Is it BARON or BARTON?! 🧐 The world may never know...jk, we do! Join @baronchrisbaron.bsky.social & @bartography.bsky.social for their book launches: SPARK & WE MATCH! Two times the Chrises...it's a Chrisapalooza! 📅 7-15-25 @ 7:30p ET Register FREE + pre-order option! www.bookelicious.com/event/19

#sandiego Join me for storytime and help celebrate Libélula Books' 4th anniv this Sat 6/21 at 10:30am! 950 S 26th St, SD 92113 See you soon! #libelulabooks #indiebookstore #indigenousowned #books #kidlit #storytime #california #barriologan

This is what an authoritarian regime would do. Hidden deep in Trump’s 1,100-page bill that passed the House today is a provision that would block federal courts from enforcing contempt charges against government officials who violate court orders.

The transfer of trillions from bottom to top could not be clearer. #TrumpTrillionsTransfer

Loved celebrating fellow #Oklahoma authors at #2025OKBookAwards - including three Cherokee women winners❣️ I asked kidlit finalists to sign books I donated at my last school visit yesterday. All kids got a copy of Otsaliheliga. I made it home just before the bad storms - and dalala visited! #grateful

Great coverage of our mutual aid network across the US-Canadian border moving Indigenous data so it's safer. www.theverge.com/features/664...

School Year Read # 73 #msfoleyiscurrentlyreading #audiobooklove #bookstagram #librarylife #read #weneeddiversebooks @charleswaters.bsky.social @tracisorellauthor.bsky.social

Huzzah for the children’s-YA finalists for the Oklahoma Book Award, given by the Oklahoma Center for the Book: oklahoma.gov/libraries/oc... #booksky #KidLit @tracisorellauthor.bsky.social @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social

Coming soon: new projects from @tracisorellauthor.bsky.social @kelseyegross.bsky.social @joecepeda.bsky.social @carolinelperry.bsky.social + more buff.ly/Ndpm0AQ

"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...

Did you know #IMLS is only a FRACTION of the federal budget at .0046% of the total budget. Libraries have an average Return on Investment of $4-5 dollars for every tax dollar spent. Let your reps know! #SaveOurLibraries #SaveIMLS

Good news! 5 Kinds of Nonfiction is turning 5 years old. To celebrate, I've updated the recommended reading lists. tinyurl.com/avdu2r37 @stenhousepub.bsky.social #edusky #kidlit @steamteambooks.bsky.social

NEW: In October, we published secret recordings of Russell Vought discussing plans to eviscerate entire agencies and decimate the morale of federal workers if Trump won a second term. It's hard to imagine a more prescient piece of journalism, our editor-in-chief @sengelberg.bsky.social writes.

🎙️NEW POD🎙️Episode 212: Cherokee Storytelling with Traci Sorell (@tracisorellauthor.bsky.social): visionsofed.com/2025/03/13/e... In this episode, we chat with Traci Sorell (Cherokee Nation) about her fiction and nonfiction books for young people. Check out the shownotes for links to her books!

Highlights of 2025 [Chapter Books and] Middle Grade Releases, compiled by @tracisorellauthor.bsky.social from Indigenous Reads Rising: indigenousreadsrising.com/middle-grade... #indigenous #nativeamerican #middlegradebooks #nonfiction #mglit #weneeddiversebooks @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social

Galieliga (I am grateful) to @franelessac.bsky.social for donating her original gouache art and notes for WE ARE GRATEFUL OTSALIHELIGA and WE ARE STILL HERE! to the archives at #CherokeeNation Research Center❣️ So wonderful to see each painting before accession! 🙌🏼 @charlesbridge.bsky.social

Hey, so if you're one of the (too many) laid off federal employees who also writes or illustrates books for kids, I'd love to hear from you. I'm always interested in nonfiction proposals for all age groups within kidlit, and science, math, and history will be even more important soon. #MSWL

Grateful to have ON POWWOW DAY included in this list! Wado (TY) @bankstreet.edu! @charlesbridge.bsky.social

"The Best Board Books of the Year [2025 edition]" by Bank Street College of Education Children's Book Committee educate.bankstreet.edu/ccl/30/ #infants #toddlers #kidlit #boardbooks

Posting this from months ago because we DO have homegrown experience with autocratic regimes in this country. In nearly half this country during the first 6 decades of the 20th century Black people lived under systems of cruelty, voter suppression, hate, state violence & corruption. Ask them!

Hi, just a reminder that when you use Libro.fm for your audiobooks, you support independent bookshops vs. large corporations that drive them out of business. We also pay taxes. And so do indie bookshops.

News from education research! “we’ve seen a steady rise in children’s enjoyment of listening to audio & uncovered the myriad of benefits it can bring–from sparking a love of reading & supporting literacy...to deepening learning & boosting wellbeing" www.headteacher-update.com/content/news...

Vital services and protections for everyday Americans are being gutted thanks to DOGE. And this is happening in exchange for renewing one of the biggest tax cuts in American history that will predominantly benefit people like...you guessed it...Elon Musk. See the problem here?

JUST IN: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to resume hundreds of millions of dollars in payments for U.S. Agency for International Development projects.

2025 New Picture Books, compiled by Cherokee author Traci Sorell, from Indigenous Reads Rising: indigenousreadsrising.com/picture-book... #kidlit @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social @tracisorellauthor.bsky.social

The people who read our books are kids. They don’t have money to spend. They don’t subscribe to publications that review books. They find us at the library. If the books aren’t there, it’s like they don’t exist. And that makes kids feel like *they* don’t exist.

