🥳 So excited—The World's Borough Bookshop in Jackson Heights has its 3rd year celebration this weekend! I'll be on a panel Sun Aug 9 @ 3:30pm with fellow native Queens authors #HeatherEng and #AlvinEng, sharing how our upbringing has shaped our work. Come join us! 🎉

Congratulations to our Crystal Kite winning members! Way to go, @jpuglow.bsky.social, @lynnstreetbooks.bsky.social, @sylviaichen.bsky.social, @carolinelperry.bsky.social, and @stephaniegibeault.bsky.social! We are so proud of you! #awards #crystalkite #scbwi #amwriting #picturebooks #kidlit

🤩💫🥳I’m so very honored by the super exciting news that SPARKLES FOR SUNNY is the 2026 SCBWI Crystal Kite Award Winner (Atlantic Division)! My heartfelt thanks to everyone who voted and a huge congrats to all the winners! *Thank you*!!!✨💖🫶 @penguinkids.bsky.social #ThaiMyPhuong @scbwi.bsky.social

🥳💫🤩 I *love* going into NYC! This time I signed my books at McNally Jackson/Rockefeller Center, B&N/5th Ave, and the NYPL/5th & 40th (their guest book too!). Also went to the cool Menmin Made pop-up @ Pearl River Mart, Great NY Noodletown, & NEZHA show @ Sheen Center with my older son Mac. So fun!

🤩📚🌟 So thrilled to share this next #PBStudyBuddy feature: SUNSHINE IN THE MONSOONS, SARANG SAVES THE SCHOOL, and THE SHAPE OF LOVE. Hope you love these stellar picture books too! 📚👍🏼 #PBStudyBuddy* #Kidlit #Edusky *For a closer-up view and more, visit pbstudybuddy.com

🌟💫🤩 Author friends are the *BEST*! Brilliant @stacysjensen.bsky.social kindly bedazzled SPARKLES FOR SUNNY and sent it to me with a signed copy of her BEFORE I LIVED HERE+more! 🥳✨ @penguinkids.bsky.social #holidayhousepeachtree @scbwi.bsky.social #SCBWINJ @scbwi-sobreeze.bsky.social

🥳📚🤩 It's review time for a new #PBStudyBuddy feature! There's so much to love for MAC WEARS A HAT, EVERY PEACH IS A STORY, and FALL: A Seasons Story. Hope you enjoy! 📚👍🏼 #PBStudyBuddy* #Kidlit #Edusky *For a closer-up view and more, visit pbstudybuddy.com

🌴📙🌺 My heart! TRICKY CHOPSTICKS is a 2026-2027 Gosling Award nominee in Hawaii!! I got to visit Maui recently, caught a lucky rainbow book pic, and signed copies/bookplates w/bookmarks at B&N Kahului and Kapalua Golf Shop (for SPARKLES FOR SUNNY too). Thank you for the honor! 💗

Proud to be a @pbrisingstars.bsky.social mentor with @sylviaichen.bsky.social, @lisaljrogers.bsky.social, and Namita Moolani Mehra! ⭐️ SCBWI members can vote in all divisions! Voting ends July 17. 💫 www.scbwi.org/crystal-kite 🌟 #kidlit #booksky

🤩📚🌟 It's another #PBStudyBuddy feature of *fabulous* picture books! EVEN STEVEN, GILBERT AND THE GHOST, and IF MY SISTER WERE A WORM. Love these must-reads!!! 📚👍🏼 #PBStudyBuddy* #Kidlit #Edusky *For a closer-up view and more, visit pbstudybuddy.com

🤩🗳️💫 Oh wow! SPARKLES FOR SUNNY is a FINALIST in the 2026 SCBWI Crystal Kite Award (Atlantic Division). Final voting is open through July 17. Thank you so very much if you vote!! 🥰 www.scbwi.org/crystal-kite @scbwi.bsky.social #SCBWINJ @penguinkids.bsky.social #ThaiMyPhuong

😍📚🤩So happy to share this next #PBStudyBuddy feature for CHOPSTICKS ARE, WE ARE AMERICAN, TOO, and NOOR AND THE STORYTELLER. These are such incredibly crafted picture books! 👏📚👍🏼 #PBStudyBuddy* #Kidlit #Edusky *For a closer-up view and more, visit pbstudybuddy.com

🤩📚🌟 I’m delighted to share this next #PBStudyBuddy feature for POST OFFICE BAY, MONKEY’S SWEET SURPRISE, and LOWRIDER FOR SALE. Check out these *fabulous* books! 🎉 📚👍🏼 #PBStudyBuddy* #Kidlit #Edusky *For a closer-up view and more, visit pbstudybuddy.com

😲🤩🥳 Oh wow! TRICKY CHOPSTICKS is the 2025-2026 VA Reads Picture Book Winner! Thank you to all the amazing students in Virginia who voted and supporting educators too. It's a true honor—hope you keep enjoying!!!🥢🎉 @simonkids.bsky.social @ssedlib.bsky.social @fannyliem.bsky.social @vaasl.bsky.social

🖊️📚🤩 Just in time for summer! Over 5 months, I signed 20+ library copies of TRICKY CHOPSTICKS & 26+ of SPARKLES FOR SUNNY for 33 NJ libraries in the BCCLS system. Thank you all for granting me permission+*huge* thanks to #MillburnLibrary for helping place many item-level holds!

