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Because we could all use a bit of joy right now. Calling all of my beautiful FAT folx. This 1 is 4u. Shout out to my dope agnt, the legendary @jmcgowanbks.bsky.social & amazing editor Regan Winter. #fatfiercefabulous #madinasbigfabulouswin #disney #writingcommunity #picturebooks #fatisbeautiful

submitted 39 days ago • 5 comments

The auction is live!! #kidlit #losangeles kidlitforlosangeles-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2vDRsjs4J5Bu...

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Every December I try to get a kid in foster care a gift through OneSimpleWish.org The older teens especially deserve a little treat.

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

So cool!

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

🎅✨ Cover Reveal! ✨🎅 When Santa Wrote Back! (with words by me and illustrations by Pablo Pino) is coming down the chimney September 2, 2025. Available for pre-order now! hellonathan.ca 🎄📚 #KidLit #CoverReveal #PictureBooks #WritingCommunity

submitted 89 days ago • 9 comments

Excited to share this news, finally! My debut picture book ❄️✨THE ABOMINABLE SNOW DANCER✨❄️ is coming out Fall 2025 from Penguin Workshop! 1/ This book is secretly about me. While I'm not a hairy yeti who dreams of dancing (... Or am I?🤔), I DID dream of writing #kidlit one day, and here I am!

submitted 88 days ago • 55 comments

Food loss and food waste are responsible for up to 10% of global climate pollution -- and Americans waste half a billion dollars worth of groceries on Thanksgiving alone. Ideas for how we can do better: www.latimes.com/world-nation...

submitted 97 days ago • 2 comments

please do not "test" this you rubes. it wants you to do that. it is challenging you "please give me text on which to train." you marks you fools you absolute turnip truck accident victims

submitted 97 days ago • 77 comments

Huge win from @franzanth.bsky.social creating a Content Scraper Blocklist: bsky.app/profile/cont... It's a blocklist for the kinds of engagement bait accounts that repost stolen content, often with misleading captions.

submitted 98 days ago • 479 comments

Today, AABB sent an open letter to over 90 CEOs in the publishing world to express our needs from them heading into the next Trump administration. If you agree with it, please consider sharing it with your editors and agent. The more of us who push the better our results will be.

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HR 9495 - The bill that gives the Sec. Treasury powers to strip non-profits of their C3 status - PASSED the HOUSE. But the call in efforts made a HUGE difference. The fight isn’t over. It’s time to call your senators!! This is so important

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If you haven’t yet, please make these calls

submitted 103 days ago • 1 comment

Today is Trans Day of Remembrance. Call your reps.

submitted 103 days ago • 3 comments

As promised, updated scripts here for HR 9495, which will be headed back to the floor around Wednesday. Yes, this is the bill that gives the Sec. Treasury powers to strip non-profits of their C3 status. 1. For House members, 2. For Senators, 3. For New Yorkers to call Schumer. Please call.

submitted 107 days ago • 61 comments

Powerlessness is a strategy. Despair is a strategy. Exhaustion is a strategy. Nihilism is a strategy. Don't do a tyrant's work for him.

submitted 105 days ago • 4 comments

Fellow parents waking up each morning with that boulder on your chest, I see you. The prospect of parenting under the Trump regime is terrifying, but do your best, as ever. Know you're not alone. Find your community & know everywhere there are people fighting to protect your kids. Join the fight.

submitted 105 days ago • 8 comments

Look at this gorgeous book!! I can already imagine all the inside and outside projects it will inspire at our house 😍

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I can't believe I'm writing this. My book is now part of the Jane Goodall Institute Library! To receive this news along with interest in partnering on events is a lifelong dream come true.🐾📚✨ #kidlit #teachers #librarians #animallovers

submitted 121 days ago • 7 comments

As of this morning, i have resigned from my editorial position at Jessica Kingsley Publishers, a division of Hachette. The following letter explains why.

submitted 115 days ago • 30 comments

“While election results matter, they are not the full story. Social movements worldwide remind us that democracy neither begins nor ends at the ballot box.” -Solomé Lemma www.alliancemagazine.org/blog/beyond-...

submitted 116 days ago • 0 comments

This was the first pledge I made to myself this morning. The second was to get involved with Authors Against Book Bans. Here’s the link: www.authorsagainstbookbans.com

submitted 117 days ago • 0 comments

If your name has ever been on a book cover, join us at AuthorsAgainstBookBans.com to get into the fight. They're going to be defunding our institutions of public learning and using book bans to do it. We can't let them.

submitted 117 days ago • 10 comments

The one thing I’m certain of this morning #kidlit is that books matter more than ever.

submitted 117 days ago • 14 comments

give the kids some fucking candy. give the adults some fucking candy. CANDY FOR EVERYONE IN THIS HELL WEEK

submitted 124 days ago • 16 comments

Posting this again because a lot of people said they found it helpful! Guide to ALT text: www.perkins.org/resource/how...

submitted 318 days ago • 785 comments

Spooky bird stories.

submitted 133 days ago • 37 comments

Happy Ace Week!!! 🖤🩶🤍💜

submitted 134 days ago • 147 comments

“If there's any time in history that our young people have been in critical need of radical imagination, it's now.” #bookbans are unhealthy time.com/7094430/book...

submitted 135 days ago • 0 comments

X has now eliminated its blocking policy, as they've been threatening to do for over a year now. I went there to share the post below (first image), and made the mistake of checking my mentions (remaining images).

submitted 136 days ago • 67 comments

For MSNBC, I bite the bullet and become the old trans community curmudgeon we need in this electoral moment. Me, on those Dem Senate ads in TX and OH, Harris' Fox News interview, and why Dems shouldn't be so scared of trans issues: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

submitted 136 days ago • 23 comments

The Library of Congress has literally one gazillion public domain photos and illustrations that are free to use for your projects! www.loc.gov/free-to-use

submitted 146 days ago • 154 comments

Flames, flames on the side of my face.

submitted 146 days ago • 6 comments

If you live in one of these 10 states (AZ, TX AR, MS, FL, GA, TN, KY, IN, OH), today is THE LAST DAY you can register to vote. Even if you think you're registered already, double check to see if your registration is still active. Please do this, it only takes a few minutes. Pass it on.

submitted 147 days ago • 48 comments

45 yrs ago, an NRC report led by Jule Charney warned of the effects of increased CO2 in the atmosphere. 60 yrs ago, PCAST warned LBJ that CO2 from burning fossil fuels would cause significant climate changes & harmful impacts to humans. Both were based on more than a century of preceding science:

submitted 149 days ago • 12 comments

Publishing news! I am beyond grateful to be working with this absolute dream team to bring to life The Animal Queendom, a book of my heart. #simonKIDS #AlexandraFinkeldey #picturebook #nonfiction #kidlit @natalielakosil.bsky.social @lookingglasslit.bsky.social

submitted 152 days ago • 4 comments

Should have said that this is me! I wrote this. And I will have more coming early next week. Stay tuned.

submitted 152 days ago • 2 comments