This is the hardest I’ve laughed in 2026. Maybe in 2025 too. Impossibly it gets funnier the longer it goes on.

Simons & Schuster is having a #AANHPI sweepstakes! Win a copy of all these great books, including THE PINK PAJAMAS! Details here: www.simonandschuster... #giveaway #books #kidlit #edusky Simon Kids @ssedlib.bsky.social

More about the Cowlitz Tribe's beaver relocation program, which is among the largest in the West. "Beavers are amazing ecosystem engineers and create high-quality, complex wetland habitats that support biodiversity and ecosystem properties that can help buffer projected impacts of climate change.”

This guy says more with his cups than most writers. Red states choosing fear over progress is why we can't have nice things.

To the authors of children's books, and the illustrators, the librarians, the booksellers, the editors, the marketers, the teachers, the reading specialists, the literacy professors, the tutors and the volunteers: I see you. What you do matters. Children's books matter. All of them.

When we write for children, we write to lay aside our own ego, our own platform, our own importance. The child who reads our books should not be thinking about the book's author at all. Only the child matters - their imagination, their sense of wonder, their precious and growing Mind. That's it.

You’re not violating a "reading rule" if you opt not to finish a book that's not resonating with you. Life is finite and we thus have a finite number of books to read. Reading shouldn’t be a chore, and you needn’t feel guilty for ensuring that your time reading is spent reading things that you love.

Trump's proposed FY2027 budget guts public school funding while defense spending gets a 44% boost. Educators and students deserve better. Tell Congress to reject it.

This week, my state of Maryland became the first U.S. State to get an official state shark! I wrote about why Megalodon is awesome, how we know that it's extinct, and what having a state shark means for modern-day shark science and conservation I'm fine, everything is fine. 🧪🌍🦑🦈

"PSA: like don't do that." — @heymrsbond.com (100% co-sign on this: it's infuriating to see teachers online posting negatively about their students)

My favorite genre is “books politicians haven’t read but want to regulate.” Oppose H.R. 7661. Sign now. Via @everylibrary.bsky.social #read #reading #library #libraries #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians action.everylibrary.org/hr_7661

I feel better already....

Sounds about right.

This is how we fill a town square with busy little guys

I'm astonished by the response to my poem "Instructions for Having a Soul." Here it is in my voice, from one human to another:

Didja know there’s a #kidlitchat here on Bluesky every Tuesday at 9pm Easter/6pm Pacific? That means you can join us #kidlit folk today and chat with us for an hour. Good times, I tell ya!

So much of my education background bleeds into the creative process. #WritingCommunity, it's supposed to be uncomfortable. Through the state of disequilibrium, we grow. Mistakes teach us the most by far. Lean into the uncomfortable feeling. 🥰 #writers #authors #learning #writing #impostersyndrome

The most essential ingredient for any co-teaching partnership? Trust. 🤝 #EduSky #HighSchool

A glimpse into our silly little process - the birth of a grand house, from idea to the page…

People are who not teachers may never understand that there are students who etch themselves on our souls. It’s rare that we can predict who they’ll be, but there’s no mistaking it when it happens. For good or for ill, that’s my kid and their existence impacts how I see my job and the world.

Three soft and fuzzies, coming up. 🧵 🪶 🐣

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Octavia E. Butler, 1998:

"Planet Earth: You. Are. A. Crew." Artemis II mission specialist Christina Koch reflects on what it means to be a "crew."

This will end your night on a good note. Gratitude. 🚀 🌕

#FOFriday and it’s time. I finished my not-so-mini minibeast, the Roly Poly Pillbug! It’s huge. It’s soft. It rolls up and becomes a cushion. It’s perfect 🤩 🧶 #Knitting

We are pleased to host a giveaway of the middle grade novel, WHERE ELLA WENT by @lauriemorrison.bsky.social (ABRAMS Amulet), out on April 14. To enter, L + RP and confirm your entry in our Friday weekly update: kidlit411.com/2026/04/the-... (+ more ways to win)

Bluesky is temporarily working again. Here's a duckling to be permanently in your heart!! 🪶 🐣

Someone with the handle @velocity69.bsky.social is sharing a video with the caption: "The highest quality video of the moon was just released… so beautiful * Artemis II" It's gone viral, but it's not from Artemis II. If you've shared it, you might want to un-share.

