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🦸‍♀️ GIVEAWAY ALERT! 🦸‍♂️
We’re giving away a Susan Verde picture book to one lucky winner—because every hero needs a little inspiration! 💥
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Love this thoughtful analysis - thank you @patriciatoht.bsky.social !

Kirkus Reviews, a notoriously finicky reviewer, released a list of "Best Books of the 21st Century (So Far)."

SOPHIE'S SQUASH is one of 100 picture books listed. I'm slightly teary about this.

I need to go to the library. I've only read 55 of the choices. Here's the list: tinyurl.com/27bd3246

URGENT: Save the NEH I just took action to oppose the elimination of the National Endowment for the Humanities! Join me and take action here.

DOGE is targeting the National Endowment for the Humanities. History Day is in serious danger.Quality history education and understanding historical truth are essential to democracy-Contact your Members of Congress.This is provided by the National Humanities Alliance to reach out: p2a.co/DdtlGIT

ALA Youth Media Awards 2025 Winners. American Library Association

Congratulations to all the honorees of this year’s Youth Media Awards!
Thank you to ALA members & library professionals everywhere who pour their passion, time & dedication into finding the very best books & media for their communities. Your work matters.📚
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Reading as Part of a Healthy Lifestyle Reading is fun and it can also impact your wellbeing

True for every age. action.everylibrary.org/reading_as_p...

Spot on, something I think of every day.

Huge thanks to @heidieys.bsky.social for an incredible #12x12PB Book Chat! 📚✨

We loved the insights about JANIE WRITES A PLAY! Members: Catch the replay.

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#Kidlit #Anxiety #MentalHealth #picturebooks #Camping #WritingCommunity

IT’S HERE!🎉

My debut PB is now available for pre-order! This book is perfect for any child struggling with anxiety. The in-depth backmatter makes it perfect for the classroom!📚

Retweets appreciated!❤️

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The book is To See an Owl. By Matthew Cordell.

This post of @patzie.bsky.social important reviews, she reveals one of her favorites. I always take her word for it. See also her offer for 4 free books!

Picture book cover of To See an Owl by Matthew Cordell.

Picture book cover of ONE CAN BE by Pat Zietlow Miller and Annie Cron.

If you want a picture book recommendation, a chance to win FOUR new picture books and a cover reveal for an upcoming picture book from @beamingbooksmn.bsky.social, check out this blog post! picturebookbuilders.com/2025/02/one-...

Loved knowing about this book. Ruby Bridges website has many other choices too. See also Norman Rockwell's site. He painted some of the iconic pictures.

Cover for Farm house, show s white farmhouse.

📚👍 So many good books.
#kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks

Farmhouse
Sophie Blackall

I picked this up at #scbwiNY25 and looked at it during a PB revisions workshop. What a masterpiece! The details are outstanding and it's one long sentence. *Chef's kiss*

Be sure to check out my friend’s new picture book!
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Announcement of BIG BIKE, LITTLE BIKE publishing on 2/25 with the cover of the book showing a purple rhino and bow-toe wearing bird on a bike. Giveaway information at the bottom.

20 days until BIG BIKE, LITTLE BIKE by me & @jacobsouva.bsky.social from HarperCollins 🚲 rolls into the world!

To celebrate, we’re giving away choice of a #kidlit critique (manuscript or portfolio) or a signed copy of BIKE! (US shipping, please)

Repost this message by 2/24 for a chance to win!

@writerjolene.bsky.social I was inspired by your encouragement to handle sadness in a PB. Not easy! Will buy The Ofrenda That We Built. Thank you!

Favorite Books for Preschoolers Oh, preschoolers are fun. They've got OPINIONS and FACTS (about dinosaurs and firetrucks and Disney characters) and THINGS TO TELL YOU. They can handle more complicated storylines, where the action doesn't all happen on the page or in the words. Stories can be more nuanced, the jokes less obvious. But still, they're young, so attention spans are short. We don't need paragraphs of text - 3 or 4 sentences a page, max. But their eyes can find more details in illustrations and so the stories are eve

Um, but you didn't actually LINK to the list of recommended picture books for preschoolers, Mary? Rookie mistake. It's like you HAVEN'T been spending too much time on social media for like 15 years. Geez. Anyway... www.marykuehner.com/post/favorit...

Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels A sensational sleigh ride; joyous poetry; amazing animals; a sinister seaside town; a deadly forest; a thrilling heist and more I Am Cat by Jackie Morris, Otter-Barry, £20 A ginger cat curls up “ammonite tight” and dreams of ranging the Earth as tiger,…

Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

Hi Kate, No, it's about a girl who finds hope in a star. Best gif I could find🙂

a drawing of a crescent moon and stars with the words good night alma ALT: a drawing of a crescent moon and stars with the words good night alma

PB If you have already done a critique for someone and aren't doing more, that's ok! I enjoyed reading your kind gesture.

a penguin is reading a comics magazine on a chimney ALT: a penguin is reading a comics magazine on a chimney

To celebrate the writing community here, I'm offering a free critique to unagented children's writers. I was helped by kind @amysparkes.bsky.social who mentored me. Like, share & follow with a gif that represents your ms. I'll crit a PB or chapter one of CB or MG. #kidsbooks
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Book cover showing illustration of boy holding football in centre of hallway filled with lockers where kids are standing in background under the book title, lower right of book cover shows gold seal for National Book Awards

So thrilled to see KAREEM BETWEEN by Shifa Saltagi Safadi has won the National Book Award! Loved this MG novel about a Syrian American 7th grader trying to find his place in the world. #mglit #kidlit 📚👍🏻 #NBawards

Congratulations, Colleen! First book?

Thank you!!!

Yes!

Wonderful to meet you!

Another suggestion: Try 12 x12. Follow it on Bluesky, then visit the website to see how expansive it is.