Michelle Kenner (she/her)

Photograph of the cover of the September 2025 issue of Highlights High Five magazine, which is illustrated with cartoon-style art of an elephant and a tiger in a front-facing fire truck in front of a pale blue sky, captioned “Let’s Do This!”

Photograph of the top left of the rear cover of the writer’s contributor’s copy of the magazine, which is printed with the custom message “A BIG HIGH FIVE ESPECIALLY FOR MICHELLE KENNER”

Eeee! It’s in print! I have a poem in the September issue of #highlightshighfivemagazine and it is so thrilling to see it out there, and see Sarah Rebar’s super fun art for it too!
In true #kidlit reality-check, today my 2025 submissions got declined. #justkeepwriting #preschool #highfive

Phenomenal webinar! Much appreciated.

One sheet for The Summer That Ruined Everything

Coming this weekend! I can’t wait for you to get to know Cal, Jack, and 1963 Rhode Island.

Fortunately, the atmospheric pressure systems present when cheese blizzards occur somehow counteracts stomach pain! #kidlitchat

A cheese blizzard is a severe cheesestorm with strong winds and low visibility, lasting for at least three or four hours. Open your mouth and just chew on shredded cheese as it falls. Make cheese angels. Oh, it is OK to eat the yellow cheese. #kidlitchat

No such thing as bad cheese weather, only bad cheese gear! Hot cheddar deluge calls for soft pretzel boots and tortilla chip umbrella. #kidlitchat

SQUIRREL! #kidlitchat

Critical detail! Shredded cheese; extremely excellent. #kidlitchat

Probably my kids, which is sort of humbling to realize. But who else is going to monologue at me about cheese blizzards? #kidlitchat

Wanted to hop on this fun trend without using AI! Thanks to one of our very talented staff members for hand-drawing our Zookeeper starter pack! 💙 #starterpacknoai

photogtaph of 1” pinback buttons on a dark brown wood table. the pins have a white background and read “Northeast HFES regional meeting April 11, 2025” in dark teal to green ombre.

Any opportunity to break out my pin press :) #hfes #humanfactors #userexperience #ux #usability

Event flyer with a QR code. Text on flyer reads: 2025 Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Northeast Regional Meeting Redesigning design April 11, 2025 Ethical Society Auditorium, Rittenhouse Square Join a day of talks, panels, and provocations to build better systems, challenge assumptions, and drink coffee For students, practitioners, and changemakers in health, tech, and community Speakers from -Peloton -PhillyCHI -DesignThink -StreetBoxPHL -Penn Medicine -Boston Consulting Group -American Heart Association ...and more! Breakfast, Lunch, Coffee, Networking, Career advice $100 / $35 for students VR surgery with gaming headsets | Als in human subjects research | Augmented reality West Philadelphia vaccine initiative | "Streets are for People!" ... and more - all day long! Reserve your spot! Scan to register now https://tinyurl.com/hfes2025 SPONSORS: ideaplayground.org HUMAN FACTORS in CONTEXT DesignThink RIMKUS

This Friday 4/11/25 - #hfes regional meetings! #Philadelphia is hosting the northeast region. Join us for local speakers and a national keynote and panel. Nonmembers and members welcome. Registration here: tinyurl.com/hfes2025 #humanfactors #ergonomics #usability #UX @hfes.bsky.social

and also a relatable story! #kidlitchat

or the yarn - depends on the interruption forecast :D

I was just thinking something similar. Also that "fuel" doesn't feel like how my creativity works - more like flow. When I am creative I don't feel like it's been sparked, more like all the blocking forces (internal and external) have gotten out of the way for the moment. #kidlitchat

Graphic with text at the top stating Autism Books by Autistic Authors. Published March 2025. In the centre is a collage of book covers, tilted on an angle. Each book is listed in detail in the subsequent graphics and text. At the bottom is the text The Autism Books by Autistic Authors Project @AutisticBooks. In the bottom corner is a small logo with colourful books and a small plant either side.

March 2024 Book Releases Recap!

Here are the books about autism, or with Autistic main characters, written by Autistic authors, published in March!
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#AutismBooks #AutisticAuthor #Autism #Autistic #ActuallyAutistic #BookSky

Because of this chat I got curious and now know how to get Pages to read aloud to me! Using this as a revisions resource had never occurred to me. Thank you #kidlitchat!

I was such a buffy fan years ago! (quickly websearches about reboot... eeeee)

Mine folds and technically could fit in my back pocket or jacket, but I only bring it for travel or when I plan in advance to sit and write somewhere away from home.

I love my tiny Bluetooth keyboard!

A kid in their yellow and pink pyjamas looks happy, hugging a big black cat and holding a pink bowtie ribbon in one hand. The cat is wriggling and looks panicky.

More pet love!

#myValentine #kidlit #kidlitart #valentinesday

“Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right”: Meta emails unsealed Meta’s alleged torrenting and seeding of pirated books complicates copyright case.

I'm gonna keep saying it:

AI is built on stolen copyrighted materials.

How can we teach our students that they have to cite their sources and shouldn't pirate materials and simultaneously teach them to use AI tools?

#TLSky #EduSky school library

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

I really really need you guys to make a conscious rejection of generative AI tools part of your ongoing political resistance.

Don't use ChatGPT. Turn off Gemini. Don't read the AI results forced upon you at the top of Google search. Don't use AI art generators or support anyone who does. Please.

PREORDER GIVEAWAY! Purchase or complete a library request for Ready to Smile Again and enter to win a handmade chipmunk stuffy! Makes a great gift bundle!

Comment and repost to enter. 2 winners will be drawn on 3/11/25!

Signed copies available from my local indie at annieblooms.com/book/9781957...

Requested at Cherry Hill Public Library 2/7/2025 - I'm excited to see this one when it is out in the wild!

No matter how many draconian measures they take to try and minimize their pitiful, weak, cowardly white male-ness, all the different kinds of people will still be here, fighting back and laughing at them ✊🏽 ✊🏼✊🏾

To absolutely no one’s surprise except MAGA voters, the Trusk administration continues to gleefully screw everyone , including their own base

Update: They were removed from our reviewer assignments completely. I'm so sorry to all those graduate students. Anonymous to protect the identity of the NIH employee I spoke to...I am on study section next month to discuss F awards. We were just instructed to put the F31-Diversity applications on the bottom of our priority list for review because there is a chance we may not be able to review them. My heart is breaking for the grad students and their mentors that put so much work into these just for them to be disqualified and thrown out.

Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.

attn #kidlit
Also, putting these on my library holds list rn