This is the last day of our fundraiser for @authorsabb.bsky.social You can participate in 2 ways! Send proof of a donation of $25 or more to [email protected] & you'll get a FREE copy of How to Defend Books & Why by @dannycaine.com Donate at the link! Or...

Teachers, it’s time to stock your classroom for the start of the year! 💫 On Monday, July 27, we’re releasing a promo code that DOUBLES donations for books, basics, and classroom furniture. 📚🪑✏️ Submit a request for the supplies your students need. https://bit.ly/4hkX3Z4

"If you’re deciding between continuing to talk or giving students a chance to try, choose the practice." Gail Boushey and Allison Behne via @middleweb.bsky.social www.middleweb.com/53508/your-7...

⭐⭐Congratulations to Sergio Ruzzier on receiving TWO starred reviews for ROSIE GETS READY! Read the full Kirkus review here and the full Publishers Weekly review here. Ready in stores on July 21—don’t miss out on your last day to preorder! 📚✨ @ruzzier.bsky.social @literaticat.bsky.social

NEW: What Makes Teaching “Culturally Responsive”? Culturally responsive teaching means building relationships, developing student agency, providing wise feedback & supporting intrinsic motivation to learn. #edusky @larryferlazzo.bsky.social #ELLsky #teachersky www.middleweb.com/53729/what-m...

As you prepare for the upcoming school year, be sure to get a planner like this one specifically geared towards school librarians. I have been using this planner each year since Kristina first created it. Thank you to Kristina and Demco! Get yours at www.demco.com/demco-school....

New frogs dropping (hopping?) in less than an hour, at NOON ET at my Frogby Shop. Each felted Frogby comes with a mini-comic for you and a mini-mini comic for your little friend. 🧶🐸 frogby.bigcartel.com

We Stan a Short King. #art #Jimothy

🤔What are the pets of Lee & Low Books reading? Find out and brighten up your Monday feed with furry friends that have some excellent (and completely unbiased) children's book recommendations for you!📚 🎉Find free educator resources for all of these books on our website, leeandlow.com!

Added a couple of graphic novels and a picture book to my list of AWESOME NEW BOOKS. www.mrcolbysharp.com/2026

Five hundred years before we landed on the moon, imaginative medieval manuscript makers created these moon masterpieces. Happy #MoonDay to all that celebrate! 🌚

“All the cards were stacked against me & I broke the cycle.” Children of incarcerated parents find community at California summer camp, @vevalenz.bsky.social reports. Project Avary has brought together hundreds of children of incarcerated parents to feel less alone.

Approach zine making the same way that you made blog posts 10 years ago. Do you have an opinion that maybe 8 friends and like 3 strangers might be interested in? An answer to a question that's infrequently asked? A rant you could turn into a tight 5? that's zine material right there, buds

Apply for CLA Awards & Grants! Our Research Award provides grants of $1,000 for original research addressing significant questions related to the field of children's literature. Application Deadline: September 1, 2026 Application: www.childrensliteratureassembly.org/research-awa...

A really interesting piece on reducing AI cheating in the classroom from a Professor of English and former Dean of Humanities at University of Utah. The solutions? Smaller classes, lower teaching loads for faculty, and in-person classes.

AI “training” is offering the illusion of control and mastery by displacing awareness of how it is being integrated into civic institutions to the disadvantage of people with an illusory self-awareness of “appropriate” use. It’s just a form of on-boarding. 3/n

We don’t need education about ethical *use* of AI; we need more education in how it is being *used on* and against us. 2/n

“If students are using it to compose, which is the biggest tragedy of all, they’ll never learn to write. And their voice is stolen from them.”

I’ve never been great at making book displays, so I had students help me. Here’s what happened and why I’ll never do it alone again. librarymediatechtalk.blogspot.com/2025/12/from... #TLSkyChat #TLSky #SchoolLibrarian #EduSky

Daily bunny no.3381 is all hazy

Friday spotlight on our Reviews of the Week. Read the reviews here: www.hbook.com/section/book... @harperkids.bsky.social @penguinkids.bsky.social @penguinteen.bsky.social #hbreviewoftheweek #fridayreads #kidlit #yalit

#FridayReport: This week 92 teachers signed up at ZEP for people’s history lessons from Anchorage, AK; Rochester Hills, MI; the Bronx, NY; Greenville, SC; Milwaukee, WI; & more. #TeachTruth Some reasons why. ⬇️ Help bring more free people’s history lessons to teachers: www.zinnedproject.org/donate/

A powerful, sobering look at the ripple effects of book banning, courtesy of @freedomreadproject.bsky.social. Scroll to the bottom for a list of ways you can speak up and advocate for your community!

