In honor of small business Saturday, here are books from independent presses captured in the wild in independent bookstores including Wild Rumpus and Green Bean Bookshop. #kidlit
29.11.2025 23:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@libraryellen.bsky.social
Library advocate, and children’s book enthusiast, cat fancier, history geek, nature lover
In honor of small business Saturday, here are books from independent presses captured in the wild in independent bookstores including Wild Rumpus and Green Bean Bookshop. #kidlit
29.11.2025 23:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Marc Aronson m is on a campaign to replace nonfiction and informational books with “curiosity books.” #IBBYRegional #kidlit #nonfiction #curiositybooks
08.11.2025 19:46 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Mary Ann Cappiello: “extraordinary book that explains how animals see!” IBBYRegional
08.11.2025 19:40 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1Marc Aronson: current trend in nonfiction is looking at a topic through two perspectives. #nonfiction #IBBYRegional #
08.11.2025 19:20 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Deborah Heilegman: “What is the author’s through line?” For Deborah, it’s connection. For Cynthia LEVINSON it’s social justice. #IBBYRegional #nonfiction #kidlit
08.11.2025 19:15 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0The Urgency of Nonfiction panel at @IBBYRegional delves into this overlooked and urgently needed category with Marc Aronson, Deborah Heilegman, Vicky Smith and Mary Ann Cappiello.
08.11.2025 19:11 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0DYK that Helen wang started the #namethetranslator hashtag? Lots of top Shenjeng books are translated from around the world. #IBBYRegional
08.11.2025 18:06 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Helen Wang delivering the Teale lecture at #IBBYRegional #kidlit
08.11.2025 17:54 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1“For Jella Lepman, nourishment for the souls always came from books”—Katherine Paterson on what inspired the creation of the International Youth Library. #IBBYRegional #kidlit
08.11.2025 15:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Where to share Jella Lepman’s Library of Dreams? Marc Aronson suggests with World War II. So often studies end with the bomb but what about the thousands of children orphaned and impacted by the war?. #IBBYRegional #kidlit
08.11.2025 15:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“The human Jella is the gift that Claudia gave to me.”—Katherine Paterson, on the depth and wealth of knowledge gained from family letters shared by Jella s granddaughter #IBBYRegional #kidlit
08.11.2025 15:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“The greatest gift my grandmother [Jella Lepman] gave me was Katherine Paterson.—Claudia Lepman-Logan.
#IBBYRegional #kidlit
“Making friends all over the world is what Jella Lepman has done for us.”—Katherine Paterson, author of Jella Lepman’s Library of Dreams #IBBYRegional #kidlit
08.11.2025 15:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Room 320–don’t want people to miss it!
08.11.2025 14:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“Where there are children, there is hope.”—Baserat Kazim, IBBY President at the IBBY Regional event in Boston. #kidlit #Ibbyregional
08.11.2025 14:49 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Graphic Novel Creator Alert! Tune into what is sure to be a fascinating conversation about graphic novels from around the world! #kidlit #graphicnovels
24.10.2025 19:25 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Thanks @fuse8.bsky.social for highlighting some of our favorite Fall books! And you even included the Hank the Goose plushie! #kidlit
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L’shana tova to all our Kalaniot family and friends! Illustration by Zeynep Ozatalay from A Turkish Rosh Hashanah by Etan Basseri
22.09.2025 18:26 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Only murders meets Harriet the Spy! @pajamapress.bsky.social #kidlit
23.09.2025 23:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Independent publishers are brave and nimble—qualities we need in this world! #kidlit @redcometpressbooks.bsky.social @barefootbooks.bsky.social @ebyrbooks.bsky.social
23.09.2025 23:50 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Bring on the school counselors! We have GREAT bibliotherapy tools for you at ASCA!
12.07.2025 17:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Some fave moments from #alaac25 with #kidlit folks!
04.07.2025 22:39 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you for signing my book earring! And for your adaptability on your signing time!
21.06.2025 16:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A pic of me holding my picture book The Big Day, with hearts and rainbow stickers.
On my way to read The Big Day with lovely families at the Edinburgh Bookshop ☺️
@edinburghbookshop.bsky.social
"Writing The Brightest Star was a beautiful experience ... I felt sturdy in my relationship with words and language and expression." Thank you @rte.ie for hosting @megcathwrites.bsky.social to talk about her new book #TheBrightestStar and writing in verse.
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A Dog’s Tale from Post Wave Children’s Books and Open Me, I’m a Dog from Toon!
Marley’s Pride from Barefoot Books and If it’s Pride and You Know it from Nosy Crow
The Paper Bridge from Floris and Tiger Don’t Worry from Post Wave Children’s Books
High on my list of Favorite Things: Spotting books from Publisher Spotlight clients in the wild. And WOW, Green Bean Books in Portland is fabulous in all the ways! #kidlit #kidlitmegafeed #Bookstores
11.06.2025 22:17 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It’s always a treat to have authors in town so imagine our delight to host Judith McQuoid, whose GIANT pinned on June 3, in Nashville for her book birthday! #kidlit
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Join me and my friends at @ala-booklist.bsky.social and publishers Free Spirit and Tundra for a collection of SEL children's book titles for public and school libraries. It's a free webinar--register here!
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Check out this cool way to display award winners at the Bologna Children’s Bookfair! #kidlit
10.04.2025 13:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Oooh! Some really good books there!
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