Erin Soderberg Downing
@erindowning.bsky.social
Author of many fun books about finding your voice, finding your people, finding yourself.
Added a little something to my forearm today. I’m obsessed.
June 4, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Added a little something to my forearm today. I’m obsessed.
Yesterday was my last in-person school visit of the year! They did so much amazing prep to get excited about our time together. Check out these classroom doors at Becker Intermediate!
May 21, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Yesterday was my last in-person school visit of the year! They did so much amazing prep to get excited about our time together. Check out these classroom doors at Becker Intermediate!
NEW SERIES COVER REVEAL!! I am so excited to share these ADORABLE covers for the first books in my next younger middle-grade series, which launches in January 2026 (cover art by: Johanna Tarkela). More info: www.erinsoderberg.com/just-like-ho...
May 16, 2025 at 5:40 PM
NEW SERIES COVER REVEAL!! I am so excited to share these ADORABLE covers for the first books in my next younger middle-grade series, which launches in January 2026 (cover art by: Johanna Tarkela). More info: www.erinsoderberg.com/just-like-ho...
How does Dan Gemeinhart do it, book after book after book?? This is another absolute page-turning high-stakes adventure that is bursting with incredible characters! Once again, he had me crying on one page, then howling with laughter the next. This one would make such a fun class read-aloud!
May 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
How does Dan Gemeinhart do it, book after book after book?? This is another absolute page-turning high-stakes adventure that is bursting with incredible characters! Once again, he had me crying on one page, then howling with laughter the next. This one would make such a fun class read-aloud!
JUST KEEP WALKING is on Minnesota’s State award list for next year!!!! The Maud Hart Lovelace committee picked some amazing books for next year - and now you have some ideas of what to buy for independent bookstore day (+ here’s a link to more of my faves: bookshop.org/lists/some-o...)!
April 26, 2025 at 4:22 PM
JUST KEEP WALKING is on Minnesota’s State award list for next year!!!! The Maud Hart Lovelace committee picked some amazing books for next year - and now you have some ideas of what to buy for independent bookstore day (+ here’s a link to more of my faves: bookshop.org/lists/some-o...)!
SCATTERGOOD is absolutely marvelous - set in rural Iowa during WWII, in and around the real Scattergood hostel for refugees. Peggy is a magnificent and REAL character, and this story was just perfect - warm, sad, funny, excellent setting. Historical fiction at its very best. @hmbouwman.bsky.social
April 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM
SCATTERGOOD is absolutely marvelous - set in rural Iowa during WWII, in and around the real Scattergood hostel for refugees. Peggy is a magnificent and REAL character, and this story was just perfect - warm, sad, funny, excellent setting. Historical fiction at its very best. @hmbouwman.bsky.social
BOOK RECOMMENDATION! A spare novel in verse that packs a big punch, story- and character-wise. An intriguing premise, about a girl who’s destined to be a 4th generation fire-spotter, having grown up - living with and learning from her Mom and Grandma - at the top of a fire tower deep in the woods.
April 19, 2025 at 3:09 PM
BOOK RECOMMENDATION! A spare novel in verse that packs a big punch, story- and character-wise. An intriguing premise, about a girl who’s destined to be a 4th generation fire-spotter, having grown up - living with and learning from her Mom and Grandma - at the top of a fire tower deep in the woods.
BOOK RECOMMENDATION! A beautifully-written, edge-of-your-seat verse novel about a town trying to rebuild and move forward after devastating fires destroy everything - absolutely essential for helping kids understand wildfires and our human impact on the natural world. @baronchrisbaron.bsky.social
April 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
BOOK RECOMMENDATION! A beautifully-written, edge-of-your-seat verse novel about a town trying to rebuild and move forward after devastating fires destroy everything - absolutely essential for helping kids understand wildfires and our human impact on the natural world. @baronchrisbaron.bsky.social
Hiking makes me sooooo happy! Really joyful spending a few days in Colorado!
April 13, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Hiking makes me sooooo happy! Really joyful spending a few days in Colorado!
A balloon arch, state-specific food trucks researched and created by 3rd and 4th graders, and a cheering red-carpet welcome made today’s school visit extra special!!
April 9, 2025 at 5:53 PM
A balloon arch, state-specific food trucks researched and created by 3rd and 4th graders, and a cheering red-carpet welcome made today’s school visit extra special!!
My husband decided it was time for our teenagers to get up. He took a page from Walter Peach’s book (in The Great Peach Experiment). 😂🎺
March 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
My husband decided it was time for our teenagers to get up. He took a page from Walter Peach’s book (in The Great Peach Experiment). 😂🎺
Got to check out a super cool bookstore last night - Book Vault in Oskaloosa, IA! And we had a really strong turnout for my event - school events before a night book party always mean kids will show up wanting to know more - and I love seeing them a second time!!
