@dheiligman.bsky.social is a super researcher, writer and presenter
10.11.2025 16:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@cylev.bsky.social
Kidlit author/presenter specializing in nonfiction and social justice--and now STEM! See more at cynthialevinson.com. Contact me at clevinson@austin.rr.com. Rep’d by EMLA.
@dheiligman.bsky.social is a super researcher, writer and presenter
10.11.2025 16:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I just learned about a wonderful organization, NEW VOTERS, started by @JahnaviRao that's terrifically successful in getting young people to #register to #vote! www.new-voters.org/about?gad_so...
10.11.2025 02:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I was soooo honored that @moribajah joined me @texasbookfest to talk about #WhoOwnstheMoon @peachtreepublishing @mmcquinlin #spaceexploration #spacelaw #spacepolicy #spacedebris #spacestewardship
10.11.2025 01:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you, friend
08.11.2025 03:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@usbby.bsky.social Working on my part of this presentation about #kidlitnonfiction The inside story of how we #kidlit creators think about our books, including Ann Bausum @cylev.bsky.social @dashkaslater.bsky.social Ray Anthony Shepard, Carole Boston Weatherford & more. #nonfiction is SO important
06.11.2025 15:56 — 👍 18 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 2@margomcm.bsky.social thank you for the reposts!
05.11.2025 01:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Go for it!
04.11.2025 03:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Sooo much is happening @texasbookfest.bsky.social this weekend! One of them is that Moriba Jah and I will talk about #WhoOwnstheMoon @PeachtreePublishingCompany at noon on Saturday in the YA HQ Tent. Please come! #spaceexploration #spacelaw #spaceconundrums #StarbaseTexas
03.11.2025 17:07 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0If you're in Central Texas this weekend, come to the UT Law School at 1:30 to hear co-author Sandy and me get grilled about our book Fault Lines in the Constitution! @PeachtreePublishingCompany Then, stay to hear our daughter @MeiraLevinson host a panel on #CivicEducation #kidlit #megakidlit
03.11.2025 15:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Happy 25th anniversary, International Space Station! #spaceexploration #spacelaw #spacepolicy #internationalcooperation #whoownsthemoon #kidlit #Megakidlit
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#kidlit #Megakidlit What are your favorite #nonfiction #picturebooks for 6- to 8-year-olds published in the last 20 years?
30.10.2025 19:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This short new ebook by @JessicaLander tells you what you need to know about #birthrightcitizenship #immigration #Immigrationpolicy #undocumented www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/825112...
28.10.2025 15:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Just when #civics is most important...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/u... #civicseducation #kidlit #megakidlit #socialstudies #constitution #executivepower #SupremeCourt #FaultLinesintheConstitution
Leave it to @michellemarkel.bsky.social to find this unknown fascinating story and tell it just the way it needs to be told. #kidlit #Megakidlit #Quaker #nonfiction
23.10.2025 17:30 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0#Boston-area #authors, come share your WIP on Nov. 12 @whitelambooks.bsky.social ! Get positive, helpful feedback from your peers! Hosted by @BostonAuthorsClub #kidlit #grownuplit
21.10.2025 20:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Any American medium that fails to cover the largest protests in American history is failing in the basic mission of informing the public about the facts.
18.10.2025 21:41 — 👍 2401 🔁 450 💬 32 📌 17.@UTexas is hosting a conference Nov. 7 on #FaultLinesintheConstitution @PeachtreePub co-authored by me and Sandy, and on #civiceducation, led by our daughter @MeiraLevinson. All are welcome! No registration needed. #kidlit #MegaKidLit
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Please join Moriba Kemessia Jah and me @texasbookfest.bsky.social at noon on Nov. 8 in the #YA tent as we talk about #whoownsthemoon @PeachtreePublishingCompany @MargaretQuinlin #SpaceX #spaceexploration #SpaceDebris #spacelaw #kidlit
13.10.2025 16:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Co-author Sandy Levinson hoping the third edition of FAULT LINES IN THE CONSTITUTION @peachtreepublishing will persuade a US senator we need Constitutional reform. (Posted with her permission) #electoralcollege #votingrights #congress #executiveorder #emergencypower #gerrymandering #unitaryexecutive
13.10.2025 12:41 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The gang's all here! #kidlit #kidillustration texasbookfestival.org/schedule/
10.10.2025 19:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0.@texasbookfest #schedule is out! @moribajah and I will be in convo in the #YA tent noon 11/8 @TxCapital about #WhoOwnstheMoon @mmcquinlin @peachtreepublishing @holidayhousepeachtree @walkerbooksuk #spacedebris #spacelaw #spaceexploration
10.10.2025 19:07 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0New York friends of #kidlit, this book talk with @DeborahHeiligman @libbabray.bsky.social is not to be missed! #nonfiction #activist #Loudmouth fountainbookshop.com/event/2025-1...
08.10.2025 15:48 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Quote from post, plus photo of Cynthia and Gayleen holding a copy of FAULT LINES IN THE CONSITUTION, pus covers of FREE TO LEARN and WHO OWNS THE MOON?
“...issues that are universal and, therefore, always timely…include the quest for justice. In some cases, the lens is civil rights or immigration or the role of democracy.”
— @cylev.bsky.social interviewed by @gayleenwrites.bsky.social for Cynsations: cynthialeitichsmith.com/2025/09/auth...
It's the perfect time to pre-order our upcoming book. Copies signed by both of us are available from the @silverunicornbooks.bsky.social @ssedlib.bsky.social @simonkids.bsky.social @sarahsbrannen.bsky.social
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07.10.2025 21:51 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you @BetsyGroban for sending me a copy of your latest book! It’s as cool as the Fonz! #kidlit #nonfiction #dyslexia
02.10.2025 23:02 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"While we rightfully focus on the impacts of censorship across our communities, including to students, teachers, readers, booksellers, librarians, languages, cultures and more—there is only one thing needed for storytelling, and that's a storyteller," she said. "At its heart, storytelling is truth, it is authenticity, and there is no greater threat to fascism."
I’m very happy to see this story about the launch of @pubprosabb.bsky.social in PW especially this quote:
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