The juncos have arrived. Winter is coming. #birds #juncos #WinterIsComing

I can’t carry big containers in from the frost and my greenhouse doesn’t have much heat, but these guys are snug for a while. #Garden #Flowers

A Halloween opportunity.

PB’s I’m loving right now: “We pass the light house, standing guard—a tower with a blinking eye, a tower with a lonesome cry, a welcome and a warning.”: Island Storm, Brian Floca, pictures by Sydney Smith, Neal Porter Books, @holiday-house.bsky.social#ChildrensBooks,#ChewyReviewy, . 📚‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬

Reading this beautiful book,@rayanthony94.bsky.social, art R. Gregory Christie, reminds me that now is not the first time one group in the US has tried to deny the humanity of others by wrongfully labeling them criminals. We must do better. Astra Books for YoungReaders, #WritingCommunity.📚‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬

Red plastic feeder.  Hummingbird perches and sips.  Sugar mix ripples.  #haikusaturday Bird’s Choice

What a fabulous @12x12challenge.bsky.social webinar with author @teresarobeson.com. If you can catch the replay, grab it for the practical and positive advice. ♥♥♥ #ChildrensBooks, #WritingCommunity. 📚‬‬‬‬‬‬

The bees are getting drunk on fresh sedum blooms. #bees #flowers #GardenSelfie #photography

#sunflower #photography

PB’s I’m loving right now: What is it doing way out here, over grassless sea? An Owl at Sea, Susan Vande Griek, Ian Wallace, ‪@groundwoodbooks.bsky.social‬, @houseofanansi.bsky.social‬. #ChildrensBooks, #ChewyReviewy, #WritingCommunity. 📚‬‬

PB’s I’m loving right now: “A swirl of wind erased their final pawprints and they were gone”: Cheetahs Return to India: The True Story of Aasha and Pavan, Kate Rietema, @ashwilliebee.bsky.social‬, Tillbury House Publishers. #ChildrensBooks, #ChewyReviewy, #WritingCommunity. 📚‬‬

I love the surprise of an end-of- summer rhodie re-bloom. #GardenSelfie #garden #flowers

White on white. #GardenSelfie #garden #flowers

PB’s I’m loving right now: Here is a Book, Elisha Cooper, Abrams Books for Young Readers. #ChildrensBooks, #ChewyReviewy, #WritingCommunity. 📚‬‬

#GardenSelfie The beauty of a bud #garden #flower

#GardenSelfie The humble host #garden #flowers

PB’s I’m loving right now: “I closed my eyes and made a wish”: Chloe and the Fireflies, Chris Clarkson, Julie Jarema ‪@rainbowfish523.bsky.social‬, Abrams Books for Young Readers. #ChildrensBooks, #ChewyReviewy, #WritingCommunity. 📚‬

PB’s I’m loving right now: When memory bubbles up: Cape, Kevin Johnson, Kitt Thomas, Roaring Brook Press @mackidsbooks.bsky.social ‬. #ChildrensBooks, #ChewyReviewy, #WritingCommunity. 📚‬

PB’s I’m loving right now: “It was my great revolution against a world I knew was not listening”: The Rock in My Throat, @kaokaliayang.bsky.social‬, Jiemei Lin, Carolrhoda Books, ‪@lernerbooks.bsky.social‬. #ChildrensBooks, #ChewyReviewy, #WritingCommunity. 📚

Something more garden-y after the last two, as a weed cleanse: the roses have arrived! #GardenSelfie #garden #flowers

Patio weeds too pretty to pull. #MessyGardenSelfie

Wild strawberries self-seeded on the floor of the greenhouse. #GardenSelfies #garden

My fairy garden. #GardenSefies #garden #flowers

No garden should be without peonies,don’t you think? #GardenSelfies garden #flowers

My Beverly Sills iris (named after the opera singer) is cavorting with the rose thorns. #GardenSelphies #garden #flowers

Friday #GardenSelfie #garden #flowers

PB’s I’m loving right now: A wish, one lie, and an almost barbecue: Stranded! A MOSTLY True Story from Iceland, Ævar Þór Benediktsson, Anne Wilson, @barefootbooks.bsky.social‬. #ChildrensBooks, #ChewyReviewy, #WritingCommunity. 📚