Men need to women up and know when to help. This is the domestic violence hand signal.

🦥*GIVEAWAY ALERT*🦥 Today's the day! Sloths and Their Moths is out in the world! Comment, like, and repost to be entered to win a copy. I'll draw a random winner on April 6, so get your entry in by then🥳 @tielmourpress.bsky.social @steamteambooks.bsky.social

Oh my gd, the Artemis II crew doing a parody of a bad 1980s sitcom intro from in space. Source: www.instagram.com/p/DWwuHPfCZ8Z/

Pull up a chair (and maybe some matzah 😉) and join me for a special Passover episode of E Train Talks! 👉🏼Whether you’re celebrating, learning, or just curious, I’d love for you to tune in and watch the full episode. @baronchrisbaron.bsky.social @joshlevy.bsky.social youtu.be/hz55DJppj7Q?...

Today is National School Librarian Day. THANK YOU, school librarians & school library workers. We celebrate you. For so many library kids, the school library is the only place they have access to books. It is where they learn to believe that stories are for them. Thank you for your library joy 💛📚🥹🤟🏽

Incredible footage from a United Airlines flight of the Artemis II launch.

This is Molly. She was finally found a week after her human fell down a 180-foot waterfall while hiking together in New Zealand. Her human was badly injured and rescued by helicopter, but Molly was missing. A week later, Molly was found at the base of the waterfall and reunited with her human. 14/10

I took Poppy to see the exhibition today. I think she enjoyed being reunited with her #PackedLunchPostIt notes. She even added one of her own to the Visitor's Gallery.

The world is stupid, but I just watched a squirrel break into a car in the parking lot below me, steal a package of crackers, and escape to a nearby tree. So at least somebody is winning.

The uncomfortable truth about immigration. Charles Barkley had the guts to say what everybody's thinking, on live TV. If he can do that in front of millions, you can absolutely have that conversation with your family and friends.

#Librarians and #Teachers, if you're looking to expand your #KidLit science selections, or grownups, if you have a kid who loves nature, I recommend my picture books, illustrated by Hannah Salyer (This Wolf) and Steph Stilwell (I, Rock), pubbed by Beach Lane Books! 😃 www.katieslivensky.com/books

dudes rock

New iron-on patches for invertebrate lovers are now available! 🐛❤️ available here: shop.fossilforager.art Let me know in the comments which invertebrate or creature patches you’d like to see from me next! 🪳

Switch your lights off at 8:30 pm local time today as part of #EarthHour2026 to raise #ClimateChange awareness! And read Nanette Heffernan & Bao Luu's book EARTH HOUR: A LIGHTS-OUT EVENT FOR OUR PLANET! Happy #earthhour! #kidlit #booksky 🌎❤️🌎

March 28 will be the biggest protest in US history. Find your local No Kings event to make it clear that America rejects the regime’s brutality at home and abroad. app.sosha.ai/s/2w3XjC26

Supporting children who struggle isn’t about fixing everything. It’s about showing up, noticing, and taking small, meaningful steps — building trust, safety, and connection while honoring realistic expectations in the classroom.

He's a good reader. Bright. Funny. And all year he's told me there are no good books. This post is about what I finally realized — and a free tool to help.

This is Stan. He is the guardian of the stairs. It's his first day and he's a little nervous. Really hoping you don't try to pass. 12/10 (TT: stanthehotdawg)

The March pick for the LittleWheelsBigHearts Graphic Novel drive is: Ms. Marvel: No Normal A great story about finding your place in the world, embracing what makes you different, and discovering that being a hero often starts with simply being yourself.

How do you get 4,000 teachers on the same page? In Frederick County, MD, they’ve been on a 10-year journey to train every educator—newbies and veterans alike—in the science of learning. 🙌 #SchoolLeaders #Principals #EduSky

Common numerators is an underrated strategy for comparing fractions. I wish I learned this when I was in school.