Suzy News
Pumpkin Spies
Click here for the Pumpkin Spies announcement in Publishers Weekly!
Salvador Snake: Looking for Love
Click here for the Salvador Snake: Looking for Love announcement in Publishers Weekly!
A Year in Clown Town
Click here for the A Year in Clown Town announcement in Publishers Weekly!
Dinos that Drive
Click here for this amazing review in Kirkus!
Click here for Poet.org’s 2025 Featured Fall Books for Young Readers!
Click here for Evanston Public Library’s 101 Great Books for Kids List: 2025!
Click here for this delightful review in Booklist!
Click here for the Children’s Book Review’s Best Picture Books of 2025!
Click here for Betsy Bird’s 31 Days, 31 Lists: 2025 Poetry Books for Kids!
Click here for the 2026 list of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library Blue Ribbon Selections!
Click here for the 2026 SCBWI Crystal Kite Award winners and honor winners!
Click here for this gorgeous feature from Jama’s Alphabet Soup!
Click here for this great Creator Spotlight with Tundra Books!
Click here for this interview with YA Books Central!
Click here for this interview with amazing poet (and my long-lost cousin), Buffy Silverman!
Click here for this interview with Jena Benton at Simply 7!
Click here for this feature with Writers’ Rumpus!
Click here for this Poetry Friday interview with Tracey Kiff-Judson!
Click here for this cool feature in the Calgary Herald!
Click here for this review from Kenn Nesbitt, former Children’s Poet Laureate, at Poetry4kids!
Click here for Iguano-Gone: A Sad Country Song, the real song!
Click here for Sylvia Vardell’s 2025 Sneak Peek List!
Click here for Mr. Brian’s supercool PB preview!
Click here for this podcast interview with Mel Rosenberg at New Books Network!
Click here for this great dinosaur-themed book list from Tundra Books!
Click here for this article about Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library in (585) Magazine!
Click here for Publisher Weekly‘s Fall 2025 Children’s Preview!
Click here for the Dinos that Drive announcement in Publishers Weekly!
Animals in Pants
Click here to learn more about my publication journey with Susanna Leonard Hill!
Click here for my PB Spotlight chat with Brian Gehrlein!
Click here for the 2024 ALA/ALSC Notable Children’s Book winners!
Click here for the 2024 SCBWI Crystal Kite Award winners and honor winners!
Click here for this amazing STARRED review in School Library Journal!
Click here to celebrate the big 2023 CYBILS Awards Poetry win!
Click here for all the 2023 CYBILS Awards winners!
Click here for the 2023 CYBILS Awards Poetry finalists!
Click here for the 2024 ALSC Summer Reading Lists!
Click here for Betsy Bird’s 31 Days, 31 Lists: 2023 Poetry Books for Kids!
Click here to see the Children’s Book Council’s In Full Bloom: Poetry & Verse Spring Showcase!
Click here for my chat with Irene Latham about poetry, process, and pants!
Click here for the 2024 Society of Illustrators Original Art Show Featured Artists list (congrats to Kristen & Kevin Howdeshell)!
Click here for SLJ’s discussion of poetry collections and Newbery possibilities!
Click here for Evanston Public Library’s 101 Great Books for Kids List: 2023!
Click here for Princeton Public Library’s The Gift of Books 2023 – Books for Younger Children!
Click here for Princeton Public Library’s reading of “Squirrelly”!
Click here for Horn Book’s fun summer reading recommendations!
Click here for the International Youth Library’s 2024 White Ravens Catalog!
Click here for Imagination Soup‘s 35 Best NF Books of 2023 List!
Click here for Imagination Soup‘s 2024 Summer Book List for Kids, Second Grade!
Click here for Imagination Soup‘s Impressive Nonfiction Books for Third Graders!
Click here for Cracking the Cover‘s 2023 Picture Book Gift Guide!
Click here for Rebecca Gardyn Levington’s Picture Book Builders post!
Click here for Jena Benton’s Simply 7 post!
Click here for Tammi Sauer’s list of 23 PBs coming out in ’23!
Click here for Sylvia Vardell’s 2023 Sneak Peek List!
Click here for this awesome review in Kirkus!
Click here for this lovely review from Jama’s Alphabet Soup!
Click here for this feature on Picture Book Look Podcast with Kim Chaffee and Kirsti Call!
Click here for this feature on Children’s Book Podcast with Matthew Winner!
Click here for this inspiring PB panel discussion with Books of Wonder!
Click here for an exciting poetry reading on Poetry Boost with Michelle Schaub!
Click here for Aimee Satterlee’s great gift idea!
Click here for this great list of poetry books, including a review from Reading Power Gear!
Click here for a shout-out to animals in poetry at Dynamic Book Duos!
Click here for the Animals in Pants announcement in Publishers Weekly!
More Cool Links!
Click here for this fun podcast with Rachel Orr, Tasha Hilderman, and 12×12’s Julie Hedlund!
Click here for this amazing poetry contest with Renée LaTulippe (I’ll be one of the judges)!
Click here for this great chat about writing with Julie Hedlund!
Click here to cultivate creativity with James Preller!
Click here for some Storystorm inspiration with Tara Lazar and Picture Book Junction!
Click here for a chat about debut groups with Susanna Leonard Hill!
Click here for an exploration of the writer’s journey with Vivian Kirkfield!