Don’t Let the Pigeon Touch the Keyboard!

He hasn’t tweeted so much as a peep just yet, but Mo Willems’s Pigeon already has 325 followers (and counting) on his brand-new Twitter feed. Willems will be in Chicago this weekend attending ALA’s annual conference, and Pigeon will be tweeting throughout the show. In addition to his ALA appearance on Sunday, Willems is scheduled to appear at the Art Institute of Chicago on Friday to read from Knuffle Bunny Too. Artwork from that book is on display at the museum’s current exhibit "Picture Perfect: Art from Caldecott Award Books, 2006—2009," which runs through November 2010.

Lin’s Latest

Author Grace Lin’s new middle-grade novel, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Little, Brown, July), was celebrated last month at a launch party at Porter Square Books in Cambridge, Mass. Lin baked cookies and made gift bags for the event; the latter included cupcakes featuring Chinese characters. Certain cupcakes also had coins underneath—readers who found them will have their "name or likeness" used in Lin’s next book. The author also engineered some fun for fans who weren’t at the event: the book’s Web site offers Facebook quizzes Lin created (such as "What dim sum are you?") as well as a book trailer, activity kit, audio excerpt and more.