Let’s Celebrate Our Members’ Success!
Congratulations to these Children’s Book Insider members who are building exciting careers writing for children & teens.
Many of these successes stemmed from CBI At Presstime listings or one of our monthly Above the Slushpile Submission Opportunities. We’re honored to have helped you on the road to success!
March 2025:
Phyllis Schwartz (www.phyllisfeelsgreat.com) announces the publication of her third picture book on March 7: Laggie and Grillo: An Unlikely Friendship, illustrated by Siski Kalla and published by Catch a Leaf Publishing. Yoshi wants a pet so badly she befriends some backyard critters who aren’t likely to get along and brings them into her circle of family and friends for fun and frolic.
Katie Lee Reinert’s debut picture book, Ready to Smile Again, releases from Gnome Road Publishing on March 18. When Dexter the chipmunk’s home is destroyed, he tucks all of his things away in his cheeks for safekeeping. But now, he can’t smile or talk, so he must figure out how to let go of his fear in order to truly live (and smile) again. For more information about Katie’s upcoming books, please visit her website at www.KatieLeeReinert.com
Jan Fenimore announces the publication on February 10th, 2025 of an early chapter book, titled Tales of the Tarahumara Indians. It is written for children 9 to 12 and available at Amazon. The book is published in English and Spanish and includes three fiction stories of Tarahumara children and their overcoming of struggles in a hardscrabble society.
February 2025:
Lynn Slaughter’s latest YA romantic mystery, Missing Mom, came out from Fire & Ice/Melange Books on January 14. Seventeen-year-old Noelle, an aspiring ballerina, doesn’t believe her missing mother would ever have committed suicide and launches her own investigation. Threaded throughout the novel is also the story of a young woman nearly twenty years earlier whose escape from an abusive marriage turns out to be related to Noelle’s search. Available on Amazon.
Tomeko Brown announces the second edition publication of her book An Instrument for Florenda available for pre-order now on Amazon. Publication is scheduled for March 4, 2025. An Instrument for Florenda is well-suited for beginning readers who need the predictability as they transition to more complex material.
