I’M SO HAPPY YOU’RE HERE: A CELEBRATION OF LIBRARY JOY by Mychal Threets, illustrated by Lorraine Nam, is a USA Today Bestseller for a second week in a row!! 🥳 Congratulations, Mychal! Bookshop link to buy your own copy. @mychal3ts.bsky.social Lara Perkins

Sprinkling kindness around the library—hope this makes your day too 💌

Happy birthday, @mychal3ts.bsky.social!

In celebration of Black History Month we're highlighting the lives & legacies of great Black Americans. Today we celebrate librarian, author, literacy advocate, and the new host of Reading Rainbow, Mychal Threets. Also, Happy Birthday Mychal! 🥳 www.ala.org/news/2025/12... @mychal3ts.bsky.social 📖💕

I’m So Happy You’re Here, @mychal3ts.bsky.social 💚 and so happy readers get to know how happy you are for them to live library joy 🤩 We all belong at the library ❤️ Be sure to listen 🎧 to the audiobook to experience Mychal’s joy! I’ve listened twice. #bookstagram #picturebook #librarian #kidlit

I’M SO HAPPY YOU’RE HERE: A CELEBRATION OF LIBRARY JOY by Mychal Threets, illustrated by Lorraine Nam, is a USA Today Bestseller! Congratulations, Mychal! Link to buy at bookshop dot org @mychal3ts.bsky.social

We caught up w/ @mychal3ts.bsky.social last week & got the chance to share ALA's newest READ poster! ALA's Lisa Varga was on hand to say hello & celebrate library joy at @dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social - thanks for stopping by, Mychal! Grab a copy of the poster today: alastore.ala.org/mychal-three...

Shout Out to @mychal3ts.bsky.social

Can’t talk Super Bowl without Autumn Lockwood. First Black woman to coach in AND win the Super Bowl ✨ Video Description: Mychal wishes you a Happy Bad Bunny Super Bowl Day! He highlights Autumn Lockwood’s impact. Mychal refers to her as history, HERstory, extraordinary 💜 #BlackHistoryMonth

Happy book birthday to @mychal3ts.bsky.social and Lorraine Nam's I'm So Happy You're Here: A Celebration of Library Joy!

Bean before class: I want a library card please. Me: Random but ok. Why? Bean: Because having fun isn’t hard when you have a library card! Me: Yes. Who said that? Bean: Arthur and Mychal Who’s Mychal? The internet’s favorite Library Kid and the library’s favorite fan @mychal3ts.bsky.social

We were so happy to see @mychal3ts.bsky.social tonight at @dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social Fun Pajama Storytime! Our team's Lisa Varga even brought along the newest ALA Read poster (grab a copy for yourself today: alastore.ala.org/mychal-three...). Thanks for stopping by to spread library joy, Mychal!

Happy National Library Lover’s Month! To celebrate, we’re sharing this starred review from School Library Journal for I'M SO HAPPY YOU'RE HERE: A CELEBRATION OF LIBRARY JOY by Mychal Threets, illustrated by Lorraine Nam! 🌟 Read the full SLJ review here. @mychal3ts.bsky.social

Happy Book Birthday -- Mychal Threets! The wait is over! Congratulations to literacy ambassador @mychal3ts.bsky.social and illustrator Lorraine Nam on the release of their debut picture book, I'M SO HAPPY YOU'RE HERE: A CELEBRATION OF LIBRARY JOY. Happy book birthday and welcome to the world!

