Tasha Saecker

We don’t know if it was secrecy or stupidity that led to the deletion of habeas corpus from the online version of the U.S. Constitution, but @librarycongress.bsky.social needs to give a full accounting of what happened — ASAP.

Menudo Sunday by María Dolores Águila – Book Review Menudo Sunday: A Spanglish Counting Book by María Dolores Águila, illustrated by Erika Meza (9780593462256) Count upwards in Spanish as a family gathers to eat menudo, a Mexican soup, together. The counting grows from 1 small casita to 7 warm tortillas to a theft of treats that leads to a chase by the dogs. Just as the food is being carried to the table, the dogs and children run through and there is a terrible crash.

Menudo Sunday by María Dolores Águila – Book Review

Menudo Sunday: A Spanglish Counting Book by María Dolores Águila, illustrated by Erika Meza (9780593462256) Count upwards in Spanish as a family gathers to eat menudo, a Mexican soup, together. The counting grows from 1 small casita to 7 warm…

This Moth Saw Brightness by A. A. Vacharat – Book Review This Moth Saw Brightness by A. A. Vacharat (9780593698600) 'Wayne Le is a perfectly normal high school kid, who doesn't talk much to his father and cares deeply about his younger sister, who isn't actually related to him. Since his mother left when he was a kid, 'Wayne hasn't done much to make his father proud. So when he is selected to be part of a Johns Hopkins study, he sees it as a way to impress his father and also find a way forward in his life since his grades won't get him into college.

This Moth Saw Brightness by A. A. Vacharat – Book Review

This Moth Saw Brightness by A. A. Vacharat (9780593698600) 'Wayne Le is a perfectly normal high school kid, who doesn't talk much to his father and cares deeply about his younger sister, who isn't actually related to him. Since his mother…

Bob the Vampire Snail by Andrea Zuill – Book Review Bob the Vampire Snail by Andrea Zuill (9780593814963) Bob the snail (all snails are named Bob) is just minding his own business when suddenly there is a scream, stomp, crack, drip and POOF! Bob feels strange and it turns out he has small wings, fangs and no reflection. He can't eat the things he used to love, so he tries a bunch of other things, including eating the other Bobs.

Bob the Vampire Snail by Andrea Zuill – Book Review

Bob the Vampire Snail by Andrea Zuill (9780593814963) Bob the snail (all snails are named Bob) is just minding his own business when suddenly there is a scream, stomp, crack, drip and POOF! Bob feels strange and it turns out he has small wings,…

If you've EVER considered handing over ANY information to this administration.... why?

22 Awesome New Books Coming in August PICTURE BOOKS Before I Lived Here by Stacy S. Jensen, illustrated by Victo Ngai CeeCee: Underground Railroad Cinderella by Shana Keller, illustrated by Laura Freeman Fall Is for Beginnings by Rajani LaRocca, illustrated by Abhi Alwar Five Little Friends by Sean Taylor, illustrated by Fiona Woodcock Imogen: The Life and Work of Imogen Cunningham by Elizabeth Partridge, illustrated by Yuko Shimizu…

22 Awesome New Books Coming in August

PICTURE BOOKS Before I Lived Here by Stacy S. Jensen, illustrated by Victo Ngai CeeCee: Underground Railroad Cinderella by Shana Keller, illustrated by Laura Freeman Fall Is for Beginnings by Rajani LaRocca, illustrated by Abhi Alwar Five Little Friends by…

Wake Your Friday Brain Cells – Aug 1 Edition

CHILDREN'S LIT My Side of the Mountain - Orion We Love These 2025 Caribbean Children’s Books for Your Classroom Library - We Are Teachers LIBRARIES Efforts to Restrict or Protect Libraries Both Grew This Year - The 74 Nevada’s split government keeps…

Yo, the Senate's bill would keep the IMLS funded at the 2025 level.

Oh by the way, don’t forget you can ask your library to order nearly any book you want to read but don’t want to buy. And as authors we love libraries buying our books & readers being able to access them through libraries.

