Amy Cherrix Author
@acherrix
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I write books for young readers: GOOD NIGHT, LITTLE BOOKSTORE, ANIMAL ARCHITECTS, IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON, and more. 🚀😷 IG: amycherrix
Little Bookstore
Joined January 2009
Thanks so much for sharing, @jess_a_roux, and for helping keep Asheville's wild bears, WILD! #bearwise
Curious about animals living in urban environments? Check out @acherrix's Backyard Bears: Conservation, Habitat Changes, & the Rise of Urban Wildlife For fans of: - Bear-y fascination non-fiction - North Carolina & Blue Ridge Mountains - Adorable bears - Conservation #amreading
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Friends, I started a YouTube channel. Cozy author vlogs, writing tips, and content for kid lit creators of all disciplines. Hope to see you there!
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Delighted to finally share that I'm working on my first non-fiction picture book about dinosaurs (and other prehistoric animals). THE UNITED STATES OF DINOSAURS roars onto shelves with @odddotbooks in Fall 2026!🦖🦕🦣🐅
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Virus Hunters is a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection. Thank you @JrLibraryGuild for this esteemed honor! Virus Hunters publishes on 9/10/24 and is available now for pre-order, wherever books are sold. #Virushunters #middlegradenonfiction #science
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Excited to listen to what @PaulaYoo has to say on the #ReadersHeart podcast!
Thank you @jenniferlagarde for today’s #TheReadersHeart podcast recording! Stay tuned for our air date! #TeamRedSpecs 👓😎🎙️📚❤️
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★ Amy Cherrix’s (@acherrix) “highly educational” middle grade nonfiction work VIRUS HUNTERS: HOW SCIENCE PROTECTS PEOPLE WHEN OUTBREAKS AND PANDEMICS STRIKE “reads like a gripping and timely whodunit”
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June 29, 2024: RISING FROM THE ASHES 1992 #LAUprising #Saigu 🔥 FROM A WHISPER TO A RALLYING CRY #VincentChin ✊📚Join Yoo @ALA_Booklist #ALAac24 #YA #nonfiction panel & signings! 9 Starred Reviews for my books!⭐️⭐️KIRKUS⭐️⭐️PW⭐️⭐️HORNBOOK⭐️BCCB⭐️BOOKLIST⭐️SLJ 2x #JLGGoldStandard
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VIRUS HUNTERS 🔬📚Congrats @acherrix @PublishersWkly ⭐️review of her new @HarperCollins #nonfiction #MG book! Yoo read it: this is the first of many stars. Exhaustive & impeccable research w/live interviews. New insights. Propulsive, powerful, engaging writing for young readers!
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Read this to the books at closing time … night books x @acherrix @EBGoodale 1 week til #IndependentBookshopWeek 🫶
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Thank you to all the bookshops out there 🙏 GOOD NIGHT LITTLE BOOKSHOP is an ode to all that you do, and for all the joy you bring to booklovers. “This gorgeous bedtime story celebrates diversity, independent bookshops and reading." @KidsBooksIrel @acherrix @EBGoodale
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A lovely bedtime rhyme with a difference #GoodnightLittleBookshop @acherrix @EBGoodale @BigPictureBooks is reviewed now on #RedReadingHub blog https://t.co/OtbiA3jSqx
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Mission accomplished. Future bookseller achievement unlocked!
Goodnight Little Bookshop by @acherrix @EBGoodale "I’m going to have a bookshop when I grow up then I can read all the books and make towers and play games but I won’t sleep there!" Ibrahim, aged 3 https://t.co/N7eroBA6Xj
@BIGPictureBooks @bookshop_org_UK #IndieBookshopWeek
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#goodnightlittlebookstore @Candlewick by @acherrix & illus. by @EBGoodale is a #massachusettsbookawards MUST READ in #picturebooks! An homage to the #indiebookstore. See https://t.co/ymQ2lq9F46
#bookstagram#CenterForTheBook @MassLibAssoc @mblclibraries @NEIBAbooks @sharonshaloo
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I don’t read much fictional #KidLit, but here are four I especially enjoyed: @viviennechxng @acherrix #PictureBooks #AmReading
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What makes a killer nonfiction concept? It's all in the logline. Let's pick them apart using Blake Snyder's SAVE THE CAT. A post w/ ex. from THE FIRE OF STARS and ANIMAL ARCHITECTS by @acherrix. @kroystudio @chroniclekids
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I've been thinking a lot lately about what makes a nonfiction idea (or any book idea) "book worthy." What makes an idea jump out from the lists of possibilities in my writer's notebook and demand to...
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2 more wonderful #rhyming #PictureBooks for #ReadAcrossAmericaDay #ReadAcrossAmerica2023 #InseadOfSeuss 1 ZANY ZOO @LoriDegman & Colin Jack @SimonKIDS GOODNIGHT LITTLE BOOKSTORE @acherrix & E.B.Goodale @Candlewick Cheers to all the Indies out there! @faceinbooks @CalibaBooks
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Great addition to the existing series by @acherrix Eye of the Storm: Nasa, Drones, and the Race to Cr... https://t.co/vero9BzG78 Reviewed by @DebraGantz1 @HarperCollinsCh
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