Celebrate Elvis' birthday 🎉 today with your Elvis favorites! A favorite song, 🎸🎶🎵 favorite movie, his favorite food -- fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches --or even a favorite Elvis book! 🎸🎶🎵 Share your faves! #ElvisPresley #Elvis #LittleGoldenBook #graceland

ellenleventhal.com/2026/01/mel-... Don't miss this amazing interview! @ellenlwrites.bsky.social & @melrosenberg.bsky.social EMILY SAW A DOOR with art by Orit Magia #Giveaway #BookSky

#wordlessWednesday #photography #flowers

My 2026 Goal which I posted yesterday on my blog & social media is to read 150 books on Goodreads - I only rate & review books I like but I’m reading so many PB I think I can achieve this and I’m spreading joy! #kidlitchat lauraroettigerbooks.com/2026/01/05/2...

Happy Book Birthday! 🎉 www.amazon.com/Anyone-Else-... #nationalbirdday #newbooktuesday #dawnchorus #birds #audubonsociety #picturebook #kidlit #kidlitart #birdwatching #birdsong #mustread #readaloud #teachers #homeschoolers #librarians #birdchallenge #10000birds

Hey @jilanne.bsky.social did you hear me talking about you today? 😊 I mentioned A River of Dust and said we’re friends. Does it matter if we’ve never met in person? 🤔 No, I didn’t think so, either! 🤗

lauraroettigerbooks.com/2026/01/05/2... my 2026 goals and why I am committing to reading 150 books in 2026 📚 #booksky

Is Anyone Else Awake? I am! Only 2 days before the release of Anyone Else Awake? A Dawn Chorus. Preorder now! #newbooktuesday #mustread #librarians #homeschoolers #booksforkids #picturebook #picturebooks #birds #ornothology #dawnchorus #dawnchorusday #teachers #teacher #readaloud #birdchallenge

My #yearinbooks 2025 83 books 📚 from Goodreads 1/3 🧵

Check out my friend Stan’s amazing 2025! Some people made great things happen last year!

#wordlessWednesday #photography #sunset #Goodbye2025

Where can you go to get trusted advice about the children's publishing industry? Author-Illustrator @natashakhankazi.bsky.social heads straight to the 12 x 12 #writingcommunity. Discover how 12 x 12 can help you too: www.12x12challenge.c...#writingcommunity. #amwriting #picturebook #kidlit #12x12pb #booksky

If Network NEWSCASTS, and their Late Night Shows, are almost 100% Accurate about a Pathological Liar and Convicted Felon who Incited an Insurrection, tried to Steal a Fair Election and is Covering up Sex Crimes against Children, shouldn't his Disgraceful Presidency be terminated? I say, YES!

#photography #WordlessWednesday #Bluesky

Wonderful to see JOAN MITCHELL PAINTS A SYMPHONY by me & Stacy Innerst on this amazing gift list! 👩‍🎨 #JoanMitchell #abstractart #womenartists #artbooks #kidsbooks #picturebooks #childrensbooks #giftbooks Books For the Art Lover on Your List - Woman Around Town womanaroundtown.com/sections/rea...

⛄✨ A charming moment from our #12x12PB winter illustration challenge! Artwork by @artbyann.bsky.social #kidlit

#WordlessWednesday #photography #Chanukkah

lauraroettigerbooks.com/2025/12/16/w... thank you @artbyann.bsky.social for the giveaway and congratulations to @marciastrykowski.bsky.social #winner #booksky #Hanukkah

I’m happy to be back as a returning mentor in this program! #SCBWI #picturebooks #WritingCommunity 📝📚

🕎 12 x 12 celebrates Hanukkah! ✨ We’re lighting up the season with these joyful #kidlit reads: 🕯️Beam of Light 🕯️Eight Sweet Nights 🕯️Little Dreidel Learns to Spin 🕯️My Dreidel 🕯️Oy, Santa! 📚 buff.ly/YUTM9eb #12x12PB #kidlit

haiku hiatus everything feels like too much taking a step back #haikuSaturday #haiku #photography

Pleased to post a One Question Interview with @jennbertman.bsky.social and review of BOOK SCAVENGER. @scbwirockymtn.bsky.social #kidlit #mg bethsbiblio.blogspot.com/2025/12/inte...

We are pleased to host a giveaway of the chapter book, KATIE CRUMBLE AND THE CASE OF THE MISSING UNDERWEAR by @oksanna.bsky.social illustrated by Lydia Ramsey (Plumleaf Press). To enter, L + RP & confirm your entry in our Friday update: kidlit411.com/2025/12/the-...

