🚨 WNDB is committed to providing emergency grants to diverse authors & illustrators, publishing professionals, and educators experiencing dire financial need due to loss of SNAP benefits. We are now open for a new round of emergency grants, between $250 and $1,000 each. 💻 bit.ly/WNDB-emergency

Hey bug (or #isopod) people, WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THE ROLLIE POLIES? Is this just a bumper year for bugs or is this the Rollie Pollie #rapture?

Take a break. Make a cup of tea. Go for a walk. Listen to music. Doodle. Paint. Cook. Snack. Lie on the floor. Sit on a rock. Sit in the sun. 15 minutes. Anytime now.

Got my flu and covid shots at the drugstore and rewarded myself with Good & Plenty and Diet Coke. 🩷🤍❤️

This list of free books is EPIC! Enter by September 2nd. Happy back to school to all my teacher and librarian friends.📚 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

*Please Repost and Share* IT'S THE LAST DAY TO BID IN THE WE THE PEOPLE SUMMER FUNDRAISER! Bidding will end at 6:15 PT / 9:15 ET today. www.32auctions.com/WeThePeopleSummerAuction XOXO Sandra

I dislike being damp. So much. But I married a man who is mysteriously moist SEVERAL times a day. He will shower and put clothes on, without drying off 🫠. This is what they mean when they say #mariage is hard. 💧

“The blue shark (Prionace glauca) might be more than its name. Scientists investigating the sleek ocean predator's skin discovered nanostructures that not only produce its signature hue, but also potentially let it change color like a chameleon.” #scicomm www.sciencealert.com/blue-sharks-... 🧪 🦈 🦑

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Empower your new readers to fight injustice, claim their power, and go on an underwater adventure this summer in #CoralKeepers. Illustrated by Paul Kellam Published by Scholastic

My cat has the emotional and physical constitution of a frail victorian orphan set to inherit a creaky manor in the Yorkshire moors. Is he depressed and anxious? Yes. Is he living in peak luxury and privilege? Also, yes.

DVpit is officially coming back on October 8th, 2025 and we have over 50 agents and editors excited to participate. Follow this account for all announcements and check out dvpit.carrd.co for more details and information! #dvpit #writersky #booksky #weneeddiversebooks

In an unhinged mom moment I decided to bring a giant bowl of popcorn (for me) to school pickup and manifested a magical seventh grade gossip session on the way home. 🍿 So glad to be a grownup. Seventh grade is severe… and entertaining. 🍿

Just putting it out there that I love pigeons and would love to acquire a picture book about them!

Yesterday, after reading to a classroom of kids, I encountered the inevitable tension between questions and sharing. Teachers (myself included) usually gently but relentlessly guide students toward questions. Yesterday that felt... not wrong, but maybe NOT right. 1/4

What book do you think Willa (10) would like? Me: Hmmm… what was the last book she really loved? THIS ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ Any recs, @melanieconklin.bsky.social?

Thanks to my Santa Barbara book friends for coming out to Chaucer's Books this weekend! www.instagram.com/p/DIH7K-SyeS...

"Is it dead?” a kid asks… I’ve heard this question many times from kids on field trips to the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History where it was my task to answer them. Today, this book, illustrated by @mattschu.bsky.social and published by Little Bee, hopes to honor their question honestly. 🐋

don’t go alone to fight book bans! take this! 🗡️ ✨ 🐉

The shivery crinkle of a Scholastic Book Fair flyer is nostalgic #ASMR therapy.

I have a few free virtual author visit slots open this month to celebrate Coral Keepers: Search for the Silver Shell! I'd love to chat with your classroom or library about books, animals, and inspiration! 🦈📘🪼 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Post a photo you took with no context to bring some zen to the timeline.

Been so busy lately getting to work on pages of new things that I love but wanted to be sure to say that publishing is rarely overnight success and a lot of working your ass off. Be proud of yourself no matter where you’re at. You’re doing the thing, boo, and are amazing 💛

I think they missed me… and yes, my desk is always that messy.

