We're growing our Disability Books for Kids series! If you are interested in authoring a picture book about your lived experience with a disability as a child, please DM me. #callforauthors #callforsubmissions #MSWL #manuscriptwishlist www.teachercreatedmaterials.com/products/mor...

🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶 🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈 #FollowTheRainbow

Just finished this audio advanced copy from @libro.fm. Middle grade adventure: two twelve year-olds help an old man on oxygen complete his bucket list. Oh yeah, and he's a bit of a gangster! #middlegrade #kidlit www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 5 ⭐ for Busted by Dan Gemeinhart, out next week!

The King of Books by @ginaperry.bsky.social came in today. It's a fun book dealing with book care. The tiger king uses books for building, soup trays, and so much more, but never thought to open them! #kidlit #picturebook

Authors, there are more and more ways to produce and distribute audiobooks without Amazon's ACX. If you're interested in producing audiobooks without Amazon, we've rounded a handful up: blog.libro.fm/how-authors-...

A federal court ruled that ANTHROPIC illegally copied MILLIONS of books to train its AI. All authors and publishers whose books were downloaded by Anthropic from pirate websites are subject to receiving compensation. This could involve your work. For more info: authorsguild.org/news/anthrop...

The Children's Book Council @cbcbooks.bsky.social has curated a selection of multilingual board books titled LANGUAGES TO GROW ON. These books introduce young readers to the sounds and rhythms of more than one language, helping to build early literacy skills and expand vocabulary.

This is not sustainable

Very exciting for genealogy research! MyHeritage will show the matches (people on your tree possibly found in the newspaper) and want to charge a separate fee for their newspaper site, but many can be found here for free! #genealogy

Interesting discussion of how the brain processes listening vs reading. I love audiobooks, but primarily for fiction and narrative nonfiction. theconversation.com/do-you-reall... #reading #nonfiction #audiobooks

I have some exciting news to share! A bunch of friends (and amazing artists) and I are hosting an art challenge this August 🌻 We put together a fun and chill prompt list and hope you’ll join us on this adventure hehe More below 🐥

#audiobook fans check this out!

Not one but two #BaltimoreOrioles on the list!

This is an uninterrupted minute of Maruay the rescued tiger with his beloved ball..🥰😇 #bluesky

iNaturalist Animals and Plants xkcd.com/3118/

Happy Disability Pride Month! Now, more than ever, it’s important to recognize and celebrate differing sensory processing needs. That’s why as an Autistic classically trained chef I wrote my food aversion acceptance cookbook and guide COLOR TASTE TEXTURE. For all ages and cooking ability!

Love this article from @civileats.com about restoring wildfire lands in CA with native seeds. #biodiversity #sustainability civileats.com/2025/07/07/f...

One of my favorite parts of summer mornings in the garden is to see the squash bees busy pollinating. This week I found 5 in one flower! #gardening #growyourown #FlowersonFriday

Literacy truck book reports? Sounds so fun! #kidlit #schoollibrary

Got to read some books written for adults on vacation. I enjoyed Victory Garden by @authorrhysbowen.bsky.social. Historical Fiction set in WWI England. Here is my 5 star review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

The Civil Eats team put together a list of 23 new or up-and-coming book titles that we think might peak your interest this summer. Happy reading! 📚✨

I was wondering if she had quietly retired. Excited to see her back! #yalit

Penguin Young Readers Showcase: July 2025 Titles I hope you find some good things to add to your TBR lists or your library and classroom collections! teenlibrariantoolbox.com/2025/07/17/p... @tltkaren.bsky.social @penguinschoollib.bsky.social @penguinkids.bsky.social @penguinteen.bsky.social

Lots of great titles on here for the first chapter book crowd! #kidlit

Great reminder that the resources that are "free" for library patrons are paid for by the libraries. If you notice materials you count on being cut, advocate for library funding!

