Cherry Mo

I’m thrilled to announce that HOME IN A LUNCHBOX is a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection. What an incredible honor! Thank you, @JrLibraryGuild ! 🎉 Official pub date is June 11, 2024. Preorder link in bio! 📚 #kidlit #JLGSelection @PenguinClass @penguinkids

@kmoorebooks @penguinkids @PenguinClass @PenguinBooks @ALALibrary That means so much!! 🫶❤️ Thank you!

@hellocherrymo @penguinkids @PenguinClass @PenguinBooks @ALALibrary you're welcome! This book spoke right to my heart. It's masterfully done. I'm so happy for you, Cherry!

Congrats to all the 2025 ALA Award winners! I'm especially jazzed about HOME IN A LUNCHBOX by @hellocherrymo 's Caldecott Honor! Visually stunning, beautiful-in-every-way, sweet, & delicious #picturebook is an all-time fav💕🥟 YAY!🎉💗 @hellocherrymo @penguinkids @PenguinClass

@EleeReads 🤗 Thank you so much, Elizabeth! Can’t thank you enough for being my amazing editor!!

@roarin24s 🥰🥰 Thank you!!

I spy a #roarin24s book on this list -- HOME IN A LUNCHBOX by debut author/illustrator @hellocherrymo!! 🦁Good luck to all the contenders for the 2025 Caldecott!!

@SCBWI_SoBreeze @MelissaJMiles Thank you! 😊

@hellocherrymo @MelissaJMiles We're so excited for you!

@SCBWI_SoBreeze I recognize our own @hellocherrymo on this list!! Woohoo!

2025 Mock Caldecott List: mrschureads.blogspot.com/2024/11/2025-m…

@MrSchuReads Thank you so much for choosing Home in a Lunchbox to be a part of this amazing list of beautiful books!!!

✨Cover reveal✨ MARTINA'S MUY BAD DAY (words by me and illustrations by Natalia Jiménez Osorio) will be coming to bookshelves 2/4/2025! This book is an ode to the very worst days: the kind of days that require a celebration! @HarperCollins #kidlit #picturebooks

@roarin24s Aww thank you!! 🥰🥰

Loved reading all of these predictions... and thrilled to see HOME IN A LUNCHBOX by our own @hellocherrymo on the list!! 🦁🦁🦁

Our first Q&A 'Paths to Publication' panel held at the Duluth Library did not disappoint! @mandyscribbles Thank you to all who came out to support our fab writers and illustrators! @BonnieBright @PatriciaCruzan @DanaLEdwards @TKGrant1 @McCallHoyle @hellocherrymo @LisaLStauffer

@mandyscribbles @MichelleSKenned @sarah_musolino @DanaLEdwards @TKGrant1 @LisaLStauffer @McCallHoyle You and @MichelleSKenned did awesome!! It was so much fun! ☺️❤️

and of course, the lovely @MichelleSKenned for being my partner in crime, @sarah_musolino for the assist, and all our wonderful panelists: Patricia Cruzan, @hellocherrymo, @DanaLEdwards, @TKGrant1, @LisaLStauffer, Bonnie Bright, and @McCallHoyle!

Rockin' the podium at Duluth Library yesterday for our Paths to Publication Kidlit Q&A. Thanks to all the authors and illustrators on our panel, @gwinnettlibrary for hosting, and @SCBWI_SoBreeze for giving me this opportunity. I wasn't as nervous as I thought I'd be...

@nmillerillo Aww thanks Nancy! YOUR art is gorgeous!!! We shall definitely meet some day~

@hellocherrymo @rgcillustration @juliepkoon @TobaccoViolet @stephcalvertart I wished I could have met you in person at the show. Maybe next time! Your work looked amazing!

It was an honor to be included in a group illustration art show at Avondale Arts Alliance with some of my former guests on the My Creative Life Podcast. @hellocherrymo @rgcillustration @juliepkoon @TobaccoViolet @stephcalvertart Listen 🎶 anchor.fm/nmillerillustr…

@roarin24s @MelanieWSinger I’m not a coffee drinker either! Can’t take the caffeine too well. Rare to find someone else who isn’t a coffee drinker ☕️ 😄

Curious to know what makes us tick? Check out this thread for fun tidbits about some of our Roarin24 authors!🧵#WritingCommunity @KaleeGwar @MelanieWSinger @hellocherrymo @allison_rozo @rrozot @MegAuchenbach 

@VanishaSukdeo Aww thank you, Vanisha!! 💕🤗

@hellocherrymo spotted at Indigo in Yorkdale in Toronto. Congratulations again, pal 😀🎉🎉

@thevetwrites @pragmaticmom @NadiaAwriter Yay! 🥰 Thank you @pragmaticmom for including HOME IN A LUNCHBOX!

@pragmaticmom @NadiaAwriter @hellocherrymo

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