P. J. Purtee, AKA Jill (Shields)

LIBRARY LION
✍🏻 Michelle Knudsen @michelleknudsen.bsky.social
🎨 Kevin Hawkes
2006, Candlewick

A library
A librarian
Rules
A lion!

A story
🥰 🥰 🥰

#PB
#kidlit
#parents
#teachers
#librarians

It is! I bought it, too!

I, too, read Hi Koo (and I bought it!!

TORRIBLE PUNS: A COLLECTION OF PUNNY POEMS
✍🏻 Tricia Torrible
🎨 Robert Dunn
2025, Gnome Road Publishing

Poem after poem
Pun after pun
♥️😂♥️
#poetry

#PB
#teachers
#librarians

THEME | Little Thoughts

This week’s #poetryprompt from my Rhyme Time group:

Body parts

#kidspoetry
#poetryforkids

For ideas, check out Little Thoughts Press.
www.littlethoughtspress.com/theme

Thank you!

WILDER CHILD
✍🏻 Nicolette Sowder
🎨 Myo Yim
2024, Random House Studio

Based on a poem
Children explore
Play in mud
Dangle from trees
& . . .
🥰 🥰 🥰

#poetic
#parents
#teachers
#librarians

YOU’RE A POET: WAYS TO START WRITING POEMS
✍🏻 Sean Taylor
🎨 Sam Usher
2025, Candlewick Press

story
poem
how-to lesson
kid's turn
poem
ta-da!
👏 👏 👏

#PB
#parents
#teachers
#librarians

..you're either writing or you're thinking about writing..all the time.
~ #itswhatwedo

If this is practice, you for sure should go pro. Well done @jenniferdoehring.bsky.social!

WINTER LULLABY
✍🏻 Dianne White @diannewrites.bsky.social
🎨 Ramona Kaulitzki
2021, Candlewick

Mama Bear
Hibernation time
Reluctant Little Bear
🥰

#PB
#parents
#teachers
#librarians

This is beautiful.

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Toys for Tots:
Unwrapped toys🪆🚚 ⚽ 🚲
for economically disadvantaged children
at Christmas.🎄🎁

I'm gifting books this year. 📚

#gifts
#BB #boardbooks
#PB #pictuerbooks
#MG #middlegradebooks

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This week’s #poetryprompt from my Rhyme Time group:

Write a poem about a gnome.
Or write about anything, just so a gnome is mentioned (or alluded to).

#kidspoetry
#poetryforkids

Happy #Thanksgiving! May you and yours be #blessed this day! #booktok #booknerd #bookstagram

Bradenton, FL - United States

Bradenton, FL - United States #LittleFreeLibrary #lfl #books #reading

BALLOONS OVER BROADWAY
✍🏻 & 🎨 Melissa Sweet
2011, Clarion

A puppeteer
An invention, giant floating balloons
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
♥️
#Thanksgiving
#Parade

#PB
#teachers
#librarians

🤣🤣🤣 @sandraboynton.bsky.social

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FYI:
I would recommend any of the books I personally posted in my thread as gifts this holiday season.

#gifts #presents #books #holiday
Feel free to add your own tag: i.e., #Christmas #Hanukkah, etc.

Little Thoughts Press Issue Twelve: Better Together | Little Thoughts Press Publishing December 15, 2025. Little Thoughts Press is a literary magazine for and by kids. Issue Twelve: Better Together is a celebration of community and collective action. From grand gatherings lik...

Little Thoughts Press Issue 12: Better Together ($7.50)
Releases on December 15, 2025

I'm honored one of my poems is in this issue.
Two of my critique buddies poems are in the same issue!
@davidmcmullin.bsky.social @sarahhetu.bsky.social

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To order:

I sure do wish I could be there. I have fond memories of that area. And, it would be fun!

I love this!

THE DIRT BOOK:
POEMS ABOUT ANIMALS THAT LIVE BENEATH OUR FEET
✍🏻 David L. Harrison
🎨 Kate Cosgrove @k8cosgrove.bsky.social
2021, Holiday House

Dirt
How it’s created
Insects & animals that live there
♥️

#Poems + #NF

#PB
#teachers
#librarians

Well, for me, every month is Picture Book Month.

THE BOOK OF CANDLES: EIGHT POEMS FOR HANUKKAH
✍🏻 Laurl Snyder
🎨 Leanne Hatch
2025, Clarion Books/S&S

Hanukkah
Candles
Explanations
Suggestions
♥️

#Hanukkah

#PB
#KidLit
#teachers
#librarians
#KidAuthors
#KidIllustrators
#KidLitCommunity

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This week’s prompt from my Rhyme Time group:

Cookies!

#childrenspoetry #kidspoetry
#poetryforchildren #poetryforkids

THE CITY SINGS GREEN:
AND OTHER POEMS ABOUT WELCOMING WILDLIFE
✍🏻 Erica Silverman @ericasauthor.bsky.social
🎨 Ginnie Hsu @ginniehsu.bsky.social
2024, Clarion/HarperCollins

HELP!

True stories:
honeybee highway
possum bridge
penguin tunnel
turtle beach
etc.
❤️

#poetry #NF

#PB #teachers #librarians

GO GO DINO!
✍🏻 & 🎨 Kaz Windness
2024, Simon Spotlight

Dinosaurs
Roller skates
Unicycles
A race
♥️
Ready to Read

#rhyme

#KidAuthors #KidIllustrators
#KidLit #KidLitCommunity
#teachers #librarians

BITSY BAT, SCHOOL STAR
✍🏻&🎨 Kaz Windness @kazwindness.bsky.social
2023, Paula Wiseman/S&S

A bat
School
Not fitting in
idea: ⭐️
Fitting in

♥️ ♥️ ♥️
#neurodivergent

#kidlitillustrators #kidauthors: Note all the layers

#PB #picturebooks #childrensbooks
#kidlit #KidLitCommunity
#teachers #librarians