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Excited to know that Valerie Bolling’s work will reach teachers in a new way! 📘♥️#PDLove Congrats @valeriebolling.bsky.social!

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#yma25 full list now out from @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social www.ala.org/news/2025/01...

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An immediate post about CHOOCH HELPED winning the 2025 Caldecott Medal! americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2025/01/choo...

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Huge congrats to all those honored and awarded today. Plus a big thank you to the amazing creators- authors, illustrators, publishers, and librarians who work to get amazing books into readers’ hands all year long! #ALAYMA

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Newbery goes to Erin Estrada Kelly (The Mahomes of #ALAYMA) for The First State of Being. 📘🎉

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Caldecott honors: Home in a Lunchbox, My Daddy is a Cowboy, Noodles on a Bicycle, Up, Up, Ever Up, AND Caldecott does to Chooch Helped. (Illustrated by Rebecca Lee Kunz) #Alayma

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Seuss Geisel honors for Fox versus Fox and Towed by Toad and congrats Ame Dyckman and mark Teague for Vacation! #AlaYma

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Children’s Literature Legacy Award goes to Carole Boston Weatherford! 📘♥️🎉 #ALAYMA

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Sibert medal goes to Life After Whale by Lynn Brunelle and Jason Chin. #ALAYMA

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📘♥️Celebrate books every day! #ALAYMA

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Congrats to Cynthia Leitich Smith on ALSC Children’s Lecture Award! 📘🎉 #ALAYMA

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Pura Belpré Awards honors for Abuela the Sea and Me, Maleta Full of Treasures 📘♥️🎉 and more. #ALAYMA

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Odyssey 🎧 honors: Black Girl You Are Atlas, Dispatched from Parts Unknown, Girls Like Her, You Are Brave and awards for A Plate of Hope and How the Boogeyman Became a Poet. 📘♥️🎉 #ALAYMA

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#ALAYMA Congrats Tiffany D. Jackson 📘♥️🎉

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Coretta Scott King Illustrator honors to Ekua Holmes, E.B.Lewis and April Harrison with Award to CG Esperanza for My Daddy is a Cowboy. Author honors for Renee Watson, Kwame Alexander, Lesa Cline- Ransome and Jason Reynolds Twenty-four Seconds from Now wins! 📘🎉 #ALAYMA

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Congrats @mrschureads.bsky.social for Louder Than Hunger’s Schneider MG Family Book Award honor! #ALAYMA!

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Congrats to everyone who got a phone call over the weekend and whose books will be celebrated today. AND congrats to everyone who didn’t get a call, but who poured their hearts into books for young people this year. We see you. We need you. THANK YOU! #ALAYMA #TLSkyChat #Skybrarians #kidlit

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Happy book awards day! #ALAYMA! 🎉 congrats to all the amazing creators and contributors!

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It's never a bad time to pull out a good book for a little inspiration.

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Weekend plans? Celebrate the new and noteworthy books from 2024 with #nerdybookclub friends. Nominations can be submitted until Sunday 12pm EST. Share your faves and spread some 📘♥️! nerdybookclub.wordpress.com/2025/01/05/n...

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Many hearty congratulations to @tasslyn.bsky.social for being honored with the Free Speech Award given by the Children's Book Council! Her work compiling a database of thousands of challenges and bans of children's books is a vital piece of the fight against the book banners. tinyurl.com/547hx36r

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How Sweet the Sound is a gorgeous celebration of Black musical greats through various eras. 📘♥️ TY Kwame Alexander and Charly Palmer. 🔥 Educators will love the bonus back matter for further investigation and inspiration!

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Did you know there’s a new Anjali book on the way from Sheetal Sheth and Lucia Soto? Anjali Can will be out next week! You can learn more about this pb series from author and activist Sheetal Sheth here: alwaysanjali.com. 📘♥️

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Happy New Year! It’s wonderful to know there are so many great books to celebrate. Congrats again Lester Laminack! Looking forward to this event. Pssst it’s FREE and open to all. 📘♥️🎉

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RIP Nikki Giovanni. 🙏 Her work and influence will continue to touch the minds and hearts of readers and writers of all ages. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/o...

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Wow, @bookelicious.bsky.social friends just shared so many great recs for amazing 2024 titles. Check out the blog post to come and follow @jenniferlagarde.bsky.social to learn more and add to your list of recs and TBRs! 📘♥️🎉

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📘♥️ @jenniferlagarde.bsky.social kicking off with a great explanation about the power of @bookelicious.bsky.social bookmojis!

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TikTok may be banned in the U.S. (source: BBC) after losing its appeal. Growing number of users saying they're moving to Bluesky. 🤞🏼🦋💙 www.tiktok.com/discover/eve...

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Congrats! I always love seeing #KidLit #NFJoy from Melissa Stewart! 📘♥️

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Free people can choose what they read but they can't choose what their community reads. "When it's one person or a few people trying to say what's best for everyone, that's where we draw a line" — @becalzada.bsky.social Policy Corps #UniteAgainstBookBans cadre member www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

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Want to hear about some faves of 2024? New TBR or more to explore? Join @jenniferlagarde.bsky.social and @bookelicious.bsky.social friends tonight:

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HAPPENING THIS MONDAY 🥳 12/9! It’s FREE & Sure to be FUN! Let’s celebrate 2024 #kidlit & #mglit stories together! Join @jenniferlagarde.bsky.social & Me! Be sure to reserve your spot📚➡️ www.bookelicious.com/events/

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For all the literacy leaders and administrators out there, we at the Conference on English Leadership hope you’ll consider submitting a proposal for #CEL25: Abundance! Find the full Call at the top of the page linked below! #NCTE24 #CEL24 #NCTE25 bit.ly/CELConference

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Thank you to everyone involved at and connected to #Cel24. What an amazing event! Left excited and thinking about ideas for #CEL25. Cannot wait! #PDlove

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www.justbook-ish.com #CEL24

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#NCTE24 was amazing. Thank you to all of the passionate presenters, educators, and friends for sharing #PDLove. Beyond excited to continue the learning here and with friends at #CEL24.

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Sunday-Funday at #NCTE24 and #CEL24! 9:00 ✏️ room 206A @drtharris.bsky.social Inspire Engagement during Writing CEL 3:30 📚 room 153C @joellenmccarthy.bsky.social @tanisleads.bsky.social Coaching CEL 4:40 🌟 room 153C @tanisleads.bsky.social Leadership #theedcollab

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"After an hour or so of scrolling through Bluesky the other night, I felt something I haven’t felt on social media in a long time: free." Great article by @kevinroose.com in @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/t...

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Tomorrow at #NCTE24! ☀️ We have tons of inspiration for you Saturday morning 8:15 two events 💻 room 258B @sbout.bsky.social Harnessing AI 📖 room 162A @joellenmccarthy.bsky.social Leveraging Read Alouds 11:45 📲 room 162A @sbout.bsky.social E-Poetry in Digital Spaces #theedcollab

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Honored to be part of the Build Your Stack line up. If you’re heading to the exhibit hall, please stop by. Jen Vincent and I will be talking about #BooksAsCoTeachers… A PB is Worth a Thousand Words. #BYS #NCTE24

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Looking forward to this session! #NCTE24

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