Deborah Kops

A bright red curtain of light surrounded by green glow rains down from the sky behind the silhouettes of spruce trees

A bright red curtain of light surrounded by green glow rains down from the sky behind the silhouettes of spruce trees

A bright red curtain of light surrounded by green glow rains down from the sky behind the silhouettes of spruce trees. The light is reflected in the thin layer of ice covering the pond in the foreground.

So this happened an hour ago. I don’t think I’ve seen red this deep in a long time. You could see it quite clearly with the naked eye. #aurora

A cell phone photo of red aurora

Absolutely wild naked eye visible pillars all the way down here on the Oklahoma/Texas border. Cell phone shot here. #aurora

But that’s a nice idea! lol. Have a very happy birthday! 🎈

The 2025 New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s Books

Fabulous art! #kidlit
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/b...

The cover of "Zohran Walks New York," featuring the skyline, a street scene, and a smiling, bearded politician waving to people in front of a row of houses.

Text: In Zohran's city, everyone is always on the move!" Picture: In background, a bus under elevated subway tracks. In foreground, Mamdani walking towards a street crossing on which two children are walking.

Picture: Mamdani, arms in the air, walks towards a lively street party. Text: "It's neighbors welcoming you home after a long walk."

Text: "This is Zohran's home, and it's yours too." Picture: People gaze out across a river with a bridge and lighted skyscrapers and a sunset in the background.

Received today: "Zohran Walks New York"--a tribute not only to Mamdani but to our amazing city. Congratulations to creator Millie von Platen and editor Carolyn Yoder for the vision to create and publish a nearly instant book.

At Bookshop and elsewhere: bookshop.org/a/3703/97816...

Philip Pullman Brings Lyra’s Story to a Close

#PhilipPullman is back.
#YAlit

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/b...

Image of 10 Silver Unicorn favorite November releases, including Supersquads by Heather Lang and Lolly on the Ice by Sarah Brannen

My wonderful local bookstore put out its list of favorite November releases, and two of my wonderful friends are on it, and I am so grateful for my wonderful #kidlit community!
@silverunicornbooks.bsky.social @heatherlangbooks.bsky.social
@sarahsbrannen.bsky.social

Funny how we all react so differently. Nothing much happens in my case and I wonder if it was just sugar water!

Feel better!

How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Macabre

I wrote about SCARY! SPOOKY! CREEPY! CHILDREN’S BOOKS! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/b...

The muses on my mouse pad

#amwriting

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

#NoKings

#BannedBooksWeek

BANNED BOOKS WEEK Oct. 5-11, 2025. Censorship is so 1984 - Read for Your Rights. ala.org/bbooks. American Library Association

Censorship is so 1984. Read for your rights.

Today kicks off #BannedBooksWeek, and this year's theme reminds us that the right to read belongs to all of us, that censorship has no place in contemporary society, and that we must defend our rights.

https://www.ala.org/bbooks.

How Jane Goodall’s Death Initiated Netflix’s Newest Show

The interview with Jane Goodall, the first in a series of Famous Last Words, is wonderful: powerful, moving, and very frank. She was obviously a delightful person. You will probably like her choice of men to send to Mars. #JaneGoodall
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/a...

You’re giving more readings, right?

Happy Fall!

Pictured: Sedum Autumn Joy

#autumnalequinox

Sabalenka’s watch would have been more appropriate for the red carpet at the Academy Awards, but come to think of it, she has a lot of star power.

The women’s final yesterday at the US Open was a good game. Until the winning celebrity, Sabalenka, made a show of slipping on and thus endorsing an obscenely expensive watch, worth more than $200,000. #USOpen bling

A New ‘Hansel and Gretel’ Unites Stephen King With Maurice Sendak

Stephen King has written a picture-book version of Hansel and Gretel, with illustrations by Maurice Sendak, originally created for the stage sets and costumes of an opera. Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen discuss the results. #kidlit
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/b...

Happy #NationalDogDay! Daisy would like you to know, in case you’re contemplating getting one, that most of their lives they’re just two-year-olds in dog suits.

And to you, a day late!

@deborahkops.bsky.social
Happy Ratification Day!

You never know when you're going to stumble on some wonderful source you weren't looking for. The Web. An eternal crapshoot. #Amwriting

Wow. Jealous.

How to Watch the Strongest Meteor Shower of the Summer

Tonight is the peak of the Perseus meteor showers!
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/s...

Israel's Killing of Al Jazeera's Anas al-Sharif in Gaza stirs outrage and fear ***

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

The Netanyahu government’s extermination of Gaza intensifies. Malnutrition is rampant, children are starving to death, people are shot while waiting for meager food rations — and US weapons allow it to happen.

Trump and Congress must act NOW. Stop the slaughter. Feed the people.

Which US senators and representatives are working to stop the government from sending billions of dollars in military aid to Israel until it ends this genocidal war? And which US political groups on the left are most effective at trying to do the same? #GazaWar