Really enjoyed @sarahsbrannen.bsky.social‘s presentation of her delightful new picture book Lolly on the Ice at the @silverunicornbooks.bsky.social. Kids love the Zamboni, pictured on book covers beneath the jacket.

Was going to CVS and Whole Foods for a few things, when thankfully an acquaintance reminded me about the #GeneralStrike. And so I turned around. This guy used to be an independent voter, but no longer.

11 AM EST #kidlit www.ala.unikron.com

www.kirkusreviews.com/book-lists/2... #kidlit #yalit

Snowfall map for now. Updates as needed this evening/Saturday etc.

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Happy Birthday Alice Paul. @deborahkops.bsky.social

Lola Lafon's book When You Listen to This Song was inspired by the night she spent alone in the Anne Frank House. It includes her meditations on Anne Frank's life and diary from a writer's point of view, and on her own family history. #AnneFrank #Holocaust www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/b...

How to get a lot of writing done: Ask the weather gods to coat your driveway with ice so you can’t go anywhere. #amwriting #kidlit

Day #29: 31 Days, 31 Lists - 2025 Nonfiction Books for Older Readers. Forget the picture books. Older nonfiction, that nebulous but ultimately satisfying genre, is where the action is. This list today just proves it. #31Days31Lists #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2025/12/29/3...

It’s not just Gaza. Netanyahu’s extremist government is supporting the violent annexation of Palestinian land in the West Bank. This is illegal and immoral, and decades of American silence have enabled it. NO MORE MILITARY AID FOR NETANYAHU.

Happy Solstice! #wintersolstice

I like being surprised when I’m doing historical research for a YA or kids book. So when I looked into the identity of the author of an article published in the New York Times in 1936, I was thrilled to discover he was probably a Soviet mole. #research #YAlit

How to secure a new password: Write it on a sticky and put the sticky on your coffee table. Your dog will come along and eat it, and no one will know this password. Not even you. #secureyourpassword

#kidlit #mglit www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/b...

A little Chanukah cheer! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsls...

A fine piece. It includes a wonderful tribute from Maurice Sendak.

"The simplest thing to do would be the right thing": www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/o...

Looking forward to hearing @margaretatwood.bsky.social discuss her new memoir at the First Parish Church in Cambridge on January 27. Tickets at @harvardbookstore.bsky.social , which is giving couples a break. You can buy two tix and just one book. #MargaretAtwood

Enjoying the conversation. Happy pub day!

Was looking at Amazon rankings for YA biographies about women. #7 jumped off the page! #VirginiaWoolf #YAlit

Such fun to watch Jamie Harper and @heatherlangbooks.bsky.social launch their fact-filled, funny, and wonderfully illustrated pb Supersquads! at the Silver Unicorn bookstore. #kidlit

A sleepover at the American Museum of Natural History. What a gas! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/a...

So this happened an hour ago. I don’t think I’ve seen red this deep in a long time. You could see it quite clearly with the naked eye. #aurora

Absolutely wild naked eye visible pillars all the way down here on the Oklahoma/Texas border. Cell phone shot here. #aurora

Fabulous art! #kidlit www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/b...

Received today: "Zohran Walks New York"--a tribute not only to Mamdani but to our amazing city. Congratulations to creator Millie von Platen and editor Carolyn Yoder for the vision to create and publish a nearly instant book. At Bookshop and elsewhere: bookshop.org/a/3703/97816...

#PhilipPullman is back. #YAlit www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/b...

My wonderful local bookstore put out its list of favorite November releases, and two of my wonderful friends are on it, and I am so grateful for my wonderful #kidlit community! @silverunicornbooks.bsky.social @heatherlangbooks.bsky.social @sarahsbrannen.bsky.social

I wrote about SCARY! SPOOKY! CREEPY! CHILDREN’S BOOKS! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/b...

The muses on my mouse pad #amwriting

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

Censorship is so 1984. Read for your rights. Today kicks off #BannedBooksWeek, and this year's theme reminds us that the right to read belongs to all of us, that censorship has no place in contemporary society, and that we must defend our rights. https://www.ala.org/bbooks.

The interview with Jane Goodall, the first in a series of Famous Last Words, is wonderful: powerful, moving, and very frank. She was obviously a delightful person. You will probably like her choice of men to send to Mars. #JaneGoodall www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/a...

Happy Fall! Pictured: Sedum Autumn Joy #autumnalequinox

The women’s final yesterday at the US Open was a good game. Until the winning celebrity, Sabalenka, made a show of slipping on and thus endorsing an obscenely expensive watch, worth more than $200,000. #USOpen bling

Stephen King has written a picture-book version of Hansel and Gretel, with illustrations by Maurice Sendak, originally created for the stage sets and costumes of an opera. Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen discuss the results. #kidlit www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/b...

Happy #NationalDogDay! Daisy would like you to know, in case you’re contemplating getting one, that most of their lives they’re just two-year-olds in dog suits.

@deborahkops.bsky.social Happy Ratification Day!

You never know when you're going to stumble on some wonderful source you weren't looking for. The Web. An eternal crapshoot. #Amwriting

Tonight is the peak of the Perseus meteor showers! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/s...

The Netanyahu government’s extermination of Gaza intensifies. Malnutrition is rampant, children are starving to death, people are shot while waiting for meager food rations — and US weapons allow it to happen. Trump and Congress must act NOW. Stop the slaughter. Feed the people.

Which US senators and representatives are working to stop the government from sending billions of dollars in military aid to Israel until it ends this genocidal war? And which US political groups on the left are most effective at trying to do the same? #GazaWar

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting will lose $1.1 billion if the House approves this package. Please call your representatives and demand they vote No.

Happy Bastille Day!

#SCOTUS blocks Florida's law banning undocumented people from crossing into the state. www.npr.org/2025/07/09/n...