Travis Jonker has built The Ultimate Caldecott Database. Yes, it includes the Medal and Honor winners since 1938, but it’s also a searchable resource with: Illustrator demographics, Artistic mediums, Publisher information, Page/word counts, and more. 100scopenotes.com/2026/04/16/t...

Very happy to add this Le Guin quotation print from @skeuomorphpress.org to my prints about print collection!

There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used. As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how Part 1: is your work in Libgen? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

I’m so pleased to be heading to Boston for the Summer Children’s Literature Institute in a couple of weeks. Now where did I put my ancient CharlieCard and does it still work?

Read what your ancestors might have read as children! Enter an Archive of 10,000+ Historical Children’s Books, All Digitized & Free to Read Online www.openculture.com/2025/06/ente... #Genealogy

ChLA 2025 let’s go!

Still not really sure how I’ll end up using this account, so for now I may just tersely proffer things that delight me, e.g., my current audiobook, which is Space Oddity by @catvalente.bsky.social

Highlight of the day: explaining the plot of “Goblin Market” to a colleague

This is fantastic!

Absolutely thrilled: I’m the new Curator of the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida! hr.uflib.ufl.edu/current-empl...

so. many. logistics.

Logistics!

Happy first day of classes to all my colleagues, and happy first day to me of remembering to take stretching breaks while packing everything I own. (Books. It’s at least 75% books.)

I do love a funky coffee shop.

it’s time to get going on NIMONA & A WARNING ABOUT SWANS redux: medievalisms & animal transformations!

Excited to talk about queer & trans medievalisms in NIMONA and A WARNING ABOUT SWANS!

Hanging out with the medievalists at Kalamazoo!

Living that beleaguered reviewer life

Got to play with typewriters today! A tactile and auditory delight.

My brain is convinced we’ve never written so much as a single line of analysis, ever, and we shouldn’t start now.

The exhibit: www.instagram.com/p/C2OHfabLfx...

I got to look at some romance novels from the ‘80s in class today! Here’s a blog post I wrote for the LitLangLibrary on newer romance fiction: publish.illinois.edu/litlanglibra...

bccb.ischool.illinois.edu/blueribbons/... The Bulletin’s best children’s books of 2023: The Blue Ribbons!

* Folklore, Place, and Song, a digital mapping project on corridos, created by Fiona Hartley-Kroeger, Matthew Kollmer, Loida Pan, and Isabella Viega and reviewed by Ysabel Munoz Martinez #ReviewsInDH reviewsindh.pubpub.org/pub/folklore...

I’m here, apparently.