This whole thread.

Thank you, Scripts National Spelling Bee for including Summertime Sleepers as 2025-2026 Book Selection tinyurl.com/36x5keak @scrippsbee.bsky.social @sarahsbrannen.bsky.social @charlesbridge.bsky.social @steamteambooks.bsky.social #kidlit #esusky #TLsky #skybrarian #schoollibrarians

The skating season has started, and Lolly will be on the ice (and in bookstores) less than two months from now! @randomhousekids.bsky.social

Nearly all of the book bans in Hillsborough are being brought by one woman. She is a parent, but not to children in HCPS. She wants to dictate what you and your family are allowed to read. buff.ly/R03o3i8 via Florida Freedom to Read Project

I finally saw @paulapoundstone.bsky.social's Cabinet Meeting video. That's my girl.

I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be reading LOLLY ON THE ICE at @anunlikelystory.bsky.social on Feb 1, with an incredible guest: ice dancer Karina Manta! Karina will read her memoir ON TOP OF GLASS and we'll talk about skating and her life. She's amazing.

GLAAD is going to send a copy of Uncle Bobby's Wedding to every single member of Congress. I hope they all like it! @glaad.bsky.social glaad.org/how-glaad-is...

I posed all my sketchbooks for a project I'm working on. Well. Not ALL of them.

Fun piece, and here's my opportunity to brag that *I* have been called by a New Yorker fact-checker.

According to the research of terrific illustrator @whatwouldjuliedraw.bsky.social, this is a Spined Micrathena spider. I have NEVER seen anything like it. It crawled out of some pine cones I was collecting.

What do you do if you don't like a book at the library? Sign the petition against book bans at www.bookbanpetition.us

Here's a way to support the authors and illustrators in #SCOTUS Mahmoud v Taylor: all proceeds of the sales of the shirts and hoodies go to PEN America. PEN did an amazing job of guiding us and standing by our sides as we fought this attack on the right to read.

Woo-hoo! @sarahsbrannen.bsky.social and I are thrilled that our upcoming book is a JLG Selection. @ssedlib.bsky.social @steamteambooks.bsky.social #edusky #kidlit

Want to support #FReadom? For a short time, the book creators named in #MahmoudvTaylor are offering shirts, hoodies, & sweatshirts with art from @sarahsbrannen.bsky.social - to raise funds for @penamerica.bsky.social, who supported us during this case! #kidlit www.customink.com/fundraising/...

Oh wow, thank you! The other three books look very interesting - I'll have to get them!

If you love a book, write a nice review. It gives the author encouragement for bad days when they want to take up scorpion petting. - @lianabrooks.bsky.social #WriterSky #BookSky #KidLit

Across the country, thousands of books are being stripped from schools and libraries—many of them LGBTQ-affirming stories that help young people feel seen. Think you know which ones made the banned list? Take our quiz and see how many you can spot. act.glaad.org/page/86470/d...

Mark Joseph Stern of Slate breaks down the recent misleading headlines regarding marriage equality at the Supreme Court: "There is essentially no chance that the court will entertain Davis’ plea to abolish gay people’s constitutional right to marry; the odds round down to zero.

It's so nice when a reviewer really gets what you were trying to do! www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

#beatAI. And stop calling it "luck," you buzzard.

Me too!

The Read OUT Loud day of action, 24 hours of queer kids' books read aloud, has begun! You can watch here: us06web.zoom.us/j/89657052248

The episode is right from the headlines. The author of a children's book that the "highest court in the land" says religious extremist parents can make virtually impossible for all school children to read. You couldn't put more love into a book now subjected to hate thisqueerbook.com/uncle-bobbys...

Indoctrination is forcing people into one belief system by limiting their information to that which hews to those beliefs and preventing them from accessing other information. So, having books about a wide variety of people and circumstances in public schools is the *opposite* of indoctrination.

The 24-hour Read OUT Loud for queer kids books is underway!

I rarely play Wordle, but when I do I like to destroy the bot.

