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Nancy Tupper Ling @nancytupperling.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

June Cotner and I are thrilled to announce our latest book deal, thanks to our amazing agent Anne Marie O'Farrell and publisher Globe Pequot! This is our fifth anthology together, and we can't wait for readers to explore The Poetry of Nature. #bookdeals #poetry

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Nancy Tupper Ling @nancytupperling.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

#WorldKindnessDay w/ For Every Little Thing w/ coauthor June Cotner!

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Nancy Tupper Ling @nancytupperling.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

That was fun! Thanks @jcostabates.bsky.social for the photo, and time w/ Lesa & James Ransome!

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Nancy Tupper Ling @nancytupperling.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Thrilled to share the cover of Irene Latham's & Charles Waters' next book. FOR THE WIN: Poems Celebrating Phenomenal Athletes from Lerner Books which comes out March 2026. Grateful to have been invited to write one of the poems!

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Nancy Tupper Ling @nancytupperling.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

So many sightings of Hearts in my Pocket in SF! Thank you, CA libraries & bookstores! @shirleyngbenitez.bsky.social @unionsquarekids.bsky.social

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Nancy Tupper Ling @nancytupperling.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Wow! Thank you Valerie Fentress for your spot-on review of Hearts In My Pocket. Happy ❤️s is the #bookofthemonth for May! @shirleyngbenitez.bsky.social @unionsquarekids.bsky.social #kidlit

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Nancy Tupper Ling @nancytupperling.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

It's been a week!! Had to make it into an Irish Blessing. #irishblessing #poets #authorslife

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Nancy Tupper Ling @nancytupperling.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

This weekend! Can't believe I get to hang out with @shirleyngbenitez.bsky.social for our first launch together at @lindentree.bsky.social All my NorCal friends, please join us! 10:30 am on 1/12

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Nancy Tupper Ling @nancytupperling.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Exciting news from Northern Lights Book Awards for Bless the Earth with coauthor June Cotner & our many contributing poets! Grateful!

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Nancy Tupper Ling @nancytupperling.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Thank you @imaginationsoup.bsky.social for this lovely list and for including ❤️s in my Pocket! @shirleyngbenitez.bsky.social @unionsqandco.bsky.social imaginationsoup.net/best-picture...

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Nancy Tupper Ling @nancytupperling.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Today Leilah enters the world in Hearts in my Pocket! East Coast Launch is this Sunday, 2 pm, at @bluebunnybooks West Coast Launch is at @lindentreereads Los Altos on Sunday, January 12th, at 10:30 am @shirleyngbenitez.bsky.social

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Nancy Tupper Ling @nancytupperling.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Thank you @silverunicornbooks.bsky.social for including Hearts in my Pocket on your Favs for December! Honored! @shirleyngbenitez.bsky.social @unionsqandco.bsky.social Happy to sign if anyone orders from Silver Unicorn or your local indie.

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Nancy Tupper Ling @nancytupperling.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Getting close! 12-10-24 is release day for Hearts In My Pocket, illustrated by @shirleyngbenitez.bsky.social #kidlit

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Nancy Tupper Ling @nancytupperling.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

Great news from Kirkus Reviews! Shirley & I are so grateful that they "got" Hearts in My Pocket. www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews... For preorders, head to www.unionsquareandco.com/978145494974...

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Nancy Tupper Ling @nancytupperling.bsky.social · 17/05/2024

Back with #kidlitfirstlines this Friday! I am loving Raindrops Fall All Around by @charlesghigna & @laura_jane_watson since we've had a lot of rain near Boston. #poetrycommunity #kidlitauthor #kidlitillustration

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Nancy Tupper Ling @nancytupperling.bsky.social · 03/04/2024

It was quite the birthday party for Bless the Earth!

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Nancy Tupper Ling @nancytupperling.bsky.social · 26/03/2024

Flowers from my book covers! Such a nice welcome! #schoolvisits

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Nancy Tupper Ling @nancytupperling.bsky.social · 11/03/2024

I first wrote the idea for #OnePerfectPlan in 2007 after an Easter service. It sat in a drawer for years! So grateful my agent was excited about the idea & submitted it to PRH! For the first time, I was asked who I'd like to work with as an illustrator: Alina Chau, of course! Tks, Selah Awards!

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Nancy Tupper Ling @nancytupperling.bsky.social · 09/03/2024

It came back from the dead, with even more blossoms than before!

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Nancy Tupper Ling @nancytupperling.bsky.social · 08/03/2024

An added bonus comes with today's #kidlitfirstlines! I'll be seeing author Lesa Cline-Ransome in person at @bluebunnybooks. Love this gorgeous book of hers...and her latest, One Big Open Sky.

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Nancy Tupper Ling @nancytupperling.bsky.social · 01/03/2024

Today's #kidlitfirstlines is thanks to @carriefinison.bsky.social's important picture book, Don't Hug Doug. After all, not everyone wants a hug. #kidlitauthor #kidlitartist @d_wiseman

Today's #kidlitfirstlines is thanks to @carriefinison's important picture book, Don't Hug Doug. After all, not everyone wants a hug. #kidlitauthor #kidlitartist @d_wiseman

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Nancy Tupper Ling @nancytupperling.bsky.social · 17/02/2024

A Sydney Taylor Honor Award Winner this year! Here’s to Susan Lynn Meyer’s latest book #TheSkyFullOfSong, a story of young Jewish girl, Shoshana, and her family who must flee the Russian Empire in 1905 and immigrate to North Dakota.

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Nancy Tupper Ling @nancytupperling.bsky.social · 09/02/2024

#kidlitfirstlines from California! Heading into the Year of the Dragon w/ @jannieho.bsky.social & her fun read, Happy Chinese New Year!

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Nancy Tupper Ling @nancytupperling.bsky.social · 27/01/2024

How do you know it’s Friday? #kidlitfirstlines Today discover Padma & her amazing book, The Bridge Home, if you haven’t already!

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Nancy Tupper Ling @nancytupperling.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

Ling2 created a cover album for her friend’s debut on Spotify! Look for “Singing Through the Telephone” by Peter Miles

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Nancy Tupper Ling @nancytupperling.bsky.social · 19/01/2024

One of my personal favorites for today’s #kidlitfirstlines The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane is always a go-to recommendation in the bookstore as well. Thanks Kate DiCamillo for your words & inspiration!

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Nancy Tupper Ling @nancytupperling.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

Can’t go wrong w/ Lady Pancake & Sir French Toast by @joshfunkbooks.bsky.social #kidlitfirstlines Deep in the fridge, and behind the green peas,/ way past the tofu and left of the cheese,/ up in the corner, and back by a roast, sat Lady Pancake beside Sir French Toast.

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Nancy Tupper Ling @nancytupperling.bsky.social · 20/12/2023

Winner of the @northerndawnawards in the Mindfulness Category! Grateful to our awesome contributors!! Check out the other winners. northerndawnawards.com/2023-norther... like @shreevebooks.bsky.social @monicaacker1.bsky.social

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Nancy Tupper Ling @nancytupperling.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

A favorite author of mine, @cylev.bsky.social , & a very powerful #kidlitfirstlines for a picture book. Amazing illustrations by Evan Turk, too. What biographies are you reading? #kidlitauthor #kidlitillustration #biography

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Nancy Tupper Ling @nancytupperling.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

Dogsitting and getting kisses from Romo! How many people have written dog stories?

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Nancy Tupper Ling @nancytupperling.bsky.social · 19/11/2023

Fun in the snack aisle with my buddy Lydia at the Chinese grocery store

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