We are pleased to host a giveaway of the picture book, THE ABC'S OF LOWRIDING, by Ricardo Cortez, illustrated by Isaac Herrera. To enter, L + RP & confirm your entry in our Friday weekly update: kidlit411.com/2025/12/the-... (+more ways to win)

Our weekly big list of kid lit links is up (Dec 12): kidlit411.com/2025/12/the-... Inside: @12x12challenge.bsky.social registration; Author Events 101; WRAD, more. Thanks Harvey Walls for the illustration, Ricardo Cortez and @oksanna.bsky.social for the giveaways.

Boosting this #giveaway #TLsky #booksky

@scbwirockymtn.bsky.social an opportunity.

Not sure what kind of support you need on your picture book journey? 💡 Take our quick quiz for personalized suggestions to help you grow—wherever you are in your writing or illustrating journey! 📝 buff.ly/oqNCkcm #12x12PB #kidlit

Thanks to my buddy, @rich.moyer for the insightful review and be sure to preorder his hilarious new graphic novel! Help me with Amazon reviews and log them at stanyan.me/team-misf... for a chance of winning prizes in my monthly drawing! My last drawing is soon!

kathytemean.wordpress.com/2025/12/09/h... interview with @lisaljrogers.bsky.social on Kathy Temean's blog WOODY'S WORDS: WOODROW WILSON RAWLS and Where The Red Fern Grows, illustrated by #SusanReagan #Booksky #Edusky #NF #PBBio

#photography #wordlessWednesday #Sunset

Books❤️📚 gifts that keep on giving! Honored by @teresarobeson.com's blog post sharing my books. Like her, I urge you to gift books to kids, especially ones that widen their world, spark curiosity, inspire them to chase possibilities & recognize their own capableness. @kl4gm.bsky.social #edusky

lauraroettigerbooks.com/2025/12/02/w... #Icymi my interview with @artbyann.bsky.social with her fun book about slowing down and unplugging FAIRY GODBUBBIE’S SHABBAT #giveaway #Booksky

We are dealing with such corruption in every aspect of our government, I don't know how we undo the damage.

Charlie’s new spot to wait for me. Today he tried to look like he wasn’t sleeping. #dogs

New iOS update on the left is how the clock appeared before the update and on the right is the new and hard-to-read version. Anyone know if this can be changed back?

carolbaldwinbooks.com/2025/12/06/b... a beautiful blogpost celebrating voice in four different picture books! @carolbaldwinbooks.bsky.social #Booksky #EduSky

once adorned with leaves green, turned red, yellow, then gone trees play hide and seek #haikuSaturday #haiku #fullmoon #Photography #supermoon

FIREFLY SONG by @colleenpaeff.bsky.social and illus. by Ji-Hyuk Kim is a gorgeous, fascinating, and inspiring book about Lynn Frierson Faust and her discovery of synchronous fireflies in the Great Smoky Mountains—highlighting the wonders that emerge from observing of the world around us.

Fantastic news!

#photography #WordlessWednesday #dogs #Sunset

#Boosting this new picture book coming next month from @carmelacoyle.bsky.social and @bonniekelso.bsky.social ANYONE ELSE AWAKE? A Dawn Chorus #nature #birds #Booksky #edusky

Happy Book Birthday to #12x12PB member @sylviaichen.bsky.social!, 📚SPARKLES FOR SUNNY: A LUNAR NEW YEAR STORY, illustrated by Thai My Phuong, published by Flamingo Books/Penguin Random House, hit shelves today! Check it out! buff.ly/DBHnnKg #kidlit

lauraroettigerbooks.com/2025/12/02/w... my interview with @artbyann.bsky.social celebrating her recent book FAIRY GODBUBBIE’S SHABBAT 🩷💜🩷 #BookSky #edusky #giveaway #JewishJoy

Looking for a Holiday Gift? How about a FREE ebook from 12/1-12/3 on Amazon? a.co/d/efmuMOe If you enjoy the book, please leave a book review, so others will discover it too. BUTTERNUT & BOBO Join Butternut in this fun, dazzling story about open-mindedness, making new friends & adapting to change

December’s picture/board book releases are positively adorable! LOVE FINDS A WAY follows the friendship between a boy and his dog while BUILD-A-BEAR: EASTER EGG HUNT includes slider reveals and lift-the-flaps on every spread 😍 Learn more at the link! bit.ly/4olb6xR #edusky #books #booksforkids

It's #CYBERMONDAY! Today is the LAST day to get 40% off all past #12x12PB #kidlit webinars. Pick what you need to get your #picturebook career to the next level. Use code BFCM40 at checkout: juliehedlund.teachab...#CYBERMONDAY!