IF I BUILT A SCHOOL ✍🏻 & 🎨 Chris Van Dusen 2019, Rocky Pond Books If Jack does build his school, I will attend. 🥰

I ♥️, ♥️, ♥️ the audiobook (and I’m not finished listening). My favorite ‘voice’ ever! I recommend for: ALL writers #writer ALL authors #author ALL poets #poet #poetry #poetic #lyrical Anyone who grew up in the 60s ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ I'd love to hear your comments.

Have yourself a magical new year! #kidlit

Hey Library Kids & Book Lovers, This Knit Vest Pattern Is For You - It's A Borrowing Card! 👉 tidd.ly/4fIdLOv - designed by Jennifer Peacock of Pretty Grandpa and would make a perfect gift for the Gen-Xer on your list! #knitting #GenX #librarylove #handmade #etsy #affiliate #giftidea 📚❤️🧶

BRIGID’S CLOAK: AN ANCIENT IRISH STORY ✍🏻 Bryce Milligan 🎨 Helen Cann 2005, Eerdmans BYR This #holiday season, listen to Kathleen T. Pelley read this story aloud. She has an Irish accent! youtu.be/LEeg5zjmVq4?... #PB 🥰

Just sayin'. And this isn't all of them! (see previous post)

A couple of years ago, I spent 2 days at Barnes & Noble. I read every. Single. Christmas picture book there. I was looking comps. Looking for comps takes so. Much. Time!!!!!!!!!!!! 📚📖🥰🎄☃️🎅

FIVE FUZZY CHICKS ✍🏻 Diana Murray @dianamurrayauthor.bsky.social 🎨 Sydney Hanson (? @sydhanson.bsky.social) 2020, Blue Cypress Books/Macmillan Publishers A farm Bedtime 5 chicks + . . . Psst. You’ll have to read the story. Plus, I think you'll want to see the illustrations! 🥰 #rhyme #parents

This amazes me. In marching band (as a drummer) my biggest concern wasn't slipping on ice. We were advised to keep straight lines, no matter what. At times, we marched BEHIND the horses. You can guess what caused us to slip. Pee-yew. But we had straight lines!

DOUBLE THE DINOSAURS ✍🏻 Diana Murray @dianamurrayauthor.bsky.social 🎨 Mette Engell 2020, Random House BYR Stomp. roar . . . & more 🦕 🦕 🦕 🦕 🦕 🦕 🦕 🦕 🦕 🦕 🦕 🦕 🦕 🦕 🦕 🦕 —> 64! #math #rhyme Early reader ♥️ #teachers #librarians, please order this book!

SANTA CLAUS AND THE THREE BEARS ✍🏻 Maria Modugna 🎨 Jane Dyer 🎨 Brooke Dyer 🐻🐻🧸 😲: 🥣🪑🛌 😲:🎅 🥰 #PB

THE ELEPHANTS COME HOME ✍🏻 Kim Tomsic 🎨 Hadley Hooper @hadleyhoo.bsky.social 2021, Chronicle Books An 🐘 sanctuary Love Friendship #NF 🥰 #parents #teachers #librarians

Hooray! @littlethoughtspress.com just launched Issue 12: Better Together (www.littlethoughtspress.com). Be sure to check out pages 40-42, on which you will find poems by two of my critique partners: @pjpurtee.bsky.social and @davidmcmullin.bsky.social. (My poem is on page 33!)

THERE’S A GHOST IN THIS HOUSE ✍🏻 & 🎨 Oliver Jeffers 2021, Philomel Books A haunted 🏚️ A girl A 👻 . . . but where? Seek-and-find 🥰🥰🥰 #PB #parents #teachers #librarians

I was busy yesterday. I hope the 2nd graders (at the school where I volunteer) enjoy their homemade cocoa (just add water). The secret ingredient (besides love) is malt. Yum.

Today, Little Thoughts Press @littlethoughtspress.com launches Issue 12: Better Together. This issue is extra fun for me. Poems from two of my Rhyme Time buddies, @davidmcmullin.bsky.social & @sarahhetu.bsky.social, are published in this issue! One of mine is in there, too.

Congrats to 3 of my Rhyme Time buddies! @laurimeyers.bsky.social @davidmcmullin.bsky.social @mikeflowers.bsky.social And to @theartofpuro.bsky.social (one of followers)! @nimblewitlit.bsky.social

MY SCHOOL STINKS! ✍🏻 Becky Scharnhorst @beckyscharn.bsky.social 🎨 Julia Patton @julspatton.bsky.social 2021, Flamingo Books A back to school story 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 #PB #parents #teachers #librarians

Stay tuned for weekly (Friday) rhyme prompts from our #kidlit Rhyme Time group. We will resume prompts in January (2026). #rhyme #poetry #poems

THE NEST THAT WREN BUILT ✍🏻 Randi Sonenshine @rsonenshine.bsky.social 🎨 Anne Hunter @annehunterstudio.bsky.social 2020, Candlewick Press A wren A mate ᚿ+🍁+🕸️+🐍+🪶+🐇=🪺 🐣 🐣 🐣 🐣 🐣 A story #rhyme #fiction #NF #birds ♥️ #PB #parents #teachers #librarians

ONE FOX: A COUNTING BOOK THRILLER ✍🏻 & 🎨 Kate Read 2019, Peach Tree 🦊 👀 🐓 🐓 🐓 😲 ♥️ #PB #parents #teachers #librarians

