NYC always shows up 🔥💪 #HandsOff

Incredible turnout at the #HandsOff rally in Boston

Now THAT’S some #GoodTrouble. #HandsOff

I just got a public death threat from a few folks who noticed I am doing a library event to talk about my career and my books. They called me all the familiar names, then “I won’t be sad if someone shoots her in the face.” And a woman’s reply, “Right between the eyes.” I am a children’s author.

No Other Land, directed by a four-person Israeli-Palestinian collective, has won the Oscar for Best Documentary. But no one in the U.S. wanted to distribute it.

Please share widely!! What a great learning opportunity for young leaders ages 14-24. citizensandscholars.org/carnegie-you...

One simple trick for GOP members of Congress who are—or claim to be—disgusted by the administration’s stance on Russia and Ukraine is to switch parties and become Democratic members of Congress.

What if, instead of talking to children the way adults talked to us in the past, we said to children the things we wished adults would have said to us?

JUST IN: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to resume hundreds of millions of dollars in payments for U.S. Agency for International Development projects.

Thank you for celebrating MAMIACHI & ME with me, @boulderbookstore.bsky.social! In this Author Q&A, I mention Nyasha Williams, @hanhbuiwrites.bsky.social, @viviankirkfield.bsky.social, @sakitales.bsky.social, Natasha Wing, and @denisevegabooks.bsky.social's books. www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6xo...

Revolutionary Nahuatl for 2-22-25 Ticmahcehuah nepapan tlacatlah, tlamelauhtli ihuan tepohuani tlalticpactli. We deserve a diverse, equitable, inclusive world. ———————— ti- = we -c- = it mahcehua = deserve -h = plural nepapan tlacatlah = place with diverse peoples tlamelauhtli = equitable 1/

I hope you're all doing okay. Don't forget to take a moment to breathe. Take in beauty with your in breath. Share beauty with your out breath. Make art. Hug someone wonderful. Sit in the sunshine. Drink water. Read a good book. Don't forget to have some lunch. Love yourself. Love the world.

Check out our exclusive cover reveal for Newbery Honor author Derrick Barnes’s ‘The Incredibly Human Henson Blayze,’ his first middle-grade novel in more than a decade

A recent study conducted by Little Free Library and the Education Foundation of Baltimore County Public Schools shows the benefits of providing access to books for underserved communities

Doing one last fundraising push for Humane Society of Central Illinois! We’re participating in their Pigs for Paws Piggy Bank Pageant (voting ends 2/23) Bookseller Sydney decorated this incredible piggy bank from old children’s book illustrations! Donation link at the end of my rambling #booksky

Elon Musk's DOGE team of misfits have fired everybody at the Federal Aviation Administration ✈️ who is a probationary employee Thinking they have got rid of all the new hires It turns out many of these were experienced technicians, recently promoted and were on probation for their new senior role

My friends @davidbowles.us and #DrewEdwards talked with me months ago about this terrific project NOW ON KICKSTARTER! Watch the interview, back the comic! fanboyplanet.com/sdcc-2024-cr...

We’re all angry and worried and maybe some don’t feel like creating or no longer feel like it matters, but keep writing, painting, dancing, making music, making art. Not doing the things that bring you joy—not making art—doesn’t help. Do what you love harder than ever.

📚❤️ @becalzada.bsky.social Thank you for recommending The Gift of Story in the January 2025 issue of @slj.com!

So nice to see my upcoming picture book BE MY YUMMY ABC on this @bookriot.bsky.social list with authors/illustrators I admire! @sshaskan.bsky.social @lisayee.bsky.social @amandagorman.bsky.social @dansantat.bsky.social bookriot.com/new-children... #kidlit

I chatted with @lydialukidis.bsky.social about Up, Up High: The Secret Poetry of Earth’s Atmosphere: mrschureads.blogspot.com/2024/12/up-u...

The spread of #toxicmasculinity must be countered, so I brought together #authors @torreymaldonado.bsky.social & @baronchrisbaron.bsky.social to share how #MGlit books combat toxicity with positivity & love! Check out our engaging & important discussion!🫶➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNRA... #kidlitchat

What are you reading this weekend? #kidlit #nationalbookaward24 #middlegrade

Go get your copy of What Fell From the Sky at the Macmillan booth at NCTE! #ncte #ncte24

It took all year but Evanston Public Library has released their 101 Great Books for Kids list for 2024. Are your favorites present? Come see! It's probably the first Best Books list of the year you've encountered so far: #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2024/10/22/a...

First Snow of The Season ❄️ #LetItSnow #Snow

It just occurred to me that AI is trying to destroy my livelihood, right wingers are trying to ban my work, and capitalism in general is profoundly unfriendly to art and yet I am not deterred. This insane self-belief + f-them-all attitude is why I’m still here and still writing. Who’s with me?!

It’s official, and I am elated to return to middle grade with the support of editors @armyvet5.bsky.social and Wiley Blevins! Thank you @agentemurph.bsky.social for paving a path to this trio of books. Exponential joy! #BookNews #Books

A new horror icon from David Bowles and Drew Edwards, the Ringo- and Eisner-nominated creators of CLOCKWORK CURANDERA and HALLOWEEN MAN ... THE MATRON, slashing your way in 2025. She is WINTER. She is DEATH. And she is BACK. (Published by the comics imprint of @ifwgpublishing.bsky.social)

Texas writers & writers with TX ties: Apply now for the $9,000 Jones Fellowship from the Texas Institute of Letters*! It’s aimed at helping working writers complete a literary work of fiction, poetry, or nonfiction for a general audience. texasinstituteofletters.org/jones/ *I’m VP of the TIL.

It’s all been a “bean” of an adventure today. I finally saw The Bean in Chicago. #ChicagoBean #CloudGate #AuthorLife

It was all #BooksByTheBanks today in Cincinnati. So exciting to listen to young people and celebrate their stories. Thanks to the educators, librarians and all who came out to make the day absolute rock star! #Cincinnati

The latest roundup of book censorship news courtesy of Book Riot. bookriot.com?p=583796

If #cat photos are a welcomed thing, Bear is here for it.

Obsessed with Randy Ribay’s latest, Everything We Never Had. America needs this book right now. Especially now. The past has taken so much from people, and it’s up to us to use that past to inform us. Then we can—right now in the present—work to make the future a better place.

Attention, young artists! 🎨 The New York Public Library is running an amazing teen art contest about the power of reading and the freedom to read. Open to all US teens. Make your voices heard! Contest details: