For Kids 8 to 18: 19 Books about Mental Health - Looking for mental health-themed books suitable for parents and children to read together? See list, below. @kerncarter.bsky.social | @sharigreen.bsky.social | @deborahkerbel.com | @kloshaughnessy.bsky.social menderist.com/summer-readi...

Please join us at our ONLINE WRITING RETREAT Fall Edition Saturday, September 20, 2025 PT 8am–6pm | MT 9am–7pm | CT 10am–8pm | ET 11am–9pm AT 12pm–10pm | NT 12:30pm–10:30pm Register: www.canscaip.org/event-6332271 #CANSCAIP #CanKidLit

I decided to read and review each of my fellow nominees for the BC Yukon Book Prize. Some seriously good books here! 😃 @cormorantbooks.bsky.social @sharigreen.bsky.social @bcyukonbookprizes.bsky.social

I'm absolutely thrilled that SONG OF FREEDOM, SONG OF DREAMS has been named a finalist for the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People--and in such wonderful company! Thank you so much to the jury and to @kidsbookcentre.bsky.social, and congrats to the other finalists! 📚🇨🇦

Canadian authors & illustators are speaking up against book bans in 🇨🇦. If you're a published Cdn author or illus, pls consider joining us? www.karijones.ca/canadian-aut... Thx @whatwouldjuliedraw.bsky.social (graphics), @robinstevenson.bsky.social, K. Jones (hosting). #CanKidLit #CanLit #BookBans

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I use Word, plus longhand in a notebook for brainstorming (sometimes) and for poetry. If my inner editor tries to take over when I'm drafting, I change the font colour to purple so I can't possibly take myself too seriously, lol.

In the #authorlife category of "things that make all the hard work worth it," a 99-year-old fan of SONG OF FREEDOM, SONG OF DREAMS cut out this article about Leipzig and gave it to me because she thought I'd enjoy it. (Leipzig was home to the peaceful protest movement I wrote about in SOFSOD.) 💛🥰

Victoria's Whitney Gardner explores fame, phantoms and free (not haunted) pianos in new graphic novel www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you don’t have “too many books.”

Summer Reads for Kids 8 to 18: looking for mental health-themed books for your children to read? See our list of 19 titles, including books by ‪@kerncarter.bsky.social | @sharigreen.bsky.social | @deborahkerbel.com | @kloshaughnessy.bsky.social‬ menderist.com/summer-readi...

Are you a brand new writer wanting to be more confident talking about writing & publishing? Check out our Beginner Intensive master class with @kcdyer.bsky.social at SiWC this year, offered online on Oct 22. It's a great standalone or lead-in to the conference. www.siwc.ca/schedule/mas...

Congratulations, @kaiewrites.bsky.social! www.campbellrivermirror.com/home2/vancou...

So today is also a good day to reminder everyone that it is not an "honor" to have your book banned. It doesn't increase sales. It doesn't land you on the elusive banned books B&N front table. What bans do: harm individuals, erase identity, destroy democracy. Book bans are attacks on freedom.

We're excited to announce the finalists of the 2025 BC and Yukon Book Prizes! These books represent the amazing talent and creativity in BC and Yukon, and we're honoured to be able to celebrate the work being done in our region. bcyukonbookprizes.com/2025/04/10/b...

Young Hockey Player Works Through His Anxiety, Anger Issues in "Game Face," by @sharigreen.bsky.social Green's novel recommended by children's book specialists as a mental health-themed novel for children and parents to read together. See full list at: menderist.com/books-on-men...

Recording a video for the #ForestOfReading program, and I've come to the sad realization that I have absolutely zero control over my eyebrows while I talk.🤪

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If you're part of #eduSky #KidLit and are planning out some #PoetryMonth assignments, I've compiled a great list of verse novels on my website. In the thread below, a few gems that may fit particular classes.

I'm so grateful to Canada Council for the Arts, the Public Lending Right program, and Canadian libraries and librarians for supporting Canadian authors! I just received my annual PLR payment, and what a boost that is! Thank you so much, Canada Council! 🇨🇦📚 publiclendingright.ca #ireadcanadian

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Updated! List of MG and YA novels in verse by #Canadian authors. 🇨🇦📚 tinyurl.com/CDN-verse-no...

I'm thrilled & grateful that Kirkus has selected SONG OF FREEDOM, SONG OF DREAMS for their Best Books of 2024 list!! 😲😍 I've also just discovered it's on their Best Teen & YA Historical Fiction of 2024 list! Thank you, Kirkus! #yafiction #historicalfiction

Graphic novels get devoured at our school and I’ve heard the same from librarians everywhere. NIV are sleeper hits for my students once I convince them it’s less short form nature poetry and more epic album you read the lyrics to.

Hello, folks.👋 I haven't been here in ages, so... an intro! I'm a Canadian verse novelist and poet, and my most recent book is SONG OF FREEDOM, SONG OF DREAMS (YA hist). 📚 I'm also a musician and former nurse, and I love being out in nature (big trees and ocean beaches are my jam). Cheers!💛

An ARC of SONG OF FREEDOM, SONG OF DREAMS arrived, & I'm over the moon!! Thank you, AndrewsMcMeel, for making it so gorgeous!! 🖤💛 I'm so excited to share this book with you (March 5). Photo: screen grab from my IG reel, seeing book for the first time. 😍😍😭😭 ( YAlit HistFic YAfiction )

A welcome new list of #kidsbooks celebrating Deaf culture by @imaginationsoup.bsky.social includes Macy McMillan and the Rainbow Goddess by @sharigreen.bsky.social “Told in verse with signing indicated by bold text” from @pajamapress1 imaginationsoup.net/childrens-bo...

There's a lot going on right now (life throws a lot of curve balls), but I'm happy to take a minute to celebrate the release of my fifth novel! 🤩🏒💛 GAME FACE is a middle grade novel in verse about big hockey dreams, old and new friendships, and anxiety that threatens to ruin everything. 🤩🏒💛

September is Blood Cancer Awareness Month. 🩸 Both cancers my daughter faced were blood cancers: follicular lymphoma (diag at age 29) & primary CNS lymphoma (age 34), which are both types of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. 🩸 For more info about blood cancers, please visit www.bloodcancers.ca or www.lls.org

Here's one of mine, symbolizing the power of stories to bring light and life. 📚🌳🖋️ Artist: Stef at Seaside Tattoos, Campbell River, BC.

🤩 It's almost here! GAME FACE launches in one week (available in stores September 5). I'm so excited for you to meet Jonah! 📚🏒💛 #GameFace #mglit #middlegrade #versenovel #hockey #anxiety #mentalhealth #ireadcanadian

Hi everyone!👋 It's me, Shari, verse novelist from the west coast of Canada. Time to learn a new platform! Thanks for the invite @heywhitney.bsky.social. #MGlit, #YAlit, #HistFic, #poetry #VerseNovels