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Jenna Elyse Johnson
@kidlitjennaj.bsky.social
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#kidlit author | elementary teacher | bookseller | ♿️ 🐕‍🦺| EVERY BODY MOVE (2025) | I SPARK LIKE LIGHTNING (2026) | repped by Christie Megill | https://www.jennaelysejohnson.com
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EVERY BODY MOVE! by @kidlitjennaj.bsky.social and Ananya Rao-Middleton celebrates kids with disabilities with upbeat, empowering text and lively, vibrant illustrations. Kiddos will love this fun read-aloud, which also includes a sing-along! A joyful and essential book! #kidlit #booksky
September 28, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Get up! Let's dance! Every body can move! 📚👍🏽 #picturebook #interview #KidLit #bookblogger
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Simply 7 with Jenna Elyse Johnson: EVERY BODY MOVE
Barefoot Books makes top notch picture books and today’s book is no exception!
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September 19, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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#kidlitmegafeed It's Tuesday and that means a new #podcast Verse Show episode with your hosts me and @joshmonkwords.bsky.social and special guest @kidlitjennaj.bsky.social!!

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Jenna Elyse Johnson's Kidlit Joy | You May Contribute A Verse
It's Brenna, Jenna, and Josh. Oh my. Jenna Johnson joins us today for discussion of her debut books EVERY BODY MOVE! (out in September 2025, and a singalong!) and I SPARK LIKE LIGHTNING (out in winter...
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July 8, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Jenna Elyse Johnson's Kidlit Joy
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Jenna Elyse Johnson's Kidlit Joy
It's Brenna, Jenna, and Josh.
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July 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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⚡️🩰 Cover Reveal! 🩰⚡️ This gorgeous new cover has sparked so much joy!

Make sure to preorder your copy of I SPARK LIKE LIGHTNING, releasing April 7th, 2026 from @freespiritpublishing ⚡️🩰
July 4, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Excited to reveal the cover for my debut picture book! Words by me, pictures by Ananya Rao-Middleton, and sung by Audra Mariel! 🎶 Available for preorder now and set to publish on September 30th from @barefootbooks.bsky.social!
June 23, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Wait this is SO cool!! Thank you @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social!

And huge thanks to @christiemegill.bsky.social and @thecatagency.bsky.social for all your support. I can’t wait to see Sue’s beautiful art!
May 14, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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My debut book is available for pre-order!!!

You can head to www.jennaelysejohnson.com/books to find all the different pre-order links.

Or, to get a signed copy and other book swag, you can order directly from Ruby's Books, my local indie book store. 🥰 www.rubysfolsom.com/item/VF0jLSX...
March 20, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Thank you so much, friend! 🥺
amandashayneaszman.bsky.social Amanda Shayne Aszman @amandashayneaszman.bsky.social · Mar 20
Thrilled to have just pre-ordered @kidlitjennaj.bsky.social's beautiful debut picture book EVERY BODY MOVE from Ruby's Books. Congratulations, Jenna! Can't wait for your cover reveal and to receive a copy in September! #kidlit www.rubysfolsom.com/item/VF0jLSX...
Every Body Move!
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March 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Fascinating interview with @kdmaz.bsky.social about her sweet #PB that should be in every classroom!

Great post @authorhmacht.bsky.social

#KidLit

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Celebrate Ask a Question Day with Katie Mazeika!
Q: Hi, Katie! Thanks so much for joining #SeasonOfKidLit! We’re thrilled to host you and hear all about your new book, Maybe Just Ask Me!Can you share a little bit about yourself and how you became a ...
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March 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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alexiaandoni.bsky.social
I’m thrilled to announce my debut picture book. Thank you @writeloudly.bsky.social and @daniellecollins.bsky.social for believing in this book, & to everyone who made this book possible. Looking forward to seeing Shahrzad’s illustrations bring this story to life. #picturebookdebut #pbauthors
March 12, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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For anyone who wants to consider adding #diversifymyart to the art you're making in February, the theme is "Sight and Sound", increasing representation of people with vision or hearing differences. #kidlitart
Increasing representation of diversity in illustration: #diversifymyart 2025. February theme is Sight and Sound. This month, focus on representation of people with vision or hearing differences: blindness, deafness, glasses, hearing aids, sign language, lazy eye, cochlear implant, braille, eye patch, mobility cane, or service dog.
January 31, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Join me for a Storytime and Book Signing author event for my debut #picturebook, FREEDOM AT DAWN, at #barnesandnoble Manhasset, NY on April 27, 2025.
#FreedomAtDawn #newpicturebook #booklaunch #booksigningevent #booksky #kidlit #diversebooks
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Weekly Storytime in Manhasset | Barnes & Noble
Join us for an in-store event, Storytime and Book Signing with Local Author Leah Schanke, on Sunday, April 27, 2025.
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February 23, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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It's the cover reveal! My picture book debut, 🩰❄️The Abominable Snow Dancer❄️🩰, is now available for pre-order:
✨Amazon: amzn.to/4hBtlfs
✨B&N: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-abomin...
✨Bookshop: bookshop.org/a/17193/9780...
✨And at select indies!(www.mrsdalloways.com/book/9780593... is one of my locals)
The Abominable Snow Dancer by Steph Lau - animated gif A bunch of unicorns with varying facial expressions watch a yeti in a tutu and scarf jump gracefully across the stage. THERE ARE SPARKLES!
February 19, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Getting the hang of substack and my February Newsletter is live! I would love if you would subscribe. 🥰

