The book of our librarian dreams and we’re making it?! 👀

BIG AND SMALL AND IN BETWEEN by Carter Higgins @carterhiggins.bsky.social (& Daniel Miyares @danielmiyares.bsky.social) Sizes & experiences in the world Left me speechless. I love everything about this book! (2022, Chronicle Books) #PB #kidlit #librarians #teachers #illustrators

*Slams dictionary shut til Tuesday*

This reader! She knows that page says ‘upside down octopus’ 🥰🥰🥰

A STORY TO SHARE: HOW RUTH KRAUSS FOUND ANOTHER WAY TO TELL A TALE, by @carterhiggins.bsky.social, illus. by Isabelle Arsenault, is a fun #PB #biography of Krauss, a one-of-a-kind iconoclast, who wrote many clever books. #UrsulaNordstrom teamed her up with #Sendak for 8 of them. #nonfictionkidlit

Hey @carterhiggins.bsky.social - for once, you should read the comments. Really. :-) afuse8production.slj.com/2025/04/30/a...

JUST ONE WAVE is out today! I'm sharing some of my favorite details from the book on the blog: 100scopenotes.com/2025/04/15/6...

I love @carterhiggins.bsky.social writing and I love @danielmiyares.bsky.social art. I adore this. “Big and Small and In-between” perfectly captures the feelings and perspectives of a child. It’s both funny and thoughtful and profound. This will be brilliant with kids of any age. #PicturebookPage

So @jerroldconnors.bsky.social is one of the smartest creators in the kidlit business and I always enjoy learning from him -- specifically about the art of illustration. I think you all should read this highly fascinating post of his. jerroldconnors.com/2025/02/23/p...

Congratulations, @emmykastner.bsky.social! 100scopenotes.com/2025/02/20/e...

A fun one! Listen up! 📚

Check out the case cover for Let’s Be Bees!

Ruth Chan and I talk about making CABOOSE on The Yarn podcast: www.buzzsprout.com/536689/episo... @ohtruth.bsky.social

Happy book birthday to @100scopenotes.bsky.social and @ohtruth.bsky.social's Caboose!

The Moon, by Gary Hume, 2009

This is always a fun thread! The details! 👀

‘Tis the season! 💌

Here’s where Mark and I show you the very best glue sticks to ever have stuck. 💯🎨✂️

A countdown for our calendar flip! Here’s to hooray-ing in 2025. 🎉 (from ROUND AND ROUND THE YEAR WE GO, Holiday House/Neal Porter Books 📚)

Day 27: 31 Days, 31 Lists - Books Celebrating a Love of Nature and the Environment. Essentially these are nature and climate books inspired by my library's Blueberry Award. #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2024/12/27/3...

Here’s a charming song to wrap up your year—round and round we’ve gone and round and round we’ll keep going! Big thanks to longtime pal Emily Arrow for the music and lyrics and Neal Porter Books/Holiday House for publishing ROUND AND ROUND THE YEAR WE GO. For you! ☀️🌷❄️🍂🎶🐭 youtu.be/aWA3ZU_D91o?...

More! 🎉

It's here—your submissions, your favorites! Congrats all around! 🎉📚👀

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Love this collection of Brightly's Best Picture Books of 2024—partly because ROUND AND ROUND is here and partly because there are so so many good books to catch up on this year. Hooray all around! www.readbrightly.com/picture-book...

Loved talking with Junior Library Guild recently, all about my time as both a JLG librarian and JLG author/illustrator. What a treat! www.juniorlibraryguild.com/blog/post/q-... 📚

Cover of the Year, Gatefold of the Year, Dedication of the Year: It’s time to take a look back at the year that was in children’s lit miscellanea. 100scopenotes.com/2024/12/10/2...

It’s time! ⬇️🗳️👀

Oh my goodness! How did I miss this? ONE SWEET SONG is on this list with so many beautiful books including mentor Carole Boston Weatherford and writer friends Randi Sonenshine and @carterhiggins.bsky.social. Such a sweet, delightful surprise and honor 😍🥰 @candlewickpress.bsky.social #soniasánchez

Well, this is fun! (Also fun to see ‘whatchagonnado’ as the punctuation to Betsy’s stellar take here!) 📚

If you see this, post a bunny! 🐇✨

Toying with a new starter pack full of creative people who hire creative people. If that’s you, and you’re not currently included, let me know, and I’ll add you! P.S. I realize “creative” is a big bucket. Please note that the focus is on the visual arts. go.bsky.app/Hxoz9KX

Happy Monday! I was just reflecting on what a *year* this was—one that has been unpredictable, unsettling, and just plain hard. And then remembered I made this book. Time keeps cycling, and there’s some comfort in that. Right? ☀️🌷❄️🍂

Hello, Blue world! I’ve missed you. Where’s the library? When is snacktime? What are you reading? 🦋