Exciting book news!! My son @gabrielfryebehar.bsky.social and I have co-authored a second picture book, Picadillo for Paulina, which will be coming out in Summer 2026 with Norton Young Readers!! Delighted to be working with editor Simon Boughton and artist Erika Rodriguez Medina. ❤️

Coming soon: new projects from @sylvialiu.bsky.social @jashar.bsky.social @cassandradraws.bsky.social @ruthbehar.bsky.social + more buff.ly/C8hGBMb

I'm interviewing all of the 2025 Newbery Winners LIVE on the Real Page-Turner Stage at #ALAAC25. Come by at 9:30 on Saturday, June 28th to see Erin Entrada Kelly, Ruth Behar, Chanel Miller, Lesa Cline-Ransome, and Kate O'Shaughnessy

Looking forward to being at @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social conference this weekend!

The Sydney Taylor Honor and Newbery Honor award-winning book by @ruthbehar.bsky.social is now in paperback! Get free resources for ACROSS SO MANY SEAS to bring this historical novel into your class or library!

Happy to announce that today is the paperback release day of Across So Many Seas!! 🙏💙🧿

The Pedro and Daniel Intersectionality Book Award MG/YA finalists! ACROSS SO MANY SEAS @ruthbehar.bsky.social THE COLOR OF SOUND @emilybarthisler.bsky.social More details: ReadYourWorld.org/awards #PADIBA #PADIBA2025 #KidlitBookNews #kidlit #kidlitcommunity #TLSky #SkyBrarians #edusky

Happy #NationalLibraryWeek! Thank you to all the librarians and library workers out there. Use this week to get active in the library in your community: check out a book, go to a program, and/or attend a library board meeting. #BookSky

Happy School Library Month! (Day 4) "School librarians are memory-keepers and story-keepers and the guardians of all the knowledge of the universe." — @ruthbehar.bsky.social mrschureads.blogspot.com/2025/02/newb...

Thank you!♥️ It was an honor to interview the wonderful @ruthbehar.bsky.social youtu.be/Ic5lXm4SWxw?...

As part of the @jewishlibraries.bsky.social Sydney Taylor Book Award Blog Tour, it's my privledge to share my interview with Sydney Taylor Book Honor & 2025 Newbery Honor recipient the wonderful author @ruthbehar.bsky.social #STBA #booksky #mglit #kidlit #Jewish #blogger youtu.be/Ic5lXm4SWxw?...

On today's final blog tour stop: @ruthbehar.bsky.social, author of ACROSS SO MANY SEAS, Sydney Taylor Honor Book in the Middle Grade Category! @etraintalks.bsky.social Hosted at etraintalks.com/sydney-taylo... View the full blog tour schedule at jewishlibraries.org/2025-blog-to... #STBA

I interviewed @erinentrada.bsky.social mrschureads.blogspot.com/2025/02/two-..., Lesa Cline-Ransome mrschureads.blogspot.com/2025/02/newb..., @ruthbehar.bsky.social mrschureads.blogspot.com/2025/02/newb..., and @kloshaughnessy.bsky.social mrschureads.blogspot.com/2025/02/newb... this week.

"That my writing is appreciated at this stage of my life, now that I’m a grandmother, means everything to me." —Dr. @ruthbehar.bsky.social mrschureads.blogspot.com/2025/02/newb...

#TLSkyChat "School librarians are memory-keepers and story-keepers and the guardians of all the knowledge of the universe." — @ruthbehar.bsky.social mrschureads.blogspot.com/2025/02/newb...

Spanning over 500 years, this Newbery Honor-winning novel @ruthbehar.bsky.social tells the stories of four girls from different generations of a Jewish family, many of them forced to leave their country and start a new life. Get FREE resources for your your class/library! #BookSky #EDUSky

What better way to start the week than with the Youth Media Awards! Find out more about these Newbery, Caldecott, and other award winning books for young readers! Explore the booklist: penguinschoollibrary.com/2025PenguinY...

Congratulations @ruthbehar.bsky.social!!

WooHOO!!! A Sydney Taylor Honor AND a Newbery Honor!! Did you hear me yelling for you, @ruthbehar.bsky.social and @nancyrosep.bsky.social !!!? HUGE CONGRATULATIONS ❤️

I'm thrilled & grateful to have received a Newbery Honor Award & a Sydney Taylor Honor Book Award for my book, ACROSS SO MY SEAS. Thanks to my amazing editor @nancyrosep.bsky.social & the @penguinschoollib.bsky.social team & my family & ancestors whose stories of resilience I will never forget.

YAY! ACROSS SO MANY SEAS by @ruthbehar.bsky.social is a a Sydney Taylor Book Award Middle Grade Honor! We’re so happy 🐧🧡

WOW WOW WOW! ACROSS SO MANY SEAS is a Newbery Honor winner! We are over the moon for @ruthbehar.bsky.social congratulations! 🎉🥹

Amazing news! Congratulations, @ruthbehar.bsky.social!

Mazel tov to the authors of the 2025 Sydney Taylor Honor Books! ~Across So Many Seas by @ruthbehar.bsky.social ~Finn and Ezra's Bar Mitzvah Time Loop by @joshuaslevy.bsky.social ~Just Shy of Ordinary by @matokah.bsky.social ~The Forbidden Book by Sacha Lamb ~Trajectory by Cambria Gordon 3/3

Such an honor to see Across So Many Seas included in this wonderful longlist! ❤️🙏❤️

A8: If I listed all the books of my heart this year, I would be here all night! Here are a few I have not yet mentioned tonight! #TLSkyChat Ferris by Kate DiCamillo A Strange Thing Happened at Cherry Hall by Jasmine Warga Across So Many Seas by @ruthbehar.bsky.social Valor Wings by Sam Subity

I am so heartened to learn that Across So Many Seas has found its way to 2024 best books lists. Warm thanks to my amazing editor @nancyrosep.bsky.social and to all the readers who’ve shared the book’s 500-year journey. 🙏❤️

Some of my favorite 2024 MG novels that I hope will be recognized during awards season. Most of them feature intersectional protagonists. Those that have audiobooks are all exceptional. @ruthbehar.bsky.social @giagordon.bsky.social @mrschureads.bsky.social @dekemoulton.bsky.social

So honored to learn ACROSS SO MANY SEAS is on the NYPL list of best children’s books of the year!

Choose 20 books that have stayed with or influenced you. 20 days, in no particular order, explanations or reviews, just covers. 2/20 "The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart"- @ruthbehar.bsky.social #booksky #bookchallenge #booknerd #booklovers #books #ethnography #folklore

Delighted to post on @bsky.app for the first time! I’ll be at the Miami Book Fair this Saturday with authors Gayle Forman and Cynthia Leitich Smith and moderator @kimberlywhite.bsky.social! Join us if you’re in Miami!