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💡📚NCTE is right around the corner! Can’t wait to meet educators from around the country. 🎉 Come join presenters @hoffiecup, @zainabzk1, @thealisonjames, @moyuksel.author, @tonyaellisbooks, and @acraftyarab on an exciting panel about “Celebrating Diverse Strategies to Illuminate Inclusive Communities and Inspire Children.” Bring home activities, lesson plans, and book lists to engage your students.
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🎅🏾Hanging out at the Holiday Soul Market! Temps are still in the 80s in Houston, but this fun shopping event got me in the holiday spirit. It was fun to shop while the DJ spun R&B classics and hits. 🛍️🎶 And I bumped into so many old and new friends. This may become a Christmastime tradition! 🎁🎄
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📚One of the best things about attending large conferences like @nctegram is meeting my favorite authors and snagging FREE advanced reader copies of upcoming books! 🙌🏾 Thrilled to pay it forward with my @charlesbridgepublishing signing of my upcoming release CUPCAKE CHEMISTRY at the National Council of Teachers of English Conference in Philadelphia.
If you’ll be at the conference on Nov. 20 stop by to see me at Booth 1029 from 3:00-3:30 p.m. and get your FREE autographed copy of CUPCAKE CHEMISTRY (while supplies last)!! 😃🧁🎉 The book officially releases in March 30, 2027, and preorders are available NOW at all fine booksellers.
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🧁📚Check out the trailer for my upcoming picture book, CUPCAKE CHEMISTRY. The book releases March 30, 2027. Preorder at fine book sellers everywhere!
🧁Book Description🧁
Join Rihanna and Andre as a baking mishap turns into a fun lesson about chemistry, measurement, and precision—because STEAM is everywhere and for everyone!
Part of STEAMWORKS, a series of fiction picture books for ages 4–7 that relate science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM) to kids’ everyday lives.
Rihanna and Andre love helping their dad make barbecue sauce by adding a little bit of this and a little bit of that. Baking cupcakes to help Grandma Jean should be the same—right? But when their treats turn out misshapen and way too sweet, the siblings learn that while cooking is an art, baking is a science that requires precision.
Extend the learning beyond the story with expertly crafted back matter, including additional information about chemistry and measurement and fun STEAM activities.
STEAMWORKS features children of all backgrounds and abilities using scientific and mathematical thinking to solve everyday problems and answer questions that matter to them. Playful stories and extension activities ignite excitement for science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM) and empower children as thinkers, problem solvers, and innovators.
STEAMWORKS picture books are also available in Spanish.
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