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The opening spreads for The Sweater: A Story of Community illus. Teagan White 02/10/26
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THE SWEATER 2.10.2026 <3 Viking Children's Books / Penguin
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Boo.
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Linda Holmes
9 days ago
Unless I absolutely must for professional reasons, I will not be watching your nuclear war movie. I will not be watching your incredibly bleak and depressing murder show. I will not be watching your artistic despair. It’s nothing personal, I just don’t order water when I’m already bailing my boat.
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Alex Wild
10 days ago
Gonna talk in entomology class today about how Jewish scientists forced to work in Nazi concentration camps secretly sent fake vaccines to the eastern front and managed to kill 4,000 Nazis with typhus.
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Vaccine subterfuge: How vaccine-makers fooled the Nazis from inside a concentration camp lab
Confined first at Auschwitz then Buchenwald, a Jewish microbiologist conspired with a ragtag team of scientists and rebels to send dud typhus vaccines to the German soldiers on the eastern front.
https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/vaccine-subterfuge-how-vaccine-makers-fooled-nazis-inside-concentration-camp-lab
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Dean Frey
17 days ago
Remembering Ursula Le Guin on her birthday 🎂 📷 Dan Tuffs, 2005 "We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark, & fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night."
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Sandra Nickel 📚
23 days ago
Happy Book Birthday to
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& TOVE UNDER THE TREE!
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Julie Benbassat
24 days ago
Happy Book Birthday Dance to "Tove Under the Tree" written by
@larissatheule.bsky.social
and published by Candlewick Out in bookstores everywhere! And if you order from Books of Wonder, you can get free stickers!
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The New Yorker
28 days ago
Today’s Daily Cartoon, by P. C. Vey.
#NewYorkerCartoons
Get more cartoons and other funny stuff when you sign up for our humor newsletter:
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/vKRskx
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First review, Kirkus ⭐ "An enduring reflection on seasons of togetherness and separation, in nature and in life." Illus. Tegan White 2.10.2026
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
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THE SWEATER | Kirkus Reviews
A woodland community rallies around a nervous newcomer.
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/larissa-theule/the-sweater/
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James Martin, SJ
29 days ago
Pope Leo XIV: "I often wonder, even though the teaching of Sacred Scripture is so clear about the poor, why many people continue to think that they can safely disregard the poor." "Dilexi te"
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Banned Books Week
about 1 month ago
"Those who ban books want to lock away ideas they fear. But in truth, they are trying to steal our freedom."
#BannedBooksWeek
honorary chair
@georgetakei.bsky.social
encourages all of us to stand up for the freedom to read!
#CensorshipIsSo1984
youtu.be/qwtzX15AKvQ?...
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George Takei, Banned Books Week 2025 Honorary Chair
YouTube video by Banned Books Week
https://youtu.be/qwtzX15AKvQ?si=a1eJZPNb9ECM2IvO
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Benjamin Dreyer
about 1 month ago
If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.
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Katie Martin
about 1 month ago
Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment
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Merriam-Webster
about 1 month ago
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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Rad O'Brien, Chief Engineer 🔵
about 1 month ago
ok this breakdown of AI writing indicators is incredible. Huge shout-out to the Wikipedia community for this
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Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing
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Dana Goldstein
about 1 month ago
Were you or your kids assigned full books to read in high school English — novels, nonfiction or plays from beginning to end — or mostly shorter excerpts? We are digging into this very controversial maybe-trend and need your help:
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/u...
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Were You Assigned Full Books to Read in High School English? Tell Us.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/us/education-books-callout.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ok8.CA4V.cHonU05HOSXh&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Merriam-Webster
about 2 months ago
“I’ll be 10 min late sorry!!!” -ashamed -fragile -unreliable “A thousand apologies. The relentless slog of time has overtaken my faculties.” -powerful -commanding -honest
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Patrick Radden Keefe
2 months ago
In the weird, terrible moment we're all experiencing of contested reality / distorted reality / unreality, I was heartened by this wonderful Zach Helfand piece about the brilliant, heroic fact checkers of @newyorker. May they save civilization.
