Breaking news: “Library Joy” is coming to #NCTE25! PBS resident librarian and literacy advocate Mychal Threets is now part of our amazing lineup of speakers. You’ve seen him online. Now see him in person. Early-bird pricing through October 15—register now! https://convention.ncte.org/registration/

Your favorite scientist’s favorite scientist has been honored with a Hollywood Walk of Fame star! 🌟🤩 Thank you, PBS, for teaching us to embrace the joy of science with our friend Bill Nye the Science Guy 🧡🧪 www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/b...

Libraries are so cool. Whenever I'm away from home and need a place to hang out between things, I find a library. There's a bathroom, a water fountain, chairs, and I can read, meditate, use the computers, or just be, and no one tries me make me buy anything.

There are plenty of books at your local libraries and bookstores to read and learn about autism that do not focus on Tylenol. Best of all, more and more books are being written and illustrated. More and are being published! 📚 😊 Here are a few:

Sophia Forchas was shot in the head during the school shooting at Annunciation Catholic School. She is still alive ❤️‍🩹 Sophia Forchas is a miracle! Praying for you, your physical and mental health, your family, your doctors, your nurses 💛 gofundme.com/f/support-sophia-and-the-forchas-family-recover

Hi, my name is Mychal! I am neurodivergent 💚

Here are four ways anyone can support and help their local library: • Get a library card ⭐️ • Use your library card 🌟 •Visit the library 💫 •Tell everyone to get a library card and support their local library ✨

Library Joy! Libraries keep receipts 🥳

Princess Diana 💚 July 1, 1961 - August 31, 1997 ❤️‍🩹 You are so missed! Princess Di, forever the People’s Princess ✨

THANK YOU for taking us over 500 preorders! How cool 🥹 “I’m So Happy You’re Here: A Celebration of Library Joy,” words by myself and illustrated by Lorraine Nam, publishes on February 3, 2026 and… I can’t wait to find it on bookshelves! 😁 tinyurl.com/MychalLorraineBook @randomhousekids.bsky.social

🗣️ LIBRARIES ARE COOLING CENTERS! Beat the heat by visiting your local library for air conditioning. Please be kind if their AC is on the fritz! They are doing their best, just like you 🩵

Just in case you needed Machine Gun Kitty to remind you that you are not a failure! You’re doing all you can to stay another day, and she is glad you’re still here. I’m really glad you’re here ✨

(📍United States 🇺🇸) Mychal is creating a safe space at the library, a place where everyone deserves to belong and feel welcome. 💖📚 Discover your own act of kindness for the day through our #BeKind365 Kindness Generator: bekind365.world/kindnessgene... 🎥: @/mychal3ts on IG

If your child is struggling to read at grade level or at all, KEEP READING! Let them see you read. Talk about what you read, what they read. Reread their favorite books. Read them aloud! Have them read the physical book while listening to and reading along with the audiobook. 🧵 1/2

#Libraries, and the apps Libby, Hoopla, and Kanopy, have renewed my love of reading and exploring stories in an accessible way! We are sending all #library people so much love from #Canada - we see you and we stand with you. What do libraries mean to you? (Freakin’ ♥️ you @mychal3ts.bsky.social)

Libraries raised me. Libraries are third spaces. Libraries are so much more than just books… libraries are community. Libraries teach us, encourage us to come together in joy, to come together to help our neighbors. Libraries know there are times where we turn up the volume on our library voice 💚

Met with my new psychiatrist and after going over my mental health journey (which my friend believes in a PowerPoint to deliver such history and I LOVE IT) they asked, “You might want to try another assessment for autism? You don’t have to, but always know it’s an option that can happen.”

There is a crisis in Gaza. They are starving. They need you, need us! 💔 No child, no one should go hungry. Feeling helpless is a response of human kindness. Doing something is a response of human kindness. Using your voice is a response, it is human kindness. This is not political, this is human ❤️‍🩹

From a librarian who is on a journey through grief… thank you for this grief jam, Cat Burns 💚✨

The PBS local stations are at risk! PLEASE donate what you can to support them and keep them going ❤️‍🩹 My local public media station I’m supporting is KQED. Which is your local station? 💙🩵 #SupportPBSandNPR @pbs.org @npr.org

Thank you for EVERYTHING, @pbs.org ✨ We love you, we will never give up on you!The support from viewers like us for you is eternal! Public media teaches us kindness, teaches us to enjoy learning, teaches us that we all belong. PBS is my reason to stay. PBS, always and forever ❤️‍🩹💙🩵💚

Storytime is for everyone! There is joy in books being read aloud ✨ Recently, had so much fun reading a story aloud to teens at the New York Public Library! 😊

Can’t believe I’m included in the 2025 #TIME100Creators list 🥹 Congratulations to all the other creators, voices on the Interwebs! Proud of each you, thank you for being there for us on the other side of our screens 💚 Library people joy! Thank you kindly, @time.com ✨ tinyurl.com/TIME100mychal

“Be an active participant in making the world less terrible” - @blairimani.bsky.social ✨🌎💛 Video Description: Mychal smiles and holds a colorful sticker from Blair Imani Ali that has a quote of encouragement and action, which he says aloud.

