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Sylvia Chen 余愛莉 @sylviaichen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

🤩🥢📚🥳It was my absolute honor to accept the 2025-2026 Keystone to Reading Book Award (Primary) for TRICKY CHOPSTICKS in person at this year’s KSLA conference! I adored spending time with you all and I can’t thank KSLA and all the wonderful students in PA enough for voting it as your fave.*Thank you*!

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Sylvia Chen 余愛莉 @sylviaichen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

🤩📚🥳 The weather was *amazing* for the Glen Rock Children's Book Festival! Couldn't take many pics since I was so busy chatting with kids & attendees, but the after-festival meetup was oh-so-lovely! THANK YOU for bringing back this beloved event for your community! 😍🎉 #TheCuriousReader #GlenRockGuild

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Sylvia Chen 余愛莉 @sylviaichen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🥳✨🎉 Come join us! I’ll be at the Glen Rock Children’s Book Festival this Saturday, Oct. 3 11am-3pm with TRICKY CHOPSTICKS and SPARKLES FOR SUNNY and over 45 #Kidlit creators! Have lots of book fun, pick up swag, get books signed, plus more! 💫 #TheCuriousReader #GlenRockGuild

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Sylvia Chen 余愛莉 @sylviaichen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🤩📚🥳 Have you read these? I’m super excited to share this next #PBStudyBuddy feature for NAVIGATING NIGHT, BECAUSE OF DADS, and SISTER SCRIBBLES. I am in awe of these excellent picture books, hope you love them too! 📚👍🏼 #PBStudyBuddy* #Kidlit #Edusky *For more, visit pbstudybuddy.com

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Sylvia Chen 余愛莉 @sylviaichen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🥳🥢📙🎉 It was my joy to bring lots of TRICKY CHOPSTICKS literacy fun to Tip-Top Brain’s Sunnyside grand opening! Loved signing so many books too—thank you for inviting me & CONGRATS! 🌟 #TipTopBrain #queenschamberofcommerce @simonkids.bsky.social @fannyliem.bsky.social

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Sylvia Chen 余愛莉 @sylviaichen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🤩🥢🥳 So honored to happy-post that TRICKY CHOPSTICKS is a picture book nominee for the 2027 North Carolina Children’s Book Award! Love how kids in NC will be reading to vote in March and having more chopsticks fun too! 🥰 @simonkids.bsky.social @ssedlib.bsky.social @fannyliem.bsky.social

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Sylvia Chen 余愛莉 @sylviaichen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

💫🥢📚🥳 I’m excited to share TRICKY CHOPSTICKS and SPARKLES FOR SUNNY joy in Sep/Oct with readers and supporters in NY, NJ, and PA. Will you come to any of these events? Come say hi if you go! @simonkids.bsky.social @ssedlib.bsky.social @fannyliem.bsky.social @penguinkids.bsky.social #ThaiMyPhuong

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Sylvia Chen 余愛莉 @sylviaichen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

🤩📚🌟 I’m excited to share this next #PBStudyBuddy feature for ENOUGH TO SHARE, THE HOUSE BEFORE FALLING INTO THE SEA, and MY NEIGHBORHOOD. Have you seen these picture books? Hope you love them too! 📚👍🏼 #PBStudyBuddy* #Kidlit #Edusky *For a closer-up view and more, visit pbstudybuddy.com

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Sylvia Chen 余愛莉 @sylviaichen.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

😍💫🫶 Feeling super lucky that my first writing retreat ever was the 5th year anniversary Asian American Community Retreat at Boyds Mills, hosted by Debbi Michiko Florence & Grace Lin! So soul-filling meeting with AAPI creators, sharing our dreams, and cheering each other on.

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Sylvia Chen 余愛莉 @sylviaichen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

😍Oh my heart! Visited dearly missed friends in Seattle Eastside, and signed books at Brick & Mortar Books in Redmond (thanked Shay for her review featured for @americanbookseller.bsky.social's Jan/Feb Kids’ Indie Next List Pick) and Redmond & Kirkland Library. It was all joy, so thankful to do this!

