Susan Van Metre
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Hopelessly devoted to books. Editorial Director Walker Books US/Candlewick Press
Does anyone know of a grant for English to Spanish translations?
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Gen X Heated Rivalry
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Gen X Heated Rivalry
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Administration suddenly concerned about the law… Trump Administration Tells Court It Has Money It Can’t Spend to Prevent Food Stamp Cuts
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/u...
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Trump Administration Tells Court It Has Money It Can’t Spend to Prevent Food Stamp Cuts
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/us/politics/food-stamps-shutdown.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
7 months ago
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Don’t frog it, Crochet!
#redsox
8 months ago
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The transition from being still vaguely a peer of your young colleagues to being a peer of their parents is tight.
8 months ago
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Was telling a friend that my only child asked about what it was like to have a sibling and that I had replied: It’s having a person in your life who will say the cruelest things to you yet also drop anything to help you. She looked shocked. Surely that is the definition of a sibling?!
8 months ago
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Concept: Airport crochet or knitting kits arranged by flight time, with airplane-approved supplies.
8 months ago
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Totally fascinating! We Traced Pope Leo XIV’s Ancestry Back 500 Years. Here’s What We Found.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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We Traced Pope Leo XIV’s Ancestry Back 500 Years. Here’s What We Found.
Noblemen, enslaved people, freedom fighters, slaveowners: what the complex family tree of the first American pontiff reveals.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/11/magazine/pope-leo-xiv-ancestry-family-tree.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
11 months ago
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This is deeply not okay. Trump Is Calling Up National Guard Troops Under a Rarely Used Law
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/u...
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Trump Is Calling Up National Guard Troops Under a Rarely Used Law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/us/trump-national-guard-deploy-rare.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
12 months ago
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At least we still have coffee… RIP red wine That Cup of Coffee May Have a Longer-Term Perk
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/w...
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That Cup of Coffee May Have a Longer-Term Perk
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/well/eat/health-longevity-aging-benefits-of-coffee.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Backlisted Podcast
12 months ago
Tuesday 27th May. Lined up new episode of Backlisted for my commute. It was bloody brilliant! I thought Secret Diary of A. Mole 13¾ was just funny but intellectuals like
@ninastibbe.bsky.social
have convinced me it is actually searing critique of Mrs Thatcher etc.
www.backlisted.fm/episodes/240...
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240. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾ by Sue Townsend — Backlisted
The wonderful Nina Stibbe , award-winning novelist and diarist, joins us for a discussion of Sue Townsend's classic comic creation . When it was first published in 1982, the confidential journal of ...
https://www.backlisted.fm/episodes/240-the-secret-diary-of-adrian-mole-aged-13-by-sue-townsend
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American Library Association
about 1 year ago
For 225 years, the Library of Congress has collected America’s stories and kept Congress informed. The American Library Association stands with America’s library.
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“Shame on all of us if we let these ignorant purveyors of cruelty reduce this beautiful thing we’ve built over these hundreds of years to a hollow, braying, anti-version of itself.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...
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Opinion | George Saunders: Shame on the White House
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/opinion/trump-firing-hayden.html?unlocked_article_code=1.G08.wULu.RwtVAmKNmEfJ
about 1 year ago
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Are trees the dogs of the plant world?
about 1 year ago
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Just really here for Pope Leo’s brothers!
about 1 year ago
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Senator Chris Van Hollen
about 1 year ago
Dr. Carla Hayden has served as Librarian of Congress with honor and distinction, bringing our prized institution to new heights. Trump’s outrageous, politically-motivated move to fire her is despicable. The Library of Congress belongs to the American people — NOT to Trump.
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Trump fires Librarian of Congress and Baltimorean Carla Hayden
President Donald Trump fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden on Thursday, according to statements from House Democrats.
https://www.baltimoresun.com/2025/05/08/trump-fires-librarian-of-congress-and-baltimorean-carla-hayden/
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Auto caption just came up with Auntie’s Inferno, which I now want to read.
about 1 year ago
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Alternate side of the street parking is my alone time. 🤪
about 1 year ago
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Just really enjoying the natural deodorant discussion in the middle school parent group chat.
#stinkypreteens
about 1 year ago
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Wordle 1,397 2/6 ⬛🟩🟨🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Wordle results in order of most satisfying 2 3 1 6 5 4
about 1 year ago
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A bit of crafting for a beloved new book.
@candlewickpress.bsky.social
about 1 year ago
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Sylvie Kantorovitz
about 1 year ago
For the young reader in your life: 2 stories about Monti and Leo’s friendship. About 70 page each. 7- 9 yo. “Sweet and genuine” “radiates warmth throughout” * * *
#MontiandLeo
#ChapterBooks
#YoungReaders
#GraphicNovel
#Friendship
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Have survived school spirit week! Five costumes and hairstyles, two baked goods, and one concert. 👐
about 1 year ago
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This makes me think of my own parents and the incredible stress of caregiving for someone with dementia. I am so sad for them both. Yet for Gene I wonder if a hospital would have been its own kind of curse. Maybe he was always going to go out alone.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/u...
