What we’re reading: Jim! Six True Stories About One Great Artist: James Marshall - written and illustrated by the inimitable Jerrold Connors. @jerroldconnors.bsky.social Sweet, touching, and not not cute or zany. Super awesome, check it out! #books #picturebooks #kidlit

What we’re reading: Stitch Head - Guy Bass, Pete Williamson #books #graphicnovel #comics #kidlit

What we’re reading: The Land of Unfinished Dreams - M.D. Ventura, M. Ferraris #books #graphicnovel #comics #kidlit

What we’re reading: Emmie Builds Something New - Marjorie Crosby-Fairall Making Art - Diana Ejaita #books #picturebooks #art #making #kidlit

What we’re reading: My Daddy is a Cowboy, Fish Fry Friday, Kicks in the Sky - C.G. Esperanza, Stephanie Seales, Winsome Bingham #books #picturebooks #kidlit

Spotted in the library: Someone’s hold pile, two big stacks! And I thought I had a lot of holds. Happy reading. #books #libraries #picturebooks #reading #kidlit

What we’re reading: Runny Babbit and Runny Babbit Returns - Shel Silverstein Two very billy sooks. #books #picturebooks #poetry #kidlit

What we’re reading: Does it Fart? A Kid’s Guide to the Gas Animals Pass - Nick Caruso, Dani Rabaiotti, Alex G. Griffiths #kidlit #books #picturebooks #stem #farts

What we’re reading: Our Rainbow - with illustrations from C.G. Esperanza, Mohammed Fayaz, Love is Wise, Beena Mistry, Dylan Glynn, Cynthia Yuan Cheng, Joy Yang, Chris Kindred, Jeromy Velasco #books #picturebooks #boardbooks #lgbtq

What we’re reading: Raised by Ghosts - Briana Loewinsohn #books #graphicnovel #comics

What we’re reading: Family Style, Memories of an American from Vietnam - Thien Pham #books #graphicnovel #memoir #comics

Help support Minnesota! My cousin lives in this neighborhood and is involved with this. It has been a rough couple of months for everyone.

Looking forward to family movie night, went in to pick up Howl’s Moving Castle, and the library had the same idea. Petaluma Library Free Friday Flicks, First Friday of the Month, 3:45pm Feb 6 - My Neighbor Totoro Mar 6 - The Cat Returns Apr 3 - Howl’s Moving Castle #miyazakihayao #movies #library

This is a cool book, inside and behind the scenes of embryonic and baby animals. Cute bats 🦇 too! Watch Them Grow: The Fascinating Science of Animal Beginnings - Carrie a. Pearson #books #nonfiction #animals #steam

What we’re reading, thrift store find: And When She Opened the Closet, All the Clothes Were Polyester: A FoxTrot Collection - Bill Amend #books #kidlit #comics @billamend.bsky.social

What older kiddo is reading, three thrift store finds: Taylor & Rose Secret Agents, Peril in Paris - Katherine Woodfine, Illustrated by Karl James Mountford Middle School The Worst Years of My Life - James Patterson, Chris Tebbets Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics - Chris Grabenstein #books #kidlit

Other family library books that I won’t have time to read: Ready Player One - Ernest Bline The Impossible Fortune: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery - Richard Osman House of Dragons - Jessica Cluess #books

Just finished family read-aloud: The Lost Princess of Oz - L. Frank Baum 1917 We have 6 of the originals, which have beautiful and often delightfully unhinged illustrations, so we’re filling in the gaps with the unillustrated collections. 11 down, a few more to go. #kidlit #wizardofoz #oz

Please do check out the hashtag #Comics4Liam for a bunch of incredible art and visit comics4liam.com for lots of ways to help immigrants who have been kidnapped by this horrible administration.

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Morning bike ride in the fog. Nice way to clear out the cobwebs.

Just finished: The Girl Who Flew Away - @leedean.bsky.social @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social Dreamy, complicated, painful, sweet. Beautiful colors and illustrations. #graphicnovel #comics #books

What we’re reading: Monster Maker: The Strange Creatures of Mark Nagata モンスターメーカー: マークナガタの奇妙な生き物 @debbimichiko.bsky.social @inkotakita.bsky.social Super cool! #kidlit #picturebooks #monsters #toys

What we’re reading: There’s a Hair in my Dirt - Gary Larson Cute book, partly kid-friendly, a little more teen-to-grown-up than for younger kids, a bit of an awkward package. #books #picturebooks #kidlit

🧵 It was such a surprise (and thrill!) to see THE LIBRARY IN THE WOODS get CSK recognition on Monday for both author Calvin Alexander Ramsey and illustrator R. Gregory Christie. I want to share a little about why I think the book is so special--and deeply relevant for all of us right now.