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Sylvia Chen 余愛莉 @sylviaichen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

💖🥳 Such a fab time! *LOVED* reuniting and meeting up with such a great #kidlit crew for happy hour in Redmond, WA! Really miss living here, so it was bubbly joy seeing you all in person and catching up. I hope you can continue meeting up, you're so lucky to be near each other!!

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Sylvia Chen 余愛莉 @sylviaichen.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

🤩📚🌟 So thrilled to share this next #PBStudyBuddy feature for BRAVE LIKE A LION!, TIC-TAC-TOE CHICKEN, and THE LITTLE STONE BUDDHA. Hope you love these fantastic picture books, check them out if you haven’t already! 📚👍🏼 #PBStudyBuddy* #Kidlit #Edusky *For more, visit pbstudybuddy.com

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Sylvia Chen 余愛莉 @sylviaichen.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

🥳🥳🥳 Our hearts are full! LOVED going to The World's Borough Bookshop in Jackson Heights to celebrate its 3rd year anniversary Sunday on a panel with fellow native Queens authors #HeatherEng and #AlvinEng. Thanks to all who came, hope you enjoyed and *Go Queens creatives*!!!

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Sylvia Chen 余愛莉 @sylviaichen.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

🤩📚🥳 Happy to share this next #PBStudyBuddy feature for HOT DOG!, JULIE AND THE MANGO TREE, and DOLL TROUBLE. Hope you enjoy these wonderful picture books too! 📚👍🏼 #PBStudyBuddy* #Kidlit #Edusky *For a closer-up view and more, visit pbstudybuddy.com

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Sylvia Chen 余愛莉 @sylviaichen.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

🥳 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! 🎉

Event graphic showing details for a native Queens author panel titled "From Queens with Live: Writers on the Borough that Inspired Them" with authors Alvin Eng, Heather Eng, and Sylvia Chen scheduled for Aug 9 3:30-4:30pm at The World's Borough Bookshop in Jackson Heights, NY to celebrate its 3rd year anniversary.

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Sylvia Chen 余愛莉 @sylviaichen.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

🤩💫🥳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

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Sylvia Chen 余愛莉 @sylviaichen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

🥳💫🤩 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!

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Sylvia Chen 余愛莉 @sylviaichen.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

🤩📚🌟 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

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Sylvia Chen 余愛莉 @sylviaichen.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

🌟💫🤩 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

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Sylvia Chen 余愛莉 @sylviaichen.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

🥳📚🤩 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

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Sylvia Chen 余愛莉 @sylviaichen.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

🌴📙🌺 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! 💗

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Sylvia Chen 余愛莉 @sylviaichen.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

🤩📚🌟 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

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Sylvia Chen 余愛莉 @sylviaichen.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

🤩🗳️💫 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

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Sylvia Chen 余愛莉 @sylviaichen.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

😍📚🤩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

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Sylvia Chen 余愛莉 @sylviaichen.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

🤩📚🌟 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

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Sylvia Chen 余愛莉 @sylviaichen.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

😲🤩🥳 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

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Sylvia Chen 余愛莉 @sylviaichen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

🖊️📚🤩 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!

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Sylvia Chen 余愛莉 @sylviaichen.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

🎉📚🤩 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

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Sylvia Chen 余愛莉 @sylviaichen.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

😲📚🤩 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

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Sylvia Chen 余愛莉 @sylviaichen.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

🤩📚🌟 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

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Sylvia Chen 余愛莉 @sylviaichen.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

🤩📚🌟 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

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Sylvia Chen 余愛莉 @sylviaichen.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

🌟🗳️💫 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

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Sylvia Chen 余愛莉 @sylviaichen.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

👩🏻‍🏫📚👥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

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Sylvia Chen 余愛莉 @sylviaichen.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

🥳📚🤩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

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Sylvia Chen 余愛莉 @sylviaichen.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

🥳🥢🎉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

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Sylvia Chen 余愛莉 @sylviaichen.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

🥳🥢📙 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

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Sylvia Chen 余愛莉 @sylviaichen.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

