The @mackidssl.bsky.social team has created a wonderful teacher's guide for my new novel, THE LIONS' RUN! You'll find lots of discussion questions, activities, historical resources, and more. www.mackidsschoolandlibrary.com/teachers-gui... #BookSky @mackidsbooks.bsky.social

I just snuck into the Zoom for @mackidssl.bsky.social where they showed my picture book, and flailed a little. Thank you for doing a lovely job showcasing it! And please consider pre-ordering now - Kelly Wu (who is not on Bluesky) did an AMAZING job with the art.

February 2026's new paperback releases include a middle-grade adventure-mystery (Ruby Finley vs. the Interstellar Invasion), the 13th Treehouse book (The 169-Story Treehouse), and the second book in the Sunbearer Duology (Celestial Monsters). Learn more! tinyurl.com/4vusj6t8

Thanks for coming! 👏

Congrats to @safajarwrites.bsky.social, winner of the Ezra Jack Keats Writer Award for Alberto Salas Plays Paka Paka con la Papa, illustrated by @juanamartinezn.bsky.social! 👏 Discover lots of ways to bring this book into your library with our activity kit 🥔 bit.ly/49ZSzC4 @ejkf.bsky.social

We are so proud to partner with The Association for Rural & Small Libraries to launch the Macmillan Defenders of Intellectual Freedom Conference Scholarship! Find out more and apply today ➡️ bit.ly/4aZvroM #ARSL2026 #UniteAgainstBookBans #Libraries #RuralLibraries

February is National Library Lovers Month ❤️📚 Celebrate in your library with two relevant reads - THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY and CAMEL LIBRARY, two picture books perfect for read alouds that celebrate the magic of good books and the places we find them ✨ tinyurl.com/mv4hkusb tinyurl.com/4mtxux7m

TOGETHER WE SEE by @aritison.bsky.social is our Marketing Manager Elysse's #MacKidsStaffPick! It follows Ulá Dominguez, a Bribri-American teenager, searching for the truth behind her land-activist father's mysterious death on their Native territory in Costa Rica. Out 6/16! tinyurl.com/yvuak93w

Middle Grade Magic is a day-long virtual celebration of authors and creators dedicated to crafting literature for kiddos ages eight through 12! Reserve your spot today for this event taking place on March 5th to hear from our amazing keynote speakers. 👏 hubs.ly/Q043D3l80 @erinentrada.bsky.social

Congrats! The 2026 EJK Writer Award to Sara Andrea Fajardo The 2026 EJK Illustrator Award to Mokshini Writer Honors: Stefanie Foster Brown & Kesi Augustine Illustrator Honors: Tallulah Fontaine & María J. Guarda @safajarwrites.bsky.social @southernmisscbf.bsky.social #TheSnowyDay #EJKAward

Our Spring Preview Event is almost here! TOMORROW, 2/19, tune in at 11 am PT/2 pm ET for a preview of our Spring 2026 titles and authors. RSVP now at the link: tinyurl.com/m442n2k3

💙🎿 Watching the Winter Olympics? 🏔️🥇 Take a break between matches with these exciting reads! 📚✨ Icebreaker by @algraziadei.bsky.social, Skating on Mars by @carolinehuntoon.bsky.social, Check, Please! by Ngozi Ukazu, and Hockey Girl Loves Drama Boy by @faitherinhicks.bsky.social!

This month our Graphic Novel Preview is highlighting MRS. ORWELL by @andreachalupa.bsky.social and @elrevel.bsky.social. This riveting adult graphic novel brings Eileen Blair—wife and partner of George Orwell—out of her husband’s shadow. tinyurl.com/yujbn487

Ramadan Mubarak, readers! Celebrate Ramadan now through 3/19 with Malak and her family in UPSIDE-DOWN IFTAR by Maysa Odeh & by Nadine Issa, a delicious picture book packed with warm, vibrant illustrations and the beautiful chaos of a bustling kitchen. bit.ly/4qg9Zkh

A WISH WITH WINGS just earned its second starred review, this one from Bookist! 🤩 📚 @mackidssl.bsky.social @mackidsbooks.bsky.social @ashliterary.bsky.social