🎉📚🤩 Thrilled to share this next #PBStudyBuddy feature for MY HEART SPEAKS KRIOLU, THE LEGEND OF BAN-DAL, and MY PONY WONDER. Check out these excellent picture books! 💫 📚👍🏼 #PBStudyBuddy* #Kidlit #Edusky *For more, visit pbstudybuddy.com #MyHeartSpeaksKriolu #TheLegendofBandal #MyPonyWonder

For anyone going to ALA, I am very very close to confirming a Kidlit Happy Hour (aka Kidlit Drink Night, but in the afternoon) for the Saturday afternoon. If you'd be interested, encourage the effort (which is costing me money this time) & like this post!

😲📚🤩 Wow! SPARKLES FOR SUNNY is on the K-2 suggested list for the ALL RISE Summer 2026 Book Club by Aaron Judge! Such an honor, and it’s so cool to see this literacy initiative for kids too. 🌟Thank you!!!🌟 #AllRiseOfficial #AllRiseFoundation @penguinkids.bsky.social @penguinschoollib.bsky.social

🤩📚🌟 I presented two workshops at the SCBWI NJ conference! Thanks to all who attended my sessions. Loved chatting with so many #Kidlit attendees and hearing others present too! @scbwi.bsky.social #SCBWINJ @simonkids.bsky.social @fannyliem.bsky.social @penguinkids.bsky.social #ThaiMyPhuong

🤩📚🌟 So happy to share this next #PBStudyBuddy feature for BENEATH THE SAME ROUND MOON, WHEN SCIENCE STOOD STILL, and BROKEN. Love these stellar picture books! 💫 📚👍🏼 #PBStudyBuddy* #Kidlit #Edusky *For a closer-up view and more, visit pbstudybuddy.com

🌟🗳️💫 Will you vote? SPARKLES FOR SUNNY is up for the 2026 SCBWI Crystal Kite Award in the Atlantic Division. First round voting is open through June 22. Thank you if you vote! 🥰 Thank you if you vote! www.scbwi.org/crystal-kite @scbwi.bsky.social #SCBWINJ @penguinkids.bsky.social #ThaiMyPhuong

So excited to have @sylviaichen.bsky.social on my blog today! She's sharing all the details of her books, #PBStudyBuddy and more! Thanks so much, Sylvia! brandi-annuyemura.com/blog/qanda-w...

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👩🏻‍🏫📚👥Going to the NJ SCBWI conference this Sun, June 7? I’m presenting two workshops—Secret Writing Tricks, and Let’s Chat About Swag: Recommended Practices for Picture Book Promo. Hope to see you if you go! #SCBWINJ @simonkids.bsky.social @fannyliem.bsky.social @penguinkids.bsky.social #ThaiMyPhuong

🥳📚🤩For my next storytime before school's out, I’m at Chatterbox Books in South Orange, NJ! I'll read both Tricky Chopsticks & Sparkles for Sunny, with chopsticks challenges, swag & book signing! #ChatterboxBooks @penguinkids.bsky.social #ThaiMyPhuong @simonkids.bsky.social @fannyliem.bsky.social

🥳🥢🎉I had an amazing time doing a TRICKY CHOPSTICKS storytime w/STEM activities—chopsticks challenges + 3D lucky star origami—at my local Millburn Library! Thanks to all who came plus the librarian hosts & teen volunteers!🥰 @simonkids.bsky.social @fannyliem.bsky.social @millburnlibrary.bsky.social

🥳🥢📙 I’m super thrilled to visit my very own local Millburn Library in NJ this Thurs May 28 4-5:15pm with a TRICKY CHOPSTICKS storytime and STEM activities (chopsticks challenges + 3D lucky star origami). All are welcome! @simonkids.bsky.social @fannyliem.bsky.social @millburnlibrary.bsky.social

😍🥢🪭🥳 I had a blast holding a double storytime for TRICKY CHOPSTICKS and SPARKLES FOR SUNNY at #WordsonWarren in NYC, followed by a fun chopsticks challenge and sparkly fan craft, plus book signing and swag handouts! Thank you for hosting me and a heartfelt thanks to all who came! 🤩✨

🤩📚😍 Happy to share this next #PBStudyBuddy feature for BECOMING BOBA, MY AMERICA BLOOMS, and TOGETHER WE REMEMBER. Check out these incredible books! 📚👍🏼 #PBStudyBuddy* #Kidlit *For a closer-up view and more, visit pbstudybuddy.com

🤩💫🌟 I had the most *stellar* time at the @goldcoastbkfair reading SPARKLES FOR SUNNY! Loved being a part of this amazing event close to my childhood home! @penguinkids.bsky.social #GoldCoastBookFair #TheodoresBooks #HeatherEng #RobCameron #HyewonYum @dellarossferreri.bsky.social #SueHodara

📙🥢🥳 I love doing library events! Thank you #NorwoodPublicLibrary for hosting me. It was so fun to read TRICKY CHOPSTICKS, answer Q&A, run chopsticks challenges, and sign a copy someone brought plus hand out swag. Hope you all enjoyed! @simonkids.bsky.social @fannyliem.bsky.social