Linda Jean
@lindajeantm.bsky.social
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Writer/Poet/Editor/Mixed Media Maker
Looking forward to this webinar at the Writing Barn this month!
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Webinar: Write and Sell Rhyme With Craft, Creativity, and Connection with Agent Julie Romeis Sanders â Writing Barn
https://thewritingbarn.com/class/webinar-write-and-sell-rhyme/
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12 x 12 Picture Book Writing Challenge
3 days ago
FREE Book Chat on Jan 20 at 8pm ET / 5pm PT! Join us for this monthâs
#12x12PB
Book Chat with
@carriefinison.bsky.social
, author of PLENTY OF PANCAKES, as she shares how her picture book went from idea to bookshelf. Sign up:
buff.ly/Ky88hrz
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Ripples in Payneâs Grey, a path lit by white diamonds, light invites us, still.
#HaikuSaturday
#PictureHaiku
haiku & photograph by
@lindajeantm.bsky.social
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Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzledâ to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float a little above this difficult world. ~ Mary Oliver
#PoetryFriday
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Caught in a snow squall, our brake lights glow like red stars in deep blue midnight.
#HaikuSaturday
#PictureHaiku
Acrylic abstract and haiku by
@lindajeantm.bsky.social
10 days ago
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Thank you to
@12x12challenge.bsky.social
for this fun contest! Iâm tickled pink to win the watercolors prize! đšđ©âđš
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Lisa Billa
13 days ago
Ready for an inspiring start to a creative 2026! Who's in?
#storystorm
#kidlit
#picturebooks
#writingcommunity
Register at
taralazar.com/2025/12/26/s...
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Looking forward to
#Februlage
in 2026. Caption this?
#WordlessWednesday
#MagazineCollage
12 days ago
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School Library Journal
10 months ago
9 Exemplary Novels in Verse for Middle Grade and Teen Readers These excellent middle grade and YA titles use poetry to get at the heart of kidsâ experiences. Share them for
#NationalPoetryMonth
and beyond.
www.slj.com/story/9-exem...
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9 Exemplary Novels in Verse for Middle Grade and Teen Readers
These excellent middle grade and YA titles use poetry to get at the heart of kidsâ experiences. Share them for National Poetry Month and beyond.
https://www.slj.com/story/9-exemplary-novels-in-verse-for-middle-grade-and-teen-readers-poetry
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Children's Bookshelf
10 months ago
â âGracefully rhythmicâ picture book WHERE THE DEER SLIP THROUGH by late creator Katey Howes and Caldecott Medalist Beth Krommes is a âlilting hymn to the way woodland life can lurk in surprising placesâ
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Where the Deer Slip Through by Katey Howes
âThis is the hedge that grew and grew./ The wall of stone a bit askew./ They guard the yard./ The barn does, too.â Gracefully rh...
https://buff.ly/zuiTCLF
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Remember summer? How we heard a rainbow sing in the shade of trees?
#HaikuSaturday
haiku & photograph by
lindajeantm.bsky.social
10 months ago
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Beautiful poster and important message!
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When rosy light creeps over mountains and fir trees, cloud monsters gather
#HaikuSaturday
#Haiku
#PhotoHaiku
haiku & photo by
lindajeantm.bsky.social
10 months ago
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Andrea Davis Pinkney is one of the 2025 Carle Honors recepients. Congratulations!
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Children's Bookshelf
10 months ago
The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art has revealed the recipients of its 2025 Carle Honors, who will be fĂȘted at an event this fall
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2025 Carle Honors Announced
The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art has revealed the recipients of its 2025 Carle Honors, who will be fĂȘted at an event in New York City on September 25.
https://buff.ly/1SLVb6j
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Seed catalogs are starting to arrive in the mail! Dreaming of homegrown tomatoes.
#Tomatoes
#SeedCatalogs
#Collage
#MixedMedia
10 months ago
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Sylvia Liu
11 months ago
For Read Across America, I'm joining a bunch of wonderful children's poets to read from the anthology IF I COULD CHOOSE A BEST DAY (ed by Irene Latham & Charles Waters). WHEN: March 3, 2025 at 1 p.m. EST (Sign up here:
courage.thewritingbarn.com/free-virtual...
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School Library Journal
11 months ago
From a bilingual book about Cuba to a graphic novel poetry collection, these diverse titles are sure to delight a wide range of young readers.
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8 Poetry Books for Dreamers, Animal Lovers, and Mistake-Makers
From a bilingual book about Cuba to a graphic novel poetry collection, these diverse titles are sure to delight a wide range of young readers.
https://www.slj.com/story/8-poetry-books-for-dreamers-animal-lovers-and-mistake-makers
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Still snow-flanked, a stream zig-zags from winter to springâ New England weather
#HaikuSaturday
#PhotoHaiku
#Haiku
haiku and photo by
@lindajeantm.bsky.social
11 months ago
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Recommendation and rationale for capitalizing each word in in hashtags:
www.boia.org/blog/make-yo...
