TOMORROW Dec 18 at 6pm: Eya Gina discusses the power of wordless books with our very own Claudia Bedrick at Sullaluna NYC! Join us for the book launch of UN POSTO FRA LE STELLE: 📆 Thurs, 12/18, 6-6:30pm 📍Sullaluna NYC (41 Carmine St, NYC) 🎟️ Tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/no-words-n... #kidlit

SATO THE RABBIT: MORNING LIGHT by Yuki Ainoya, trans. from Japanese by Michael Blaskowsky @enchantedlion.bsky.social is on our #Fanfare25 list. Congratulations! #BestBooks #KidLit #HBMag #HornBookMagazine #HBFanfare25 #PictureBooks #HBFanfare sbee.link/dtvnxeqg4y

SATO THE RABBIT, MORNING LIGHT is a #HBFanfare selection for Best Picture Book of the Year!!!!!!

My favorite 2025 books that were not translations both from @enchantedlion.bsky.social THE BOY WHO BECAME A PARROT: A Foolish Biography of Edward Lear Who Invented Nonsense by Wolverton Hill & Laura Carlin DON’T EAT ME: The Almost True Story of Belladonna by Kate Finney & Esmé Shapiro #kidlit

In celebration of 2025 coming to a close, we’re holding a FLASH SALE for 25% off ✨everything✨ on enchantedlion.com for the next 7 days! Plus, we’re covering any extra costs to make sure your orders arrive by Dec 23.🎁📚✨ It’s our gift to you, dear readers—happy reading, and happy holidays! 🫶 #kidlit

🥰🥰 My translation of THE BOOK OF DENIAL by Ricardo Chávez Castañeda & Alejandro @magallanes71.bsky.social ( @enchantedlion.bsky.social ) is included. 🥰🥰 #booksky #horrorsky #horror #xl8 #mexico #diadelosmuertod

THE SNOW THEATER has been featured in the Wall Street Journal! “Sublime artwork and a mystical story of escape and forgiveness give Ryoji Arai's picture book THE SNOW THEATER a redemptive holiday feeling.” —Meghan Cox Gurdon, for @wsj.com Full review: www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

Gracias to @missadadoom.bsky.social for including my translation of THE BOOK OF DENIAL by Ricardo Chavez Castañeda & Alejandro @magallanes71.bsky.social ( @enchantedlion.bsky.social ) in her folk #horror in #translation roundup for CRIME READS: crimereads.com/folk-horror-... 🥰🥰🙏🏽🙏🏽 #booksky #xl8

We’re absolutely thrilled that LOOSE THREADS is one of @burleyfisher.bsky.social’s Best Books of the Year 2025–and the only children’s book to make the list! 💛

THIS Wed, 12/3 is Rizzoli’s Holiday Fair! Featuring: Esme Shapiro & Kate Finney (DON’T EAT ME! THE ALMOST TRUE STORY OF BELLADONNA) Giselle Potter (BEFORE SHE WAS MY GRANDMOTHER) Dasha Tolstikova (ADVENTURES OF CIPOLLINO) 📆 Wed 12/3, 6-8pm 📍Rizzoli Books (1133 Broadway, NYC) Free & open to all!

They love working with schools and libraries. I emailed them and told them about the afterschool program and the demographics of our students. They’ve curated these books for us. Email them or check them out: enchantedlion.com/all-school-a...

Look at these beautiful breathtaking @enchantedlion.bsky.social books!!! This is for the library of the afterschool program where I volunteer. Thank you, Enchanted Lion!!!

Out today: THE COZIEST PLACE ON THE MOON ✨✨✨ Have you ever felt like the loneliest creature in the world? This picture book from @mariapopova.bsky.social & #SarahJacoby is a lunar love song to soul-nourishing solitude. Learn more: enchantedlion.com/all-books/th... #kidlit

I had the great honor of writing the introduction to the @enchantedlion.bsky.social edition of Gianni Rodari's Adventures of Cipollino, translated by Antony Shugaar. This expands on that introduction! Huge thanks to Max Nelson for letting me dig into kids' books, produce, and the joy of the absurd.

