Happy 3.28 #Aries Birthdays to @mollygolden.bsky.social @jillsantopolo.bsky.social @doreencronin.bsky.social from the #KidlitAriesBirthdayClub 🎉🎉🎉 Seems like the perfect day for these wonderful books. Be like Sandra, #Kidlit friends. ✌🏼 Illus. Cred: Julia Breckenreid, Momoko Abe

Sandra Day O'Connor advocated for "democracy, equal justice under the law, and the rule of law. She even carried a copy of the Constitution in her pocketbook." - @mollygolden.bsky.social ⚖️ Featured on my website: www.jeannewalkerharvey.com/single-post/... @eastwestlit.bsky.social

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

Q&A with Molly Golden about her new children's picture book, NO ONE TOLD SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR WHAT TO DO. tinyurl.com/bdeeuz8m @mollygolden.bsky.social

AMAZING book review list ⬇️

In my house and through talking with teachers and other parents, we're noticing kids looking for low stakes/ happy books no matter the reading level. Makes sense to me given what they are growing up in. Thoughts? Recs for happy (no death or trauma) MG? Still complex, but not "sad or depressing."

It's a Happy #BookBirthday celebration for NO ONE TOLD SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR WHAT TO DO + 7 Qs with @mollygolden.bsky.social illustrated by Julia Breckenreid (Sleeping Bear Press). #BookSky #picturebook #biography erindealey.com/book-birthda... @pbpros.bsky.social

Who put Mother’s Day in May?! The busiest month for moms of school age kids? WTF. Probably some dude. How about we move it to a nice autumn day let’s say mid October? #maycember

Help 😊 What is this little creature?? He lives across the street.

It's May 1st! No One Told Sandra Day O'Connor What To Do, written by @mollygolden.bsky.social and illustrated by me, is in stores now 🙂🎉 #sandradayoconnor #picturebook

My daughter tonight... I want to see @booker.senate.gov when we're in D.C.

At the middle school state science fair and someone needs to center a MG around one immediately.

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@repbynum.bsky.social met, talked to, and listened to her constituents in Oregon today. Democracy in action is awesome.

March 24, 2025:

+ BECOMING REAL by @mollygolden.bsky.social; illus. by Paola Escobar (@clarionbooks.bsky.social / @harperkids.bsky.social) www.hbook.com/story/review... #WomensHistoryMonth #kidlit

This is the last day I won’t know what Cold Harbor is.

Thanks to @natmit.bsky.social friends at school stuffy day story time made their own paper animals just like Margery Williams did as a child. This is Oliver the three-tone zebra.

Julia brought the story of trailblazer Sandra Day O’Connor to life in a way I could have never imagined. I can’t wait for our book to hit the shelves in May. #womensday #internationalwomensday

Alf.

Today was a good day.❄️

International Women's Day is tomorrow, so I would like to draw your attention to #SandraDayOConnor, the first female #SupremeCourt judge and the subject of a picture book illustrated by me, written by @mollygolden.bsky.social‬ and published by Sleeping Bear Press (May 2025). #IWD2025

7 minutes in and they have me tearing up already 🌈 #oscars

Sometimes you just can't be creative. Then sometimes @grubreport.bsky.social says to write from the dog's perspective and you spend a raining Sunday morning having so much fun writing again.

I just knew he was as going to set him up.

Modern day Mary Malonys—the ☘️ Suffragette who continually interrupted Churchill by ringing a bell because of his insulting remarks and opposition to voting rights. “sometimes it can be two women with a whistle and a bull horn”—@maddow.msnbc.com @maddowblog.msnbc.com #marymalony #wip

Fictional villains: my motivation involves a complex backstory around lost love and a deep yearning to be understood Real life villains: being cruel makes me feel like a big strong man

"I think there's real risk of a generation or more of data being lost." - Dr. Michael Greicius, neurology professor at Stanford University, on the damage Trump's cuts to NIH research will do to progress on a treatment for Alzheimer's disease, adding as much as 20 years to the timeline.

400+ people show up to protest Tesla in Palo Alto, one of the main teats of Silicon Valley excess and corruption. @alexwinter.com

From @fredguttenberg.bsky.social Yes. Yes it did. Tolerating the intolerant leads to intolerance— it’s a hard concept for theses guys to get or more likely it’s something they are striving for.

I love this.

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

So thrilled to share my journey writing BECOMING REAL with Deborah Kalb! deborahkalbbooks.blogspot.com/2025/02/q-wi...

"Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me." - Judy Blume (whose birthday 🎂 is today!) #Freadom #BannedBooks #Edusky

I have a kid who benefits from a 504 plan in school and I know many other families who have kids with 504 plans or IEPs. It's really important for them to have these rights protected so they can be educated and part of the school community like everyone else. Disability rights must be protected.

Today, on Shirley Jackson’s birthday, let’s all marvel at one of the greatest opening paragraphs ever written (from THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE)

Once we start putting a numerical value on a human life, we are lost. And evil has won. Let me be clear: every human life is of an incalculable worth. Each of you is precious beyond words, beyond thought, beyond reckoning. When men say otherwise, the humanity they deny is their own.

Stay warm, little bird.

goddammit why am I crying

I wish liars pants really caught on fire.

@maddow.msnbc.com thanks to Rachel Maddow I just sent my rep a dm asking when her town hall will be. 💙 Will follow up with a call first thing in the morning.

Happy book birthday to Renée Watson's All the Blues in the Sky!

Are the next 4 years really going to be logging on everyday to sentences like "a 19 year old doge intern called Big Balls has your social security number" because I'm already at capacity for this sort of thing

Watching the snowflakes fall with my soul cat. 🩵

It is astonishing that mainstream media is covering this like it is a shruggie vibe 🤷‍♂️

Taking a minute ❄️

From @hcrichardson.bsky.social If you don’t subscribe to her daily letter, you should. She synthesizes the day’s information and events in a clear and connected way.