWNS U.S.A. 🥳Available now wherever books are sold! Thank you to Allyson Johnson and @natgeo for making this beautiful book possible. 🤩
📣 Outstanding Book Review! Congratulations to author @archer.peggy on her glowing book review from Kirkus Reviews!🌟Congrats also to the team at @littlebrownyoungreaders and to illustrator @lagaia.art 🤩👏Link to review in bio.
📣 Congratulations to Peyton Burgess on his book deal with @toughpoetspress for A SUPERNATURAL LANDSCAPE OF LOVE AND GRIEF NOT UNLIKE YOUR OWN. We can’t wait for readers to get their hands on this hypnotic narrative of love, abandonment, and resilience. Follow @peytonburgessauthor 📚🤩
📣 Cover Reveal! TURKEY ON THE RUN, written by Alayne Kay Christian, illustrated by Neha Rawat, is available for preorder! 🦃 Agent: Jackie Kruzie 📚 Imprint: Flamingo, Penguin Publishing Group 🐧 @alaynekay@libraryjackie
📢 Opening to queries from authors! 📢 February 10-20, 2026, Kristina will be open to queries. See submission guidelines on our website. Link in bio! She can’t wait to hear from you.
Congratulations Mary Vander Plas on COCK-A-DOODLE-TOOT! Author of the forthcoming TRUCKS ALL THROUGH THE YEAR, Mary Vander Plas’s COCK-A-DOODLE-TOOT, is a humorous rhyming picture book about a flatulent rooster on a farm and the chaos that ensues. The picture book will be illustrated by Marisa Morea. Editor is Claire Tattersfield at Viking Children’s. Mary’s agent is Jackie Kruzie at Focused Artists. Daisy Bee Butterworth at Plum Pudding Illustration reps the illustrator. @maryvanderplasbooks@libraryjackie
📣 We are thrilled to congratulate Christa Hogan on her book deal with @lernerbooks . POP! BOOM! WOW! When Nature Blows Up will be published in Fall 2027. We can’t wait for this children’s book about nature’s tiniest and biggest explosions to be available for science and nature fans everywhere. You can follow @christahoganauthor for updates. 📕👏
📣 Congratulations, Peggy Archer, on the cover reveal of your newest picture book, THREE LITTLE WITCHES AND THE SPOOKY OLD HOUSE, to be released August 2026 by @littlebrownyoungreaders ! We are smitten by Peggy’s manuscript and Gaia’s illustrations. @lagaia.art@archer.peggy 😍🏚️🕸️🧹
Happy Book Birthday to Tara Pringle Jefferson on the release of the highly anticipated BLOOM HOW YOU MUST: A Black Woman’s Guide to Self Care and Generational Healing 🌸 BLOOM is a beautiful and impactful book available today wherever books are sold! 💐@wherewomenbloom@amistadbooks 🌷