Mark your calendars! I'll be reading and signing LOLLY ON THE ICE on January 24, 11 am, at @portersqbooks.bsky.social, with very special guest US figure skating champion and Olympic medalist MIRAI NAGASU!!! We'll talk about skating, the Olympics, and children's books :) @randomhousekids.bsky.social

Hey Massachusetts! It's your turn to make Right to Read legislation Right to Read law! You can use this form from @everylibrary.bsky.social to contact your state representatives! SEND AN EMAIL: Protect the Right to Read in Massachusetts share.google/Ik2RUuc4ZmWI...

the US profoundly needs a children's rights movement. children are not property... they deserve opportunity and learning and autonomy and security.... and our country just does not acknowledge this

Do listen to this episode! Participating was an amazing experience for me.

Well, the world just got even less funny. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...

"Delegating your decision-making, ranking, assessment, strategising, analysis, or any other form of reasoning to a chatbot becomes the functional equivalent to phoning a psychic for advice."

According to Kasey Meehan, director of PEN America's Freedom to Read program, the list of 596 books banned in schools run by the U.S. Department of Defense “paints an alarming picture of what the United States government doesn’t want American kids to access.” www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-fea...

Read OUT Loud, a national day of action in support of queer kids’ books & the kids who read them, is Aug 2-3. Watch part of the 24-hour read aloud on Zoom, sign up to read during the Zoom, or attend in-person events at bookstores and other venues. #BookSky #MomSky mombian.com/2025/07/22/r...

Tiger swallowtail having a rest.

My rant on Justice Alito’s homophobic misreading of Uncle Bobby’s Wedding in a horrible Supreme Court decision that will censor LGBTQ books in public schools. From UC Irvine Law’s Term in Review event last week! Watch the whole thing here: youtu.be/Zj3T7ZAxjYM?...

Ooh, look what just arrived on my doorstep! The very first copy of LOLLY ON THE ICE! It will be in bookstores in November, but it is available now for pre-order ;) Lolly is shy but she loves to skate. Can she find enough bravery inside herself to skate in front of an audience?

A great look at how much work, by how many people, goes into creating a picture book.

If you support freedom of expression and the freedom to read, join us in supporting the passage of An Act Regarding Free Expression (H.3594/S.2328) by signing up at eepurl.com/ji3oJw

Calling all pre-published picture book writers in New England. Look at this amazing opportunity! $25,000 stipend!!! #KidLitNews #KidLit #amwriting www.associatesbpl.org/events-and-p...

"We would not expect schools to put Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day in the sex education curriculum simply because it features a straight mom and dad. Why would Justice Gorsuch or others believe stories about families with two moms or two dads belong there?"

Pay attention. Speak up. www.slj.com/story/The-Ug.... Cc @angryblacklady.bsky.social @hegemommy.bsky.social I had some stuff to say too. :):

25% off pre-orders through Friday at Barnes and Noble with code PREORDER 25. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/lolly-on-t...

25% off pre-orders at Barnes & Noble through Friday with code PREORDER25. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/monarch-an...

PLEASE OH PLEASE LET THERE BE MORE SEASONS OF MURDERBOT.

My statement on the decision and dissent in Mahmoud v. Taylor. Please also read statements by all the authors via @penamerica.bsky.social, and statements by @robinstevenson.bsky.social, @katherinelocke.bsky.social, +Charlotte Sullivan Wild. 100% agree with everything they said.

Justice Sotomayor called the decision a "myopic attempt to resolve a major constitutional question through close textual analysis of ‘Uncle Bobby’s Wedding’" and laments its failure to accept L.G.B.T.Q. people. Kudos to the book's author @sarahsbrannen.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...

I haven't had time today to post about the SCOTUS ruling. But someone at ALA took this picture of the Little Bee Books booth! I love it. Shared with permission. #ALA

🌈 This episode of @thisqueerbook.com with @sarahsbrannen.bsky.social about Uncle Bobby's Wedding is full of queer joy and love! 💜 I love the story about a real child who bascially lived the plot of this book! #kidlit #pridebooks #lgbtqia thisqueerbook.com

@katemessner.com I read The Trouble With Heroes in one sitting just now. Yes, of course I cried. It's every bit as good as everyone says it is! Brava.