Happy #CincodeMayo! We are celebrating with a cover reveal for DARK SKIES by @lindseyhobson.bsky.social Makenzie McCarthy & it's also #ChildrensBookWeek & time for #50PreciousWordsforKids - #parents & #teachers please email your kids stories to me viviankirkfield.com/2025/05/05/c...

Happy #ChildrensBookWeek! Wishing everyone the joy of discovering a new #kidlit #kidlitart book, or an old favorite, and reading.To get you in the mood, here's a little jingle to start you off! Deedle Leedle Lee! #Teachers #Librarians #Parents #Students soundcloud.com/annie-lynn-6...

'Vindictive commissar’s list': Alarm as Trump admin appears to build Jewish registry www.rawstory.com/goverment-da...

6 days to Earth Day! 🌎💙💚 #climatepolicy #EarthDay #RunOnClimate #cities #climate #climatechange #policy

#Teachers #Librarians #Homeschooling #Parents Here's a blog post w/ Teacher/Author @tonnyef.bsky.social that we were asked to write for The Children's Book Council & #Children'sBookWeek re: #Music as a #Literacy tool. Pls help me share w/Teachers? Add Arts to Ed! www.cbcbooks.org/2024/04/25/m...

#Teachers #Librarians #Homeschooling #Educators of #STEM Here's a wonderful gem of a classroom kit just in time for #EarthDay!🌎 Including #Kidlit #kidlitart recommendations for your classroom! 👉https://readyourworld.org/multicultural-reading-resources/#Free_Classroom_Kits_and_Posters

Please help me share this FREE #EarthDay song for #Teachers #Students #Librarians #Homeschooling #Educators teaching #Climate & #Environmental Justice... for K-6 w/lyrics video... Make EVERY day #Earth Day. Turn #STEM to #STEAM when able!!! 👉https://youtu.be/gb0qE6CSobk?si=y6QvtbW9GXpWIHe3

#Teachers #Librarians #Homeschooling #Parents Here's a blog post w/ Teacher/Author @tonnyef.bsky.social that we were asked to write for The Children's Book Council & #Children'sBookWeek re: #Music as a #Literacy tool. Pls help me share w/Teachers? Add Arts to Ed! www.cbcbooks.org/2024/04/25/m...

Well, it's a wrap for #ReadYourWorldDay, but the learning & sharing can continue beyond this day. If you follow the link below, you'll find resources from @readyourworld.bsky.social for all the previous yrs. The new Music Video is in comments #Teachers #Students #Parents #Librarians #Homeschooling

#Teachers #Librarians #Homeschooling #Educators of #STEM Here's a wonderful gem of a classroom kit just in time for #EarthDay!🌎 Including #Kidlit #kidlitart recommendations for your classroom! 👉https://readyourworld.org/multicultural-reading-resources/#Free_Classroom_Kits_and_Posters

#Teachers #Librarians #Homeschooling #Educators of #STEM... @readyourworld.bsky.social puts out #kidlit #kidlitart themed #classroom kits yearly. Here's our comprehensive, fun 2024 #Climate Change #Environmental Justice kit you'll want in time for #EarthDay. readyourworld.org/multicultura...

Last 2025 program is tomorrow & I'm thrilled to be sharing some #music & books from #Kidlit faves: Jessica Kulekjan, @taratrudel.bsky.social, Laura Sperry Gardner, Nikki Talley, @annielynn215.bsky.social, & @buffysilverman.bsky.social. 2nd graders & I are excited! Jammin' into Spring w/Picture Books

Those eyes see everything. A silent guardian of the fields. Short-Eared Owl 📸 amycomp123 #owl #nature #wildlife

Anyone need a #kindness song? This is one of our #SEL songs. I discovered early on that putting Best Practices to music was less "naggy." It also makes the lesson memorable, maybe for life. Illustration by @maplelam.bsky.social 🎧🎵👇

⭐️Happy #SEL Week⭐️ Humans embody a wide range of emotions ranging from fear, love, hate, surprise, to anxiety,so it makes perfect sense to recognize SEL in schools and the benefits of helping students understand and communicate their emotions so that they’re able to handle life’s challenges. 🎩🕛෴⧓

🥹 happy 6th 🎂 ALIANA REACHES FOR THE MOON, art by Ariel Boroff 💜 grateful for all the familles & schools who’ve been inspired to #create #experiment encourage #curiosity and engage in #STEAM activities #EduSky #bookSky

. The ripple effect of clean water - Reuters clean water as a catalyst for wider change find out more: www.reuters.com/plus/the-ri... #ClimateAction

EXCLUSIVE: A federal worker at the EPA sent an incredible email to Administrator Lee Zeldin. He's refused to stay silent, and has asked me to share the email - and his name - with the public. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

Great gray owl in flight. Location: Finland npekonen 📸📸 #Bird #Owl

#randomactsofkindnessday Today is Nat. #RandomActsOfKindness Day. In 2022, we wrote an #SEL #Kindness song for #Storystorm: The Musical Ed., based on 13 #kidlit #kidlitart📚[email protected] licensed us her lovely illustration.Listen & remember #KindnessMatters www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkOc...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkOc... #randomactsofkindnessday #kindnessmatters #kidlit #kidlitart song inspired by 13 #picturebooks during #Storystorm 2022, The Musical Edition! This is the practice video I sent to my kids choir for March recording.