Out in English for the very first time: THE ADVENTURES OF CIPOLLINO! In this whimsical tale by Gianni Rodari (Italy's greatest children's author), a young onion named Cipollino sets out to study scoundrels, fighting for freedom & justice for all. enchantedlion.com/all-books/th... #kidlit

Friday spotlight on our Reviews of the Week. Read the reviews here: hbook.com/section/book... @enchantedlion.bsky.social @harperkids.bsky.social #hbreviewoftheweek #fridayreads #kidlit #yalit

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Esme Shapiro from Don’t Eat Me! The Almost True Story of Belladonna, written by Kate Finney. Pretty foreground detail in a wide scene illustrates a charming picturebook about a poisonous plant. Enchanted Lion 14 October @enchantedlion.bsky.social @esmeshapiro.bsky.social

Out today: DON’T EAT ME! THE ALMOST TRUE STORY OF BELLADONNA ✨✨✨ From award-winning illustrator #EsmeShapiro & debut talent Kate Finney, this picture book follows Belladonna—a spunky, beautiful plant who learns that “no one gets far growing alone.” enchantedlion.com/all-books/do... #kidlit

Enchanted Lion’s edition of THE BOOK OF WHYS is a 2025 #WhiteRaven! “English readers finally get the chance to enjoy Rodari’s ingenious texts via Shugaar’s inspired translations… Yoon’s bright and bubbly colored-pencil illustrations take readers on a whimsical visual journey.” #kidlit #worldkidlit

This Sat at NYC’s Society of Illustrators: Draw with Mari Kanstad Johnsen, the NYT Best Illustrated artist behind BEDTIME FOR BO! For kids & families: Mari will share her creative process, read from BEDTIME FOR BO, & lead an animal drawing workshop. Tickets: societyillustrators.org/event/pictur...

Last night went to see Brian Isett and Claudia Biçen talk about their new book THE FORGOTTEN TEACHERS: How nature wrote the story of life at White Whale Bookstore in Pittsburgh from Unruly @enchantedlion.bsky.social Truly a beautiful and fascinating book that combines art and science.

I adore everything by @enchantedlion.bsky.social. Will look for this gem! Thank you, Maria. #poetry #picturebooks

Oh gosh. We lost a great one. I love her letter to children about her love of books and reading. This is from @themarginalian.org.web.brid.gy A Velocity of Being: Letters to a Young Reader published by @enchantedlion.bsky.social

Happy International Translation Day and final day of World Kid Lit Month! So great to join illustrator Matthew Forsythe and Claudia Zoe Bedrick @enchantedlion.bsky.social for a conversation about THE GRAMMAR OF FANTASY by Italian author/educator Gianni Rodari. Buona lettura! @worldkidlit.bsky.social

THE FORGOTTEN TEACHERS is out today!!!! Interweaving science & storytelling, spirituality & art, neuroscientist Brian Isett & artist Claudia Biçen guide us toward a deeper understanding of how radically interconnected all of life is. enchantedlion.com/all-books/th... #newnonfiction

One of my favorites for fall PUMPKIN ISLAND by Arthur Geisert from @enchantedlion.bsky.social it’s a visual treat!

Our web sale has been a huge success & we discovered more boxes of books in our office, so… we’re extending our web sale to the end of the week!!!! ✨ 40% off $100+ at enchantedlion.com/all-books ✨ Thank you so much to all who’ve made a purchase & helped spread the word 🫶 #kidlit lovers unite!

📣 Attn book lovers: Enchanted Lion is hosting a HUGE moving sale! ✨ONLINE SALE: 40% off all orders $100+ on enchantedlion.com✨ => Order before 9/10, no code necessary! ✨COURTYARD SALE: Sun 9/14, 12-5pm @ 248 Creamer St, Brooklyn, NY ✨ => Many shelf-worn books for sale—all priced $5-10!#kidlitit

#NewIllustrationoftheDay by Nahid Kazemi from her picturebook The Other Side of the Rocks. Based on a Rumi story about a frog who goes to explore the world. The almost abstract image expresses the strangeness of the venture. Enchanted Lion 26 Aug @enchantedlion.bsky.social @nahidkazemi.bsky.social

✨✨Out today: THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ROCKS, the latest picture book by #NahidKazemi! “At its heart, this is a tale about going out into the world to find yourself.” —Betsy Bird, @fuse8.bsky.social (A @slj.com blog) Learn more 👇 enchantedlion.com/all-books/th... #kidlit #newpicturebook #booktrailer

Did you know that fewer than 31% of translations into English are written by women? Celebrate #WomenInTranslation Month this August (and year-round!) by reading books written by women from around the world! Looking for recommendations?👇 #witmonth

Child of Glass (Alemagna, 2019) This tells the story of Gisele, a child who is “sparkling and luminous, sensitive and transparent.” Published by @enchantedlion.bsky.social 💙

Out today: #GisellePotter’s BEFORE SHE WAS MY GRANDMOTHER! “Written and illustrated with characteristic sublimity by Giselle Potter, here is a tender account of a child’s connection with a grandparent.” —The Wall Street Journal Learn more & order 👇 enchantedlion.com/all-books/be... #kidlit

“An absolute joy of a picture book—celebrating nonsense, play, art, storytelling and the life of the writer and artist Edward Lear.” ✨✨✨ #JonScieszka reviews THE BOY WHO BECAME A PARROT: A FOOLISH BIOGRAPHY OF EDWARD LEAR, WHO CREATED NONSENSE for the @nytimes.com 👇 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/b...

