Just arrived in the mail! SAFE CROSSING printed in Traditional Chinese. Just WOW! From Goetz Books, an imprint of Walkers Cultura, in collaboration with Chronicle Books. Thank you!!! @chroniclebooks.bsky.social #kidlit #picturebooktranslation

Thanks to the Malden Girl Scouts and Mass DCR for putting up a story walk of SAFE CROSSING, my new #picturebook about #amphibianconservation and #citizenscience at Greenwood Park. We had so much fun reading it together! #kidlit #authorvisit

A new paper shows humanity *can* live within planetary boundaries, with a massive *however*: "Although such measures are technically feasible ... it is an open question whether they can also be implemented based on social or institutional feasibility considerations."

“We’re not just talking about lifting people out of extreme poverty; we’re looking at futures with high development ambition, ensuring decent living standards as a minimum for everyone worldwide.” @kikstra.bsky.social, @iiasa.ac.at

Third graders got busy sculpting the life cycle stages of spotted salamanders with play-dough during my author visit! Thanks so much to the Mass Center for the Book for inviting me to be part of Mass Kids Lit Fest this year! #masskidslitfest #kidlit #megakidlit

#PictureBook #HBReviewoftheWeek SAFE CROSSING by @karipercival.bsky.social (@chroniclebooks.bsky.social) "2 double-page spreads of back matter, seek-and-find endpapers, + scientific captioning throughout make this bk as informative as it is beautifully illus + designed" www.hbook.com/story/review...

I helped a teeny tiny eastern newt off the street on my morning walk. Of course I thought about @karipercival.bsky.social and Safe Crossing bookshop.org/p/books/safe... #kidlit

Want to volunteer with Wonderland Spectacle Co at the Manship Artists Residency for a shadow puppet show and Lantern pageant, May 31 at 8pm? Volunteer sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Spring is springing: the frogs & #salamanders and filling up the #vernalpools with jelly eggs, the tender plants are coming up in spite of bad news. A surging reminder that #climateaction and #environmentalpolicywork, local, national, and global, is never more imperative than now, & going forward.

Thanks for the re-post, @rwwgreene.bsky.social !

A federal appeals court in New York on Monday paused a lower court’s order to transfer Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk from a Louisiana immigration detention facility to Vermont for a hearing.

Delighted to sign copies of SAFE CROSSING with the Midcoast Conservancy at the Skidompha Library and Sherman's Bookstore in Damariscotta, ME, where I grew up. So lovely to read-connect with family and friends, make new friends and talk wildlife conservation. Thanks to everyone who joined me!

Did you have a childhood library? Mine was Skidompha.So it's with great joy that I return there to share my new picture book, SAFE CROSSING, April 25, at 10 AM, along with the Midcoast Conservancy & Sherman's Books. Join me & find out how to help local amphibians! @chroniclebooks.bsky.social #kidlit

“We know the forests of #Papua are one of the biggest lungs of the world, yet we are destroying it,” Kwipalo said. “Indonesia should be proud to protect Papua ... not destroy it.” #ForestsWorthMoreDead #BiofuelParadox #GreenEnergyOrGreenwashing #CommodifyingNature #Deforestation #ClimateColonialism

"Different cultures can help each other see beyond their inherent biases and grow beyond the intellectual constraints of individual approaches." 💚

NOAA fires hundreds of climate workers after court clears way for dismissals www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Próximamente el 15 de abril - CÓMO DECIRLE HOLA A UNA LOMBRIZ: PRIMERA GUÍA AL AIRE LIBRE, Escrito e ilustrado por Kari Percival, Traducido por Yanitzia Canetti Coming on April 15! I am delighted that readers will now enjoy a Spanish translation just in time for spring! #kidlit #espanol #kidlitart

Wow! Awesome time reading SAFE CROSSING joined by Monkton Wildlife Tunnel instigator Chris Slesar and my illustration mentor Ashley Wolff. GReat ot see you!!! And thanks so much to Flying Pig Bookstore & Pierson Library for hosting! @ashleywolff.bsky.social #kidlit #kidlitart #roadecology

Happy #kidlitartpostcardDay and happy April! I've heard reports of the first toads sightings of spring from amphibian conservation volunteers. What signs of spring have your seen or heard? @bookmarkliterary.bsky.social #kidlit #kidlitart #childrensbooks#picturebookart #picturebookillustration

#KidLit reminder: Tomorrow is #KidLitArtPostcard day! Be sure to post with that exact hashtag. I'm going to refresh my info page with art from April's posts, see this page for more info: www.ginaperry.com/postcard

Sat.April 5, 10:30 AM join me and Chris Slesar to find out how the #MonktonWildlifeTunnels helped inspire my new amphibian migration #picturebook SAFE CROSSING at the #PiersonLibrary with the #FlyingPigBookstore @chroniclebooks.bsky.social #kidlit #roadwayecology #amphibians #amphibianmigration

#librariesmatter #saveIMLS CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES

This is cool. The Guardian recreated a searchable climate future risk tool (wildfire, extreme heat, drought, hurricane, and coastal flood) for the US that was developed by FEMA but deleted by the Trump administration’s ‘climate’ purge.

