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A WISH WITH WINGS just earned its second starred review, this one from Bookist! 🤩 📚 @mackidssl.bsky.social @mackidsbooks.bsky.social @ashliterary.bsky.social

Forgot to tag my team! Thanks @ashliterary.bsky.social @mackidssl.bsky.social @mackidsbooks.bsky.social

Super excited to learn that GUS AND GLORY has been shortlisted for the Oklahoma Library Association’s Children's Sequoyah Book Award! 📚

You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).

hi, welcome to the last 20 years of edtech

A WISH WITH WINGS was named a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection! Out May 2026! @mackidssl.bsky.social @mackidsbooks.bsky.social @ashliterary.bsky.social

Everybody knows that Pupper just won Downhill Gold

February 2026's new Middle Grade releases include a dungeons and dragons adventure - with dogs (DNDOGGOS: SPELLS LIKE TROUBLE), a interstellar graphic novel (SPACE CHASERS: TO THE MOON), and a laugh out loud disaster handbook (HOW TO SURVIVE AN APOCALYPSE). Learn more at tinyurl.com/4vusj6t8!

I miss watching the Olympics with Twitter.

AI did not arise out of a real human need. It arose out of billionaires’ agenda that this is what the world needs next so they can be even richer. Everything it does, humans do better, it’s better for them to do. What’s left is that it’s causing people mental crisis, polluting, plagiarizing.

I can’t believe we are at this stage of the AI discourse. The argument is basically untalented people deserve artistic success too.

I’m sorry but people talking about talent as an unfair quality that needs to be Harrison Bergeroned away by AI have exactly the same energy as people saying it’s unfair that attractive people have more people attracted to them and the government should legislate their right to a hot wife

The human drive to make art is so innate that if you leave someone alone in a room long enough they'll draw on the walls with their own waste. And somehow, somehow! AI slop fans managed to kill that drive in themselves

EVERYBODY CAN MAKE ART IT CAME FREE WITH YOUR HUMAN SPIRIT

‘Finding Her Edge’ Renewed for Season 2 by Netflix │ Deadline

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10

This whole thing where billionaires snap up media properties so they can run them into the ground to make it harder for people to call them and their cronies to account is extremely obvious and very tiresome. It also limits our access to largr information about culture and the world, also by design.

It’s our Oscars! The world is very heavy and we all have much work to do, but for that very reason we also need joy. Getcha some!

If you need some joy on your feed today, i HIGHLY recommend following the #ALAYMA tag when the awards start because it's going to be the biggest book nerds you know just celebrating the best reads for kids 😭❤️

The Publishing for Minnesota auction launches this week to support groups providing legal aid, emergency assistance, food, and community resources to those in urgent need. www.32auctions.com/publishingfo...

Google searches are now absolutely worthless. Why do they insist on breaking things?

Looking for books to gift? My middle-grade novels feature fierce girls, small Louisiana towns, and complicated families. And dogs! #mglit us.macmillan.com/author/sarah... @mackidssl.bsky.social @mackidsbooks.bsky.social

🌟A WISH WITH WINGS got an absolutely gorgeous starred review from Kirkus! I’m so excited to share Evan’s story—out May 19th!🌟 @mackidssl.bsky.social @mackidsbooks.bsky.social @ashliterary.bsky.social www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

🌟A WISH WITH WINGS got an absolutely gorgeous starred review from Kirkus! I’m so excited to share Evan’s story—out May 19th!🌟 @mackidssl.bsky.social @mackidsbooks.bsky.social @ashliterary.bsky.social www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

Books don't tell readers who they personally are or who they are supposed to be. They do show readers a variety of characters. Implicit in that is this: "Here are some ways of being." Kids books aren't altering your kid to be someone new. They are simply showing them parts of humanity.

You can still preorder my 2026 books for 25% off from Barnes and Noble!

A #ya #romance for ice skating fans ahead of the #WinterOlympics & it will be a @netflix series at the end of January! bookshop.org/a/102434/978... #library #book #librarian #bookrecommendation #librarians #tlsky #skybrarian #skybrarians

All righty -- this year's writerly resolution is live, should you care to read it. The tl;dr is it's actually quite an optimistic read, so hopefully it'll give you some juice to kick open the new year and put words to stories that need to be told.

Check out YABC Staff Member Sara Perrera's Top 5 books of 2025 yabookscentral.com/2025-in-revi...

This year I released a book, brought home Birdie, stressed a lot, and laughed a lot.

Barnes and Noble is having a preorder sale, and I have two books releasing in May! #bnpreorder #kidlit @ashliterary.bsky.social @mackidssl.bsky.social @mackidsbooks.bsky.social

Barnes and Noble is having a preorder sale, and I have two books releasing in May! #bnpreorder #kidlit @ashliterary.bsky.social @mackidssl.bsky.social @mackidsbooks.bsky.social

The time of year when all my runs are fueled by gingerbread men.

And please also, AGAIN, never forget that they are inherently unethical to use because no one gave permission for their research or writing to be used in it. It is all stolen, and if you're using the plagiarism machine, please keep that in mind.

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

Tis the night before Christmas And all through the house The AC is running ‘Cause we live in the South.

GUS AND GLORY is on this list with four stars! 🤩

2025 has brought us and our authors many glowing starred reviews. Looking to add acclaimed middle grade titles to your young readers' shelves? Consider BUSTED (5 🌟), A SEA OF LEMON TREES (4 🌟), and THE FIVE WOLVES (4 🌟). bit.ly/4otrbSX

HEY AUTHORS: It's the last weekend before Christmas and/or the end of Hanukkah, so people are going to be looking for last minute holiday gifts, which books are perfect for, so use this thread to tell everyone here at Bluesky about your book so they can go find it at their local bookseller. GO!

Generative AI is a poison that kills everything it touches all so people who are already rich get to be richer while you have to be poorer

This is Millie. She just learned how to sled. Hopes you brought a second land frisbee, because she will not be taking turns. 13/10 (TT: millietheredlab)

my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides

Jesse Hamm had the take to end all takes on children's media. "People who disdain writing ‘just for children’ fail to realize that those children will remember what they read, maybe for the rest of their lives. You’re not writing for permanent children; you’re getting an early start on adults.”

🩵📚 Book 54 of 2025- Nowhere Better Than Here ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ /5 💫 ⚜️After a flood distroys her small Louisiana bayou town, a young girl looks at climate change and a way to save her home As a Louisianian who lived through a similar event, this was a little triggering, but a great middle grade read #Booksky

⭐ Stargaze with Mackids ⭐ Gus and Glory is award-winning author Sarah Guillory's latest middle grade tale of found family and the unshakable bond between a girl and her beloved dog. Out now! bit.ly/4koYDaF #edusky #booksky #kidlit

One of my top #mglit for the year I think!! Don’t let the cover fool you, this isn’t some saccharine little story about a girl and a dog. Emotional depth, growth, joy, trauma, and the most lovable fictional dog I’ve read in a long time

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

Looking for books to gift? My middle-grade novels feature fierce girls, small Louisiana towns, and complicated families. And dogs! #mglit us.macmillan.com/author/sarah... @mackidssl.bsky.social @mackidsbooks.bsky.social