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The History of The New Yorker’s Vaunted Fact-Checking Department
Reporters engage in charm and betrayal; checkers are in the harm-reduction business.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/01/the-history-of-the-new-yorkers-vaunted-fact-checking-department
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The opening spreads for The Sweater: A Story of Community illus. Teagan White 02/10/26
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Benjamin Dreyer
2 months ago
I think I'm a pretty good copy editor, and I'd say that an appropriate rate of response to copyediting should be 85 to 90 percent flat-out yes, 5 percent absolutely not, what are you thinking?, and the rest is Oh, interesting, let me do some improvements of my own.
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American Library Association
3 months ago
“It is the perfect storm for educational catastrophe.” —
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President Amanda Kordeliski 📚💙
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A lovely first review for TOVE UNDER THE TREE. "Employing quirky humor and an eclectic, accepting sense of both community and individuality, Theule (Mouseboat) blurs fantasy and reality to consider themes of ecological interdependence." —Publishers Weekly
www.publishersweekly.com/9781536232813
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Tove Under the Tree by Larissa Theule
When old age and warming temperatures doom the beloved ficus outside young Tove’s window—the tree that shaded her bedroom during...
https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781536232813
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There's no such thing as other people's children.
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Benjamin Dreyer
4 months ago
Right after "Don't use semicolons," "Don't use adverbs," "Don't use speech tags beyond 'said' and 'says,'" and "Don't ever use the word 'that,'" my favorite piece of writing advice is "Don't listen to people giving writing advice who only ever tell you not to do things."
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Reading this was a real pick-me-up.
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Linda Holmes
4 months ago
I think the central thesis is sort of ... the way you become better at helping is the same way you get better at lots of things, which is by trying, messing up, and listening to people who explain how you might do it better. And you will still screw up, and repeat the cycle.
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Anna
4 months ago
Stopped in my tracks by this sign pointing out the IMLS absence from
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THE SWEATER, illustrated by Teagan White, comes out February, 2026. It’s sweet and beautiful and I hope you will like it.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/714047...
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GLASS: LOOKING IN: LOOKING OUT is the second book in the Material Marvels series. Out Feb '26!
www.candlewick.com/978153622583...
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#MaterialsScience
#MaterialsHistory
#STEAMEducation
#STEM
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ARCs! 💛
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This is neat. Julie writes about her design process for the cover of TOVE UNDER THE TREE.
@candlewickpress.bsky.social
thesketchbug.substack.com/p/tove-under...
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"Tove Under the Tree" Cover Reveal
How I illustrated the cover of "Tove Under the Tree" (Oct 2025)
https://thesketchbug.substack.com/p/tove-under-the-tree-cover-reveal?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1temx6&triedRedirect=true
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This is my first cover reveal on Bluesky! A new era. TOVE is a young chapter book with full, gorgeous color illustrations by Julie Benbassat. Out Oct 14 with Candlewick Press.
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Soo excited for my new TBR pile!
#ALAYMA
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Kafka and the Doll on display at the Morgan Library as part of the Kafka exhibit.
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I wrote about a Bechdel-like test that can help us consistently represent climate reality in kids book, because climate change is our new normal, and Earth’s youngest readers will never know world without it. Would love if you take a look. Thanks for having me, SLJ.
www.slj.com/story/a-kid-...
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A Kid Lit Climate Change Test | SoapBox
An author proposes a simple standard for representing climate reality in books for children and teens.
https://www.slj.com/story/a-kid-lit-climate-change-test-soapBox?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0PqoGtQRs-Vpbz55gUwEUxyqXUnM22z3JL6sDiZevtxvExdMeZT7HnkrY_aem_MUJSeloS7cW7Gef60bKs8w
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I wrote about a Bechdel-like test that can help us consistently represent climate reality in kids book, because climate change is our new normal, and Earth’s youngest readers will never know world without it. Would love if you take a look. Thanks for having me, SLJ.
www.slj.com/story/a-kid-...
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A Kid Lit Climate Change Test | SoapBox
An author proposes a simple standard for representing climate reality in books for children and teens.
https://www.slj.com/story/a-kid-lit-climate-change-test-soapBox?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0PqoGtQRs-Vpbz55gUwEUxyqXUnM22z3JL6sDiZevtxvExdMeZT7HnkrY_aem_MUJSeloS7cW7Gef60bKs8w
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News!
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