#AccessibleHashtags
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Make Your Hashtags Accessible
Make hashtags accessible to screen readers, people with cognitive or reading disabilities, or anyone who has trouble reading them by capitalizing the first letter of each word. Learn more here, brough...
https://www.boia.org/blog/make-your-hashtags-accessible?hs_amp=true
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School Library Journal
11 months ago
Celebrating history shapers like John Lewis and Mae Jemison and lesser-known individuals with comparable impact, such as playwrights August Wilson and Lorraine Hansberry, and engineer Raye Montague, these 28 titles share the lives, struggles, and triumphs of notable Black Americans.
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28 Picture Books Of Inspiring Black Americans for Black History Month and All Year
Celebrating history shapers like John Lewis and Mae Jemison and lesser-known individuals with comparable impact, such as playwrights August Wilson and Lorraine Hansberry, and engineer Raye Montague, t...
https://www.slj.com/story/reviews/28-picture-book-biographies-for-black-history-month-and-all-year
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12 x 12 Picture Book Writing Challenge
12 months ago
It's
#BlackHistoryMonth
! Time to cozy up with
#12x12PB
member
#picturebooks
from Black creators, Find our full Black History Month book list here:
https://buff.ly/3WGnJZc
#amreading
#kidlit
#diversebooks
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My restless green thumb sticky with paste creates blooms while miracles sleep collage & haiku by
@lindajeantm.bsky.social
#HaikuSaturday
#Haiku
#PictureHaiku
#Collage
11 months ago
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My TBRR (to be read and relished) pile will be getting taller! Congratulations to all the winners â€ïž
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Lace-like snowflakes drift, polka-dotted leaves remind gardeners to dream
#HaikuSaturday
11 months ago
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Thank you
@marciefatkins.bsky.social
for your oh, so helpful blog post on Poems as Picture Books. Iâm looking forward to studying these mentor texts!
#kidlit
#kidlitpoetry
www.marcieatkins.com/poems-as-pic...
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Poems as Picture Books
Iâm a poet and a picture book writer. Iâm also a verse novelist. One of my favorite things to do is intentional studyâlearning from mentor texts. In 2024, each Poetry Friday post will feature one of m...
https://www.marcieatkins.com/poems-as-picture-books/
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Cybils Awards
11 months ago
The countdown is ON. The winners of the 2024 CYBILS Awards will be announced on Friday, 14 February at 9:00 AM PT|12 noon ET Website first. Then social media.
#CYBILS2024
#BookLove
#KidLit
#MGLit
#YALit
#bookstagram
#booksky
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Yay! CLARA is a poetry finalist! Congratulations to
#PomeloBooks
#kidlitpoetry
#kidlit
#CYBILS2024
11 months ago
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Children's Bookshelf
11 months ago
14 Valentineâs Day Childrenâs Books That Wonât Make You Cringe | New York Times
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14 Valentineâs Day Childrenâs Books
These refreshingly authentic and playful picture books celebrate the many kinds of love that can fill kidsâ lives.
https://buff.ly/4177MxI
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I was tickled pink to have my poem, "Vampire-ish" included in this wonderful poetry anthology by Janet Wong and Sylvia Vardell (Pomelo Books).
#kidlit
#kidlitpoetry
#PomeloBooks
You can read a review by Jama Rattigan here:
jamarattigan.com/2024/11/15/r...
11 months ago
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Vivian Kirkfield
12 months ago
Jumping for joy! I hope you will be, too! Please check out & share the HEADS-UP-The-#50PreciousWords CONTEST-IS-COMING-SOON post! Find DATES, GUIDELINES, and a list of fabulous PRIZES! And I hope you love my updated website thanks to
@thebooklinksllc.bsky.social
viviankirkfield.com/2025/02/01/h...
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Picture books, eh!
12 months ago
#GIVEAWAY
To celebrate the launch of
#PictureBooksEh
2025 weâre giving away manuscript crits and PBs! Details on website (link above). To enter: 1. follow
@picturebookseh.bsky.social
2. like + re-post this post (extra entry for tagging a friend) 3. Winners ann. Feb. 10 at 9 am
#kidlit
#cankidlit
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G.G. Sherrill
12 months ago
Are u querying, too? Hey
#writers
see call for submissions soon come on
#MSWL
Day
#writingcommunity
,
#querytrenches
#kidlit
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Iâve joined the picture book challenge
@12x12challenge.bsky.social
for my 7th year! Iâm looking forward to another year of community, accountability, and so many resources!
www.12x12challenge.com
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