Lena the Chicken (but Really a Dinosaur) by Linda Bailey and K-Fai Steel. This seemingly simple story encourages kids to choose their own path and not be held back by others' expectations. An instant classic. #Tundra #Netgalley 📚👍🏼#Canlit

@sharigreen.bsky.social !! Congratulations on winning the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People for Song of Freedom, Song of Dreams!!!

Thank you! PYI is a transformative conference. #pyi2025

Russia’s ‘human safari’ in southern Ukraine is a warning to the world www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrain...

Boosting

Russia Hits Kindergarten and Power Plants Hours After Trump Delays Summit www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/w...

A satisfying and emotional memoir that will resonate with many readers, particularly high-achieving women. #Rodale #Harmony #Netgalley #book

Toronto friends, hope to see you at the book launch for Standoff!!

Unbelievable…Ukraine is still being pummeled, civilians freezing and dying, and the world just shrugs like it’s yesterday’s headline. Have we really become so numb that another brutal assault barely registers? Turning away from their suffering isn’t “fatigue” it’s moral failure.

Millions of Ukrainians are trapped in Russian fascist occupation. They live under constant threat of torture, rape, execution, imprisonment, and starvation. The West must help Ukraine defeat Russia and liberate these people. There are millions of them. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

quillandquire.com/authors/sher... Thank you, #inderjitdeogun and @quillandquire.bsky.social for this wonderful cover story on Sheryl's first and only novel.

The Hitchhikers: a thrilling ride of tense terror. An American couple taking an RV holiday across Canada befriend a young couple who seem to be in need. The interplay of personalities as each couple tries to stay alive is utterly consuming. An unputdownable thriller. @stmartinspress.bsky.social

Just arrived today! Can't wait to read Book 2 in this trilogy by @marshaskrypuch.bsky.social about a #Ukrainian family in #Mariupol separated by the #UkraineWar in 2022. #books #kidlit #writers #UkrainianView

Celebrate the launch of RED FLAGS AND BUTTERFLIES by Sheryl Azzam Oct 22, 7 to 9pm Lee Academy (Lynden campus), 1978 Concession Road 2 W., Lynden, ON The proceeds from sales of the book will be donated to Nova Vita @mandagroup.bsky.social @marshaskrypuch.bsky.social

Thank you @sljournal for the STARRED review of Standoff, pub date tomorrow!! "brilliantly written" "sensitive portrayal of the reality facing innocent children and families in a war zone" "historically accurate quotes and events interwoven" "VERDICT Purchase for all middle grade shelves." #Ukraine

Thrilled to give the final keynote at #CANSCAIP's Packaging Your Imagination one-day conference. Before I was published, this conference jump-started my career. I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in writing or illustrating books for young people. #kidlit #canlit

This one isn't virtual, but there may be one in the future.

Book launch! Standoff, bk #2 of my Kidnapped from Ukraine trilogy. #mglit #Ukrainewar #scholastic #brantfordontario

Ukrainian heritage month in Ontario: my family's journey. www.calla.com/wordpress/uk...

Thrilled to be touring with Canadian Children's Book Week in 2026! Congratulations to all my fellow touring book creators! #canlit #mglit #reading #booktour

Kudos to #EugeneYelchin for his brutal honesty. Well-crafted, but oh so dark. 📚👍🏼 #Candlewick #Netgalley

#RedFlagsandButterflies will be released on Oct 18th. “A tender, heartfelt, and intelligent coming-of-age story that celebrates quiet strength and trusting your instincts.” Starred review. -Kirkus Reviews @cormorantbooks.bsky.social 📚👍🏼#sherylazzam

Happy #bookbirthday to Chasing Evil. This book reads like a thriller! Perfect for readers of true crime and/or psychic phenomena. #StMartinsPress

Thrilled that Standoff, bk 2 of my Kidnapped from Ukraine trilogy, is showing as a #1 hot new release in its category on Amazon.ca. In the US, it's #5. Set during the first year of Russia's current attacks on Ukraine. #mglit #canlit

The little quilt is just as charming in this wintry tale as in the first. Sure to be a Canadian classic. #netgalley #tundra #rielnason #mglit #canlit 📚👍🏼

Bought this for myself on @marshaskrypuch.bsky.social's recommendation. If there was ever a book Amanda needed to buy immediately, this is the book.

