We Match! — written by me, illustrated by Sharon Glick, and published by Astra Young Readers — comes out one week from today. It’s my 25th book, and one of the ones that has taken me the longest, as this slide from my new school-visit presentations shows:

I’m in a celebratory mood, and I hope you are, too.

Because not only are there now downloadable versions of the trading cards that appear on the book’s endpapers…

and not only are there opportunities to see me read from and/or discuss the book online on July 15 (where Sharon and I will be joined by Chris Baron and the great people at Bookelicious)…

in Austin on July 19 (at Birdhouse Books)…

in Naperville, Illinois, on July 24 (at Anderson’s Bookshops’ LITapalooza)…

and again there on July 25 (at KidLITapalooza)…

but I’m also doing another book giveaway!

For my July 2025 giveaway to subscribers to my monthly Bartography Express newsletter (folks can sign up here), I’m giving away four signed copies of We Match!

If you’d like to be one of the winners, by the end of July either say so in the comments below or contact me directly, and you’ll be in the running. (Subscribers with U.S. mailing addresses only.)

And if you think it would be greatly appreciated if you share this good news with another reader, family member, educator, or librarian who might also enjoy this book, well, guess what?

WE MATCH!