Happy Friday 56 (With Book Beginnings)! Today I'm featuring The Halloween Moon by Joseph Fink which is one of my Beat the Backlist books. #booksky #bookblogger never-anyone-else.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...

Children’s Books for Spring 2026: check out all our coverage of the new season buff.ly/S0VInqw

The Caterpillar's first poems, a library reading of #FlashlightNight, and #zombies in love...we cover a lot of ground at the ol' blog today! #PoetryFriday #KidLit wp.me/p2DEY3-4ig

Good morning and Happy Friday! Snowcone, anyone?😅

Thursday trails ❄️

I’m excited to share that my haibun, “Jim’s Place”, has been awarded a Golden Pea Award for excellence in short form poetry! #poetry #haibun

What is happening?!? 😃 Yesterday I was three-millionth in the Kindle store and today I’m closing in on top 100 in my genres. 🤯 Best. Birthday. Ever. 🎈

Day 42 #365PictureBooks BOB THE BOO-BOO Mélina Schoenborn & Sandra Dumais Every boo-boo needs a place to belong! Bob looks far and wide to find the perfect person to get him cleaned up and cozy under all those bandaids. Super clever. #kidlit

Trina Schart Hyman is one of my all time favorite illustrators. I used to reread this book over and over as a kid and I looked up the cover on a whim and can't stop thinking about it lately! Just such a fantastic piece

Good morning and Happy Thursday!

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Good morning and Happy Wednesday!

Happy ##thicktrunktuesday!

100 names, 1 life, 1000 lies to bind them "...beautifully deceiving and anxiety-provoking… this novel left me craving more in the best of ways." - The Gateway #PsychologicalSuspense #Thriller

4 🇨🇦 books full of ❤️ Friendship, family, and ❤️ for 🍃 Play date Surprise by @karenautio.bsky.social and Laura Watson Kenzie’s Little Tree by @alisonmcgauley.bsky.social and Emilie Leduc Butterfly Sea by me and @marielaurecouet.bsky.social If a Bumblebee Lands on Your Toe by me and Vikki Zhang

Good morning and Happy Tuesday!

Monday trails ❄️

Good morning and Happy Monday!

You don't need to go to the #superbowl to see a Bad Bunny. Just pick up #12x12PB member Laura Gehl and illustrator Julia Patton#superbowl#12x12PB #picturebook ATTACK BUNNIES! Hot off the presses THIS WEEK (Feb. 10), and available for pre-order.

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Check out the lovely woodland garland I came across on my run this morning 😍

Sunday trails ❄️

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Safe Crossing Kari Percival Kari Percival#kidlit#kidlitart#picturebooks fantastic story interwoven with non-fiction content. Really well done. I loved the use of color and the vibrant nighttime scenes. Touching story.

Tom watched the Olympics with awe Top-notch athletes from Minsk to Utah They skated and curled Representing the world As Tom cheered and shouted, "Hurrah!" Turkey Tom's #LimerickSunday adventures by @jengelmattern.bsky.social, @booksbycindy.bsky.social, and me

Happy Sunday! This week’s congregation was small But reverent, in spite of it all; They inwardly praised The grass that they grazed And gave thanks or the yards without walls. #limerick #limericksunday

Here are the 5 marvelous BkueSky versions of my 2/7/26 #HaikuSaturday #haiku posted so far. I'll post the complete list on Monday so more people can join in if they wish to do so.

www.nffest.com Read my guest blog post today in Nonfiction Fest NFFest “Assignment vs Freelance: Which One Wins?”

Hello #HaikuSaturday friends! What do you do when life gives you lemons 🍋? You make a haiku 😄 You see three lemons in my hand; I see meringue pie in my future. (These are homegrown Meyer lemons.)

snow drifts in white waves motion frozen in cold time illusory #haikusaturday

Saturday trails ❄️

icicle ambitious audition for role of porch post Happy #HaikuSaturday 💚 (Gotta fix that dripping gutter 🙃...)

Wishing you warmth this weekend. eyes lifted skyward squinting through frozen lashes-- winter basking #HaikuSaturday #haiku

#HaikuSaturday #haiku 5/7/5: soft warm morning light and leafing plants and birdsong-- springtime tiptoes in short form: Tohee tweets and flowering pink magnolias-- spring tiptoes in Please add a version if you feel like it.

Happy Saturday! bird feeding frenzy free for the tasting sparrows flock and feast #haiku #haikusaturday

This week’s #haikuSaturday contribution, with my Southern two-syllable pronunciation of “opening””: hyacinth inching petal approaching opening spring’s clustering hush #JoyScavengerHunt #poetry #haiku

We can use our words to build up or to tear down... How will you use yours? #HaikuSaturday #Haiku #Poetry #WritingCommunity

Good morning and Happy Saturday!

📚👍 So many good books. #kidlit #kidlitart #picturebooks Making Art Diana Ejaita A book about the rainbow of ways to make art, from a master artist! Find your creativity.

📚👍 I enjoy reading picture books in translation. They enrich my world, and often make me think deeply. Little Monk Writes Rain is one of those books. #kidlit #Skybrarians #Edusky jilannehoffmann.com/2026/02/06/l... @ebyrbooks.bsky.social

#PPBF - Don't miss this humorous & monsterly fun new bedtime picture book - Bedslime Blues - by the dynamic duo Kris Tarantino & Cori Doerrfeld. www.mariacmarshall.com/single-post/... Waterbrook Childrens @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social #kidlit #bedtime #monsters #family #giveaway📚👍

Friday trails ❄️

Good morning and Happy Friday!

Thursday trails ❄️

Colby Cedar Smith's YA novel in verse CALL ME ATHENA is beautiful--and a fascinating look at 1930s Detroit. Now eager to read her next work, THE SIREN AND THE STAR. Gorgeous cover art by Hülya Özdemir. #kidlit 📚👍

Check out my chat with debut author Nazneen Akbari about her inspiration and insights into her touching picture book - Home Away From Home. mariacmarshall.com/single-post/... Rashin Kheiriyeh @barefootbooks.bsky.social #interview #kidlit #grandparents #family📚👍

Good morning and Happy Thursday!

Thank you for the interview, @beckywalkerbooks.bsky.social I cannot wait to learn who the prize winner of my Ask me anything session will be! 📚 📚 📚 #newwriter #amwriting #amreading @12x12challenge.bsky.social

Thank you, @picturebookseh.bsky.social for the birthday wishes for BUTTERFLY SEA! #bookbirthday #kidlit

sharing a wink between cloudbursts moonbeams and barley #dailyhaikuprompt (barley) #haiku #micropoetry

Brilliant list here from the comics laureate @bobbyjosephcomics.bsky.social including many of my faves in the kidlit world downthetubes.net/british-comi...