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Do any of you know if there are any bookish/writerly auctions happening or being planned to raise funds for Minneapolis right now? I'd love to donate some courses or services.

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Rainbow Dragon has exciting news coming soon! 💜

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Children Of The Serengeti Amazon.com: Children Of The Serengeti eBook : Fields, Hope: Books

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Alder, aided by his mother, leads his inter specie cohorts to fresh food.
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This podcast episode is SO GOOD! Amanda Jones & Audrey Wilson Youngblood tell their stories of being attacked by book banners, and director Kim A. Snyder explains how she made the film. Great questions from Kate & Charlie, who ❤️ libraries. @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social
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Don’t let nostalgia cloud your judgment: some of the best picture books are actually the newest | Kate Temple Contemporary children’s books reflect the diversity and values of a changing world – but getting new titles into small hands is harder than ever

"...what contemporary books do that most legacy titles don’t is reflect the world that children currently live in and its values" www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

28 Black Speculative Fiction Books For Black History Month For Black History Month, I'm creating 2 lists to highlight Black speculative fiction: one for books and one for comics! This first list is for books, so buckle up and take notes! But first, let's expl...

I'm not a big sci-fi/speculative fiction reader myself, but since there's been some conversation on here about book recommendations, here's a list from a thoughtful writer: theblerdlibrary.com/2026/02/06/2...

2026 Black History Month Picture Book Biographies buff.ly/oDaCTRf

“And it’s not just an attack on librarians, but it’s attack on the books. But they’re also trying to devalue and defund libraries as a whole across the board.”

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Rainbow Dragon has exciting news coming soon! 💜

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That's awesome!

Rainbow Dragon is a perfect picture book for World Reading Aloud Day!

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These Children’s Books to Celebrate Black History Month by Black Authors will help widen a child’s perspective and show how they can make the world a better, more equitable place.

Check them out👇
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Digital painting of an Indian peafowl facing almost directly to the front but the head is angled down and to the right slightly. This is a peacock in closeup so that only its neck, head, and part of its fanned out tail are visible. The peacock has a brilliant turquoise blue coloration on neck and head with bright green on the close-laid structure of feathers out of which the longer tail feathers emerge. The tail feathers have eye like patterns of dark blue, turquoise blue, light brown, and yellow at spaced intervals.

Oh, might as well repost this #fancy fellow as well...

#FebruArty #birds

Digital drawing in white ink against a black background of a standard poodle seen in profile facing right. Its coat is cut into pompom shapes along the tail, around the leg and hip joints, and left longer around the chest and back of head with an additional pompom standing straight up above the eyes.

For the #FebruArty theme of #fancy, does it get much fancier in the dog world?

(...and if you saw the version of this with the typo, no you didn't. I am not in a state of mind at the moment to allow typos to stand😭😅)

This is great!

Unfortunately an Ontarian company is still making armoured vehicles for ICE and Doug Ford is enthusiastically supporting this

You should use this letter template I made to tell Doug Ford that he needs to reverse course, condemn & cancel the contract

Congratulations

My baby always by my side. 💜

Did his medical response, dpt, and task perfectly in the urgent care unit.

a penguin is holding a black hat in its hand and saying thank you . ALT: a penguin is holding a black hat in its hand and saying thank you .

Thank you 💜 Heather!

Thanks Jordana!!
Sorry if I repeat…

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Seriously, though, be safe out there!

Waiting patiently for my son to come home!
Poor babies.

In honour of Caturday....
Pic 1 Theo sleeping on the heat vent.
Pic 2 Theo chilling
Pic 3 Theo and Felix telling me it's past bedtime
Pic 4 Theo and Felix telling me Gavin is downstairs

Day 16: Free Friday or how do your characters handle stress

They go outside and play! Or make new friends.....

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Day 15: 🤦‍♀️ The last, current, and future reads will all be for my course! .... for the next 3 years 😆

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I received the best compliment ever this morning!

I had a mom reach out to tell me her daughter wanted to be more like Kaylee! (The pictures are not of her daughter!)

This is why I write!!!

#bestcomplimentever #raisingreaders #kidlitbooks #childrensbooks #kidsbooks

Thank you 💜

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Fantasy Indies January prompts by @ChesneyInfalt & @LydiaVRussell 1. Introduce yourself & WIP 2. Free Friday or what are you looking forward to this year? 3. Saturday Snippet 4. MC’s Goals 5. Writing Habits 6. Tropes you’d like to see more often 7. First line of your WIP 8. Your writing strengths 9. Free Friday or Social Media Tips 10. Saturday Snippet 11. Interesting lore in WIP 12. Shout out other indies! 13. MC’s pet peeves 14. What do you most wish to improve on this year? 15. Last, Current, & Next Reads 16. Free Friday or How do your characters handle stress? 17. Saturday Snippet 18. Aesthetic Boards 19. Characters’ weaknesses 20. Your hobbies 21. Who does your MC look up to? 22. Where do you draw inspiration from? 23. Free Friday or New beginnings in WIP 24. Saturday Snippet 25. Animals in WIP 26. Memories that your characters cherish 27. How has your WIP changed since you first came up with it? 28. MC Habits 29. Favourite Fictional Characters 30. Free Friday or WIP subgenres 31. Monthly Wrap Up

#FantasyIndiesJanuary 12

Shout out to all the indie authors! (Except the bigots, those who use AI to write, etc.)

Special shout out to everyone who did a shout out!

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