MY BIG BOOK OF TEXAS was just named a 2026 Best of Austin Critics Pick by the Austin Chronicle!
See the page on their site!
A surprise in my inbox this morning. I didn’t even know MY BIG BOOK OF TEXAS was in consideration!
As a resident of Austin for over two-decades—though the city has been a big part of my life since I was a child—I could not be more thrilled.
I love how they grasped what I’m doing with this book—my love-letter to this place, my home.
Thank you, Austin Chronicle I am deeply honored. Proud to be in your company.
Available where books are sold!
Book People may still have signed copies.
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Best Picture Book
for Brand-New Texans
My Big Book of Texas
“Childhood is full of firsts. For instance, this picture book could just be a kiddo’s first introduction to the term ‘hootenanny.’ My Big Book of Texas – from Austin-based children’s book author and illustrator C.S. Jennings, himself a seventh-generation Texan – offers a fun primer to the state’s richly diverse landscape and people, filtering the ABCs, animals, colors, and shapes through a distinctly Texan lens. To wit: ‘N is for newt in a neckerchief noshes nachos at NASA.’ That’s a sentence that makes sense only in the wild and wonderful hootenanny that is Texas.”
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