🪻COVER REVEAL🪻 I’m so excited to share the cover for my third middle-grade novel, LISTEN TO THE GIRLS, it publishes May 5, 2026 and is available for preorder now! Cover art by Charis JB Cover design by Katrina Damkoehler Order links in my bio!

🚨 ALERT 🚨 It is now officially babies in tiny jackets with ears on the hoods season. Please be on the lookout for babies in tiny jackets with ears on the hoods at all times.

This book is SOOOO good!! You'll want to preorder it!!

This is a great book to get your hands on if you haven't read it! #mglit #sd36tl #TeacherSkybrarians @kloshaughnessy.bsky.social

As always, when @colbysharp.bsky.social recs a book, read it. @kloshaughnessy.bsky.social can spin a tale with a fresh voice and innovative storytelling. Read the whole thing today. Just wow.

I interviewed @erinentrada.bsky.social mrschureads.blogspot.com/2025/02/two-..., Lesa Cline-Ransome mrschureads.blogspot.com/2025/02/newb..., @ruthbehar.bsky.social mrschureads.blogspot.com/2025/02/newb..., and @kloshaughnessy.bsky.social mrschureads.blogspot.com/2025/02/newb... this week.

"School librarians are the architects of a more understanding, empathetic world. By getting kids to love stories, they’re encouraging them to love and better understand their fellow human." —Newbery Honor author @kloshaughnessy.bsky.social mrschureads.blogspot.com/2025/02/newb... #TLSky

"Story is where empathy and understanding bloom. The trappings of a story may be fictional, but the internal experience of each character is rooted in truth." —Newbery Honor author @kloshaughnessy.bsky.social mrschureads.blogspot.com/2025/02/newb...

🐻📚 Grizzly Readers met for Caudill Books & Bites Book Club today to discuss Lasagna Means I Love You by @kloshaughnessy.bsky.social ! @rcyrba.bsky.social #204Reads

Currently reading these two kidlit books and congrats to Newbery Honor Award Winner!!!! @kloshaughnessy.bsky.social

Way to go Kate O'Shaughnessy!!

Ha! I’m in the middle of it so y’all who threw it on hold at the library can fully expect to wait until its due date when I will absolutely be returning it on time if not sooner. 😉 Magnificent @kloshaughnessy.bsky.social! 🤌 Congrats! #alayma #kidlit

The Newbery Honor books are: ACROSS SO MANY SEAS by Ruth Behar; MAGNOLIA WU UNFOLDS IT ALL by Chanel Miller; ONE BIG OPEN SKY by Lesa Cline-Ransome; and THE WRONG WAY HOME by Kate O'Shaughnessy

THE WRONG WAY HOME won a Newbery honor!!! Thank you to the committee and @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social for the honor of a lifetime!!!

This was so wonderful. Highly recommend. It's bite-sized in length, but packs a punch in substance and beauty.

@rosemarymosco.com: "When we begin to care about creatures that most people think are lowly, we become better people. We weave ourselves more tightly into the tapestry of the world around us, and we arm ourselves for the fight to save the world."

Reading about cults is kind of my jam … this story about a girl deprogramming after her mom takes them away was so absorbing I read it in one morning! @kloshaughnessy.bsky.social thanks for hitting my reading sweet spot!

We have two redwood trees right in front of our house. Over the past few years, they have proven hazardous: they have dropped huge leaders and branches that have caused extensive damage to both our and our neighbor's houses. Today we cut them down. I have felt such a sense of grief all day.

With the holidays approaching + my author copies burning a hole in my closet, I'm doing a #giveaway of *signed* copies of all my books! That's EMMY IN THE KEY OF CODE, RECIPE FOR DISASTER, PASTA PASTA LOTSA PASTA, *and* LUCKY PENNY to 3 lucky winners. Reshare and ❤️ to enter! US only.

This was an exciting pre-Thanksgiving treat. So grateful. Thank you, New York Public Library!

👍🏽📚 The lonely heart of MAYBELLE LANE by Kate O'Shaughnessy - A lovely book with heart, and courage that captures the sound of happiness! @kloshaughnessy.bsky.social #kidlit #mg #mglit

If you've read LASAGNA MEANS I LOVE YOU, you can probably guess that I *love* food. I have a couple of beloved recipes for Thanksgiving, which I'll link to this thread. (? is that what we're calling it on here?) If you also have a fave recipe you make year after year, what is it? Please share!!!

Hello! 👋🏻 Middle grade author here. I've been almost completely off Twitter for the last year and have missed the book world connections I used to make there. So here I am! Hoping to connect with other authors, teachers, librarians, and readers. 🤗📚