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News has been dreadful recently. This morning, I realized I needed a pick-me-up, so I chose to wear my bright kelly green T-shirt announcing “You Belong In Books.” (It’s greener IRL.) Feeling better already! Thanks @mychal3ts.bsky.social for the lift! Your message of JOY is wider than you may know.

My Librarian of Congress! What an absolute honor to meet Dr. Carla Hayden and tell her how much of a hero she is to myself and library loving people all over the world. What a relief to see her smiling and to witness her remarkable energy 💜

American Library Association 2025 annual conference ✨ Authors, illustrators, library workers, teachers, educators, publishers- the kindest helpers of the books & the people! ✨ Every single “I’m so happy you’re here… not just here here… but HERE in the world” meant everything to me 💚

Awesome to meet you in person @mychal3ts.bsky.social! Love your work! #TLsky

Super awesome having the opportunity to meet @mychal3ts.bsky.social today at ALA! He was my bright spot on that other site, and now I'm glad I can follow him here! Sorry it took so long!

Loss of federal funding looks different at each library system 💔 Across the nation, libraries are laying off library workers, closing on weekends or entirely, stopping the ordering of new materials, eliminating summer reading programs ❤️‍🩹 🧵 1/2

This week is #ALA25 #ALAAC25. I planned to be there before my #IMLS grant was terminated. It hurt, but in the words of Dr. Carla Hayden, librarians are "fiesty fighters of freedom." Hold my books b/c she reignited my fire.

“We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It’s easy to say, ‘It’s not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.’ Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.” - Mister Rogers 💛 The human world, it’s a mess ❤️‍🩹💚🌎

✨NEW!✨ Meet @pbs.org Resident Librarian & all around super-⭐️, @mychal3ts.bsky.social on StoryMakers! Tune in to learn how Mychal decided to become a librarian, discover his favorite kids 📚, & share in his infectious ❤️ of libraries: www.kidlit.tv/StoryMakersM... @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social #kidlit

One of my favorite items I brought back from @americanbookseller.bsky.social Ci25! Loved meeting @mychal3ts.bsky.social and listening to him speak.

The world is best with the joy of Ali Hazelwood in it 💚🌎✨📚

If you ever have the opportunity to talk about books, libraries, literacy, history or ANYTHING with Ashley C. Ford… seize the opportunity with all of the joy in the world 📚 😊 ✨ @smashfizzle.bsky.social

Mychal Threets gave the opening keynote talk at Children’s Institute 2025 on Thursday in Portland, Ore., where he was introduced by Tegan Tigani, children’s book buyer at Seattle’s Queen Anne Book Co. #ABAChildrensInstitute

"Everyone belongs. There are unhoused people, mentally ill people, library kids, library teens, grandparents, autistic people, neurodivergent people who all use a library, and it belongs to all of them.” —Mychal Threets #ReasonstoLoveLibraries bit.ly/3RGM52r

“You can’t go wrong with Judy Blume!” 📚🥰

THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST DAYS OF MY LIFE 🥹 Presenting the book cover of “I’m So Happy You’re Here: A Celebration of Library Joy,” written by myself and illustrated by my friend Lorraine Nam. Published by Random House Children’s Books 🐧💚 Preorder at bit.ly/ISHYH-Reveal 📖✨

We can't wait to see @mychal3ts.bsky.social speak! Homeschooling Unleashed is August 1st-3rd, 2025 at the Raleigh Convention Center in Raleigh, NC. Learn more at www.homeschooling-unleashed.com Direct ticket link: www.ticketsource.com/homeschoolin... #homeschool #secularhomeschool #mychalthreets

A bunch of our staff met @mychal3ts.bsky.social today which means we're more powerful than ever

My friend Cree Myles was kind enough to allow me to approach the necessary topic of mental health via Penguin Random House’s All Ways Black 💚 penguinrandomhouse.com/articles/a-safe-space-between-books/ 🧵 1/4

“On our street, everyone is welcome. Together, let's build a world where every person and family feels loved and respected for who they are. Happy Pride Month!” - Sesame Street 💚💛

A Librarian (Mychal) and a Driver (Adam)! ✨

Long live Sesame Street! 🥹 Had so much fun at the Sesame Workshop gala! Thank you, with all of my heart, for your commitment to coming together to help children grow smarter, stronger, kinder ✨

“Libraries are a cornerstone of democracy, where information is free and equally available to everyone. People tend to take that for granted, and they don’t realize what is at stake when that is put at risk.” - Dr. Carla Hayden We stand with Dr. Carla Hayden 💚 🧵 1/2

Dr. Carla Hayden will always be our Librarian of Congress ❤️‍🩹 1st woman, 1st African American Librarian of Congress. Your presence is a blessing to libraries. We love you! ✨ Thank you for your service 💜 apnews.com/article/donald-trump-library-of-congress-carla-hayden-20a1862ce6d2e0d51a84a37b264ce2ef

Mychal Threets is meeting with SJSU iSchool students and alumni to talk about library education at Mini Cat Town in San Jose! Watch the latest episode on YouTube here: youtube.com/shorts/SXEmi...