It’s Read-A-Thon Week for our Red Panda and #LunchboxSketches 💗📖 ✏️🌈📚 #KidLit #KidLitArt

I’m kinda on fire with these book cover remakes. Here’s “Unicorn Playlist.”

I don't usually get too worked up about book covers, but this edition of RF Kuang's Katabasis is stunning. Picked this up at my local indie bookstore recently and wow!

This is a great week to read the Alaska Authors Against Book Bans opinion piece. www.adn.com/opinions/202... #BannedBooksWeek #FreedomtoRead

Having a book made into a TV show (and then another one!) was never on the bucket list. But since it has happened, I may as well enjoy it. The show is adorable! So much fun wordplay just like my books and just like the original animated show.

I’m a little late, but happy Canadian Library Month to my Canadian colleagues! 🇨🇦📚

The book banning of Indigenous stories in libraries has impacts on readers| Removal of their stories continues the erasure of histories and contributions of Native Nations and their citizens Thank you @tracisorellauthor.bsky.social for writing this Op-Ed www.cherokeephoenix.org/opinion/opin...

You know a book has to be good when the toddler stops his destruction of CandyLand to check it out. The Book of Rules by @briangehrlein.bsky.social is a family favorite #kidlit

Only thing I bought at the festival - besides a burger. He's about 4 inches tall. Even Death likes a good book. He's going the library next week. #booksky

Banned Books Week starts today 📖 bannedbooksweek.org

It was a beautiful Sunday in Portland. Farmer’s markets, the Portland Marathon, peaceful protests, and some views of Mt. Hood. This city is vibrant, peaceful, and resilient. We do not need a federal occupation, and we sure as hell don’t want one.

#Albuquerque Teen Club Book club visit Oct 4: Khadijah VanBrakle will discuss her newest YA novel, “My Perfect Family” (Kirkus starred review) as a special iteration of Read Between the Spines Teen Book Club. libevents.abqlibrary.org/event/148921... #books #kidlit #scbwi #YAlit

🥳🥂Radiant by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson won the inaugural Paul Rhetts Award in the 2025 New Mexico Book Awards. This award is given to the most highly rated book in the contest. Nelson’s was among 47 winners and 156 finalists in 39 categories. nmwriters.org/nm-book-awar... #books #kidlit #scbwi #YAlit

Congrats to Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, Laurel Goodluck, Khadijah VanBrakle, Korie Leigh, Jennifer Bohnhoff, Linda Wilson, RJ Mirabel, and all winners/finalists of the New Mexico Book Awards! It’s great to see so many SCBWI NM members in the list. nmwriters.org/nm-book-awar... #books #kidlit #scbwi

WAIT! Silly me. I did take Fri #LibrarianFashion photos—just saw them, totally forgot (been a bit out of it with distractions)…fresh haircut too. Enjoy! SHARE your go-to (or occasional extra spiffy) library look, your librarian fit check?? (Gotta get back to @sartoriallibrary.bsky.social soon!)

Just posting this. Everyone knows why.

PEN America has released its annual report on the book banning crisis in K–12 public schools, naming the top five most banned titles and authors

I'm going to keep posting old stuff and you can't stop me. #halloween #kidlit #art

Hi, #KidLitArtPostcard Day! I'm Mayumi, a Japanese #kidlit illustrator. Excited to take on new projects! Picture books, board books, and book covers are my favorite things to work on✨ #kidlitart Rep'd by lovely @essiewhite.bsky.social at @stormliterary.bsky.social 🌐 mayumi-sasage.com

‘Tis the season for spooky picture books! 👻🎃☠️ Here’s a nice selection at Grass Roots Books in Corvallis, Oregon. (And I’ve got a manuscript that would fit perfectly in that empty spot!) 🧙‍♀️

🎃 31 Days of Halloween Books 🎃 Day 2: INSIDE A HOUSE THAT IS HAUNTED by Alyssa Satin Capucilli and illustrated by Tedd Arnold Why I love it: The bold, super fun illustrations and rhythmic, predictable story engages preschoolers and encourages them to get involved! #kidlit #booksky #halloween

money where my mouth is: a book I really enjoyed lately was the House of Quiet by Kiersten White. fantasy mental illness, but still treated with compassion, and very very creepy, good mystery

