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Poetry Friday: Happiness: Warm from the Oven This month, Linda prompted the Inkings to respond to Ethical ELA’s September Open Write by Kelsey Bigelow: “What is the happiest thing you’ve ever tasted?” I thought long and hard about this prompt…

This week for #poetryfriday, I'm recalling a favorite treat my grandmother used to make. I'm not actually sure she called them pinwheels, but that's what I remember. readingtothecore.com/2025/11/07/p...

Heartbroken that this is such an apt description of the current administration.

Tuck Everlasting Turns 50: Talking with Lucy Babbitt and Katharine Woodman-Maynard About Its Importance and Legacy A dual interview with two women deeply connected to the great novel TUCK EVERLASTING. If you ever loved the book, you're not going to want to miss this...

A dual interview with two women deeply connected to the great novel TUCK EVERLASTING . If you ever loved the book, you're not going to want to miss this... #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2025/09/02/t...

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20 Best Middle Grade Books of 2025 (So Far) Whether you’re heading back to school and want to buy new books for your library or classroom, or you’re a parent who wants to add...

Check out @imaginationsoup.bsky.social's 20 Best Middle Grade Books of 2025 (So Far!) imaginationsoup.net/best-middle-...

Opinion | After a Friend’s Death, I Started Dead Lifting With Dante After a friend’s death, a medieval literature professor learns to love the gym — and finds unexpected connections to his studies.

“We reach out to departed loved ones, feeling their presence fleetingly, and then we are faced with our own bodies, our own realities,” writes the medievalist Sebastian Langdell. “And we are asked a question: How best to spend our remaining days?”

Shame Shelf: The Giver Podcast Episode · A Good Story Well Told · 17/04/2025 · 1h 5m

I’ll be discussing this podcast in FAR more length in the future, but if you want to hear the most insightful discussion of Lois Lowry’s The Giver to date (thanks to @jonathanauxier.bsky.social & me hub), you just gotta listen to this: #kidlit 📚👍 podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/s...