It took me YEARS to get this right on the first try. (Also, pediatrician is five syllables, vet is just one. Much easier, syllables-wise, to say you're taking the kid to the vet!)

"Reading books...acts as a counterbalance to the mindless consumption of algorithm-driven content and allows for the transference of information that's been researched and checked for accuracy..." @ala-booklist.bsky.social @leeandlow.bsky.social

Oh @fuse8.bsky.social you've done it again...getting us all excited for a book that doesn't come out for EIGHT MONTHS! afuse8production.slj.com/2025/09/25/c...

The page-turn is the best thing ever invented, in my opinion. The printing press is great, but the page-turn is a game changer. It's like, “Here’s one reality. Now turn the page, and you're in a new reality.”

"My feeling is that a style basically comes when all the emulation boils away....The stuff you can't get away from and that you repeat over and over again becomes your style." - @brianlies.bsky.social @thehornbook.bsky.social

If nothing else, we have made it through to decorative gourd season.

“If you don’t like a book, you have the right to tell people you don’t like it and why, but not to prevent someone else from reading that book.”

"The main thing a story needs is a WHAT IF? A question that powers the story." -Katherine Rundell @slj.com #OpenBooksOpenMinds

Open Books, Open Minds from @slj.com "How do you make an imagined world real?" (Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures)

I could live for a thousand years and never get my head around the cost of area rugs

"As if the dancing weren’t enough, when my kids yell 'HEAVY,' I’m expected to pantomime that whatever I’m holding is unbearably heavy. That works fine with a pen. It’s even manageable with a cup of hot coffee. But when holding your best friend’s newborn?"

"But no price is too high to pay in this pointless war against decades of lifesaving science."

Sleepy little cinnamon roll

Are your sheep always turning up late for work? Are they taking too long on their lunch break or simply struggling to get through the workload? Are they always just mucking about? Then you need some

My household would like three tickets for opening day, please and thank you!

In the "inordinately proud of myself for small wins" category, I submit that I emptied and washed all our backpacks before school started this year.

Here's what I would like: to watch Newsies and think to myself, "Yes! We did it!" instead of "Oh my god, how are we going BACKWARD?"

“all-hands meeting” you mean a high five?

If someone tells you there's nothing we can do about gun violence beyond thoughts and prayers, remind them: —Gun laws in other countries have prevented mass shootings —More guns don't make us safer —A majority of Americans want gun reform We don't have to live like this.

If you want to get vaccinated just take up smoking I guess

Re-reading all of @katemilford.bsky.social 's Greenglass House books (with my rising 4th grader) continues apace. We just got to Boneash and Sodalime's Glass Museum and Radioactive Tea Shop (in The Thief Knot) and I love it so much.

“If we eliminate every book that tells a story that is different than the life experiences of an individual or a family, there will be no books left in the library.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... #fREADom #censorship #BannedBooks

on the one hand I should absolutely put my phone down but on the other hand what if the forces attacking democracy operate on weeping angels logic

"...more of a state of mind than it is a physical location. And that state of mind is: "I'd like to live in Florida, but I also want my libraries to have books in them still.""

When libraries lose access to federal funds, the entire community loses, including local schools. Public educators rely on libraries & museums for supplemental support and experiential education: www.edweek.org/policy-polit... Tell Congress to #FundLibraries: ala.org/fundlibraries #ForOurLibraries

"The easiest way to spot Draco is by finding his head. It consists of four stars in a trapezoid...." OK I'm not an astronomer but this looks like a triangle to me, what am I missing

"unprecedented"

"Like other online innovations such as social media, large language models do not so much create problems as supercharge preexisting ones."

"As a child, I was very clear on the gap between fiction and reality. I absolutely understood it. And still, in every new closet that I encountered, I would push the coats aside, just to check. Just in case." --Katherine Rundell talks with Roger @johnseemhi.bsky.social @thehornbook.bsky.social

@katemilford.bsky.social I think my kiddo is developing a lifelong distrust of catalogs thanks to Deacon and Morvengarde, and.... I'm okay with that

Something very dystopian about having to prove to a computer that I'm not a robot

"Here’s another thing I like about jokes: the basis of jokes is truth."

No surprise but @jilltwiss.bsky.social has done it (writing something smart and funny) again!

Writers Guild of America members see the cancellation as not just political appeasement, but potentially anti-union.

you don't understand, mom, that's my emotional support half-finished glass of water that I'm not really still drinking but also definitely not ready to dump out yet

Congratulations to @geneluenyang.bsky.social and LeUyen Pham!! What a great book and a deserved win (three wins!)

Hey have you heard that new song by

My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books.

Reminds me of what Caitlin Moran said about public libraries - a place where you are not a consumer, but a citizen instead.

"You can tell they are criminals because of the side of the fence they’re on."

"The moment you arrive in a new country, you change. And you change the country." @rajanilarocca.bsky.social #PictureBookPalooza

"It feels like if you're gonna make a kids' book, you should make it with materials that kids have access to." -Drew Beckmeyer #PictureBookPalooza

Looking forward to hearing @fuse8.bsky.social and Drew Beckmeyer talk at 12:55. And I'm moderating the Strangers in a New Land panel at 3:50, talking to @rajanilarocca.bsky.social, Elizabeth Brown, and Jenan Matari! #PictureBookPalooza

Hearing about CeeCee: Underground Railroad Cinderella now! The importance of names and stories. #PictureBookPalooza

"Children in elementary schools today have never known a country without marriage equality–a world before the Supreme Court’s Obergefell v. Hodges decision 10 years ago made same-sex marriage legal. Denigrating these books denies that reality."

"In a last speech before her death in 1975, Arendt warned that totalitarian governments try to rewrite or bury history to suit them."

“What if mutual aid is what government should feel like?”

#amwriting ....er, was writing.

In a nutshell: "Much of the reason that they get mad at picture books has to do with the fact that they didn’t really understand what that kind of literature was capable of." @fuse8.bsky.social afuse8production.slj.com/2025/07/04/r...