Popped into the Seattle Central Library when we were there in December. It had been a few years since I visited. Still big and funky. The Tony Oursler projections weren’t working. #books #libraries

Censorship is so 1984 ★★★★★★ La censura es tan 1984 Read for Your Rights Lee por Tus Derechos Sign at Petaluma Library #books #libraries

Catching up posting what we’ve been reading over the last couple of months: The 65-Storey Treehouse - Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton #books #kidlit

Yōkai, Ukiyo-e, art section at Kinokuniya at Uwajimaya, Seattle #books #art #yokai #妖怪 #ukiyoe

Catching up posting what we’ve been reading over the last couple of months: Indestructible Things That Go - Stephan Lomp, and other things at Queen Anne Book Company, Seattle #books #kidlit #picturebooks

Catching up posting what we’ve been reading over the last couple of months: Finally finished family read-aloud, SOOO GOOD, can’t wait until book 3 - Nic Blake and the Remarkables, The Book of Anansi - Angie Thomas #books #kidlit

Catching up posting what we’ve been reading over the last couple of months: Love Is a Tutu, Love is a Truck, Love is a Ball - Amy Novesky, Sara Gillingham. Spotted at Copperfield’s Petaluma #books #kidlit #picturebooks

Catching up posting what we’ve been reading over the last couple of months: The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow and sequels - Painted Dragon, Jeweled Moth, Midnight Peacock - Katherine Woodfine #books #kidlit

Catching up posting what we’ve been reading over the last couple of months: Webster’s Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language - Publishers Guild, Inc., 1940 - not related to Merriam-Webster #books #dictionary

Thursday 1/29 - 1/30, Publishing for Minnesota auction!

List of links to support orgs for Minnesota linktr.ee/mplsmutualaid

A good list of resources and action items here to help you support immigrant communities in Minnesota. Would appreciate it if you helped me boost. ❤️ mspmag.com/arts-and-cul...

Look, I'm going to tell you a secret. If you buy an e-book while it's on sale, you never have to read it. If you have $2 to spare & want to help that particular author, you can just chuck the book into the oubliette of your TBR. Every sale helps. The author will never know, but you gave them a gift.

Comics friends! Please look at what @trungles.com and a bunch of other comics people are doing and join in! #IceOutComics

If you care about book banning, you simply must read this interview with @shannonhale.bsky.social. It's absolutely full of grace, wisdom, and compassion—and some really good arguments for the freedom to read. ❤️ pen.org/shannon-hale...

Apparently I'm doing this -- my open letter to that open latter about AI in writing and publishing. I emerged from Hibernation Week to write it, so god only knows how much sense it makes. But at least a human wrote it, so that's nice. Bonus: picture of my "cat," sweet baby Boomba.

What we’re reading: Dog Man, Big Jim Believes - Dav Pilkey Dipper & Mabel’s Guide to Mystery and Nonstop Fun - Gravity Falls And very excited to see and flip through briefly, but didn’t get yet: Hansel and Gretel - Steven King, Maurice Sendak #kidlit #picturebooks #graphicnovels

San Francisco mayor Daniel Lurie (l.) issued a proclamation declaring December 12 as Drag Story Hour Day in the city, in celebration of DSH’s 10th anniversary. During a visit to the SF Public Library on 12/14, Lurie presented the proclamation while joined by the city’s drag laureate, Per Sia (r.).

This post is packed with awesomeness! 💗 🎉2026 #PBParty contest dates! 🎉PBParty New Draft Challenge & Critique Train happening NOW 🎉Celebrate Guest Crit Master @sylviaichen.bsky.social 🎉Huge giveaway! 🎉Tips for writing a new PB draft 🎉Holiday critique specials mindyalyseweiss.com/critique-tra...

What we’re reading: The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science, book 2, Secrets of the Purple Pearl - Kate McKinnon #kidlit #science #books

This is a sweet book with lovely, compelling illustrations in fabric and paper: La Costura, Loose Threads - by Isol, translation by Lawrence Schimel #kidlit #picturebooks #textiles

Our website has a big gallery of cartoonists’ Christmas cards. Everyone from Harold Foster, B. Kliban (shown here), Walt Kelly, and many more! Just go to www.hoganmag.com/blog/7065

🦇 The unexpected benefits that come from a life spent upside down. @batcon.org 🦇 www.batcon.org/where-the-up...