Joslin Boals

So exciting and well deserved!!

Hello Blue Raiders! 💙🐴We are now on Blue Sky. You can be expecting posts related to things like hours, writing groups, and writing resources coming soon!

Donate to Help Preserve Our Queer Bookstore Haven, organized by Novelette Booksellers UPDATE: Wow. Words cannot express how grateful we are to everyone. We me… Novelette Booksellers needs your support for Help Preserve Our Queer Bookstore Haven

Here’s your reminder to support your local bookstores and authors! They need all the love they can get, especially in this political climate.

So exciting!

A whole PLETHORA of cool books are coming out this year from small publishers far and wide. It's a preview of books from Cuento de Luz, Post Wave, Lantana, Little Island, and Marble Press via @pubspotlight.bsky.social #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2025/01/24/p...

This picture combines two things we love very much: Cats and libraries! Meet Publisher Spotlight’s Head of HR, Sasha, who has her very own library to maintain at the office.

The cutest office cat ever!

Did you know that Belmont University is one of the few in the country that has an undergraduate publishing program? I’m here today looking for spring interns! #kidlit #publishing

I drew a lot of books today

fruit loop

Such a beautiful book!

steps at the entrance of the of the Met Museum covered in massive quilt made up of artwork, mostly in reds, pinks, greens, black and white, expressing solidarity with Palestine. Images include a pomegranate, a flower made of watermelon slices, poppies breaking through the apartheid wall, an eye with a poppy against a green and white checkered background. Photo by Alexa B Wilkinson.

Big, beautiful action today at NYC's Met Museum featuring a quilt with art from around the world.

Artists and art lovers are calling on the Met to cut ties with occupation-profiteering board members, support a ceasefire & help preserve the Palestinian cultural heritage sites Israel is destroying

These books are just gorgeous and so perfect for us introverts!

March 26 is World Solitude Day and our spring intern @joslinb47.bsky.social has some perfect #picturebook suggestions for all who (quietly) celebrate www.publisherspotlight.com/celebrating-...

Dive in to even more astounding children's books coming out this spring. Books from Red Comet Books, @scallywagpress.bsky.social, Soaring Kite Books, & Tapioca Stories, via @pubspotlight.bsky.social: #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2024/02/29/m...

A screenshot showing a creative found object art illustration combining a real flower and a drawing, depicting a dog with its ear perked up, listening to a gramophone made from the flower's petal and stem. The artwork is signed by Debbie Ridpath Ohi.

HURRAY, Bluesky has HASHTAGS! I also love how clicking on a hashtag gives you options. If you want to see all my #FoundObjectArt posts, for example, click on that hashtag in this post & "See #FoundObjectArt posts by user".

If YOU have hashtag tips, use #HashtagTips

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Portrait of Nex Benedict flashing the "peace" sign. Text says "Justice for Nex."

As the mom of an enby kid, this is my worst fear: that hate will take my child's life.

The bullying Nex experienced went on for months, unchecked, until it escalated into hate-fueled violence.

Queer kids are under attack all over this country. It's up to us to fight for their safety and freedom.

猫の日
Apparently today 2/22 is Cat Day in Japan🐈

There’s crow place like home (as long as your home is a fortress made of books with a view of all the other books in your book kingdom) 🏠 📚

#diaryofanosycrow

Hi, new people!

This isn't Twitter/ X /whatever.

Here has a more respectful culture overall, and those of us who've been here a minute would like to continue to keep our cortisol levels down.

*don't be a jerk in mentions
*don't put people on blast
*mute, block, move on
*have a nice day!

NOTE!

Hurrah! Read a book to a friend, a child, a pet ANYONE! Need inspiration? Check out Live Oak Media for narrative excellence!

So much depends on the soft creatures in my life.

A New Day; Rain or Shine; Through the Seasons; Spring; Summer; Autumn; Winter; Whose Footprints Are These?; The Dog Walk; and The Depth of the Lake and the Height of the Sky

What's YOUR favorite #wordless #picturebook to share with #kidsbook lovers? Here are some, with great discussion pointers from @florisbooks.bsky.social www.florisbooks.co.uk/blog/2024/01...

THE BUMBLEBEE GARDEN | Kirkus Reviews When Ben spots a queen bumblebee in the garden, his grandfather shares what he knows about its biology.

Coming in April from @florisbooks.bsky.social  THE BUMBLEBEE GARDEN is a "gentle, lovely introduction to a ubiquitous but lesser-known insect”  www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

My Big Embarrassing Elephant by Angie Lucas Book Reviews Maya and her family have a problem. They try ignoring it, dancing around it, even sweeping it under the rug. Yet the elephant in the room remains. And Maya is at her wit's end figuring out how to hide...

New from @marblepress.bsky.social "MY BIG EMBARRASSING ELEPHANT teaches the importance of embracing those things you are embarrassed about. Since everyone has one of these secrets, we should accept each other and look past these fears without judgment”  www.yabookscentral.com/my-big-embar...

HOW NOT TO KILL YOUR PLANT by Magda Garguláková & Lenka Chytilová & illustrated by Portuguese-based artist Hannah Abbo, translated by Andrew Oakland "would make a great gift to give a youngster interested in plants and caring for living things" mykidsreadtheworld.wordpress.com/2023/12/30/n...

The 2024 2x2 list is here! - Texas Library Association The Texas Library Association is delighted to announce the arrival of the 2024 2×2 Reading List! These beautifully illustrated, often humorous and instructive volumes are the best of recent books me...

Congratulations to @nosycrowus.bsky.social ! The Texas 2x2 list for 2024 has been published & it features HOW TO COUNT TO 1! txla.org/news/the-202...

Pretty Ugly by David Sedaris This adapted fable by Sedaris (Me Talk Pretty One Day) and the late Falconer (the Olivia series), reworked from a Little Lit ant...

"This adapted fable by Sedaris (Me Talk Pretty One Day) and the late Falconer (the Olivia series), reworked from a Little Lit anthology comic, is now an elegant standalone that showcases the creators’ urbane morality" coming this month! www.publishersweekly.com/9781662665271

Meet SOOSIE: The Horse That Saved Shabbat by Tami Lehman-Wilzig & illustrated by Menahem Halberstadt "a clever horse delivers challah on her own when the baker’s boy feels too ill to drive the cart" 100 Jewish Children's Books for the Family Bookshelf jewishlibraries.org/wp-content/u...