😍🥢🪭🥳 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! 🤩✨

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Sylvia Chen 余愛莉 @sylviaichen.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

🤩📚😍 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

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Sylvia Chen 余愛莉 @sylviaichen.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

🤩💫🌟 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

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Sylvia Chen 余愛莉 @sylviaichen.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

📙🥢🥳 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

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Sylvia Chen 余愛莉 @sylviaichen.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

📚💖🤩 So very happy to uplift these *fabulous* picture books with #PBStudyBuddy: I AM A BON DANCER, CAN YOU IMAGINE?, and BINNA’S DALGONA. Please share and support them too! 📚👍🏼 #PBStudyBuddy* #Kidlit #Edusky *For a closer-up view and more, visit pbstudybuddy.com

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Sylvia Chen 余愛莉 @sylviaichen.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

📣📕🎉 UPDATE! I’ll be at Norwood Public Library, Gold Coast Book Fair, Words on Warren, Millburn Library, Chatterbox Books, and the SCBWI NJ conference with SPARKLES FOR SUNNY & TRICKY CHOPSTICKS these May/June dates! Would love to see you if you can come to any of these events!

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Sylvia Chen 余愛莉 @sylviaichen.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

🤩📚🥳 It was the *BEST* at Hudson Children’s Book Festival today! So non-stop, I didn’t have a chance to take pics or videos, but I LOVED running my book activities, chatting with attendees & signing lots of books! @penguinkids.bsky.social #thaimyphuong @simonkids.bsky.social @fannyliem.bsky.social

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Sylvia Chen 余愛莉 @sylviaichen.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

📣📕🖊️🎉 I'll be at Hudson Children's Book Festival, Gold Coast Book Fair, Words on Warren, & Millburn Library with lots of book fun for SPARKLES FOR SUNNY & TRICKY CHOPSTICKS in May! Please come if you can! @penguinkids.bsky.social #thaimyphuong @simonkids.bsky.social @fannyliem.bsky.social

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Sylvia Chen 余愛莉 @sylviaichen.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

📚🤩 Thrilled to share three #PBStudyBuddy features here: MR. CHOW’S NIGHT MARKET, IGGY WHO BREATHES FIRE, and I’M SORRY YOU GOT MAD. Love these fantastic picture books! 📚👍🏼 #PBStudyBuddy* #Kidlit #Edusky *For a closer-up view and more, visit pbstudybuddy.com

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Sylvia Chen 余愛莉 @sylviaichen.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

📚💖 Sharing 3 more #PBStudyBuddy reviews for JIM! Six True Stories About One Great Artist: James Marshall, SQUAWK OF SPANISH, and NOODLES ON A BICYCLE. All such fabulous reads! 📚👍🏼

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Sylvia Chen 余愛莉 @sylviaichen.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

🌟📚🌟 Another stellar trio for this #PBStudyBuddy feature! A RAKHI FOR RAKESH, ONLY, and GOOD BOOKS FOR BAD CHILDREN. Hope you enjoy these picture books too! 📚👍🏼 #PBStudyBuddy* #Kidlit #Edusky *For a closer-up view and more, visit pbstudybuddy.com

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Sylvia Chen 余愛莉 @sylviaichen.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

🏃🏻‍♀️😍 Here's how I walked to sign SPARKLES FOR SUNNY at 9 stores in lower NYC! Loved making the rounds to support local bookstores! 🥰 @penguinkids.bsky.social #thaimyphuong #yuandmebooks #mcnallyjackson #wordsonwarren #pearlrivermart @strandbooks.com #bnunionsqnyc @booksofwonder.bsky.social

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Sylvia Chen 余愛莉 @sylviaichen.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

📚💗💫 Next up, #PBStudyBuddy book love for: MAYBE JUST ASK ME!, THE SHADOW AND THE GHOST, & SONG AFTER SONG—all such awe-inspiring books! 📚👍🏼 #PBStudyBuddy #Kidlit #Edusky @kdmaz.bsky.social @simonkids.bsky.social @ssedlib.bsky.social @levinequerido.bsky.social @juliefhedlund.bsky.social

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