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Now that the holidays are over, and the Winter Olympics are nearly here, I'll be starting my book tour for LOLLY ON THE ICE! I'll be joined by US champion and Olympic medalist Mirai Nagasu on January 24, and popular ice dancer and author Karina Manta on February 1. Please come!

2025 going out the way it came in...

I got New York Review of Books’d by Bill McKibben www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

20 state attorneys general filed an Amicus Brief, appealing to the 11th Circuit Court that they hear the state of Florida's appeal in a case about book bans. That sounds complicated, but it's not. 21 states *want to gleefully take away your First Amendment Rights*. buttondown.com/wellsourced/...

Wow, Kaori was getting so emotional and distracted in the last 30 seconds of the program, barely holding it together. It must be so hard, doing something huge when you KNOW it's the last time.

After 16 years, it's exciting to see this book so close to publication. @sarahsbrannen.bsky.social @ssedlib.bsky.social @steamteambooks.bsky.social #TLsky #Skybrarian #Schoollibraries #edusky #butterflies #nature #kidlit

Se we have Maria Egawa skating to Ave Maria and Adam Siao Him Fa skating to The Creation of Adam. And in other literal programs, Wakaba Higuchi's "My Way" and Kaori Sakamoto's "Time to Say Goodbye." :'{

I've just admitted to myself that the only Japanese words I know are related to figure skating.

Look at all the people up at 6 am (or earlier) watching the Japanese figure skating championships live. Is this the best group of 12 women who have ever competed in the same event? Maybe...

Oh goodness, I just remembered my dream from last night. I was watching the Olympics ice dance final. I know what happens! I know who is going to win each of the medals! But I'm not going to tell you.

Do read the comments.

I'm officially offended at the way the AI bot attributes my success to "luck," every single time. Human brains are just better, actually.

Wait... Dec. 14 is World Ice Skating Day?? I did not know that!! Yay! #worldiceskatingday #WISD2025

We have to take tiny pleasures wherever we can find them. For me, it's destroying the Wordle bot. It does annoy me, however, that it credits my dominance to luck every single time. It's not luck, bot.

Many thanks to Ten Trees Books for a lovely visit today! And it was charming to see friends like @priscillaalpaugh.bsky.social there too! Indie bookstores are the best. As usual, I forgot to take any pictures, sigh. Maybe I'll get the hang of this social media stuff by the 22nd century...

Having talked to teachers who are miserably coping with, the latest reading system they are being forced to use, this is completely accurate.

Great stuff. 100scopenotes.com/2025/12/08/2...

I didn't want to like this because I hate it. I really, really hate it. Terrible isn't enough for what it is. (A city in Texas threatened to evict the public library from a city-owned building a few years back because they refused to take Uncle Bobby's Wedding off the shelf. Where are we??)

NY allowed religious exemptions from school vaccine mandates. It spurred a measles outbreak, so the state passed a law ending the exemption. Parents + schools + 22 red states asked SCOTUS to strike down the law and restore the exemption. It appears … QUITE interested. slate.com/news-and-pol...

British Ice Skating is now allowing same-sex ice dance! 🥳 www.iceskating.org.uk/post/updates...

Really bummed about SCOTUS not taking Little v. Llano County. But goddamn, Leila and her fellow plaintiffs have been tireless advocates for the freedom to read and for freedom of access in libraries and we cannot lose sight of how hard this battle has been. How glad I am to live in a world w/them.

This has blindsided me. It had never occurred to me that SCOTUS would use the Uncle Bobby's Wedding case to remove basic health protections from the children in an entire state - and the entire country, eventually? I knew it would have drastic effects on schools and teachers, and it has.

Nothing on either side was said. They knew they had but to stay their stay And all their logic would fill my head: As that I had no right to play With what was another man's work for gain. My right might be love but theirs was need And where the two exist in twain Theirs was the better right-agreed.

A werewolf! A werewolf!

Right?