In the fourth starred review for TO WALK THE SKY by Patricia Morris Buckley and E.B. Lewis (Heartdrum), BookPage says: “Matter-of-fact and serious, but with moments of poetry, Buckley’s writing rings with pride and hope for the legacy of these courageous workers.” #kidlit

They want to ban and censor our stories. They want us to disappear from the narrative of this country. Then we need to keep telling our stories. We can not let them erase us! Writers, artists, musicians - this is the most important time to keep creating our art!

Just finished INDIAN NO MORE by Charlene Willing McManis w/ @tracisorellauthor.bsky.social Great to read elementary-level MG hist fiction with authentic native voice. Sad, hopeful, reflective, shocking, centering, and real. Eye-opening, too, to read of U.S. govt terminations in the 1950s. #kidlit

Quick trip to PHX last Saturday for the AIYLA ceremony - here are my prepared remarks thanking the committee for their recognition and so many others for helping get these books into the hands of young people. Wado (TY) to all!

Wado for sharing! Love that you already know who you'll share it with. 🙌🏼

I highly recommend signing up for the picture book workshops that editor Karen Boss is offering in January and February. Many kidlit folks have crafted excellent, award-winning books with her. Her knowledge is vast, and her feedback is spot on. Don't delay! www.thewritersloft.org/loft-workshops

#TLSkyChat A1. Another book from 2024 that makes me smile is Being Home by @tracisorellauthor.bsky.social & Michaela Goad! I love this beautiful book - it's a heartful remider that home is where your people are. It was a joy to chat w/Traci for #TheReadersHeart: www.librarygirl.net/post/the-rea...

Wow! @tracisorellauthor.bsky.social and @charleswaters.bsky.social do an incredible job of leading students to their own conclusions in #Mascot. A must read novel-in-verse. #bookaday

I did love it along with spending time with Gordon students including this incredibly kind, creative Native soul! #thefuturelooksgood #thechildrenwillleadus #wearestillhere #kidlit #NativeSky #Indigisky

Thrilled to see Yumbo Gumbo, a 2025 NSTA-CBC Best STEM Book on Betsy Bird's 31 Days, 31 Lists: 2024 Math Books for Kids and El gumbo más deliciso/Yumbo Gumbo on her 2024 Bilingual Books for Kids #EduSky #STEM #kidlit afuse8production.slj.com/2024/12/10/3...

Me too! If you're attending #LibLearnX25 or will be in the Phoenix area, come join us!

Lots of wonderful books for gifting or adding to your own library! Please make sure your community library has these Native created titles for all to access. Happy to see three #books I was a part of included on the list! #youngadult #kidlit #illustration

Another 2024 fave 🖤 A picture book biography of the great Augusta Braxton Baker written by the lovely Breanna J. McDaniels and illustrated by April Harrison. #kidlit #books #biographies #childrenlibrarians

There's still time for this fun nonfiction activity before the @aaslala.bsky.social Youth Media Awards on January 27, when the Sibert Medal winners are announced. tinyurl.com/mu8nm9xs

For children, pregnant women, and low-income senior citizens and people with disabilities, Medicaid is a lifeline. It is about to face a massive assault. Medicaid’s Narrow Escapes: The Ongoing Fight to Protect Our Children’s Health open.substack.com/pub/bruceles...

If you watched Stranger Things and thought, “This could use a lot more sarcasm, cow manure, and pie warfare”… have I got a book for you. Thankful for this great review from The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books of What Fell From the Sky, out 2/11/25! bit.ly/3VDmutK #kidlit #middlegrade

Great to see @brittlepaper.bsky.social features both THE DJINN’S APPLE from @neemtreepress.bsky.social & I’LL SEE YOU IN IJEBU from #BarefootBooks on its 100 Notable African Books of 2024 list! brittlepaper.com/100-notable-...

Meet the illustrator! Q&A with the awesome Rahana Dariah, illustrator of KENDE! KENDE! KENDE! Find out more: childsplaybooks.myshopify.com/blogs/news/q...

We spoke with Violet Duncan, Cynthia Leitich Smith, Cameron Mukwa, Dawn Quigley, Anna Rose Johnson, Traci Sorell, the creators of several children’s books out this year highlighting different aspects of Indigenous culture and life in their works www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Such a beautiful, heart-full book in verse. RED BIRD DANCED by Dawn Quigley (Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe), cover art by Carla Joseph (Métis / Cree): heartbreak, joy, birds, #MMIW, storytelling, overcoming, jingle dancing, thriving in Native community. Meaning is emphasized in font and spacing.📚👍

ATTENTION INDIGENOUS ENGINEERS ‪@radrachellove.bsky.social‬

#Audiobook information Pacing matters in #audiobook narration! Maintaining the natural flow of the text allows time for kids to look at the pictures and make associations between the story and the illustrations that support it. We pace the narrator’s reading to give new readers the right time

TX writers of nonfiction & writers of nonfiction about TX: Texas Institute of Letters' Collins Award for Best Book of Nonfiction comes with a $4,000 prize & Shrake Award for Best Short Nonfiction has a prize of $1,000. 1/6/25 submission deadline. Details: texasinstituteofletters.org/til-2024-lit...