Congratulations to the books included in Chicago Public Library's Best of the Best Books 2025! Best Picture Books: ✨ BIG KIDS by K. L. Going and @reggiebrownart.bsky.social ✨ NO MORE CHAIRS by Dan Gill and Susan Gal 1/4 #CPLBest

Reggie Brown's (@reggiebrownart.bsky.social) art in our picture book LITTLE BIG MAN (Scholastic/Orchard Books, 2025) has lots of visual humor as Elijah tries to help with chores.

After working on this book for years, I'm excited that LITTLE BIG MAN, my debut picture book with @reggiebrownart.bsky.social, is almost out in stores. More details are coming soon concerning preorders, the tour, and other events, but for now, here's a bit from the book! youtu.be/QFh9_dYVTec?...

I’m Varian. He’s Reggie. Our upcoming picture book, LITTLE BIG MAN, publishes in May. Hope you check it out! @reggiebrownart.bsky.social

LA Firefighter Brandon Smith, who founded an org to recruit and train incarcerated firefighters to get jobs on the outside, lost his home in Altadena. All donations will be greatly appreciated 💙 gofund.me/f8c1bd29 #AddtoBlacksky #Blacksky #Altadena #California #Firefighter #LAFIREFIGHTER

PLEASE SHARE THIS POST AMPLIFY BLACK DISPLACED FAMILIES DONATE IF YOU CAN!!!!

New Book Alert! Coming May 5, 2025 from Scholastic! From CSK author honoree Varian Johnson and NYT bestselling illustrator Reggie Brown (@reggiebrownart.bsky.social) comes a heartwarming father-son story about the importance of stepping up...and finding time to play. tinyurl.com/2s3jsvnz

A sneak preview of what I’ve been working on. #kidlit #picturebooks #kidlitart

God i love @propublica.org so much

I wrote this eulogy for the once-great science twitter 2 years ago today for American Scientist magazine. I'm glad to see some of this community re-establishing at Bluesky. https://buff.ly/3ZcvTdw 🧪

More work in progress. #kidlit #kidlitpostcard

Meet some of the fearless Black women of the 1955-56 Bus Boycott. A sneak peek into my new book project. Walk the Walk. #kidlit #blacksky #blackwomen

Work in progress. 1955 bus boycott scene. #kidlit #art

Abbott elementary starts at 8pm this week with an hour long special. Please spread the word! 🎄 🫡

i did not leave twitter to have that dumb bitch all over my TL here

The songs in Moana 2 are terrible. I wrote about what Lin-Manuel Miranda brought to Disney, and what we’ve lost without him.

Happy thanking! #kidlit #kidlitpostcard #thanksgiving

Something new. #kidlit

Congratulations to REMEMBERING ROSALIND FRANKLIN (Tanya Lee Stone and Gretchen Ellen Powers) and UP PERISCOPE (Jennifer Swanson and @veronicajamisonart.bsky.social), which are on School Library Journal's list of Best Nonfiction Elementary of 2024! 🔬

Losing your mind over being blocked could be an entire sociology textbook. It took less than ten years to rewire certain human brains into believing they were entitled to full and constant access to every other person on the planet. A species that, a hundred years ago, would know a hundred people.

Wine tasting.

Breaking News: Matt Gaetz, President-elect Trump’s pick for attorney general, said he was withdrawing from consideration for the role. Follow live updates.

Please don't call what RFK Jr. and Jay Bhattacharya are going to do medieval. It's not medieval. It's nothing like the Middle Ages. People in the Middle Ages were happy to try all kinds of things to not die of the plague and if you'd given them antibiotics and vaccines they would have loved it.

Character drawings. #kidlit #kidlitchat

Thanks for noticing.

Precisely.

The idea that Bluesky is insular and X is a place for diverse views is a fallacy. X is based on an algorithm rigged to push the views of Musk and others on the far right. Bluesky is open. You can make it whatever you want it to be.

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Lots of MAGA trolls today, so remember — don’t engage, just block on sight

Some genuinely terrible people whining about the "block culture" here on Bluesky is how you know the block culture is working, keep blocking those genuinely terrible people, folks, soon the only people they'll be able to bother here is each other

Finally made a #Blackademics starter pack! Let continue to build community here. This is part of #Blacksky so please show your appreciation to the architect, @rudyfraser.com

A number of artists and creators have made their home on Bluesky, and we hear their concerns with other platforms training on their data. We do not use any of your content to train generative AI, and have no intention of doing so.

here we go! end of an era.

supporting, uplifting, celebrating BIPOC in libraries and archives ❤️‍🔥 go.bsky.app/MpwbvRa

"you so readily confuse advocacy of unorthodox forms of thought with the promotion of violence, for it lays bare the totalitarian impulse at the core of your enterprise” Orisanmi Burton pens an open letter to prisons that have banned his book, Tip of the Spear www.publicbooks.org/an-open-lett...

I've updated shortlink debbieohi.link/illustrators... to point to this new thread. Feel free to scoop this graphic & post elsewhere on Bluesky or other platforms. With more using generative AI for art, HUMAN illustrators are facing more challenges these days. Pls help boost #KidLit artists!

for anyone trying to extricate yourself from the clutches of Amazon: bookstores make more than a third of their money between now & New Year’s, & most bookstores ship nationwide 💌

Hi #kidlitchat I’m an illustrator for mainly picture books and some chapter books. Love sci fi and fantasy.

While you were busy on Tuesday, the state of South Carolina quietly banned 7 books from all public school libraries statewide. It's state-sanctioned censorship, y'all. wellsourced.substack.com/p/on-electio...

Everybody was already tired of celebrities putting out children’s books, but this by Jamie Oliver is just next level, absolutely fucking appalling.

Working on something. #kidlitart

Drawing. #kidlit

Some old art. #kidlit

What’s up!

Happy Friday everyone! #kidlit

Coming soon! #kidlit