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Megan Hoyt

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Megan Hoyt first fell in love with reading on a cozy branch of the crabapple tree outside her Texas home, and Marguerite Henry’s “horsey books” still remind her of the loud Texas cicadas at dusk. Her award-winning picture book biography, BARTALI'S BICYCLE, with Harper Collins Children's Books' new imprint, Quill Tree Books, was a National Jewish Book Award finalist. THE GREATEST SONG OF ALL, KATI'S TINY MESSENGERS, AND A GRAND IDEA followed, also with Quill Tree Books. TZIMMES FOR TZIPPORAH, her first Jewish-themed picture book came out in 2023 with Apples and Honey Press. Her poem, "Thanksgiving by the Lake," appears in the Millbrook Press anthology Thanku: Poems of Gratitude (2019). Her first picture book, HILDEGARD'S GIFT, came out in 2
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And the Nobel Prize in Medicine goes to... Dr. Katalin Karikó!

Picture         Our most recent picture book biography, Kati's TIny Messengers, written by me and illustrated by the talented Vivien Milden-berger, came out this week with Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins. And also this week, Dr. Katalin Karikó and Dr. Drew Weissman won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their work researching mRNA and its application to vaccines, including the Covid-19 vaccine Read more of this blog post »
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