Got kicked out of the library for a meeting. Took 4 carts of stuff with me so I could keep functioning for the day - push one, pull another, two trips. Ppl looking at me in the halls like, “Are we evacuating the building?" 😂 #LibraryLife #TravellingLibrary #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians

Woolly Hare + Honey Pomelo 🐇 #drawtober #sketchtober #artober idk what -tober anyone is doing but hopefully doing a daily watercolor + ink thing (plus all my other backlog of work) #kidlitart #watercolor #art

Happy October #kidlitartpostcard Day! Tricks and treats a teeny bit early. I am an illustrator/author seeking representation for picture books and other illustration projects, www.saraweingartner.com. #kidlitart #picturebookillustration #kidlitillustration #picturebook #Elephant #mouse #halloween

That's not most people, obviously, but it's also not that rare. To put that in perspective: people who are neither XX nor XY are more common than people with Multiple Sclerosis. Roughly as common as people with Down syndrome, or people with Parkinson's disease.

Lol I read this to my class

really enjoying all the people trying to explain the bible to the pope today

One more book I read for the Notable Small Press Books of 2025 #100smallpress project was Prisons Must Fall by Mariame Kaba and Jane Ball from @haymarketbooks.org with striking illustrations utilizing strong colors on dark backgrounds.

Yet another book I read for the Notable Small Press Books of 2025 #100smallpress project was Good Morning, Space by Linda Bondestam translated from the Swedish by AA Prime from Restless Books. The illustrations tumble in a riot of color and action and space aliens with one very stubborn child.

Another book I read for the Notable Small Press Books of 2025 #100smallpress project was Rus and Moose by Chuchu Wang from Restless Books. The illustrations are exuberant and wonderful, plus info about the life of a long haul trucker (and his friend who is a moose).

Finishing up work for Notable Small Press Books of 2025 #100smallpress and looking back on some of the picture books I read, including There Doesn’t Have to be a Reason by MC Kasper @catalystpress.bsky.social (animal facts + body positivity = cute story).

Two days till reviewer deadline for #100smallpress & I can't even tell you how much the reviews are GIVING ME LIFE! We're 90% there & we have: *12 genres *71 small presses *29% queer or BIPOC authors Can't wait for you to read the whole list in November in LitHub. #booksky

Two great books I’m reading about women and power #booksky #nonfiction

“It is painful to say this… but the United States urgently needs a strong alternative to the government public health guidance it has relied on in the past. I urge public health experts to come together to invest in organizations that provide independent, trustworthy sources of information”

Dem leaders: if you fight back, we will rally behind you. This isn't complicated. More of this please.

They are breaking Social Security, because they do not like Social Security.

It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

I'll also add, in the era of mask bans, it's punk to wear masks to keep yourself safe.

If you'd consider wearing a mask again, it doesn't have to be all or nothing. Highly recommend doing so on public transit, healthcare settings (including pharmacies) and grocery stores.

Always err on the side of kindness. Instead of "Fuck off," try saying,"Kindly fuck off."

Heya! I'm part of another bundle on Itch for the Trans Rights Readathon! If you wanna grab Magica Riot and a whole bunch of other awesome trans lit by some of my favorite other folks, check this out! $18 gets you 19 works! #TransRightsReadathon itch.io/b/2940/last-...

Calling all Texans in Houston/Fort Bend area, time to go hang out with Beto and Tim! www.mobilize.us/poweredxpeop...

I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.

“Hey, sorry I know you were counting on me, but I won’t be headed to California after all. Cat situation, yeah. No, that won’t work, there’s two of them. Yeah, sorry. [hangs up] Ugh, that’s a shame.”

This speaks volumes: Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada. leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03... munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...

“People tend to become dependent upon AI chatbots when their personal lives are lacking. In other words, the neediest people are developing the deepest parasocial relationship with AI.”

I'm sorry but going to the white house after they tried to erase the contributions of the most important player in the history of your team is coward shit

Kids respond so strongly to humor, like a comforting friend. A lot of books that take on serious issues dwell on the trappings of sadness, and I think a goofy friend of a book is even more needed. #kidlitchat

Yay! It's pub day for MAGIC IN A DROP OF WATER: HOW RUTH PATRICK TAUGHT THE WORLD ABOUT WATER POLLUTION! Beautifully illustrated by #SusanReagan. @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social @penguinkids.bsky.social @steamteambooks.bsky.social #pbgreensteam #stembooksforkids #rockypondbooks