Support the nicest and most inspiring people. Thanks for sharing this beautiful book, @mychal3ts.bsky.social I LOVE it. Everyone go buy I’M SO HAPPY YOU’RE HERE: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/776025.... #books #bookstagram #booktok #bookrecommendations #joy

Happy Black History Month 🖤✨ Libraries and books are from perfect. The Dewey Decimal System is imperfect. But we will never forget the work of Dorothy B. Porter. She decolonized the Dewey Decimal System. She helped us belong in libraries, in books. We celebrate and thank you, Dorothy B. Porter 💜📚

Publishing for Minnesota is a response from bookish folks to ongoing ICE raids causing harm to immigrant communities, our neighbors across the country. Funds raised from the auction support those most impacted, in urgent need ❤️‍🩹 Auction opens Thursday, January 29 📚 www.32auctions.com/publishingforMN

BOOK JOY! 🥹 One week until mine and Lorraine Nam’s picture book becomes REALLY, really real! I'm so happy you're here, are you ready for library joy?! 📚 📚 I’M SO HAPPY YOU’RE HERE: A CELEBRATION OF LIBRARY JOY 📚 ✨Available wherever books are sold ✨ 📸: Mom 😂

This is the book I really, really, really wanted to win the 2026 Newbery! Congratulations, Renée Watson!

We're thrilled to welcome Reading Rainbow host and author @mychal3ts.bsky.social for our National #AARI26 virtual event, open to all! Register your classroom to join the conversation with Mychal, including a reading from his new book—and a giveaway for NCTE members: https://ncte.org/aari-threets/

Congratulations, @mychal3ts.bsky.social and Lorraine Nam!

Celebrate 10 years of Books from Birth with a cozy Pajama Storytime ft. Mychal Threets, the new host of PBS’ Reading Rainbow. Mychal will read from their new picture book, I’m So Happy You’re Here: A Celebration of Library Joy. 🗓 Feb 4 | 6:30 PM 🔗 RSVP https://bit.ly/3LwC1JE

"Stay one more day, 24 more hours, you never know what's in store that next day." Mychal Threets, new host of Reading Rainbow and author of I'm So Happy You're Here: A Celebration of Library Joy #ncte25 #library

If your emotions to the ICE shooting in Minneapolis, Minnesota leaving a woman dead are overwhelm, shock, rage, and fear, you are not alone. The person killed in the Minneapolis, Minnesota ICE shooting is Renee Nicole Good ❤️‍🩹

There’s an indoor slide at DC’s MLK library! 😁🛝📚 Video Description: Mychal laughs, saying, “Here we go!” He slides down the indoor slide at DC Public Library's Martin Luther King Jr Memorial central branch. Library friends cheer him on ✨ 📹: @tomesandtextiles.bsky.social

Thank you for watching Reading Rainbow 🥹📚🌈 Video Description: “WHAT?!” Mychal’s goal as host of the Reading Rainbow revival was for an episode to reach 1 million views. An episode has already achieved this! 🤯 He thanks you for supporting the show. We’re doing our best to make LeVar Burton proud 🦋🌌

Reading Rainbow bloopers! 😂🦋📚🌈 Video Description: •kids doing their best to stay focused, but still dancing •kids telling Mychal their purpose is video games, watching tv, and peanut butter nutella sandwiches •kid suggests building animal robots to replace other robots 1/2

Merry Christmas to me, just preordered @mychal3ts.bsky.social upcoming picture book from @loyaltybooks.bsky.social along with Tell Me a Story: Fantastic Children's Books from the Library of Congress & Queers at the Table: An Illustrated Guide to Queer Food (with Recipes) #books #reading #queer

Every #donation to my #DonorsChoose #iPad project is being DOUBLED now. Our Title I kids lack a lot of #education opportunities, so please help our #community by #giving or sharing. @levarburton.bsky.social @mychal3ts.bsky.social @hankgreen.bsky.social bit.ly/jfkipads #TLSky #EduSky #BookSky

✨📖 2025 Mental Health Wrapped 📖✨ I’m so happy you’re here! Thank you for staying 💚

We are OVERJOYED to announce that award-winning librarian and ‘Reading Rainbow’ host @mychal3ts.bsky.social will serve as our 2026 National Library Week honorary chair! #NationalLibraryWeek will be held April 19-25 with the theme "Find Your Joy." Read our full announcement: https://bit.ly/4rDSagx

Wow, Grover! 😁 You’re on a READ poster! 💙📚 @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social alastore.ala.org/mychal-threets-poster