Gather Grateful by Megan Litwin Spare verse from Litwin affectingly builds to convey autumnal priorities, from food- to community-gathering, in this companionab...

In their “companionable picture book” GATHER GRATEFUL, collaborators Megan Litwin and illustrator Alexandra Finkeldey “articulate the way seasonal change unites species”

Lambda Literary Award Finalists

The finalists have been announced in a wide-range of categories for these annual LGBTQIA+ awards featuring titles from 2024. You can check out the full list on the Lambda Literary site. Here are the finalists in the juvenile categories: LGBTQ+ CHILDREN'S BOOKS Glenn…

Announcing the Finalists for the 37th Annual Lambda Literary Awards This year marks 37 years

We are thrilled to announce the shortlist for the 2025 Lambda Literary Awards! lambdaliterary.org/2025/07/anno...

Another Word for Neighbor by Angela Pham Krans – Book Review Another Word for Neighbor by Angela Pham Krans, illustrated by Thai My Phuong (9780063334915) Han lived a quiet and grumpy life alone until Kate and Olly moved in next door. The two children were curious and loved to make new friends. When they met, Kate asked all sorts of questions and Olly romped through Han’s yard. When Kate asked about Han’s wife, Han got sad.

Another Word for Neighbor by Angela Pham Krans – Book Review

Another Word for Neighbor by Angela Pham Krans, illustrated by Thai My Phuong (9780063334915) Han lived a quiet and grumpy life alone until Kate and Olly moved in next door. The two children were curious and loved to make new friends.…

2025 Eisner Awards

The 2025 Eisner Awards have been announced. These awards are the biggest in the comic industry and are announced every year at Comic-Con. The biggest winner this year was delightfully a teen graphic novel: Lunar New Year Love Story that won 3 of the awards, including overall…

For a Girl Becoming by Joy Harjo – Book Review For a Girl Becoming by Joy Harjo, illustrated by Adriana Garcia (9781324052241) From the U.S. Poet Laureate comes a picture book that celebrates the birth of a little girl. From the birth itself and the baby in its “spirit house,” to those that gathered to celebrate your birth, to the gifts given to you by the halves of your family. Breathe and walk, remembering the source of your breath, the source of your walking and running.

For a Girl Becoming by Joy Harjo – Book Review

For a Girl Becoming by Joy Harjo, illustrated by Adriana Garcia (9781324052241) From the U.S. Poet Laureate comes a picture book that celebrates the birth of a little girl. From the birth itself and the baby in its “spirit house,” to those that…

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Screenshot from Reddit. User is zensnapple, posting 6 months ago. Thread says "How to turn off Google AI Overview in Chrome SOLVED Open Chrome and put chrome://settings/searchEngines in the search box. A tab will open which brings you to Search Engine > Manage Search Engines and Site Search. Click on the Add button by the Site Search update. A box will open. Fill in the form with the following: Name: AI Free Web Shortcut: @web URL: {google:baseURL}search?q=%s&udm=14 You’ll now see AI Free Web in the list of search engines. Click on the three stacked dots on the right side of AI Free Web on the list. Select Make Default. From now on, google functions pretty much like it did back when it was good. Good luck out there."

A while ago, we started a #FixItFriday tradition. We keep a running list - large & small, digital & analog, anything broken or annoying - and work on it together.

Today's 30-second fix: to remove AI "preview" from search results, here's the setting for Chrome users: www.reddit.com/r/techsuppor...

Promotional graphic for the Little Rebels Award 2025 shortlist. Text reads: 'Celebrating Radical Fiction for Children!' and '#LittleRebelsAward'. Six shortlisted children's book covers are displayed: 1) 'Kende! Kende! Kende!' by Kirsten Cappy & Yaya Gentille, illustrated by Rahana Dariah — shows a joyful child in a wheelbarrow pushed by an adult, with chickens nearby. 2) 'The Fights That Make Us' by Sarah Hagger-Holt — features children holding protest signs with a rainbow backdrop. 3) 'Cottonopolis' by SF Said and Layzell — depicts two children from different backgrounds smiling against a dark, starry backdrop. 4) 'Keedie' by Elle McNicoll — shows a girl with headphones in a vibrant, stylized design. 5) 'Mayowa and the Sea of Words' by Chibundu Onuzo — a girl reading while colorful words swirl around her. 6) 'Zac and Jac' by Cathy Jenkins — two boys smiling and playing together in sports gear. Logos for the Barry Amiel & Norman Melburn Trust and the Little Rebels Award, as well as the hashtag #LittleRebelsAward are also included.

