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“My students have a renewed excitement about writing” and other feedback about my recent author visits

Chris Barton2024-07-10T10:51:28-05:00July 10th, 2024|Categories: author visits, Chris Barton, online author visits, school visits, Texas school visits, virtual author visits|

Introducing myself to an audience of fourth and fifth [...]

15th anniversary giveaway of The Day-Glo Brothers

Chris Barton2024-07-01T10:24:12-05:00July 1st, 2024|Categories: Bartography Express, Charlesbridge, Chris Barton, giveaway, The Day-Glo Brothers|

At my launch party for The Day-Glo Brothers at [...]

Glitter Everywhere! is a Crystal Kite winner!

Chris Barton2024-06-30T15:03:55-05:00June 30th, 2024|Categories: Chaaya Prabhat, Charlesbridge, Chris Barton, Crystal Kite Award, Glitter Everywhere, SCBWI|

What award befits a nonfiction picture book about glitter? How [...]

I’m pleased to introduce Authors for Parent & Family Engagement!

Chris Barton2024-06-19T11:20:48-05:00June 19th, 2024|Categories: Adrianna Cuevas, APFE, author visits, Authors for Parent & Family Engagement, Chris Barton, Don Tate, Donna Janell Bowman, Family Night, Jennifer Ziegler, Literacy Night, Parent and Family Engagement, Parent and Family Night, PFE, Texas authors, Title I, Varian Johnson|

Say hello to Authors for Parent & Family Engagement (APFE)! [...]

August 1 application deadline for Texas grants for my September-December 2024 author visits

Chris Barton2024-06-12T15:28:59-05:00June 12th, 2024|Categories: Arts Respond Performance Support, author visits, Chris Barton, grants, library visits, school visits, Texas, Texas Commission on the Arts, Texas library visits, Texas school visits, Texas Touring Roster|

As a Texas Commission on the Arts (TCA) Texas Touring [...]

This One’s Dedicated to… Episode 53 & giveaway: Worser, by Jennifer Ziegler

Chris Barton2024-06-12T14:41:52-05:00June 12th, 2024|Categories: Bartography Express, Chris Barton, dedications, giveaway, Holiday House, Jennifer Ziegler, middle grade, This One's Dedicated to, Worser|

Welcome to the 53rd episode of This One's Dedicated to..., [...]

This One’s Dedicated to… Episode 52 & giveaway: How to Make a Book (About My Dog), by Chris Barton

Chris Barton2024-06-12T14:41:12-05:00June 12th, 2024|Categories: Bartography Express, Chris Barton, dedications, giveaway, How to Make a Book (About My Dog), Jennifer Ziegler, Karen Blumenthal, Lerner, Millbrook, nonfiction, This One's Dedicated to|

Welcome to the 52nd episode of This One's Dedicated to..., [...]

Approximately 8,800 instruments!

Chris Barton2024-06-03T06:36:56-05:00June 2nd, 2024|Categories: 88 Instruments, Austin Public Library, Chris Barton, Shark vs. Train, The Library Foundation|

The Kids Block Party yesterday at Austin Public Library was [...]

Discovering Texas creators of books for young readers

Chris Barton2024-06-04T06:04:21-05:00May 31st, 2024|Categories: Chris Barton, Cynthia Levinson, Education Service Centers, Lone Star Literary Life, SCBWI, TASLA, Texas Association of School Library Administrators, Texas Institute of Letters, Texas Library Association, Texas library visits, Texas school libraries, Texas school visits, Writers' League of Texas|

Greetings to those attending the 2024 TASLA summer workshop as [...]

This summer, let’s get your manuscript (or your presentation, or…) into shape!

Chris Barton2024-07-09T15:03:32-05:00May 27th, 2024|Categories: Annette Dauphin Simon, Book consulting, Children's book consulting, Chris Barton, Cynthia Levinson, Don Tate, Editorial consulting, Manuscript-submission consulting, Nonfiction manuscript consulting, Nonfiction picture book consulting, Nonfiction picture book critiques, Nonfiction research consulting, Pat Zietlow Miller, Picture book consulting, School-presentation consulting, School-visit consulting|

This July makes 15 years since I became a published [...]

I’m the new vice president of the Texas Institute of Letters!

Chris Barton2024-05-24T17:06:18-05:00May 24th, 2024|Categories: Chris Barton, David Bowles, Texas Institute of Letters|

There was a big professional/extracurricular development for me earlier this [...]

Glitter Everywhere! is a Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year

Chris Barton2024-05-15T06:11:05-05:00May 15th, 2024|Categories: Bank Street College of Education, Best Books of 2023, Chaaya Prabhat, Charlesbridge, Chris Barton, Glitter Everywhere|

Bank Street College of Education's 2024 edition of The Best [...]