It's been 1 MONTH since my debut picture book ❄️🩰The Abominable Snow Dancer🩰❄️ launched. Highlights: - 4 launch events + 1 school visit (and one more event still incoming!) - Mychal Threets held my book (🤯!!!) - Our smiling faces in PW Daily 😎 - Reading my book aloud makes me feel weirdly powerful 🪄👶

Someone said that Florida upside down looks like The Grinch, and now I can’t unsee it! 😱🤯

Today is a good day to make Mychal Threets proud of you. Read a book that brings you joy. Some people read by listening. Some people read by touch. Some people read with their eyeballs. All reading is reading. Remember your meds and have some water!

DOLLY PARTON: STAR OF THE SHOW 🌟📖 Thank you for being such an extraordinarily generous, kind human being, Dolly Parton! 301 million books (and counting) gifted to kids all over the world through the Imagination Library 💛✨ Congratulations on YOUR new book! We are thankful for you 😊💜

We raise our library voices to celebrate our Indigenous neighbors 💜 How wonderful to exist alongside Indigenous Peoples! You have always been here, you are still here. Celebrate & support them: their stories, history, community, art, food ✨ Thankful for you, we celebrate you today & every day 🧡

One of my favorite Star Wars performances in the franchise is that of Moses Ingram as The Third Sister ♥️ What’s one of your favorite Star Wars performances? ✨

“What is Reading Rainbow?” 📚🌈 Library joy was featured as a Jeopardy! clue, alongside LeVar Burton and PBS 🤯🥹 💙 @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social 💚 @pbs.org

Libraries host food drives, have reading challenges with certificates for free burgers & pizza to encourage kids to read, have lunch-at-the-library programs in the Summer, have seed lending libraries to help grow your own food… Libraries are adamant our neighbors be fed, that they never go hungry 💛

Steve Irwin would be so proud of Robert Irwin’s joy on Dancing With The Stars 🥹✨

Commencement Speakers: Are you looking for an inspiring, engaging, and highly relevant speaker for your spring 2026 commencement ceremony? Consider one of the authors, educators, or librarians from The Author Village. theauthorvillage.com

Happy Veterans Day to all those who serve and have served ✨ They each have a story. I cannot help but think of their mental health. They have their worries, their grief, their struggles. They are human, just like us ❤️‍🩹 I hope their minds will be kind to them every day. Thank you for your service 💚

This comment means the world! The library is for everyone. For autistic you, ADHD you, dyslexic you, neurodivergent you 💚 It is difficult for some to use a library voice, to whisper. THAT’S OKAY. You belong in the library, we will work together. I admire YOU 😊 Take a look, it’s in a book 💛

In a world full of terrible role models for young people, I’m so glad there are also smart, joyful and empathetic people like Ms Rachel and Mychal Threets.

Mychal Threets and illustrator Lorraine Nam’s “affectionate picture book” I’M SO HAPPY YOU’RE HERE: A CELEBRATION OF LIBRARY JOY showcases “that among a library’s greatest treasures are the people who find their place within its walls”

PBS IS PUNK! 🤘🏽💙💚 @twocrowcollective.bsky.social @pbs.org twocrowcollective.com/collections/...

It’s a wonderful kind of day to support @wgbh.org 💛 Together, we can help GBH, home of beloved programs like @arthurpbs.bsky.social, fund the future! gbh.org/FundTheFuture The Fund the Future campaign aims to: 🧵 1/3

Filmed four episodes of Reading Rainbow, all are out on KidZuko on YouTube 😁 Thankful to still be in the world for this journey. Highest of honors for one of Reading Rainbow & LeVar Burton’s biggest fans ✨ Proud & grateful for all involved! 🦋🌌 “Take a look, it’s in a book!” YOU can be anything 📚🌈

@mychal3ts.bsky.social and @maggietokudahall.bsky.social so generously shared their book and library wisdom on a panel about book banning with @carolinekpritchard.bsky.social and I to launch our book just days before this visit cancellation. Grateful for our bookish community!