LIBRARY LION ✍🏻 Michelle Knudsen @michelleknudsen.bsky.social 🎨 Kevin Hawkes 2006, Candlewick A library A librarian Rules A lion! A story 🥰 🥰 🥰 #PB #kidlit #parents #teachers #librarians

TORRIBLE PUNS: A COLLECTION OF PUNNY POEMS ✍🏻 Tricia Torrible 🎨 Robert Dunn 2025, Gnome Road Publishing Poem after poem Pun after pun ♥️😂♥️ #poetry #PB #teachers #librarians

This week’s #poetryprompt from my Rhyme Time group: Body parts #kidspoetry #poetryforkids For ideas, check out Little Thoughts Press. www.littlethoughtspress.com/theme

WILDER CHILD ✍🏻 Nicolette Sowder 🎨 Myo Yim 2024, Random House Studio Based on a poem Children explore Play in mud Dangle from trees & . . . 🥰 🥰 🥰 #poetic #parents #teachers #librarians

YOU’RE A POET: WAYS TO START WRITING POEMS ✍🏻 Sean Taylor 🎨 Sam Usher 2025, Candlewick Press story poem how-to lesson kid's turn poem ta-da! 👏 👏 👏 #PB #parents #teachers #librarians

..you're either writing or you're thinking about writing..all the time. ~ #itswhatwedo

If this is practice, you for sure should go pro. Well done @jenniferdoehring.bsky.social!

WINTER LULLABY ✍🏻 Dianne White @diannewrites.bsky.social 🎨 Ramona Kaulitzki 2021, Candlewick Mama Bear Hibernation time Reluctant Little Bear 🥰 #PB #parents #teachers #librarians

Toys for Tots: Unwrapped toys🪆🚚 ⚽ 🚲 for economically disadvantaged children at Christmas.🎄🎁 I'm gifting books this year. 📚 #gifts #BB #boardbooks #PB #pictuerbooks #MG #middlegradebooks

This week’s #poetryprompt from my Rhyme Time group: Write a poem about a gnome. Or write about anything, just so a gnome is mentioned (or alluded to). #kidspoetry #poetryforkids

Happy #Thanksgiving! May you and yours be #blessed this day! #booktok #booknerd #bookstagram

Bradenton, FL - United States #LittleFreeLibrary #lfl #books #reading

BALLOONS OVER BROADWAY ✍🏻 & 🎨 Melissa Sweet 2011, Clarion A puppeteer An invention, giant floating balloons Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade ♥️ #Thanksgiving #Parade #PB #teachers #librarians

🤣🤣🤣 @sandraboynton.bsky.social

FYI: I would recommend any of the books I personally posted in my thread as gifts this holiday season. #gifts #presents #books #holiday Feel free to add your own tag: i.e., #Christmas #Hanukkah, etc.

Little Thoughts Press Issue 12: Better Together ($7.50) Releases on December 15, 2025 I'm honored one of my poems is in this issue. Two of my critique buddies poems are in the same issue! @davidmcmullin.bsky.social @sarahhetu.bsky.social littlethoughtspress.square.site/product/litt... To order:

THE DIRT BOOK: POEMS ABOUT ANIMALS THAT LIVE BENEATH OUR FEET ✍🏻 David L. Harrison 🎨 Kate Cosgrove @k8cosgrove.bsky.social 2021, Holiday House Dirt How it’s created Insects & animals that live there ♥️ #Poems + #NF #PB #teachers #librarians

Well, for me, every month is Picture Book Month.

THE BOOK OF CANDLES: EIGHT POEMS FOR HANUKKAH ✍🏻 Laurl Snyder 🎨 Leanne Hatch 2025, Clarion Books/S&S Hanukkah Candles Explanations Suggestions ♥️ #Hanukkah #PB #KidLit #teachers #librarians #KidAuthors #KidIllustrators #KidLitCommunity

This week’s prompt from my Rhyme Time group: Cookies! #childrenspoetry #kidspoetry #poetryforchildren #poetryforkids

THE CITY SINGS GREEN: AND OTHER POEMS ABOUT WELCOMING WILDLIFE ✍🏻 Erica Silverman @ericasauthor.bsky.social 🎨 Ginnie Hsu @ginniehsu.bsky.social 2024, Clarion/HarperCollins HELP! True stories: honeybee highway possum bridge penguin tunnel turtle beach etc. ❤️ #poetry #NF #PB #teachers #librarians

GO GO DINO! ✍🏻 & 🎨 Kaz Windness 2024, Simon Spotlight Dinosaurs Roller skates Unicycles A race ♥️ Ready to Read #rhyme #KidAuthors #KidIllustrators #KidLit #KidLitCommunity #teachers #librarians

BITSY BAT, SCHOOL STAR ✍🏻&🎨 Kaz Windness @kazwindness.bsky.social 2023, Paula Wiseman/S&S A bat School Not fitting in idea: ⭐️ Fitting in ♥️ ♥️ ♥️ #neurodivergent #kidlitillustrators #kidauthors: Note all the layers #PB #picturebooks #childrensbooks #kidlit #KidLitCommunity #teachers #librarians

Art day. #artist #kidlitart #joy #kidlit #watercolor #blessed

You never know what will come out of a broken crayon. #Uplift More broken crayons, classroom activities, my broken crayon #KidLit picture book with Linda Sue Park: debbieohi.com/resources/re...

ME & MAMA ✍🏻 & 🎨 Cozbi A Cabrera 2020, Denene Millner Books/S&S A mama A girl A rainy day A bond ♥️ #PB #picturebooks #childrensbooks #kidlit #KidLitCommunity #kidlitillustrators #kidauthors #teachers #librarians