★ “With tenderness and honesty,” Christian Robinson’s picture book DAD is an “animal-centric ode to fathers moves with a realistically nuanced portrayal of parents as people”

Super excited to learn that GUS AND GLORY has been shortlisted for the Oklahoma Library Association’s Children's Sequoyah Book Award! 📚

Thanks to the editors of Spotify for including THE LIONS' RUN audiobook as one of your February Editors' Picks! Browse the full list here: open.spotify.com/show/1BZnzZt... @mackidssl.bsky.social @mackidsbooks.bsky.social #BookSky

Co-author @meerasub.bsky.social’s latest on Substack. @fiercereads.bsky.social @mackidssl.bsky.social @01firstsecond.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/meerasub...

Forgot to tag my team! Thanks @ashliterary.bsky.social @mackidssl.bsky.social @mackidsbooks.bsky.social

My school's readers love the INVESTIGATORS series & have been anxiously awaiting John Patrick Green's AGENTS OF S.U.I.T.: SEW MUCH TROUBLE! Sven's in the spotlight here, going undercover in a reality show competition to catch a BBQ sauce thief. Lots of humor & hijinks! #MGLit @mackidssl.bsky.social

Happy Book Birthday to AGENTS OF S.U.I.T.: SEW MUCH TROUBLE by John Patrick Green, Christopher Hastings, and Pat Lewis. It's another hilarious graphic novel adventure in the InvestiGators universe, which has captured the hearts of four million young readers! tinyurl.com/bdd7mu7n

"But, do you know the dark? The dark is not so obvious." 🖤 DO YOU KNOW THE DARK by @rozdraws.bsky.social is just one jaw-dropping page after another. bit.ly/4aGLk29 #bookaday

Happy Lunar New Year, readers! 🧧🐍 We can't think of a better way to celebrate than by picking up a copy of LUNAR NEW YEAR LOVE STORY by @geneluenyang.bsky.social & LeUyen Pham, which has earned EIGHT starred reviews! bit.ly/3OqNpoK

‘Investigators: Agents of S.U.I.T.: Sew Much Trouble’ Tops Holds List | Book Pulse www.slj.com/story/Invest...

icymi i have a new sad boy ya book coming out next month and it would be cool if you wanted to preorder it or something

✨️Little Mav Spotlight✨️ "Chickenpox" by Remy Lai * Grades 3-5 * Genre: Realistic, Humor🤒😫 Being the oldest of five is hard on a good day, but struggles reach a new whole level when everyone gets sick! Will big sis Abby lose her mind or find a bright side to her "wild zoo" family? #kidsgraphicnovels

★ Anna-Marie McLemore “infuses a cathartic revenge tale with allusions to Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Nahuatl folklore” throughout their “gorgeously rendered” supernatural historical YA novel WE COULD BE ANYONE

Tomorrow is Valentine's Day 🌹💝 Looking for the perfect read aloud? From the creator of the beloved Harold the Bear series, LOVE FINDS A WAY by Vern Kousky is a joyous and heartwarming celebration of friendship and the power of love. tinyurl.com/mtrt3nz6

Consider adding PEDAL PUSHER by @boonewrites.bsky.social & Lisa Anchin to your Women's History Month curriculum 📚 This picture book tells the story of feminist icon Annie Cohen Kopchovsky, who was the first woman to ride a bicycle around the world. tinyurl.com/3vnc9p55 #edusky #womenshistorymonth

Jasmine Warga’s next masterpiece is just 19 DAYS away!! (BUT WHO’S COUNTING??) 🐕🐆💛

This One Summer is literally a coming of age story. It is about the teenage experience. How is that not appropriate for teens? How is that adult content? Frankly, finding it to be adult content is a red flag. www.livingstonparishnews.com/detail.html

Cherishing this spread from ARCTIC ADVENTURE today, a gorgeously illustrated journey through the Arctic Tundra with OODLES of backmatter about the Tundra, climate change, and tips for how we can help. #bookaday 🖋️@jyotigopal.bsky.social & Alexandra Cook ➡️ bit.ly/4bYgggN

Join us on February 19th at 11 am PT/2 pm ET for our Spring 2026 Preview Event! Get a peek at our upcoming titles and hear from special guests including Julian Randall and Christian Robinson! RSVP now at the link for this free, one hour webinar: tinyurl.com/m442n2k3 #edusky

