Remembering Blair Lent, American author-illustrator of #childrensbooks. Best known for stories with Chinese themes such as Tikki Tikki Tembo (1968), a selection of The NYT for its 50 best children's books list. He won the 1973 Caldecott Medal for U.S. #picturebook illustration. #kidlitart #kidlit

Remembering Brian Wildsmith, British illustrator of 80+ #picturebooks whose use of colour made them immediately recognizable worldwide. He (along with Quentin Blake and John Burningham) influenced a generation of illustrators at a time when better colour reproductions were growing. #kidlitart

Remembering Philippa Pearce, English author of #childrensbooks. TOM’S MIDNIGHT GARDEN won the 1958 Carnegie Medal. TOM’S GARDEN was based on the garde of the mill house where she was raised in Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire). She wrote more than 30 books. #kidlit

Explore this GIFT ARTICLE FROM The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/b...

This book--and how Brian made the art for it--totally awesome!

Think #Trump is going to help you? HAH! He's helping himself, and then some! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Blumenthal: "Americans should be terrified that this secret ICE policy authorizes agents to break down doors and ransack through their homes, arresting or detaining people without a judicial warrant"

Eye-hand coordination, processing time, other brain connections...all good reasons to learn cursive. Plus, kids think it's a "grown-up" thing and are eager to learn. I taught it like calligraphy. Explore this GIFT ARTICLE from the New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/n...

Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada speaks truth to the world. I hope the world listens. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Why am I not surprised?

The kidlit event of the year is almost here. Join us Monday, January 26 at 10:00 a.m. CT for the 2026 ALA Youth Media Awards, including the Newbery, Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Printz, and so many more. Watch at ala.unikron.com or on the ALA Facebook page. #ALAyma #ALA150 #ForOurLibraries 📚💙

#SCBWICanadaEast is hosting Bookish: a Virtual Book Club on Jan. 21 at 7 pm ET. This month: Parallel Narratives. Parallel narratives with text and illustrations can be very satisfying—especially when they finally intersect! Register for free at www.scbwi.org/events/booki... #SCBWI #CanKidLit #kidlit

Nuha & her mother are spending the summer in Oman. Nuha is not happy about leaving her friends, even more when she forgets her doll. Her Jadda takes her to a market to look for a doll in Oman. The sun-drenched illustration brings the market to life as Nuha finally finds love for Oman. #kidlit 📚👍🏼

This is so exciting! Congratulations!

January #poetry

Or in their slippers or without a coat... The truth is, "outside agitators" are ICE, and "funded protesters" are likely funded by the Trump regime. That's how they know people are being paid: they're the ones doing it.

Here's a spread from my upcoming picture book, I AM LIGHT (Tilbury House, Mar 17), featuring the stunning art of Merce Lopez. This is third in the series of anthropomorphic autobiographies that began with the award-winning I AM SMOKE and I AM GRAVITY.

Jan 17 is Kid Inventors' Day, which celebrates the creativity and ingenuity of young people all around the world. Here are picture books about and for kid inventors. Book lists in ALT text. #kidinventorsday #KID #younginventors #inventorbooks #booksky💙📚 #books #read #january2026

I don’t ramble about I much, but I love picture books and the Caldecott is my Oscars. So these are the ones I’m pulling for this year.

100 books to read before you are five. An ideal selection of picture books for children aged 3-5 in nursery and EYFS. #ukedchat schoolreadinglist.co.uk/reading-list...

Congratulations! Yolanda Renee King, the granddaughter of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is continuing her grandfather's legacy. "We Dream a World," a picture book meant to inspire readers of all ages to dream big, act peacefully, and stand up for justice in their communities.

Remembering Raymond Briggs, English illustrator, cartoonist, graphic novelist and author, best known for his 1978 story The Snowman, a book without words whose cartoon adaptation is televised and whose musical adaptation is staged every Christmas. #childrensbooks #kidlitart #picturebooks

Remembering Arthur Ransome, CBE, author of the “Swallows and Amazons” stories set mostly in England’s Lake District. He won the inaugural Carnegie Medal recognizing PIGEON POST as the year’s best #childrensbook by a British subject. There is an asteroid named after him: 6440 Ransome. #kidlit

Remembering A.A. Milne, English writer best known for his stories about Winnie-the-Pooh. He also wrote plays, verse, & played on an amateur cricket team with J.M. Barrie & Arthur Conan Doyle. The Hundred Acre Wood derives from Ashdown Forest, a 500-acre wood in East Sussex. #childrensbooks #kidlit

Ask the Agent Q of the Day - Do picture books need to have conflict? A: Yeah, but it may not look how you think "conflict" looks. (I saw GOODNIGHT MOON used online as an example of a PB with no conflict, but I strongly disagree! Look at the illustrations! Sheesh!) www.tumblr.com/literaticat/...