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Gene Hackman Lost His Wife and Caregiver, and Spent 7 Days Alone
The exact details may never be known, but Mr. Hackman, 95 with advanced Alzheimer’s, was alone for about a week after his wife and sole caregiver died.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/us/gene-hackman-betsy-arakawa.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
about 1 year ago
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Do the five things you did last week count if they were all mistakes, Elon?
www.tiktok.com/t/ZT294ceMS/
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We found huge errors in the "wall of receipts" for Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency, where the group lists what it has saved by canceling federal contracts. After The New York...
TikTok video by The New York Times
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT294ceMS/
about 1 year ago
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The adults have come to the table
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...
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Trump News and Live Updates: Zelensky Attends Meeting of European Leaders on Ukraine
Britain’s prime minister announced the move ahead of a meeting with European leaders as the region reeled from President Trump’s confrontation with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03/02/us/trump-news-zelensky-europe?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
about 1 year ago
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Children's Bookshelf
about 1 year ago
Legislation, Soft Censorship Could Keep YMA Winners Off School Shelves | School Library Journal
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Legislation, Soft Censorship Could Keep YMA Winners Off the Shelves
While winning the Newbery, Caldecott, and Printz awards often leads to a bump in sales and a spot on school library shelves, censorship legislation, librarians afraid of challenges, and the growing…
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Every time I hear the term “rare earth minerals,” I think of this book and it’s absolutely brilliant and bloody ending.
about 1 year ago
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If you want an honest assessment of your appearance, get yourself a twelve-year-old daughter! Signing up for some tooth whitening right now. 😂
about 1 year ago
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John Schu
about 1 year ago
"Ruthie Rose’s Big Idea features a little girl who, much like the author himself, changes the world around her with her love of the written word and her instinct for building a beautiful, mutually caring, and respectful community." —
@skeetervm.bsky.social
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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Wow, good job getting rid of the deep state…🙄
over 1 year ago
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Sylvie Kantorovitz
over 1 year ago
Good news: Monti and Leo, A Newcomer in Pocketville is on the ALA’ s 2024 Best Graphic Novels for Children Reading List! 🤩 Full list:
www.ala.org/gncrt/2024-b...
#MontiandLeo
#ChapterBooks
#EarlyReaders
#Comics
#GraphicNovel
#Friendship
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Not my mayor. Resign, Eric Adams!
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Eric Adams Charges Live Updates: Calls For Mayor's Resignation Grow
A Manhattan prosecutor quit on Friday, the latest in a series of resignations over an order from a top Justice Department official to drop corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams of New York.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02/14/nyregion/eric-adams-charges-doj?smid=nytcore-ios-share
over 1 year ago
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Omg, how cool is this? Go, Caroline!
www.channel4.com/press/news/c...
over 1 year ago
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What is happening?!?
over 1 year ago
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I think we forget about how childlike the visions of fascist leaders can be…
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...
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An Unbound Trump Pushes an Improbable Plan for Gaza
Once a critic of nation building, the president now envisions taking over a Middle East enclave, driving out its Palestinian population and transforming it into “the Riviera of the Middle East.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/us/politics/trump-gaza-netanyahu-takeover.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
over 1 year ago
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Katelyn Burns
over 1 year ago
Canada, get our asses
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Jonathan Hill
over 1 year ago
Happy Year if Snake. Here's an image I did when I was planning on doing annual postcards to send out to people *last cycle* it was Year of the Snake. But who has time for that EVERY YEAR. It's like Sufjan and his state albums.
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If you give a kid a craft,!her mom will learn to crochet…
over 1 year ago
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Child going on a field trip to the Met tomorrow. Remembering our class field trips in Mississippi to the Standard Oil refinery.
over 1 year ago
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So proud of this book and this human! Thank you, Schneider Committee!
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over 1 year ago
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Every morning… Two-step Authenticator: I don’t recognize your face Me: Me neither
over 1 year ago
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Cheryl B. Klein
over 1 year ago
Reposting this advice for anyone who has “Submit my book” on your 2025 resolutions:
add a skeleton here at some point
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I miss youth, of course, but it took maturity for me to discover/appreciate the pure comfort of mint tea and cashmere socks.
over 1 year ago
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Me wrapping my new insoles and dry shampoo for Santa to give me for Christmas. 😂🎅
over 1 year ago
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So proud to have worked with Nikki McClure, Cece Bell, and John Schu on these three best books of the year.
over 1 year ago
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Love this!
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