Find behind-the-scenes images from the writing and drawing process, plus an interview with Laura Godwin, VP Publisher and the author-illustrator Guojing, in our latest installment of #HowThisBookWasMade featuring OASIS! tinyurl.com/76nsfhns #edusky #art #graphicnovel

It's probably no surprise that I found my way to reading through books about animals. Encountering CHARLOTTE'S WEB was a real turning point for me—before that, I thought books were boring. It's been such an honor to bring animal stories to life for young readers. I'm a lucky author, indeed. ❤️

Most people still don’t understand how bad the situation is when it comes to censorship of children’s literature.

"Book censorship rarely arrives with a marching band and a press release." Fantastic resource released by @freedomreadproject.bsky.social about Early Signs Censorship Is Taking Root in Your Community and What You Can Do About It. www.freedomtoreadproject.org/early_signs_...

Today is International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Inspire your students with YVONNE CLARK AND HER ENGINEERING SPARK, a picture book about a curious, tinkering girl who grew up to become one of the first Black female engineers for NASA. tinyurl.com/yxuh4a4s @deandrahodge.bsky.social

"My main goal was to present a fully-realized, well rounded person to my readers" This month’s Author Spotlight is on two-time Printz Honoree and National Book Award Finalist, @dheiligman.bsky.social! Tap the link to read the rest of our interview on her latest book, LOUDMOUTH! tinyurl.com/548t744n

On Picture Books and Baking: author Pooja Makhijani reflects on her new picture book,’ Bread Is Love, inspired by her life-affirming and nourishing ritual of baking buff.ly/FOGjhA4

Everybody, do yourselves a favor and watch and share The Librarians, a phenomenal film about the librarian heroes putting everything on the line to keep books on shelves. @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social youtu.be/ywQOCY-qDzE

From January/February #HBMag @bostonglobe.com – @thehornbook.bsky.social #BGHB #Fiction honoree Guojing's speech for OASIS www.hbook.com/story/oasis-... #BGHB25 #kidlit @mackidsbooks.bsky.social

After months of attending screenings and talking about this film, I’m so excited that anyone can stream The Librarians now. 90 minutes that tell the story of the fight against censorship that has been raging for the past half decade. Check it out! m.youtube.com/watch?v=ywQO...

EOWULF: THE CREATURE CONNECTION by Mike Cavallaro is out today! With 1 starred review, this second volume in the Eowulf series includes a dark conspiracy, all powerful super weapons, and monsters-turned-actors ⚔️ tinyurl.com/49vhfb6k #edusky #graphicnovel #bookbirthday #eowulf

Happy Book Birthday to BREAD IS LOVE by Pooja Makhijani & Lavanya Naidu! 🍞 Join a mother and her adorable children for their weekly baking ritual in this touching story with 1 starred review that celebrates the act of baking and eating bread, and sharing it with family. tinyurl.com/38pzv88k

CHANGE IS IN THE AIR by Rebecca Donnelly & Mercè López is out today! In an era when few women practiced science, Eunice Newton Foote dared to search for answers. This picture book biography with three starred reviews is a must add to your shelves! tinyurl.com/2ccrcb75 #edusky #bookbirthday

Happy Book Birthday to CALL ME MOBY by @larskenseth.bsky.social 🎊 Illustrated in bold full color, this funny, charming riff on the Herman Melville classic, Moby-Dick, is at its heart a story about making friends and belonging – and finding those who accept you for who you are. tinyurl.com/4ssxtkp8

Happy Book Birthday to THE PRINCESS AND THE GRAIN OF RICE by Tina Cho & Honee Jang, a funny Korean Princess and the Pea retelling and a new classic in the making! It also includes backmatter on the real-life Korean princesses of the Joseon period. tinyurl.com/rzde4a4p #edusky #bookbirthday

I'm honored that THE LIONS' RUN has received a sixth starred review! ⭐ Thank you, @shelf-awareness.com. You can read the full review here! www.shelf-awareness.com/sar3-issue.h... @mackidsbooks.bsky.social @mackidssl.bsky.social #Booksky