Happy book birthday to Coral Keepers: Search for the Silver Shell by @robinyardi.bsky.social and Paul Kellam!!!! Visited the real live book at @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social - what a great day! 🧜‍♀️🦈✨🐚

I'm not ignoring world events so much as I'm hoping courage, friendship, and cooperation will win the day and inspire the hearts of young readers. They need it! They need us!💙 Happy pub day to me & Paul Kellam & many thanks to @brittanyjthurman.bsky.social for the beautiful embroidered book cover!💙

Hello kidlit friends! We've created a new scholarship with The Highlights Foundation for Neurodivergent Kidlit authors! We're looking for items to auction in order to help fund the scholarship. Please consider filling out our form (link in first comment)!

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Rest In Peace, Tom Robbins, and long live goofiness!

Hi readers! Today is PREORDER DAY at Barnes & Noble, go get 25% off with the code PREORDER25! Find the buy link in the video description of this EPIC animated book trailer!! youtu.be/8rKj8Aoav5M @galltzacker @erincaseywestin

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All my picture book manuscripts start off full of literal sunshine and rainbows, but I usually reach a point where I realize: "Oops, I made it sad." But you know, you don't get the rainbow without the rain, so...

Hey all, I still have a few spots open for author read alouds this #Wrad2025! Just fill out the linked google form to sign up. Happy reading! 🦈📖🐋https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd3JrvxCcknXYIP7AMQemejFWbC31t5V50aLjHPSH2Y1-z5eg/viewform?usp=pp_url

Only five hours left! Bidding closes tonight at 8pm PST (11pm EST). No time to dawdle. Make decisions now about what you really want and get ready to BID! #kidlit #booksky #TLSky #EduSky #Skybrarians #writers #authors #illustrators www.32auctions.com/kidlitforlos...

Hey, librarians! I'm giving away this stack of Coral Keepers: Search for the Silver Shell, book one in a new illustrated underwater chapter book series, written by me, illustrated by Paul Kellam, and published by Scholastic Branches! Wave if you want one! 🌊🧜‍♀️ forms.gle/EXs33wcY4Q3A...

Read chapter one with me and Marigold (my giant tortoise)! Illustrations by Paul Kellam and published by Scholastic, this chapter book is filled with friends, magic, and mermaids! youtu.be/fsuFXlTPMI4

So here we have a Babakina indopacifica #Nudibranch from Anilao in the Philippines. The rhinophores are almost rabbit like. #🦑 #🦐 #Invertefest

At a solstice party I was asked: have you been writing? I said yes, then clarified. I have 3 books coming out next year, but all that work is done and I have been actively "not writing" for about four weeks. Creative rest is writing too, my friends. Not writing is #writing. Inspiration will come. 🌟

I have 6 spots open for #WRAD2025! If they fill up, sign up and be first in line for my virtual author visits in March celebrating CORAL KEEPERS, SEARCH FOR THE SILVER SHELL, Book #1 in the new Scholastic Branches illustrated series by me and Paul Kellam! Let's read!! 🦈📖🐋 mailchi.mp/86698a128770...

How did you all celebrate? This was my pumpkin pie and mountain of mashed potatoes. Predictably, my 13yo had more of an appetite for adventure than I did. 😳 I’m stunned with gratitude for the resilience, strength, and acceptance of the earth. She’s my 🪨.

The 2024 Authors for Voices of Color (AFVOC) auction will launch next week on December 2nd, featuring VIP experiences, writing career help, exclusive authors’ notes, curated literary prizes, and more from renowned authors and publishing professionals! 💻 afvoc2024.givesmart.com

Who me?? I would NEVER eat Steve! 🪱

I'm open! Please send your queries my way at: querymanager.com/SaribelPages

I’m in! Sounds spectacularly spooky!! 👻

criminalized librarians for providing access to books that some people object to. So, to see that activity happen at that scale, if this would move to the federal level, I think it’s definitely a concern to Americans across the country.” 2/2 #UniteAgainstBookBans

ALA President Cindy Hohl: “Over the past two years, there have been over 200 bills in state legislatures proposing — and some that have passed — that would institute statewide book bans in school libraries and/or...1/2 thehill.com/homenews/edu...

Teachers & librarians! Want an author to Zoom into your classroom for World Read Aloud Day February 5th? I'll be sending out this year's list of author/illustrator volunteers in my email newsletter next week! If you'd like access, sign up here: katemessner.us20.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...

I know my book people, but where are my #bird people? And... can any of you identify this feather I found today?