Updated my Starter Pack of #KidLit #MGLit #YALit Trade Publishers on Bluesky. Also adding individuals in the Publisher role at these publishing houses, like @jpchanda.bsky.social & @matthewpb.bsky.social. If you know of others, pls reply (make sure profiles are filled out, thx). go.bsky.app/SAg8zks

"Resist the urge to use generative AI." "Keep making wonderful, flawed but beautiful human art." Advice for young creators via @kazwindness.bsky.social; BITSY BAT, TEAM STAR (S&S) is told from an autistic perspective: debbieohi.link/bitsy-bat-se... #KidLit #Autism #EduSky @ssedlib.bsky.social

Today is #WashingtonsBirthday & @ravenhowell.bsky.social Meredith Messigner (illustrator) & Clearfork Press made a fun #kidlit #kidlitart #poetry calendar #picturebook that will become a reader favorite when used that way. I've celebrated w/it since 2022. This book is my friend. Will it be yours?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkOc... #randomactsofkindnessday #kindnessmatters #kidlit #kidlitart song inspired by 13 #picturebooks during #Storystorm 2022, The Musical Edition! This is the practice video I sent to my kids choir for March recording.

#randomactsofkindnessday Today is Nat. #RandomActsOfKindness Day. In 2022, we wrote an #SEL #Kindness song for #Storystorm: The Musical Ed., based on 13 #kidlit #kidlitart📚[email protected] licensed us her lovely illustration.Listen & remember #KindnessMatters www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkOc...

If you're not familiar with author/illustrator @jorenfro.bsky.social it's time to get acquainted! I had the opportunity to interview Jo in my latest #TheBookBug column in Story Monsters Ink magazine @storymonsters.bsky.social #childrenmagazine #authorinterview #kidsbooks #readers #teachers #library

Picture book of the day - A VACCINE IS LIKE A MEMORY, by @rajanilarocca.bsky.social (who's an MD as well as a children's author!), illustrated by Kathleen Marcotte. Explaining the science behind vaccines is essential to combat fear & misinformation. bookshop.org/p/books/a-va...

The U.S. Forest Service is firing roughly 3,400 federal employees across every level of the agency beginning today, according to two people familiar with the plans.

Word(s)! every little bit of hope is appreciated. #Resist. ✌️💙

Great Horned Owl, my second favorite owl 🦉 📸 owl.hunter.1 #Nature #Birds #Owls #Photography

Happy 60th. 🇨🇦We have had your flag on our wall for 25 years. We visit yearly. So sorry for US Felon in Chief. We’ll fix this mess. See you soon-ish?✌️💙

Happy #ValentinesDay This song was performed by my son & #illustration by Marlene Jorgensen (@vinkelmule) 🎧👇🏽 on.soundcloud.com/m846YtfJEtXF...

Thanks for another night of great insight into Kidlit, and a slice of pie. have a good night #kidlitchat

I think wide reading of both fiction and nonfiction from and about the period you're focusing on gives tons of prior knowledge and sense of what feels right. There are also tons of online slang dictionaries from different historical periods to search. #kidlitchat

For those who have never attended a "slow chat" like tonight's #KidLitChat, here are some tips: publish.obsidian.md/debbieohi/ho...

Mine went off. Told me to stop working so I can enjoy one of the reasons WHY I’m working. #kidlitchat

👋 A big hello to the parents, teachers, & #librarians on @bsky.app! Do you get the @kidlittv.bsky.social Newsletter? 📰 With news about upcoming episodes, events, & FREE classroom resources, you won’t want to miss out! Sign up now: kidlit.tv/newsletter/ #kidlit

Jumping for joy! I hope you will be, too! Please check out & share the HEADS-UP-The-#50PreciousWords CONTEST-IS-COMING-SOON post! Find DATES, GUIDELINES, and a list of fabulous PRIZES! And I hope you love my updated website thanks to @thebooklinksllc.bsky.social viviankirkfield.com/2025/02/01/h...

Can you help this librarian who was unjustly fired for–gasp–protecting LGBTQ+ books? Of note: this is the public library where students who are banned for untold numbers of books from their public district, Conroe ISD, would be able to access said books. What begins in schools does not end there.

Meeting w/ #Teachers #Librarians #Parents #Kidlit #Kidlitart creators & more on Zoom at last night's #ReadYourWorldDay evening conference, was helpful & interesting. And...I loved hearing our new Theme Song for @readyourworld.bsky.social to kick off. Song below & #Classroom Kits👇

Well, it's a wrap for #ReadYourWorldDay, but the learning & sharing can continue beyond this day. If you follow the link below, you'll find resources from @readyourworld.bsky.social for all the previous yrs. The new Music Video is in comments #Teachers #Students #Parents #Librarians #Homeschooling

Anyone feel like singing?

Hi, I'm Debbie Ridpath Ohi, author & illustrator, gamer, bibliophile. I Want To Read ALL The Books. #BlueSkyTips links: UNOFFICIAL GUIDE TO BLUESKY - Quickstart Guide - Curation Tips - KidLit Community - KidLit Mega Feed - Board Gaming Uplift 💙🦋 Questions? Try SEARCH in my Unofficial Guide!