As #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth comes to a close, take some time to check out our new Heartdrum educator guides! These guides a great resource all year long for your readers of all ages 📚 Learn more here: bit.ly/3Xqf1hG

Denver/NCTE! I’ll be signing books and taking pics at the Harper Collins booth, 913, today from noon to one! Hope to see ya

See y’all at the Colorado Convention Center!

Here are some ways we can help our Denver neighbors right now feedingcolorado.org/donate/

Black Phone 2 is one of the rare sequels to be even better than the first

Happy Mean Girls Day to those who celebrate

Reminder for anyone mad that Bad Bunny Is performing at the Super Bowl… ENGLISH ISN’T THIS LANDS FIRST LANGUAGE

Fox5 DC book expert Kelsi recommends ANCESTOR APPROVED: INTERTRIBAL STORIES FOR KIDS, edited by Cynthia Leitich Smith (Heartdrum) as a middle-grade read for the autumn season. View: www.fox5dc.com/video/1714385 @harperkids.bsky.social @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social #BookSky

How am I supposed to be the savior of the broken, the beaten and the damned when I can’t even get to work on time?

If the apocalypse comes, beep me

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Announcing new deals for @tiffanyjwang.bsky.social @clarewonders.bsky.social @byrongraves.bsky.social @wendydheard.bsky.social + more

"Editor, Cynthia Leitich Smith (Muscogee) calls it 'a hug of a book.'...our special feature on Indigenous food sovereignty." www.nativeamericacalling.com/friday-augus... @epicreads.bsky.social @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social @harperkids.bsky.social

The Toronto Blue Jays held a moment of silence prior to the start of tonight’s baseball game vs the Minnesota Twins. Canada is a good friend. 🇨🇦

"My community on the Red Lake reservation champions my writing and celebrates it. The books I write aren't mine, but ours." — @byrongraves.bsky.social from Boozoo Books: boozhoo.binderybooks.com/item/AxsnLq9... #BookSky @epicreads.bsky.social @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social

Congrats to @byrongraves.bsky.social!

REZ BALL by Byron Graves (Heartdrum, 2023) has been chosen by the Colorado Center for the Book for Great Reads of Great Places at the National Book Festival Sept. 6 in Washington, D.C., where it will be featured at the Roadmap to Reading! @byrongraves.bsky.social @harperstacks.bsky.social #booksky

Crested Butte, CO! On 6/24 I’ll be signing copies of Rez Ball at 3:30 & doing a book reading at 6 mtnwords.org

The Oklahoma Library Association is pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 Donna Norvell and Sequoyah Book Awards! These awards are special because they are voted on by young readers all across the great state of Oklahoma-- and for the first time in 39 years, we have a TIE for one of our lists!

Thunderbolts was sooooooo good!!!

Happy Game 7 Saturday to those in Colorado who celebrate

MORE: Senators Jack Reed, Lisa Murkowski, Kirsten Gillibrand, & Susan Collins all joined the letter to the interim director of IMLS. Library advocates are making their voices heard. Congress is listening. ALA applauds this bipartisan action. Read our full statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/03...

ATTN Readers! Find out how to support libraries & library personnel in 2025 at the ALSC Blog: Pursuing Excellence for Library Service to Children: www.alsc.ala.org/blog/2025/02... #kidlit #libraries #picturebooks #librarians @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social @aaslala.bsky.social @wearealsc.bsky.social

From an Indigenous pov saying an awful thing isn’t Christian feels like such an overt erasure of the horrific history done in the name of that religion

The good news is that there *are* people meeting the moment. youtu.be/EJxRtjma7lc

"We must prevent that divide from growing wider and let our Congress members know that library hotspot lending empowers our communities to learn, live, and prosper—whether they’re freshmen, families, or farmers." — ALA President Cindy Hohl and Tara O’Hagan www.pmg-ky1.com/pioneer_news...

Reminder! My 2025 book releases are available to pre-order: FIREFLY SEASON, a picture book, illustrated by Kate Gardiner & LEGENDARY FRYBREAD DRIVE-IN, a YA anthology with cover art by Paula TopSky Houtz. #PictureBook #YABooks

Thanks @netgalley.bsky.social for the ARC! And a big shout out to @byrongraves.bsky.social, @littlebadger.bsky.social, and all the other fabulous authors who wrote stories for this collection. I highly enjoyed them!

💙📚 20/80: "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" edited by @cynleitichsmith.bsky.social This amazing collection of intertribal stories brings Indigenous people together in one magical location. All paths lead to Sandy June's for some legendary frybread and grandparent wisdom. ✨💕 #BIPOCauthors #YAbooksky

Loves it! 🙏🏼🏀 📚 Thanks Nancy

When Trump said Make America Great Again, I didn’t think he meant the Great Depression

Looking for an Indigenous 🇨🇦Canadian writer or narrative designer for consulting and/or collaboration on a game project. Bsky, please help!

See you tomorrow Laporte, MN!

ALL DINÉ POETS 🩵 www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

I just read REZ BALL by @byrongraves.bsky.social. It was named a Whippoorwill Award honor book for 2024. Smooth interweaving of northern MN rurality, Ojibwe culture, sports, video gaming, grief, and other elements of adolescent life. #AdolLit #YALit

Bill Burr > Bill Maher

I appreciate the recommendation! More info on SISTERS OF THE NEVERSESA: cynthialeitichsmith.com/kidbooks/kid... #kidlit

Still revising, but today is my mother’s birthday! Any shares would be greatly appreciated!

📚 Don’t miss these 2025 YA releases from Indigenous authors and artists! Be sure to learn more about these titles, including plot summaries and creators’ tribal/nation affiliation, on the Indigenous Reads Rising website (also 🔗 in bio) 💻 indigenousreadsrising.com

DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.

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YALSA’s Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults List includes two Heartdrum novels—REZ BALL by Byron Graves and LOOKING FOR SMOKE by KA Cobell. Find the lists (top ten and full): www.ala.org/yalsa/best-f... #youngadultbooks #yabooks @byrongraves.bsky.social

Dolly Parton teaming up with The Wiggles - so much humanity and positivity in one album. www.thenewdaily.com.au/life/enterta...

I've seen an old misunderstanding going around; that libraries don't benefit authors. But they do! A lot! Here's how: