Book Review: Brady Mason’s Perfect Fit by Nicole Melleby A heartfelt story of found family and identity. teenlibrariantoolbox.com/2026/02/11/b... @tltkaren.bsky.social

Tonight’s Library Lovers Week conversations spotlight identity, resilience, and imagination: 5pm ET: Jamie Sumner & Megan E. Freeman 7pm ET: Donna Barba Higuera & Daniel Nayeri 9pm ET: Raúl the Third & Kyle Lukoff Live + on demand. Free to attend. buff.ly/ZdMM7NL or buff.ly/ZL1Fen9

Happy publication day to WHEN CHERRY BLOSSOMS FALL! Click the link below to listen to illustrator @yasimamura.bsky.social walk you through her process in creating the spectacular visuals we have for the book today. vimeo.com/1155180789

In honor of Black History Month, we're celebrating recent award-winning fiction and nonfiction highlighting Black history and historical figures. First up: 2026 Coretta Scott King Award Winner WILL'S RACE FOR HOME by @jewellparkerrhodes.bsky.social www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jewel...

Add to your calendar: @raulthethird.bsky.social and @kylelukoff.bsky.social in conversation on Feb. 11 for Library Lovers Week!

Lunar New Year is approaching and Ling & Ting are here to help us celebrate! @authorgracelin.bsky.social continues her early readers series with LING AND TING: TWO TIMES LUCKY. Download an activity sheet at the link below and purchase your copy today! www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/grace...

Three cheers for the books chosen for Texas state award lists, and happy reading to all the Texas readers! Will we see any of you at the Texas Library Association Annual Conference in March? #TXLA26

Stonewall Honor book THE INK WITCH gets a stamp of approval from @fuse8.bsky.social! Read more about this delightful fantasy adventure, including author @stephcherrywell.com's origins in the world of webcomics and their inspiration from THE TRUE MEANING OF SMEKDAY by @adamrex.bsky.social. ⬇️

Tune in to a panel with @raulthethird.bsky.social and @kylelukoff.bsky.social on "Big Laughs, Bold Heroes, and Books Kids Love" on Feb. 11!

Young Teen Lit Top 10 The Librarians at Young Teen Lit share their Top 10 teenlibrariantoolbox.com/2026/01/30/y... @tltkaren.bsky.social

Sometimes an author just works themselves up to the book of a lifetime and you are lucky enough to watch that happen in real time. That’s pretty much what we have here . The kids that get to read this book for the first time are lucky too. #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2026/02/01/r...

Two Questions and Two Sentence Starters with Newbery Honor Author Aubrey Hartman: mrschureads.blogspot.com/2026/01/newb...

@traceybaptiste.bsky.social writes about first generation kids and her upcoming early readers book, FIA HOSEIN FINDS HER BEAT, on @cottonquiltsedi.bsky.social's Pearl's & Ruby's blog! pearlsandrubys.slj.com/2026/01/28/t...

Gorgeous review of @traceybaptiste.bsky.social's upcoming installment in the Kids in Mrs. Z's Class series!

My former first grade student!!! 🧡🤗🎉

Honored to be a Graphic Novels & ComicsRpund Table Outstanding Comics Honor Comics Honoree!!

Congratulations to THE SNIPS: A BAD BUZZ DAY by @raulthethird.bsky.social and HELLO SUNSHINE by @keezyyoung.bsky.social, 2026 Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table Outstanding Comics Honorees!

I'm beyond honored by the Coretta Scott King Book Award! Thank you, CSK Book Awards Roundtable. I'm thrilled.

THE UNDEAD FOX OF DEADWOOD FOREST by Aubrey Hartman is a 2026 Newbery Honor Book! Join us in congratulating Aubrey!

GO TELL IT by Quartez Harris and illustrated by @gordoncjamesart.bsky.social is a Sibert Award Honor Book! Congratulations!

Kwame Alexander was chosen for the 2026 Children's Literature Lecture Award! Congratulations! 🎉

Congratulations to @johnpicacio.bsky.social, Pura Belpré Illustration Award Honoree for THE INVISIBLE PARADE!

Congratulations to Marie Arnold, author of SPLIT THE SKY, a Coretta Scott King Award Honoree!

We are thrilled to celebrate 2026 Coretta Scott King Book Award Winner @jewellparkerrhodes.bsky.social, author of WILL'S RACE FOR HOME!

@kadirnelson.bsky.social is the recipient of the 2026 Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement! Congratulations!

Congratulations to 2026 Stonewall Book Award Honorees THE INK WITCH by @stephcherrywell.com and HE'S SO POSSESSED WITH ME by Corey Liu!

Congratulations to Tasha Spillett and Daniel Ramirez, creators of RAVEN'S RIBBONS, an American Indian Youth Literature Award Honor book!

Happy Youth Media Awards day, everyone! Here's the link to the webcast (beginning at 11am ET) #ALAyma www.ala.unikron.com

BASKET BALL by @kadirnelson.bsky.social is a New York Times and USA Today bestseller! 🎉

📣COMING TOMORROW! Join middle-grade author @nwestmoss.bsky.social on StoryMakers for a look at her new must-read novel, BIRDY. Learn about West's connection to the places & characters in the book, the delights of thrift-stores, & all about nicknames! 🍿WATCH FROM 7AM ET TUESDAY JANUARY 20!

