Charlene Chua

Mostly it seems like ‘Japanese & European translations’ 😅

‘Nothing much’ as in, nothing dramatic. No giant swooning romance, no huge explosions & chases, no 300 pages of anxiety coz the murderer is in the house…

But actually a lot happens, it just happens quietly and indirectly.

There should be a category for novels like ‘stories where it seems nothing much happens’ coz I think maybe those are the kinds of novels I tend to like.

I don’t really like the trend but I’m also not sure I understand how this gives them a lot to work with? Did you mean like with a image generator? Everyone posting hasn’t been a kid for a long time so, in a sense, I can’t see them at direct risk otherwise.

Thanks!

In Singapore, the festival is known as Chap Goh Mei. I am told ‘chap goh’ means 15, as it is the 15th day of the new lunar year.

Interestingly it is also considered Chinese Valentines Day, and I spent 27 years in SG totally not knowing this 😅

I am also very wuthuring sometimes thanks to IBS 😅💨

It’s the less posh version 😅

Moby Dick was actually also just The Whale.

Although from what my husband told me of the plot (he just read it), perhaps it should have been ‘an assortment of New England whaling facts and statistics, also featuring a white whale and a dude with OCD’

Art from the back cover of Amy Wu and the Lantern Festival. Amy holds a lantern and she stands next to her dad. Behind them are a string of lanterns against the night sky.

Cover for Amy Wu and the Lantern Festival by Kat Zhang and illustrated by Charlene Chua.

Amy wishes everyone a happy Lantern Festival 🏮!

This festival marks the end of the Lunar New Year celebrations, and features (you guessed it) lanterns & eating sweet rice balls called tang yuan.

#lny #cny #kidlit #kidlitart

Yeah I kinda thought it was something close to withering, but oh well.

This is like when I learned what ‘corrugated’ meant and it was less cool than what I imagined it to be (I can’t recall what I previously thought it was though).

I guess Wuthering Heights does sound better than Windy Hill though.

Today I realized I never knew what ‘wuthering’ actually meant.

So I looked it up.

It… just means windy 🌬️

Canadian #kidlit pals 👇

The Lane Anderson Award honours the very best science writing in Canada today, both in the adult and young reader categories.

I have said that if I could afford to consistently see a therapist to get better, I probably wouldn’t have half the problems plaguing me in the first place 🙄💸

Some day librarians will be able to just look after books again.

But till then -

They go straight to my spam folder so I don’t see them anymore. But occasionally I do check the folder and see them there, so I guess it’s still going round, like a chain letter that won’t die.

Pagebound | Welcome home, reader 📚 Pagebound is your community to chat books, make friends, and discover new reads ✨

Is anyone I know using this? It’s supposed to be like Goodreads but indie and anti-AI

#kidlit #booksky

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A graphic with picture books from The Malaika Series reads, "Celebrating 10 Years of Malaika." The book covers feature collage-style illustrations of a little black girl in different costumes.

🎊 MALAIKA'S COSTUME, the first book in The Malaika Series, published 10 YEARS AGO today! 🎈

This series is a heartwarming collection of books that follow a girl's journey from living in the Caribbean to Canada, celebrating family, childhood, and culture.

🔗 Learn more here: https://ow.ly/4mQI50YmZkU

Fun fact! If you share this starter pack around, the really cool artists in it will get more followers, and I think that’s really neat 🥰

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These houses look totally liveable btw, not like abandoned farmhouses you have to fix up.

They seem relatively urban, like you can walk 20min to a train station.

I just saw an IG post for some lovely and insanely cheap (well… by what I’m used to) houses in Japan.

I have no idea how easy it is to actually live in said house if you don’t already have some sort of Japanese visa though, *sob sob*

Second Story Press: New logo (sort of) Promoting children's and YA books by Canadian authors and illustrators

I just noticed that @secondstory.bsky.social Second Story Press has a new logo—which I never noticed when it was announced last year—so I’m giving a little love to this amazing #Canadian publisher. canlitforlittlecanadians.blogspot.com/2026/02/seco...

Does it have gamut warning for CMYK?

📚 Ending off #FreedomToRead Week with this bizarre story! In 2023, READ ME A STORY, STELLA was mistakenly flagged by a public library system as containing sexually explicit material due to the author's last name being Gay.

🔗 Explore the Stella and Sam series here: https://ow.ly/VuyE50YljBG

It is manuscript wishlist today, if you posted for that I'm guessing the new follows are from there.

Thanks again for the lovely banner!

Shameless plug for #diversifymyart. Maybe it will inspire you! #kidlitart bsky.app/profile/lari...

I'm glad you pull over to note it down and not while you're driving 😅 #kidlitart

Thanks for another lovely #KidLitArt chat!

Thanks again to @autumnseybert.bsky.social for Feb's lovely banner, and to @victoriamaderna.com for March's banner!

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