Make the most of Lilla’s expertise and contacts to take your career to the next level. Spaces are strictly limited, but there are still a few places left. Don’t miss out – find out more and sign up now 👉 makeartthatsells.com/online-cours...

How DO you draw a Woolly Mammoth? Find a toy to draw!I had so much fun drawing animals from toy models last Tuesday with The Room to Write at the Your Writers and Illustrators Meet & Greet at the Saugus Boys and Girls Club! #kidlitart #illustration #drawingtoys

Oh, Deer! Plant your hands on this fun book! kathytemean.wordpress.com/2025/03/27/b...

Thanks for making SAFE CROSSING and all your books more accessible, Chronicle Books! Just in time for spring amphibian migrations! #kidlit #kidlitmegafeed @chroniclebooks.bsky.social #picturebooks #classroomlibrary #naturecenter #scouting #citizenscience #kidlitart @bookmarkliterary.bsky.social

Putting final touches on a workshop I'm doing for #scbwi on making book trailers! I'm so excited! If you didn't know, 80% of internet consumption is video. I'll drop a link to my former book trailer presentation below so you can get started! #writingcommunity amynielsenauthor.com/2024/10/04/w...

Thank you to the Harris Center for Conservation Education, Keene Public Library & Toadstool Books, & to everyone who attended this event! It was a blast! Loved meeting my salamander brigade idol Brett Amy Thelen! @chroniclebooks.bsky.social @bookmarkliterary.bsky.social

Excited to team up with Maine Big Night, Greg LeClair, nature artist Michael Boardman, and others to offer raffle prizes and Big Night merch to helping raise funds for amphibian conservation. To find out how to volunteer to help frogs and salamanders, visit: mainebignight.org/get-involved... #kidlit

Look what arrived in the mail! I'm so amazed & honored to see my new release SAFE CROSSING reviewed in the March/April 2025 issue of @thehornbook.bsky.social , on p.54-55, & all the other books I need from my public library! Many thanks! @chroniclebooks.bsky.social @bookmarkliterary.bsky.social

Good morning, #KidLitArtPostcard Day! Are the baby eaglets hatching where you are? I'm Kari Percival & I illustrate picture books to inspire our next generation of environmental stewards. Contact @bookmarkliterary to team up! #kidlitart #kidlitpostcard #kidlitartpostcardday #kidlit 31s

If my book of prompts can be of help to anyone else, here it is: www.amazon.com/gp/product/0...

I will never, ever get over this.

Omg. This is so lovely.

I saw this at like 12 years old, late at night, with everyone else in bed. It felt like a fever dream when I was watching it, and I mean that in the best way possible.

NEW: The Trump admin has informed NOAA that two buildings that are critical for weather forecasting will have their leases canceled. If this comes to pass, it's a really big deal. Includes weather fcst nerve center in College Park, Md.: www.axios.com/2025/03/03/d...

💐 Wow! I had no idea when I hopped on Lilla's zoom call today that I'd get picked for her creative tarot reading! 🍀 So I was even further amazed when she invited me for a spot in her MATS Character Play 2025 design bootcamp! 🥰 Hope to see you there! @makeartthatsells.bsky.social #kidlitart #kidlit

Thank you to @traceybaptiste.bsky.social for creating this useful graphic. Looking for tangible and practical ways to support authors in these challenging times? Here are some ways that require very little heavy lifting and that can have a very big impact.

My piece on Friday about the "absolutely devastating" purge at NOAA:

LIVE NOW: #SaveNOAA rally at NOAA HQ

Sound up! I was walking my dog and heard barred owls. I took a video of these (maybe nesting?) screeching red tailed hawks in trees while I waited to catch the owls on video and you can hear them towards the end. The sunrise at the end was a random bonus.

Breaking: 200-strong Climate Choir stages flashmob in St Paul's Cathedral, demanding that @churchofengland.org - a top ten UK landowner - #rewild 30% of its land. Nature is in crisis. Time to #RewildTheChurch! @wildcard.land #ChurchofEngland #nature #wildlife #choir #climate #whatwouldjesusdo

"tree equity" is the kind of thing that columnists like to make fun of when why it works is actually instantly apparent to anyone who's ever walked down a street in the summer apnews.com/article/tree...

we may be one of the few pubs that got this headline right Trump And Vance Ambush Zelensky In Prelude To Betrayal talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-a...

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From January/February #HBMag @bostonglobe.com–Horn Book #BGHB #SpecialCitation recipients Karida L. Brown and Charly Palmer's speech for THE NEW BROWNIES' BOOK www.hbook.com/story/the-ne... #BGHB24 #kidlit @chroniclebooks.bsky.social

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