Interesting that the four gold medalists at the #GPFinal were identical to the 2025 Worlds, and that it wasn't really expected, at least in two disciplines. Might have to rethink my Olympics predictions a little. Hm.

i always forget to turn off the automatic captions before i put figure skating on tv and this time it paid off because it misheard "change-foot combo spin" as "change-foot compost bin"

Looking for holiday gifts for the curious kids in your life? Check out the @npr.org Science Friday's Best Science Books for Kids list. tinyurl.com/bpfuatuy @steamteambooks.bsky.social @charlesbridge.bsky.social

Today's big snowstorm looks to be mostly rain here. Boo. I love snow! This is part of the endpapers of Lolly on the Ice. (I love endpapers too.) @randomhousekids.bsky.social

It's wintry outside, snow is coming, ponds are freezing... I love this time of year. We used to skate on a little pond in the back yard, and sometimes my parents put candles in bags around the edge and we skated at night. All those feelings turned into Lolly on the Ice. @randomhousekids.bsky.social

It's small business Saturday! It's a great day to visit a local independent bookstore. Every day is a great day to buy books, and independent bookstores work so hard to support authors. :)

I don’t have words for how much I despise this.

Wow. Even if the books were chosen by a readers' survey, this is still enormously disheartening.

Ah, terrific news! I can't wait to see it.

I love the @100scopenotes.bsky.social UNDIES case cover awards! By the way, here's the case cover for LOLLY ON THE ICE. It's one of my favorite things about the book. :) 100scopenotes.com/2025/11/24/a...

Little known fact: the main character in LOLLY ON THE ICE was originally going to be named Oona. Oona on the Ice. #FinlandiaTrophy www.youtube.com/watch?v=SarD...

Ooh! Oona slayed! #FinlandiaTrophy

Wait - did Hanretty say that Finlandia is a test event for AI technical calling? Is that why it's so nuts? Also, read this. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Next up for LOLLY: December 13 at Ten Trees Books in Natick. This is a brand-new store and I'm looking forward to visiting! 1/4

The Skating Club of Boston has announced that Alysa Liu will be their guest at Ice Chips this year. Feb 28-Mar 1. Tickets on sale. icechips.org

I've never seen Amber Glenn smile so much during a program, and after a root canal, too... She's a goddess.

Lovely news - the new Spanish translation of Feathers: Not Just For Flying, Las Plumas No son sólo para volar, is on the New York Public Library's Best Books of 2025 list! @mstewartscience.bsky.social @charlesbridge.bsky.social www.nypl.org/books-more/r...

Greg Harlin's illustrations for The American Revolution are very fine. I'm really enjoying them.

Mark your calendars! On January 24, @mirainagasu and I will talk skating and children's books at @portersqbooks.bsky.social in Cambridge. One of us is an Olympic medalist, and the other one... isn't. portersquarebooks.com/event/2026-0... @randomhousekids

Oooh, how lovely! LOLLY made it to Lake Placid for Skate America! Thanks so much for sharing the photo. @randomhousekids.bsky.social

In case you need this, here's David Dastmalchian with his rescue cat Bubblegum. She is dressed as his character from a movie.

I'll be starting my book tour for LOLLY ON THE ICE this Sunday at TidePool Bookshop in Worcester, MA. Then TEN TREES BOOKS in Natick on December 13 and lots more events in January. I hope to see you at one of these! @randomhousekids.bsky.social

It has been an exciting 24 hours! The first bound copies of MONARCH AND MOURNING CLOAK arrived this morning. Doesn't it look nice? @mstewartscience.bsky.social @simonkids.bsky.social @ssedlib.bsky.social

The winnerS of the figure skating contest are.... Scott Smith and @adamreisinger.com! They tied with ten correct answers each. Because I'm nice I'm going to give them both the prize. Please DM me for details! Thanks to everyone who played along. I'll post the answers. @randomhousekids.bsky.social