Kids loved playing with toys in #Roman times too! Some 1,800 years ago, a child in Cologne was buried with a terracotta horse with a rider on for wheels. It was definitely a beloved toy that the kid was also meant to play with in the afterlife. 📷 Römisch-Germanisches Museum Köln 🏺 #archaeology

Picking the right point of view for your story isn't just about picking the narrator. Discover POV in this week's post from Katie Davis: picturebooksummit.co... #amwriting #amreading #picturebook #kidlit #PBSummit #booksky

Brilliant to see the BBC picking up Ranald Lawrence and Dean Hawkes' fabulously interesting and important #environmentalhumanities work on #HardwickHall. They measured solar gain to understand Elizabethan comfort tech. The original articles are hugely worth reading too. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

This is exactly right. The white kids and adults I know who know the true history of the United States and Colonialism don't feel bad or guilty; they feel angry, in community with their peers of other races, and empowered to push for change. Enlightened white people are dangerous to the hegemony.

Sounds like the UK is having enough of endlessly placating Trump. Let's hope other nations follow. #Trump #Trumpisunfit

#HaikuSaturday #haiku 5/7/5: icy winter wind-- a shriveled sycamore leaf quivers and shivers short form: one last dance-- a shriveled sycamore leaf sways in winter wind Please add a version if you feel like it.

She is an expert on authoritarian regimes, in case you're wondering whether peaceful protests matter.

"Neighbors in neon vests dot the neighborhood... Information-sharing networks have been built. Residents have connected with non-profits and churches to deliver food to people who are locked in their homes out of fear. Resistance signs are everywhere..." www.liberalcurrents.com/so-hows-the-...

Do you remember frost art on windows? #HaikuSaturday #haiku

Remembering Zbigniew Rychlicki, Polish graphic artist & children's book illustrator. He won 20+ domestic and foreign awards and distinctions, including the Hans Christian Andersen award in the field of illustration (1982)He illustrated over one hundred and fifty books. #childrensbooks #kidlitart

Remembering John Bellairs, best known for his gothic mysteries for young readers. THE HOUSE WITH A CLOCK IN ITS WALLS (1973), initially intended for adults, was rewritten YA at a publisher’s suggestion. Later novels after his death written by Brad Strickland and others. #childrensbooks

Remembering Harrison Cady, best known for his Peter Rabbit comic strip, which he wrote and drew for 28 years and his collaboration with writer Thornton W. Burgess that spanned 5 decades. He was one of the founders of the Rockport Art Association (MA). #childrensbooks #kidlitart

Remembering Robert Cormier, American author, journalist, known for brilliant similes and the grim realism of his YA novels. He explored dark themes—abuse, negligence, violence, mental illness, betrayal--problems faced many teens. #childrensbooks #YAlit

Remembering Aurelius Battaglia, American muralist, writer, director and illustrator of #childrensbooks who worked for Walt Disney Studios (1937—1941) contributing to Dumbo, Fantasia, and Pinocchio. He was the son of immigrants from Italy. #kidlit

Remembering Miriam Roth, Israeli author of 23 #childrensbooks and scholar of children’s literature. Her first children’s book A TALE OF FIVE BALLOONS (pub. 1974) was inspired by her own experience comforting her children, createing a new literary genre focused on children’s emotions. #kidlit.

Remembering Dianne de Las Casas, award-winning Philippine-born American author, dramatic storyteller, and founder of Picture Book Month-recognized by the ALA. She toured internationally, adapting folk lore & pulling the audience in with movement & music. #childrensbooks #picturebooks

Good day, dear Bibliophiles✨ art by Arantza Sestayo

I suppose if anyone looks hard enough, they can find something they dislike. pen.org/shannon-hale...

Van Hollen: We are here to say not one more dime for Donald Trump's ICE operations

Remembering Hugh Lofting, British author who became an American citizen (early 1900s). Dr. Dolittle first appeared in letters he wrote to his children during WWI. THE STORY OF DR. DOLITTLE first appeared in 1920 and was an instant success. He wrote one Dr. Dolittle book a year until 1927.

Remembering Thornton Burgess, known as “The Bedtime Story Man from the column he wrote. He was an American conservationist & author of #childrensbooks. He wrote over 170 books & 15,000 stories for the column. His Mother West Wind stories were very popular.

This. It's worth every bit of the one minute 55 seconds it takes to listen. Enough is enough. Where is Congress? www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...

Remembering Liz Goulet Dubois, American author and illustrator of children's’ books and creator of the Duck and Cluck silly story books. She also worked on animated films and was a toy and product designer.

Remembering Albert Lamorisse, French film maker best known for his award-winning short films. THE RED BALLOON (1956) won the Palme d’Or Grand Prize & an Oscar (1956) for Best Original Screenplay. #childrensbooks #kidlit

Remembering N.M. Bodecker, Danish poet and author-illustrator of #childrensbooks who emigrated to the U.S. after WWII. NM stands for Niels Mogens, though when asked he would say it stood for “Nothing Much” or “Never Mind." Two Christopher Awards for Poetry (1974, 1976). #kidlitart