A SCAR LIKE A RIVER, a new middle-grade title by Lisa Graff, hits shelves on February 3! With already four starred reviews, it's clear the excitement for Graff lives on. Listen to her tell you about the book herself and pre-order your copy now! vimeo.com/1098185650

NO MORE CHAIRS by Dan Gill is NEA Read Across America's elementary recommendation for January, on the theme "End Exclusion". Bring this book into your classroom with NEA's discussion questions: www.nea.org/professional...

"My brown boy has big dreams..." Leslé Honoré's ode to brown and Black boys is on shelves today, illustrated by the incomparable Keturah A. Bobo. Pick up the picture book that Kirkus calls "a tender triumph"!

@kadirnelson.bsky.social has delivered again with his upcoming book, BASKET BALL! This visual representation of the history of basketball is sure to please fans of the sport as well as capture the attention of those entirely new to it. Pre-order your copy today!

Don't miss today's Saturday Morning Live featuring bestselling author Lisa Graff (A SCAR LIKE A RIVER), as well as previews of more amazing middle grade coming out from LBYR in 2026! Register at www.crowdcast.io/c/saturdaymo... and tune in live at 1PM EST.

As we're looking ahead to all of the holidays and celebrations coming up in 2026, we're also looking forward to some amazing holiday books coming out from LBYR! Get ready for celebrations of all kinds with the books in this month's newsletter: mailchi.mp/e/holidays

Shout out to THE INK WITCH by @stephcherrywell.com - "clearly one of the best of the year"! Plus, @authorgracelin.bsky.social's THE GIRL, THE GATE, AND THE DRAGON, Aubrey Hartman's THE UNDEAD FOX OF DEADWOOD FOREST, and @jewellparkerrhodes.bsky.social's WILL'S RACE FOR HOME!

Today, @slj.com's Heavy Medal blog covers Aubrey Hartman's THE UNDEAD FOX OF DEADWOOD FOREST in their Mock Newbery discussion. Join in the conversation! ⬇️ heavymedal.slj.com/2026/01/05/h...

Nov #HBHerald featured bks for young ppl that emphasize silliness, humor, + nonsense www.hornbookguide.com/site/?review... #HBGuide #kidlit @unionsquarekids.bsky.social @littlebrownyr.bsky.social @charlesbridge.bsky.social @penguinkids.bsky.social @randomhousekids.bsky.social @owlkids.bsky.social

Newbery speculation is heating up! Join the conversation about @jewellparkerrhodes.bsky.social's WILL'S RACE FOR HOME on @slj.com's Heavy Medal blog. ⬇️

⭐ #PictureBook #HBReviewoftheWeek IF WE WERE DOGS ( @littlebrownyr.bsky.social ): "Sophie Blackall’s impeccably detailed, highly expressive illus add heart + humor to this tale abt the endless paw-sibilities of pretend play + the importance of speaking up for oneself" www.hbook.com/story/review...

🧵 Goodbye, 2025 — grateful for all of you who supported THE INVISIBLE PARADE & are still championing this story into the New Year. Thank you to Alvina Ling, David Caplan & @lbschool.bsky.social for teaming w/ Leigh Bardugo & me to make this book what it is. 1/ #booksky #bestgraphicstory #picturebook

Before the year wraps up, be sure to add to your January calendar our next Saturday Morning Live event on 1/10/26 with Lisa Graff, author of A SCAR LIKE A RIVER! Register here: www.crowdcast.io/c/saturdaymo...

THE UNDEAD FOX OF DEADWOOD FOREST pulled us all into its depths as one of our Superstar Reads of 2025! Congratulations to Aubrey Hartman!

Cheers for HOW SWEET THE SOUND by Kwame Alexander and illustrated by Charly Palmer, one of our most lauded books of 2025! 🎉 www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kwame...

Dan Gill talks with @teachingbooks.bsky.social about how he made inclusion a core part of his classroom and the story that inspired it in NO MORE CHAIRS. school.teachingbooks.net/book_reading...

THANK YOU to this year's @soi128.bsky.social judges for accepting this double-page spread into SOI's 68th Annual Exhibition and Book. It's one of my favorites I drew for #TheInvisibleParade, the debut picture book by Leigh Bardugo & me. cc: @lbschool.bsky.social @newleafliterary.bsky.social #Booksky

The love for WILL’S RACE FOR HOME has meant so much to me. I’m grateful to everyone who has helped Will’s story find its way into the world this year! ♥️ @lbschool.bsky.social #kidlit #middlegradebooks #historicalfiction #willsraceforhome #bookstagram

HOW SWEET THE SOUND by Kwame Alexander, illus. by Charly Palmer (@littlebrownyr.bsky.social @littlebrownyr.bsky.social ) is on our #Fanfare25 list. Congratulations! #BestBooks #KidLit #HBMag #HornBookMagazine #HBFanfare25 #Nonfiction #HBFanfare sbee.link/p9chbe3jky

@sonjacherrypaul.bsky.social's young readers adaptation of @clintsmithiii.bsky.social's HOW THE WORD IS PASSED was one of Kirkus' favorite middle grade books of 2025. Read more about how she adapted this essential nonfiction book for kids! www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-fea...