More #booksinthewild, this time from Portland, Maine! Thank you PRINT:A Bookstore! #kidlit @redcometpressbooks.bsky.social @pubspotlight.bsky.social

I love spotting our books in the wild, especially in another country! Check out these discoveries from @kinobkt.bsky.social in Tokyo! @pajamapress.bsky.social @doremibooks.bsky.social @postwavebooks.bsky.social @cuentodeluz.bsky.social #kidlit #worldkidlit

Have you seen TESS'S RED DRESS from @medicinewheelpub.bsky.social ? Perfect pitch book on a complicated topic. Glad to see @100scopenotes.bsky.social highlighting this!

Wouldn't it be cool to listen in on a conversation with two of the world's children's literature laureates? That's happening on March 24 at 4pm EDT! tinyurl.com/mruj7966 #kidlit #kidlitmegafeed #reading #childrensbooks

Sasha, the @pubspotlight.bsky.social kitty, loves reading about her friends! @childs-play.co.uk @childsplayusa.bsky.social #kidlit #boardbooks #bilingualbooks

The @pubspotlight.bsky.social team is so excited to be working g with these publishers!

Sasha, the @pubspotlight.bsky.social office kitty, has questions. Big Questions! Join her in checking out this great series from @hungrytomato.bsky.social and Beetle Books. #kidlit #cats #catswithbooks #kidsnonfiction

Thank you, Betsy, for lifting these important creators up!

Susan Beth Pfeffer and Peg Kehret hit especially hard. I read so many of their books and recommended them so many times that I felt like I KNEW them. And Ms. Pfeffer posted her Wordle scores on Twitter for a while.

Sasha the office kitty says "One Can Be by Pat Zietlow Miller is the perfect book for World Introverts Day!" #kidlit #cats #Bookcats #introverts @kidlitchat.bsky.social @beamingbooksmn.bsky.social

Sasha the @pubspotlight.bsky.social office kitty has some recommendations for wintry reads! #kidlit #cats #catswithbooks

This “How Do” book is perfect for collab by Art and Math—HOW DO YOU TURN DATA INTO DRAWINGS, a Matical Honor Book from @flowerpotpress.bsky.social @pubspotlight.bsky.social #NCSS2025 #nonfiction #kidlit

A perfect publisher for teaching about sustainable agriculture? Readers to Eaters of course! @pubspotlight.bsky.social FARMER EVA , plus it’s on audio too from @liveoakmedia.bsky.social ! #NCSS2025 #kidlit

It’s always a good day to SMASH THE PATRIARCHY (this from @helvetiq.bsky.social ). These amazing educators find this Eureka-winner at @NCSS2025 @pubspotlight.bsky.social #kidlit #graphicnonfiction

Museum educator building her civics resources looking forward to adding Fault Lines in the Constitution from @holidayhouse.bsky.social and Peachtree Publishing at @NCSS2025 @pubspotlight.bsky.social #kidlit #civics

THE SPY IN THE MUSEUM from @simonandschuster.bsky.social infiltrates the International Spy Museum stand at #NCSS2025 ! @pubspotlight.bsky.social #kidlit #kidsnonfiction

White House Clubhouse kids travel back to the second Roosevelt White House and meet First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt! @wwnorton.com #NCSS2025 #historyforkids #Kidlit @pubspotlight.bsky.social Thanks to the Women’s Foundation for the cool cutout!

Two AFRICANA honored books featured at the Education About Africa booth at #NCSS2025 — I’ll See You in Ijebu from @barefootbooks.bsky.social and What Happened on Thursday from Amazon Crossing Kids. @pubspotlight.bsky.social #kidlit #globalkidlit

A professor hunting for new Asian Asian children’s books is thrilled to discover PAPA’S BUTTER CHICKEN from @tigertalesbooks.bsky.social . #kidlit just won the Gourmand Prize for books too! @pubspotlight.bsky.social

What better way to start the day than with Ruth Bader Ginsberg? Check out this great middle grade bio of the great dissenter from @sourcebooks.bsky.social at #NCSS2025 @pubspotlight.bsky.social #kidlit

Did you know JUST IN CASE from @charlesbridge.bsky.social just won a nonfiction award from NCTE? Learn about the seed vault on Svalbard! As seen here at #NCSS2025 @pubspotlight.bsky.social

An educator with the Federal Reaerve Bank is excited about @rubytuesdaybooks.bsky.social “Money and You” series at #NCSS2025 @pubspotlight.bsky.social #kidlit