BEFORE SHE WAS MY GRANDMOTHER was reviewed in the @wsj.com! Created with “characteristic sublimity by Giselle Potter,” the picture book is praised as “a tender account of a child’s connection with a grandparent.” Full review: www.wsj.com/arts-culture... #kidlit

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Laura Carlin. An absolute favourite. From The Boy Who Became a Parrot: A Foolish Biography of Edward Lear who Invented Nonsense written by Wolverton Hill. With incorporation of Lear’s work. Enchanted Lion Books 29 July @enchantedlion.bsky.social @lauracarlin.bsky.social

SATO THE RABBIT: MORNING LIGHT (@enchantedlion.bsky.social‬) by Yuki Ainoya; trans. from Japanese by Michael Blaskowsky will receive a starred review in the September/October 2025 #HornBookMagazine. Congratulations! #HBMag #HBStars www.hbook.com/story/blogs/...

The library also has several books from @enchantedlion.bsky.social and this, of course, is a personal favorite! Cry, Heart, But Never Break (Ringtved, 2001) #booksky

Another one from @enchantedlion.bsky.social about Pedro, a little boy who’s learning to read. #booksky Lines, Squiggles, Letters, Words (Rocha, 2016)

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Giselle Potter. Handmade watercolour image in a naive style from her picturebook Before She Was My Grandmother. A grandmother’s memory box tells us that there is always more to a life than you can see on the surface. Enchanted Lion 12 August. @enchantedlion.bsky.social

A very happy publication to our latest picture book — THE BOY WHO BECAME A PARROT: A FOOLISH BIOGRAPHY OF EDWARD LEAR, WHO INVENTED NONSENSE ✨✨✨ Who was Edward Lear? A nonsense poet, a natural history artist, & so much more! Learn more & order at enchantedlion.com/all-books/th... #kidlit

"He is everything in the shape of fun!" High praise for one of our first children's book creators. I discuss Edward Lear with Barry Wolverton, and how he encouraged us to play. NOT to conform. #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2025/07/17/a...

#NewIllustrationoftheDay by Yuki Ainoya from the fourth book in the Sato the Rabbit series, popular in Japan, about savouring experience. This is from Morning Light, celebrating light and imagination, simply drawn but revelling in colour. Enchanted Lion 17 July. @enchantedlion.bsky.social

We’re having a flash summer sale on our middle grade & YA books!! Discover great graphic novels, middle-grade fiction with full-color illustrations, and picture books for teens & adults✨ enchantedlion.com/all-books?ca... #kidlit

The Gold Leaf by Kristen Hall & illustrated by Matthew Forsythe from @enchantedlion.bsky.social A cautionary tale of greed with woodland creatures, hopeful ending & subtle environmentalist message. Feels like an old folk tale in the best way. Beautiful gold foil details! #picturebook #ALAAC2025

Announcing the #ELBSummerReads challenge!! ☀️😎⛱️ Summer time is reading time! We challenge you to complete our bingo card (and if you need book ideas, swipe to see our recommendations). Share this summer reading challenge with a young person in your life, or complete it yourself! #kidlit

Got the Character Formation Bundle from @enchantedlion.bsky.social Gasping at how beautiful the books are. Perfect for my friend’s children. 💙

We're back from #ALAAC25, beaming from ear to ear! Thanks to all who came to ALA—to book signings & panels w our superstar creators, to our evening soirée, & to our booth—& to all librarians everywhere. So grateful for the important work you do in fostering a love for reading in your community!

Librarian friends, come visit Enchanted Lion at #ALA2025! We’re in booth # 316 on the exhibition floor, where we have books hot off the press & sneak peeks of F&Gs 🦁📚✨ Joining the fun are @mattforsythe.bsky.social, #SarahJacoby, & #WolvertonHill! 👇 for book signings, mini-galleys, & artist talks

To our UK followers: tune into #cbeebieshq tonight at 18.50!!!! #LoyleCarner will be reading I TOUCHED THE SUN by #LeahHayes for tonight’s #BedtimeStories segment ☀️ #kidlit #cbeebies