PB’s I’m loving right now: Waiting for the flicker of pedal and wheel. “We want to see them. We want to be them”: Noodles on a Bicycle, @kyomaclear.bsky.social & Gracey Zhang, Random House Studio, Penguin Random House LLC. #ChildrensBooks, #ChewyReviewy, #WritingCommunity. 📚

PB’s I’m loving: Art and Science at their best: Bompa’s Insect Expedition, @davidsuzukifdn.bsky.social @tanyakyi.bsky.social Qin Leng, Greystone Kids, @greystonebooks.bsky.social #ChildrensBooks, #ChewyReviewy, #WritingCommunity. 📚

PB’s I’m loving: I wish I had this book as a kid and a while parenting my own children (great for marriage counselors, too): I’m Sorry You Got Mad, @kylelukoff.bsky.social, Julie Kwon, Dial Books for Young Readers, Penguin Random House LLC, #ChildrensBooks, #ChewyReviewy, #WritingCommunity.📚

PB’s I’m loving right now: 1000 years of activity: Log Life, A Tiny Habitats Book, @amyhevron.bsky.social Beach Lane Books, @simonschusteruk.bsky.social. #ChildrensBooks, #ChewyReviewy, #WritingCommunity. 📚

PB’s I’m loving right now: So many ways to divide things with love: How We Share Cake, Kim Hyo-eun, Translated by Deborah Smith, Scribble, Scribe Publications, #ChildrensBooks, #ChewyReviewy, #WritingCommunity.📚

PB’s I’m loving right now: Big feelings in hard objects: When You Find the Right Rock, Mary Lyn Ray, Felicita Sala, @chroniclebooks.bsky.social, #ChildrensBooks, #ChewyReviewy, #WritingCommunity. 📚

PB’s I’m loving right now: “On an island at the edge of a wide, wild sea, Grandma shows me how to live on the land.” Berry Song, Michaela Goode, @littlebrown.bsky.social #ChildrensBooks, #ChewyReviewy, #WritingCommunity. 📚

My Christmas cactus is delightfully confused.

Delectable text, art, and analysis here.

No it’s not yet spring And yet a red winged blackbird 🐦‍⬛ And a pair of hawks. #HaikuSaturday #haiku

Newly Updated! 21 Wonderful Bilingual Spanish Picture Books buff.ly/3T237sC via @pragmaticmom @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social #ReadYourWorld #Spanish #picturebooks #bilingual

Who runs the world? Girls! March is Women's History Month. Share these diverse stories of brave, fierce, powerful women of the past and present with tweens to inspire them throughout the year. (Feb 2024) #womenshistorymonth

Look what's coming!

114 years ago today the first ever airmail flight took off from a polo field at Allahabad to deliver 6,500 letters to Naini, about 10 km away. The pilot, Henri Pequet, was 23 years old when he single-handedly created a new hobby - aerophilately.

PB’s I’m loving right now, Sci-Fi Edition: A mysterious crash at the ole farm; new parts needed for the um…car: We Are Definitely Human, X. Fang, Tundra Books, Penguin Random House of Canada Limited, #ChildrensBooks, #ChewyReviewy, #WritingCommunity. 📚

Are you ready for the best children's book-to-film festival on record? Do you want to see Holes set at a girls finishing school with swordfights (what?)? Then read on!

PB of the day. 📚👍

81 Children’s Books for Young Activists buff.ly/3Vur0ur via @pragmaticmom #ReadYourWorld #Activists #BlackHistoryMonth #KidLit #picturebooks #middlegrade

PB’s I’m loving right now, Sci-Fi Edition: Time travel made easy, or not: Cookie Time, @jessiesima.bsky.social, Simon & Schuster BFYR. 📚

PB’s I’m loving right now, Sci Fi Edition: “I must confess, at first glance I thought this a rather ordinary planet.” The Spaceman, Randy Cecil, @candlewickpress.bsky.social, #PictureBooks, #ChildrensBooks, #ChewyReviewy, #WritingCommunity. 📚

Get ready, KidLit community! @viviankirkfield.bsky.social’s contest is coming up!

I enjoyed this new #picturebook from @devinellekurtz.bsky.social -- the illustrations are captivating and warm, and the story feels classic yet fresh. Well done! #kidlit

Also out today: THE CRANE AND THE KEEPER, a nonfiction picture book about the life (and love) of Walnut the Crane - by Meg Pincus, from Smithsonian/Candlewick, with glorious illustrations by @lightonthesea.bsky.social 😍 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...