March 21, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Got to check out a super cool bookstore last night - Book Vault in Oskaloosa, IA! And we had a really strong turnout for my event - school events before a night book party always mean kids will show up wanting to know more - and I love seeing them a second time!!
I am in the middle of Iowa, doing a few days of school visits in veeeeery small communities. It’s so pretty and peaceful, and the town I’m sleeping in is the portrait of small-town America.
March 19, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I am in the middle of Iowa, doing a few days of school visits in veeeeery small communities. It’s so pretty and peaceful, and the town I’m sleeping in is the portrait of small-town America.
Got to visit my buddies at @dragonflybooks.bsky.social for a couple days of school visits (now I’m elsewhere in IA). LOVE the way they have their chapter book series displayed!
March 18, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Got to visit my buddies at @dragonflybooks.bsky.social for a couple days of school visits (now I’m elsewhere in IA). LOVE the way they have their chapter book series displayed!
This is Hank, the emotional support dog at today’s Iowa school visit. I wish my schools had a buddy like Hank when I was a kid!
March 17, 2025 at 8:06 PM
This is Hank, the emotional support dog at today’s Iowa school visit. I wish my schools had a buddy like Hank when I was a kid!
Here’s what I loved most about Mardi Gras in New Orleans: I have never been any place where absolutely everyone shines brightly in their own way and are so encouraged to embrace their unique self - and EVERY single person around celebrates and cheers them on. So much body positivity and self-love!
March 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Here’s what I loved most about Mardi Gras in New Orleans: I have never been any place where absolutely everyone shines brightly in their own way and are so encouraged to embrace their unique self - and EVERY single person around celebrates and cheers them on. So much body positivity and self-love!
Good morning.
March 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Good morning.
Over the past few weeks I learned that JUST KEEP WALKING has been named to two state lists for next year! Thanks so much, Iowa and Oklahoma!! ❤️🥾🏕️
February 20, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Over the past few weeks I learned that JUST KEEP WALKING has been named to two state lists for next year! Thanks so much, Iowa and Oklahoma!! ❤️🥾🏕️
Drinking coffee out of a mug I made myself is making my morning so happy!!
February 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Drinking coffee out of a mug I made myself is making my morning so happy!!
Gah!! ARCs are here!!! Thank you to two of my fave authors (and humans), @annbraden.bsky.social and @jarrett-lerner.bsky.social for your thoughtful words about this book!!!
Read an excerpt here: www.erinsoderberg.com/what-happene...
Read an excerpt here: www.erinsoderberg.com/what-happene...
February 8, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Gah!! ARCs are here!!! Thank you to two of my fave authors (and humans), @annbraden.bsky.social and @jarrett-lerner.bsky.social for your thoughtful words about this book!!!
Read an excerpt here: www.erinsoderberg.com/what-happene...
Read an excerpt here: www.erinsoderberg.com/what-happene...
Today’s school visit in Iowa was so incredible! The kids were very creative and engaged, I got to play gym class, I found out I’m on next year’s Iowa state list, AND a generous community member donated money to buy a book for all 320 kids at the school!
February 7, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Today’s school visit in Iowa was so incredible! The kids were very creative and engaged, I got to play gym class, I found out I’m on next year’s Iowa state list, AND a generous community member donated money to buy a book for all 320 kids at the school!
Today I got to visit Story, the bookstore puppy at @dogearedbooksames.bsky.social! Got some amazing store merch and a couple books I’m super excited about, including @hmbouwman.bsky.social’s latest!
February 6, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Today I got to visit Story, the bookstore puppy at @dogearedbooksames.bsky.social! Got some amazing store merch and a couple books I’m super excited about, including @hmbouwman.bsky.social’s latest!
This week kicks off 2 months of almost daily school author visits! Love this season!! (Photo credit: Maeve, grade 3, who asked for a feature. ❤️)
February 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
This week kicks off 2 months of almost daily school author visits! Love this season!! (Photo credit: Maeve, grade 3, who asked for a feature. ❤️)
Today I spent 6 hours in the sunny table at my public library, diving deep into history, because I’ve maxed out my library check-outs and could only bring 6 of these interlibrary requests home….
January 30, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Today I spent 6 hours in the sunny table at my public library, diving deep into history, because I’ve maxed out my library check-outs and could only bring 6 of these interlibrary requests home….
This right here is the start of a new novel. Research for these three threads continues, but it’s officially time to get the story in order….
January 28, 2025 at 10:45 PM
This right here is the start of a new novel. Research for these three threads continues, but it’s officially time to get the story in order….