Please take a moment to appreciate this very, very small water sausage!

Boosting

HOT LIBRARY INTEL: you can ask your library to purchase specific titles for their collection, usually right through the library's website. Librarians can't know every single new title, nor can they mind-read what their patrons might want to check out. Give it a shot!

If there’s an author you appreciate, one of the simplest, most helpful, least expensive things you can do for them is ask your public library to add that author’s newest book to their collection. Many library websites have a form for that. So give it a try, and make an author’s day!

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hire all the fired political teen vogue writers and make a new magazine call teen rogue. we’ll all subscribe en masse

👇PZM is so good at this!!! Check it out #kidlit #kidlitart

🐻This book is adorable! I recommend it to anyone who likes funny #kidlit #kidlitart 🦉

Really enjoyed this new picture book by @briangehrlein.bsky.social and Jenn Harney! Brian is a master chaos coordinator, and Jenn’s illustrations are delightful! The zany/cozy cover designs match the dual nature of the story. #ThisIsNotASleepyBearBook #kidlit #kidlitart

Boosting #kidlitart

I pre-ordered this picture book. Steph’s work is the best! 😍 #kidlit #kidlitart

Fun interview with @stephlaubooks.com for a behind the scenes look at her new picture book, THE ABOMINABLE SNOW DANCER, which comes out tomorrow.

Pure poetry 😍

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Happy Halloween! 🎃 #jackolantern #halloween #pumpkin #kpopdemonhunters #derpytiger

Agree! This is why we all get out of the house…to take Communion and be in communion with others. 😃

getting ready for the best eve

Here’s a daytime photo of the Jack O’Beholder/Beholder O’Lantern!

A Happy All Hallows' Eve to all those who celebrate it 👻 #kidlitart #halloween2025

What’s one more raccoon in South Philly?

Tiny demon kitten wishes everyone a happy and safe #Halloween ! 🧡🖤🎃 #kidlitart

Happy Halloween!! 🎃

Wifey making some Halloween awesome.

Happy Halloween, have candy ready and lock your windows!

🎃 Happy Halloween! 🖤

Happy Halloween!!!!!

Happy Halloween from my baby brother who liked to scare the trick-or-treaters at his historic house on the south side of Chicago. He’s moved house to the suburbs this year so new traditions are yet to come.

There is a fine line between genius and insanity, and Mr KJC is teetering along it.

Happy Halloween, skeeties!!! Wishing a wonderful spooky day to all that celebrate!! 👻

So cute!

I really like sorting things by color. Here’s a few fav rocks I’ve found this week, sorted by color 🙂

Our jack-o'-lanterns! A couple spooky ones, and a couple literary ones! The 4yo wanted a ghost (which I did for him), and also helped his dad carve a big scary face. The 10yo carved his own dragon from the Wings of Fire series! And finally, I did the nerdy thing and carved Rock from I, ROCK. 😆

Had a lot of fun carving this jack-o-lantern with my son tonight. We split a dyeable Easter egg in half for the eyes. #pumpkin #carving 🎃🔪

#Magic and Whimsy Abound from Shannon Taylor’s Fantastic #Watercolor Dioramas in #Vintage Compacts Link for more info and art: www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/10/shan...

This year's pumpkin is done, I'm happy with how it turned out 🎃

#goodnews #glimmers 🥲

No thoughts here, only floof.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wombat.

So good! 🎃

👇check it out #kidlit #kidlitart #kidscomics 🎃

Brittle star swimming! Love this movement.

I love this!

This is amazing. And it’s truly the stuff of nightmares.

We're No. 50! #Florida ranks last in nation for state worker pay, new report shows www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/l...

This is your annual reminder that if teens come trick or treating this weekend, they could be doing way worse things. Let them have one more year being a child, another year at feeling the magic, let them be care free and have fun, compliment their costume, and give them some damn candy.

The Bestie Boys

Went to a prayer service tonight at St. Mary of the Lake, where they have cardboard cutouts throughout the church representing parishioners afraid to come to Mass because of ICE.

Yep! 😅 #kidlit

Kinda seems like you don’t do huge renovations on the place you’re living in unless you’re planning to stay. 🤷🏼 (Or sell it)

Here is an otter snoot to help you through the day.