Today we're viewing books from Barefoot Books, Beetle Books, Child's Play, Cicada Books, and Creston Books. Quite the line-up! Thanks @pubspotlight.bsky.social! #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2026/02/08/p...

Celebrate #PuertoRico with #kidsbooks from @beamingbooksmn.bsky.social @nubeocho.bsky.social and others cbcbooks.org/2026/02/05/l...

Harriet Tubman: Force of Nature is one of the books already chosen for #NewIllustrationOfTheDay that is also in the 2026 Empathy Lab selection of books to make us kinder, which has just been announced. See the full selection on empathylab.uk/rfe/ @whatonearth.bsky.social @empathylabuk.bsky.social

Need an activity for ages 3-5 on a winter’s day? @postwavebooks.bsky.social has a bunch including this one linked to the brand new PASS THE PARCEL postwavepublishing.com/resource/pas...

With especial congratulation to Sven Volker, whose art you can see in THE MUSEUM OF SHAPES from #CicadaPress and Carly Gledhill who illsuted PENCIL'S BEST STORY EVER from @postwavebooks.bsky.social #BCBF www.bolognachildrensbookfair.com/en/focus-on/...

“The librarians featured in this film are not symbols. They are real people who have endured harassment, retaliation, defamation, and loss for doing their jobs ethically.”

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Only about 8% of Americans agree with the current book ban movement. Book bans are a losing issue. buff.ly/d3kVEGN

“Pops of color and creatures with quizzical expressions make this story about how all is connected a visual and meditative delight” AND… from @berbaybooks.bsky.social www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/and/

“Shorelines is a perfectly formed pearl of a book … I feel fortunate to have read it.” A STUNNING review of Shorelines by @megcathwrites.bsky.social!

A book about friendship, challenge, and what co-operation can achieve and available in a #bilingual #BoardBook too! EL GATO Y EL PAJARITO/ CAT AND BIRD is one in the #NosotrosTambien/SoCanWe series from @childsplayusa.bsky.social childsplaybooks.myshopify.com/products/978...

Gosh it's horrible out isn't it?? Thank you so much to @nosycrow.bsky.social for this fantastic #Bookpost bundle to keep us busy reading while it rains and blows outside! 🌧️ #Bookstagram #ChildrensBooks #KidLit #NonFictionForKids #NationalYearOfReading2026 #GoAllIn

Music books for children and teens. 📚👍🏼 schoolreadinglist.co.uk/genres/music... #kidlit Music books for children including titles by Giles Andreae, Rose Robbins, Jackie Morris, Brita Granström, Fiona Watt, Kes Gray, David Almond, James Ma...

ICYMI last month, Blog Manager Mary Voors shared blog highlights for 2025 -- top-viewed posts by month, activities, distinctions, and more!

From @whatonearth.bsky.social HARRIET TUBMAN, FORCE OF NATURE “details & honors...Tubman’s heroic efforts to help enslaved people escape the South & her service in the war...elevates points of quiet, everyday beauty, creating a distinct sense of intimacy” muse.jhu.edu/article/967711

"...what contemporary books do that most legacy titles don’t is reflect the world that children currently live in and its values" www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

“While the sparse words introduce each woman for four generations, it is the illustrations that show each generation's history - and the endpapers and cover that continue the family saga” @cuentodeluz.bsky.social THE QUILT OF OUR MEMORIES glassofwineglassofmilk.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...

Looking forward to this virtual conference on Feb 20. You can register here: tinyurl.com/9rc9d4yz @ncte.org @nctecla.bsky.social @juanamartinezn.bsky.social @macappiello.bsky.social #edsky #kidlit #nonfiction

"Spanning both preschool and early grade interests, each photo offers an opportunity to discuss details of interactions and emotions" in Marcia Goldman's series featuring therapy dog LOLA www.publisherspotlight.com/photo-perfec...

Look, it's HANK! youtube.com/shorts/1v4TI...

"The poems in HERE IN HARLEM were made to be performed...a chorus of voices from different eras and walks of life, full of joy and sorrow, pride and pain.... Thirteen talented narrators...bring utterly authentic emotions to their vocal performances" www.audiofilemagazine.com/reviews/read...

Here's a #BoardBook extravaganze from @slj.com featuring titles from @barefootbooks.bsky.social @nosycrowus.bsky.social @flowerpotpress.bsky.social @tigertalesbooks.bsky.social and more www.slj.com/story/26-bri...

Learn about bridges spanning deep valleys, raging rivers, bustling roads and vast seas, and the evolution of bridge-building, from the first fallen tree across a river to today’s engineering wonders in BRIDGES from @postwavebooks.bsky.social postwavepublishing.com/product/brid...

We love working with @imaginationsoup.bsky.social ! www.publisherspotlight.com/reviewer-spo...