Shameful.

Looking forward to speaking at Bloor West Ukrainian Festival, Toronto, on Sept 13th. Hope to see you there! #mglit #Ukrainian www.calla.com/wordpress/ma...

An unputdownable memoir about a mother who dies holding onto her secrets, and a daughter determined to uncover the truth. #Ostarbeiter #Ukraine #forcedlabor @houseofanansi.bsky.social #halinastjames #canlit

Happy #bookbirthday to Tim Queeney for Rope, a well-written, well-researched, and informative narrative. I appreciated the droll humor and the interesting and anecdotal style. General readers as well as historical fiction researchers will find this book to be a good resource. #stmartinspress

Look what popped up as a #1 new release on both Amazon.ca and Amazon.com today! #Standoff, which is book 2 of my #KidnappedfromUkraine trilogy, Oct 7, 2025 pub date #Scholastic #mglit #canlit #Ukrainewar. Still Alive, bk #3 is also on both lists. It will be pub'd April 2026.

Happy #bookbirthday to #sharilapena, the master of domestic thrillers. Loved this book, right down to the perfect, unexpected ending. #penguinrandomhouse #ireadcanadian

New gift edition of The Little Ghost Who Was A Quilt by Riel Nason -- a #canlit #picturebook classic. A whole new generation of kids will identify with the little quilt's dismay at being different. Sweet humour.

Honoured to be giving the Claire Mackay memorial lecture @canscaip.bsky.social. Attending this conference 27 books ago was one of the best things I did for my writing career. #kidlit #Canadian www.canscaip.org/PYI-Conference

Loved reading Bring the House Down by Charlotte Runcie: A prominent columnist gives a new performer a vicious one star review for her fringe festival one-person act, and then he sleeps with her. What happens next is unexpected and absorbing. #Netgalley #PenguinRandomHouseCanada

Just got to hold Standoff (book #2 of my Kidnapped from Ukraine trilogy) for the first time! It will be published on Oct 7, 2025. #Scholastic #mglit #Ukrainewar

Why is London's Royal Opera House promoting Russian culture while Russians are committing genocide in Ukraine?

June 22, 2025 P.S. Muslims claim to worship the God of Abraham too. #Trump #TrumpCult #MAGA #HeritageFoundation #FakeChristians #Hypocrisy #blasphemy #stupidity #Impotent #Trumpfuckery #Israel #iran #russia #ukraine

I agree. @kyivindependent.com is dependable journalism.

I got to read the backmatter for the #scholastic #audiobook edition of Standoff, book #2 of my #Kidnapped from #Ukraine trilogy. Such a neat experience! #mgbook

#WhackJob: An interesting anecdotal approach to the history of axe murder from prehistoric times to the present. A handy reference for fiction writers and of interest to general readers. #StMartinsPress #Netgalley #nonfiction

In a resonant clang of solidarity, the Dutch Queen unveils a bell forged from captured Russian weaponry. A powerful symbol, this chime for peace tolls defiance against aggression, transforming instruments of war into an anthem of hope for the future of Ukraine.

THRILLED with this wonderful review of Under Attack, book #1 of my Kidnapped from Ukraine trilogy #scholastic in CCBC's Children's Book News.

What a compelling novel! This newest story by Janelle Brown reads like a memoir and is unputdownable. The characters of Jane and her father are convincingly crafted and the story trajectory is nuanced and true. Loved every minute of reading What Kind of Paradise. #RandomHouse #netgalley #reading

Cover reveal for book #3 of my Kidnapped from Ukraine trilogy, out April 21, 2026.

Posting for #Vyshyvanka Day 2025, a photo of my husband's parents in Austria, 1949, still displaced persons after the war, waiting for a safe country to accept them. They went through horrors but were determined to find joy where they could. #Ukraine