Two middle school librarians talk about the need for Young Teen Lit. (TLT)

Behold, the Picture Book: PW Talks with Mac Barnett

ICYMI: We’re looking to grow. 🏡

Ugh. I feel this. hoping the ship can be righted, but it's not looking good. #Orioles

Leo XIII and American greatness The new pope took the name Leo XIV. He recently told the College of Cardinals that he chose to name himself after Pope Leo XIII, who led the Catholic Church from 1878 to 1903. Learn more about the connections between Leo XIII and Leo XIV here and here. Recently a…

From @civileats.com No-till farming coupled with extensive herbicide use is not building soil! civileats.com/2025/05/08/w... #gardening #sustainability

$5000 “baby bonus” to encourage women to have more babies? Come on. That won’t even cover the cost of childbirth. Instead, here are 10 things we should actually do to make it easier to raise a family:

Are there any #schoollibrarians or #therapists out there? I'd like to share a free digital copy of my new MG novel, Loophole, with as many professionals as I can. Loophole features an MC with anxiety and OCD, so please help me connect w/kiddos in need! TIA! 🥰 #kidlit #anxiety #middlegradebooks

Everything’s a scam but this what a publishing scam email looks like.

I'm gonna be clear: "de-extinction" isn't about dire wolves. Or mammoths. Or anything else. It CERTAINLY isn't about ecology or conservation. It's about US. It's about the animals we want to gawk at. The zoo that could have been. teamtrash.substack.com/p/is-it-a-di...

I'm now searching for new PhD students who are interested in studying how people's brains understand sequences of images like in comics. So, a mix of comics, cogneuro (EEG), and psycholinguistics (especially syntax/semantics). Please circulate to all who might be interested! tiu.nu/22739

If you live in Canada and have a book in Canadian libraries, you are eligible for the Public Lending Right, where we get paid when people check out our books. publiclendingright.ca

Church's, especially Southern Black churches are known for fish fry's. Does the Masjid/Mosque do something similar? I'm writing a little something.

Lots of great #kidlit on the latest Blueberry Award list! The award was created in 2021 to celebrate the best nature books that promote climate stewardship. epl.org/blueberry-aw...

Let’s talk about KidLit books with great autistic representation! There are so many more that could be included—but here are some of autistic author @medenkuyatt.bsky.social's favorite picture books, early chapter books, middle grade, and YA reads, at TPGA: thinkingautismguide.com/2025/03/repr...

This is a clear and useful explanation of who might need a measles vaccine booster & why. A must-read for people born in the U.S. between 1957 and 1989 🧪 slate.com/technology/2... on @slate.bsky.social

Laughed out loud at this very simple but hilarious picture book about a dog trying to understand pants. Little Freddie Two Pants by Drew Daywalt and Lucy Ruth Cummins. #kidlit #picturebook www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Just finished listening to the audiobook of Kate & Frida by Kim Fay. Loved this historical epistolary novel set during the siege of Sarajevo in the 90s. Beautiful! @prhlibrary.bsky.social @libro.fm Full review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Here’s a giveaway for teachers to enter so please spread the word! Free 30 minute zoom call to talk to your class about the book, how I did the illustrations and how a book gets published! Click the link or scan the QR code to enter! I’ve got stickers for your class too! www.jorenfro.com/contact

Comics make enthusiastic readers, supported by another study conducted last year.

Yes! Lots of good books on here. Exited for more Jasper Rabbit (Of Creepy Carrots fame). #kidlit

Pinterest updated their terms of use and they're going to use all of the content you saved to train their AI. Go to options > your privacy rights > disable GenAI Please do it 🫠

I had my levels checked when I was pregnant-- still effective!

Yay!! So great to see @keklamagoon.bsky.social & @eliotschrefer.bsky.social's new titles in THE KIDS IN MRS. Z'S CLASS chapter book series with @littlebrownyr.bsky.social featured in this powerhouse roundup! www.yayomg.com/book-lists/y...

One of the most common arguments you hear from fans of generative ‘AI’ is that it’s not plagiarizing people’s work, it’s just learning like a human learns. So I’m going to break down why that’s just not true, and why it can never be true, with the existing systems. 1/