“Whether a block with beautiful tomatoes from an aunt's garden or a paint palette representing great-aunt Lola's amazing landscapes on canvas, all the quilt blocks tell a specific and special story” in THE QUILT OF OUR MEMORIES from @cuentodeluz.bsky.social kissthebookjr.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-...

A RECIPE FOR ROBBERY the newest #MysteryAtTheBitlmore from @pajamapress.bsky.social “takes many twists and turns as Elodie tries to investigate every possible avenue of inquiry” luminouslibro.com/2026/01/24/b...

We’re delighted to announce that 18 titles from 14 publishers, 12 languages and 16 regions have won #PENTranslates awards. www.englishpen.org/posts/news/p...

WILL WE EVER LIVE ON THE MOON? “A nice beginning picture book about the kinds of tools it takes to research and, possibly in the future, live on the moon” from #BeetleBooks @hungrytomato.bsky.social kissthebookjr.blogspot.com/2026/01/will...

Did you know that "Honor and Perdita Cargill, the duo behind the #AccidentalWitch series, are a daughter/mother writing partnership" and you can learn more about them in this interview www.readingzone.com/authors/perd...

Includes THE BIG DAY a fractured fairytale from @tigertalesbooks.bsky.social

Teachers, if you are taking part in Empathy Day or other things ‘empathy’, you can get FREE guides for each book from Empathy Lab.

Until now, estimating how old a dinosaur was when it died has been a fairly simple process: Count up the growth rings in the fossilized bones. But new research into some of dinosaurs' living relatives, like crocodiles, suggests that this method may not always work. n.pr/4qTSIhz

Check out my chat with debut author Nazneen Akbari about her inspiration and insights into her touching picture book - Home Away From Home. mariacmarshall.com/single-post/... Rashin Kheiriyeh @barefootbooks.bsky.social #interview #kidlit #grandparents #family📚👍

Honoured to see Jakub’s Otter featured in the 2026 Read for Empathy Collection, esp in this National Year of Reading. This fantastic collection of 65 books for 3-16+ yr olds (curated by librarians, booksellers, teachers, academics) all help to encourage empathy in their readers.

🌼Happy launch day to Ruth Ennis!🌼 ❤️Ruth is our fab children's books reviewer & is such a supportive, generous, & talented person—we wish her and Shorelines all the success in the world ❤️ @littleislandbooks.bsky.social @gutterbookshop.bsky.social @childrensbooksireland.ie @rurooie.bsky.social

check out the full cast audiobook production too from @liveoakmedia.bsky.social

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After 20 years, I've been laid off at The Washington Post. substack.com/home/post/p-...

This makes me think of @karenkrossing.com @debbieohi.com taking on big feelings like sadness or being bored and putting them into picture books to share SEL.

“An undercurrent of hope powers a fraught plot that probes subjects surrounding domestic coercive control in” HOW TO BE NORMAL, coming in April from #WalkerBooksAustralia www.publishersweekly.com/9781761602566

"The best picture books manage to be both honest and bolstering" Cecilia Heikkilä’s The Slightly Spooky Tale of Fox and Mole @florisbooks.bsky.social "uses grotesque imagery to plumb the seemingly monstrous emotions that children are often taught to suppress" www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-fea...

From @nubeocho.bsky.social Eres libre “teaches children about diversity, freedom, identity, and respecting others; it’s a great addition to any SEL collection” www.slj.com/review/eres-...

“this ­bilingual nonfiction board book teaches young ­readers just how bunnies learn and grow” Los conejitos saben mucho y crecen/Bunnies Know & Grow from @barefootbooks.bsky.social “Ideal for themed, bilingual story times or early Spanish nonfiction ­collections” www.slj.com/review/los-c...

In Tennessee, fights over books could expand from school libraries to public libraries. "If a new bill passes in Tennessee’s legislature, anyone who lives in a county could ask their local library board to remove a book. The board would then decide whether to keep the book, move it, or ban it."

It's World Read Aloud Day! 📚 For this special day, I brought together 30 books in this special @follettcontent.bsky.social Titlewave choice board. Have fun celebrating the power of reading and sharing stories today, friends. ❤️ buff.ly/NwMYgO9

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This week on the Book Faire Podcast: Mychal Threets, host of Reading Rainbow has a debut picture book relasing, New Hampshire libraries are instructed to implement policies that potentially violate privacy of library patrons, and more! #podcast #kidlit #middlegrade open.spotify.com/episode/1p9Q...

From Archaeologist to Children’s Writer: Digging Up Stories, a guest post by Joseph Coelho Writing feels like the closest thing you can get to that sense of wonder of digging up something new, only the digging happens on the page. teenlibrariantoolbox.com/2026/02/04/f... @tltkaren.bsky.social

Coming from @transitbooks.bsky.social in April and earning a #StarredReview already! THE FOUNTAIN www.publishersweekly.com/9798893380897