Emma Applegarth

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🪻Scientist, writer, earth lover. 📝Aspiring #kidlit author. 🌟2025 #PBRisingStars mentee.

cover of Hey, water! by Antoinette Portis. A dark blue wavy waterscape with a pigtailed girl in a swimsuit and snorkel mask. paint/pastel style.
Full STEAM or S.T.E.A.M. Ahead! #SunWriteFun 2025 NF/info fic kidlit summer writing contest A graphic of a lightbulb with a steamy cloud inside. color scheme is yellow, magenta, teal, and purple.
graphic labeled with "PB Rising Stars", sections saying "Thank you Jamilah" and then a section with her upcoming books with their covers: "Together we are Sunshine" October 14 2025 and "Ramadan Rain" March 10 2026. And a picture of Jamilah with a link to her website jamilahthewriter.com
A yellow planet with a ring, that says "2025 PB Rising Stars Mentee. www.pbrisingstars.com" there are a crescent moon and some stars above the planet. The background is a separated gradient from white to yellow. PB Rising Stars logo in the corner, of hands holding up ladders and a leaping figure.
Cover of THE BEACH DAY, an early reader book with a cat, rat, and bat carrying umbrella, bags, and gear up a white sandy beach.
A round yellow badge. Middle is an astronaut reading books. It says "I applied to be a 2025 mentee." www dot pbrisingstars dot com. Applications open March 7-21
Cover of One More Jar of Jam, written by Michelle Sumovich and Illustrated by Gracey Zhang. A girl in a mulberry tree.
Cover of WILD BERRIES by Julie Flett. A woman wears a baby on her back in a forest, carrying a basket of blueberries. A dog follows her and a bird flies behind her. The art is done in a blocky, collage-like painting style.
Cover of book BERRY SONG, with a woman and girl surrounded by berry bushes. Caldecott Medalist Michaela Goade. There are two silver medals on the cover.
cover of the book JAMBERRY by Bruce Degen, with a boy and bear jumping with berry filled hats, and bordered in berries.
A tricolor woodcut-looking drawing of a little girl in a blueberry patch. Yellow, navy, and orange. Text: Blueberries for Sal, Robert McCloskey
Hands holding a plastic bowl of blueberries over a clump of bushes. Image credit ChristianSW CC license via wikimedia.
Round badge, text reads: I'm applying to be a 2025 Mentee. Center is a cartoon of an astronaut with a pencil "rocket" holding a star. url is written www.pbrisingstars.com
Graphic with an image of a Masso painting of Damascus Gate on the right. Left side test: TEATIME IN JERUSALEM. 3 scatterbrained wise men, 1 musical handyman, 1 little boy, and 1 lost cat are on a wild goose chase through Ottoman Jerusalem. Will 4 friends ever meet for tea? Will Mohamed find his mischievous pet? Yes: but they need to come together somehow.
Coyote is tired of eating dusty dates in the farmland. When he decides to go over the mountain to eat manzanita berries instead, all the animals, from Roadrunner to Rattlesnake, call him silly. Will he figure out why? Coyote and the reader encounter the animals, plants, and landscapes of the California Sonoran desert ecosystem in a modern Coyote story #WIP #PB #UW