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I’m so proud of our little film! Thank you to all who have watched & shared. And to all on the censorship frontlines: I see you & am grateful to do the critical intellectual freedom work alongside you! @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social www.netflixjunkie.com/hollywood-ne...

These are your words of the week harm avuncular bison Scouser cyclospora mackerel sky www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/the...

Looking for a template to use for a poster, want to look professional, but (wisely) reject AI? This artist is making blank ones with cool borders you can use now for cheap — or free! I love how humans solve problems! www.instagram.com/hexreject?ig...

Join us for this all-day, free virtual celebration of authors and artists from around the world! Visit the exhibit hall, chat with publishing teams, download digital galleys & resources, and be prepared to be inspired as you build your collection. 📚 Register: hubs.la/Q04p9HCN0

60 Middle Grade and Hi-Lo Titles for Every Type of Reader | SLJ 2026 Stars So Far slj.com/story/60-mid...

The Power of Persepolis Iranian-American author Sara Amini remembers the impact of Marjane Satrapi’s work. www.slj.com/story/The-Po...

It’s Nonbinary Awareness Week (and International Nonbinary People’s Day), which is why we’ve decided to compile a list of 18 nonbinary authors you can read from this week—and all year round! All of these authors have some amazing—and extensive!—backlists that you can check out any time 💛🤍💜🖤

Booksellers are the new critics. Anyone who went to an old used book store already knows this.

How do you start building a sense of belonging for students on day one? 🎧 Our School of Practice podcast is back, and @marcusluther.bsky.social joins us to share a simple activity to do just that. www.edutopia.org/podcast/how-...

Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for nonfiction.

"As I wrote last year, fascists fear teachers because they fear a well-educated citizenry." — @rweingarten.bsky.social

New #BoardBook roundup from @publisherswkly.bsky.social Fall 2026 Children's Preview: 10 Sturdy Stories for Littlest Readers includes Find Me, If You Can! from @berbaybooks.bsky.social and What a Baby Can Do from @pajamapress.bsky.social www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

From J/A #HBMag the editors review 2025: "We were heartened to see the #Newbery, #Caldecott, #CSK Author, #Printz, and #Sibert awards, among ­others, all won by BIPOC women—an #ALA first" www.hbook.com/story/2025-t... #ALAAC26 #ALAYMA #kidlit #yalit @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social @wearealsc.bsky.social

As a queer children's author, this is a deeply unsettling trend. www.thebookseller.com/news/lgbtq-a...

From @wearealsc.bsky.social: "In celebration of ALA's 150th anniversary, the We Love Libraries booklist features books about BOOKS, reading, and libraries! Recommended titles for ages birth to 18. The list is free to download and share!": www.ala.org/alsc/publica...

Hey #EduSky I’ve revamped my “Before the first days!” checklist and it’s no longer ugly 😂😅 If you’re a new teacher: make a copy and even if you don’t fill it out, this document is full of questions you may not even know you have! Mentors: pass it along! 💛 Chanea canva.link/wpylcsy7837y...

ATTENTION EDUCATORS! Interested in invention education? Interested in civics? Join us on Thursday, July 23rd from 1-2 PM for a discussion on ways invention and civic engagement can go hand-in-hand. Featuring Doug Scott and Leigh Estabrooks! #invented RSVP: https://bit.ly/PBSInventionCivics7_23#invented

Did you know that on Indigenous Reads Rising we round up new and upcoming releases from Indigenous authors and artists in kidlit? Catch up with these recently released (or soon-to-be released) picture books from Indigenous creators on Indigenous Reads Rising! 🧡 indigenousreadsrisin...

"We are like different types of #flowers. Each of them needs the right kind of environment to mature into its full glory. If we are winter flowers trying to grow in a summer field, then of course we’re not going to #thrive, much less bloom.": buff.ly/VJTH5q5 #ChronicIllness #LifeLessons #disabled

Ep 1 of The Library Stage: #schoollibrarians can't afford to be education's best-kept secret anymore. If we don't tell the story, someone else writes it and we won't like their version. Be a guest on #TheLibraryStage & #TakeTheStage! #tlsky #skybrarian #skybrarians canva.link/thelibraryst...

Available for preorder now from Amazon, Bookshop, and likely some of your favorite independent bookstores. @bookpeople.com in Austin is one of my faves! bookpeople.com/book/9781978...

Don’t let them take it from you!

The State of Library Cuts in 2026 So Far. The word of the year for US libraries, whether public, school, or academic, is rough. buttondown.com/wellsourced/...

Looks like my first anthology, HERE WE ARE: FEMINISM FOR THE REAL WORLD is $3 on That Website. www.amazon.com/Here-We-Are-...