BITTERSWEET about the WWII Berlin Candy Bombers finds a perfect backdrop with the WWII National Museum at #NCSS2025. @pubspotlight.bsky.social @simonandschuster.bsky.social

This professor found a perfect book to model conflict resolution just before her session on the topic! @tigertalesbooks.bsky.social #NCSS2025

In honor of small business Saturday, here are books from independent presses captured in the wild in independent bookstores including Wild Rumpus and Green Bean Bookshop. #kidlit

Marc Aronson m is on a campaign to replace nonfiction and informational books with “curiosity books.” #IBBYRegional #kidlit #nonfiction #curiositybooks

Mary Ann Cappiello: “extraordinary book that explains how animals see!” IBBYRegional

Marc Aronson: current trend in nonfiction is looking at a topic through two perspectives. #nonfiction #IBBYRegional #

Deborah Heilegman: “What is the author’s through line?” For Deborah, it’s connection. For Cynthia LEVINSON it’s social justice. #IBBYRegional #nonfiction #kidlit

The Urgency of Nonfiction panel at @IBBYRegional delves into this overlooked and urgently needed category with Marc Aronson, Deborah Heilegman, Vicky Smith and Mary Ann Cappiello.

DYK that Helen wang started the #namethetranslator hashtag? Lots of top Shenjeng books are translated from around the world. #IBBYRegional

Helen Wang delivering the Teale lecture at #IBBYRegional #kidlit

“For Jella Lepman, nourishment for the souls always came from books”—Katherine Paterson on what inspired the creation of the International Youth Library. #IBBYRegional #kidlit

Where to share Jella Lepman’s Library of Dreams? Marc Aronson suggests with World War II. So often studies end with the bomb but what about the thousands of children orphaned and impacted by the war?. #IBBYRegional #kidlit

“The human Jella is the gift that Claudia gave to me.”—Katherine Paterson, on the depth and wealth of knowledge gained from family letters shared by Jella s granddaughter #IBBYRegional #kidlit

“The greatest gift my grandmother [Jella Lepman] gave me was Katherine Paterson.—Claudia Lepman-Logan. #IBBYRegional #kidlit

“Making friends all over the world is what Jella Lepman has done for us.”—Katherine Paterson, author of Jella Lepman’s Library of Dreams #IBBYRegional #kidlit

“Where there are children, there is hope.”—Baserat Kazim, IBBY President at the IBBY Regional event in Boston. #kidlit #Ibbyregional

Graphic Novel Creator Alert! Tune into what is sure to be a fascinating conversation about graphic novels from around the world! #kidlit #graphicnovels

Thanks @fuse8.bsky.social for highlighting some of our favorite Fall books! And you even included the Hank the Goose plushie! #kidlit afuse8production.slj.com/2025/09/24/m...

L’shana tova to all our Kalaniot family and friends! Illustration by Zeynep Ozatalay from A Turkish Rosh Hashanah by Etan Basseri

Only murders meets Harriet the Spy! @pajamapress.bsky.social #kidlit

Independent publishers are brave and nimble—qualities we need in this world! #kidlit @redcometpressbooks.bsky.social @barefootbooks.bsky.social @ebyrbooks.bsky.social

Bring on the school counselors! We have GREAT bibliotherapy tools for you at ASCA!

Some fave moments from #alaac25 with #kidlit folks!

On my way to read The Big Day with lovely families at the Edinburgh Bookshop ☺️ @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social

"Writing The Brightest Star was a beautiful experience ... I felt sturdy in my relationship with words and language and expression." Thank you @rte.ie for hosting @megcathwrites.bsky.social to talk about her new book #TheBrightestStar and writing in verse. shorturl.at/Gq1yV

High on my list of Favorite Things: Spotting books from Publisher Spotlight clients in the wild. And WOW, Green Bean Books in Portland is fabulous in all the ways! #kidlit #kidlitmegafeed #Bookstores

It’s always a treat to have authors in town so imagine our delight to host Judith McQuoid, whose GIANT pinned on June 3, in Nashville for her book birthday! #kidlit #middlegrade @littleislandbooks.bsky.social @pubspotlight.bsky.social

Join me and my friends at @ala-booklist.bsky.social and publishers Free Spirit and Tundra for a collection of SEL children's book titles for public and school libraries. It's a free webinar--register here! ala-events.zoom.us/webinar/regi...