#kidlitmegafeed

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Hearts Season is Here!
Jenna's February Newsletter: Read on for updates, book recommendations, crafts, and a guide for writing love poems!
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February 7, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Heyyy it's already live! Just downloaded their ebook app from the app store, and "Dream to Me" is on there! Check it out! bookshop.org/p/books/drea...
A screenshot of the top search result for "Dream to Me" on the Bookshop.org ebook app showing the top result as "Dream to Me" by Megan Paasch.
January 28, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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It’s my first time going! Any tips or tricks? #kidlitmegafeed
January 15, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Writing Readers? @patriciatoht.bsky.social has a great post on Rhyme Doctors showing what works in rhyming readers, focusing on books by @kazwindness.bsky.social, Charles Ghigna, and @dianamurrayauthor.bsky.social. www.rhymedoctors.com/house_calls/...
RHYMING and EASY READERS MAKE A GREAT MATCH!
The first book I can remember reading by myself was SNOW , by Roy McKie and P.D. Eastman. The book is part of the Dr. Seuss' Beginner Books series, a series that soon grew to dominate the beginning...
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January 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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My debut picture book comes out THIS YEAR! 🥰✨
#debut #picturebook #kidlit #2025debut
January 1, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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✨I’m honored to see Lupita’s Brown Ballet Slippers as a 2024 Northern Lights Book Award winner of the Arts Category! 🩰🤎 What a dream come true to be recognized with so many wonderful creators! ❤️Congratulations to all the winners! 🎉🎉🎉
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December 21, 2024 at 9:57 PM
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Book News!
Hello fellow readers! If you follow my Instagram, Facebook, or Bluesky page, you may have already seen this, but my debut picture book was annouced in Publishers Weekly! A few of my lovely critique partners saw the announcement before I did and joyfully alerted me to the news. I can't quite describe the awe at seeing my own face in the Children's Bookshelf email. It was surreal. And I am SO thrilled to finally be able to talk about this project! I got the offer for it over a year ago, so it's be
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December 9, 2024 at 1:04 AM
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Excited to share this news, finally!

My debut picture book ❄️✨THE ABOMINABLE SNOW DANCER✨❄️ is coming out Fall 2025 from Penguin Workshop!

1/ This book is secretly about me. While I'm not a hairy yeti who dreams of dancing (... Or am I?🤔), I DID dream of writing #kidlit one day, and here I am!
Screenshot of Publishers Weekly Children's Bookshelf rights report, with a yeti in a tutu accidentally bomping a unicorn in the face with his giant hairy foot. Headshot of yours truly. Text: Renee Kelly at Penguin Workshop has acquired Steph Lau’s debut picture book, The Abominable Snow Dancer, about a Yeti who loves to dance, but every time his moves slip out, things end in disaster, a story about never dulling your shine. Publication is slated for Fall 2025; Alexandra Levick at Writers House did the deal for world rights.
December 5, 2024 at 11:26 PM
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Two months until Sparkle Pigs launches! If you're a teacher, librarian, bookseller or the like and would like to arrange a sparkly event (ideally in SoCal), drop me a line! ✨
A graphic for the SPARKLE PIGS chapter book series, showing the first three book covers and a quote from Kirkus calling the books "funny and relatable"
December 1, 2024 at 3:54 PM
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I’ve been sitting on this news for over a year! Huge thank you to @christiemegill.bsky.social for being a rockstar agent and helping me with all the things! This is just the beginning! ✨✨✨
November 22, 2024 at 7:29 PM
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TOPIC: Tonight we're hitting the #kidlit classics. Can you point to the stories that inspired you to pursue a career in books for children? What about the ones you missed early on and have come to admire as an adult? #kidlitchat
November 20, 2024 at 2:00 AM