Shortlisted titles for the 2025 @littlerebsprize.bsky.social
have been revealed!

Read more on our website here: www.ibby.org.uk/little-rebel...

#LGBT #childrensbooks #radicalbooks #refugee #Neurodiversity #publishing #childrenspublishing #LittleRebelsAward

And don't forget to sign them up for the Imagination Library, which is Dolly Parton's free book delivery service.
They send 1 book per month until the child turns 5. 😊

"SLOPPER" I'm losing my mind

Wake Your Friday Brain Cells – July 25 Edition

CHILDREN'S LIT A Garden of Imagination: Why Adults Should Read Children’s Literature—Audrey Fields - The Rabbit Room In Divided Times, Picture Books Connect - School Library Journal Spring 2026 Children’s Sneak Previews - Publishers Weekly To Combat…

Efforts to restrict or protect libraries both grew this year • Stateline State lawmakers across the country filed more bills to restrict or protect libraries and readers in the first half of this year than last year, a new report found. The split fell largely along geograp...

No, thanks, I’ll take NJ: “In Southern and Plains states, new laws increasingly criminalize certain actions of librarians, restrict access to materials about gender and race, and transfer decision-making power to politically appointed boards or parent-led councils.”

SF-Based Internet Archive Is Now a Federal Depository Library. What Does That Mean? | KQED The Internet Archive, thanks to its designation by California Sen. Alex Padilla, joins a network of over 1,100 libraries that make government documents accessible to the public.

awesome news. Congratulations @archive.org on being designated an FDLP library!! www.kqed.org/news/1204942...

2025 Barnes & Noble Children’s & YA Book Award Shortlists The shortlists for the 2025 Barnes & Noble Children's & YA Book Awards have been announced. This is the fifth year of these awards that offer prizes in three categories. The shortlists are below: PICTURE BOOKS All the Books by Hayley Rocco, illustrated by John Rocco The Bakery Dragon by Devine Elle Kurtz Be Careful, Xiao Xin! by Alice Pung, illustrated by Sher Rill Ng…

2025 Barnes & Noble Children’s & YA Book Award Shortlists

The shortlists for the 2025 Barnes & Noble Children's & YA Book Awards have been announced. This is the fifth year of these awards that offer prizes in three categories. The shortlists are below: PICTURE BOOKS All the Books by Hayley Rocco,…

Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain Google’s AI Overview, which is easy to fool into stating nonsense as fact, is stopping people from finding and supporting small businesses and credible sources.

Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain

🔗 www.404media.co/googles-ai-i...

Banned Books and Criminalized Speech in U.S. Law How book bans and speech restrictions in schools and libraries are reshaping American freedom and education.

“What books are available in a library says something about what stories a society values. What stories are banned says even more.”

We love spotting library books out in the wild—at the airport, the beach, or tucked into a travel bag. Deep down, you know that trip wouldn’t be the same without us. 😍

Pay attention.

If you let these fucking LLMs into high schools and colleges, a Nazi billionaire can tweak the bigotry dial and funnel Nazi propaganda into the classrooms.

#AbolishAI

4 Nonfiction Picture Books Featuring Amazing Women

Ablaze: The Story of America’s First Female Smokejumper by Jessica Lawson, illustrated by Sarah Gonzales (9780593463659) Deanne loved spending time in nature with her family as a young child. It was a love that continued throughout her life. When…

2 Delightfully Detailed Picture Books

A Book of Maps for You by Lourdes Heuer, illustrated by Maxwell Eaton III (9780823455706) From a map of the town with its orange groves, this book of maps explores neighborhoods, yards, the local school, the town library, the city park, and Main Street. At the…