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The Brooklyn Public Library has announced that any teenager in America is now eligible for a Brooklyn Public Library card. Teens can sign out ebooks + audiobooks  The move is designed to combat censorship, with some titles listed as "always available." www.bklynlibrary.org/media/press/...

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We talk a lot about Sendak—as we should. But Ruth Krauss was incredibly innovative with language. And Virginia Lee Burton did amazing things with visual layout and composition. I feel like they should all be the subjects of masterclasses. #kidlitchat

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Established in memory of artist Wallace Edwards, the Wally’s Imaginarium Fund is available to support art-based activities for children, emphasizing storytelling through the visual arts in ways to explore and expand their creativity. To learn more, visit www.wallysimaginarium.com

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The average person with the flu gives it to around 1.4 people. The average person with measles gives it to between 12 and 18 people.

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Okay, agent friends, it's #MSWL time! I'm an Associate Editor at Penguin Workshop, looking for middle grade and YA, as well as graphic novels in both categories. I love historical fiction, fantasy, and mysteries, and if you have something that combines those elements in a clever way, send it to me!

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It's #MSWL day, you say? I have one of those! And it just got a shiny new update for 2025: featherflores.com/mswl/ Lots of specifics in here—give it a peek! ✨ I'm especially hungry for YA fantasy, romantasy, and gothic vibes rn. Agents, please reach out if something's a fit (or just to say hi 💞).

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Happy #MSWL Day! I only accept agented submissions, but wanted to get into the fun. I'm an editor over at Chronicle Books, and I would love to find more MG novels this year—especially ones that feature queer kiddos with big feelings, are a KNIVES OUT-style mystery, or use horror as metaphor! 🏳️‍🌈🕵️😈

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Sounds like a fitting one for this snowy winter! #kidlit

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Hive mind! I’m looking for adult protagonists in picture books (fiction only, no fairy tales or tall tales or parent-child books). Looking for non-white adult protagonists, as in The Man Who Didn't Like Animals and Kamishibai Man. Any suggestions for me? #kidlitchat #canscaip #scbwi

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Does a kettle to make coffee count? Or the microwave for snacks? Because otherwise I've got nothing. It's quite possible I do my best writing in the shower. #kidlitchat

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✨️✍️Opportunity for unagented writers in the UK and Ireland.✨️✍️ www.harpercollinsacademy.co.uk/admissions/

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Join us for a FREE webinar this March 4th! Hosted by Children's Librarian Kellyanne Healey, five publishers will chat about their forthcoming books! Register: ow.ly/YuOw50UW1xt 📚 P.S. All participants will be entered for a #BookGiveaway 🎉 #IndieKidsBookBuzz

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💕🦇FROM MEGABAT WITH LOVE is the perfect Valentine’s Day gift for your kiddos! #kidlit #CanKidLit #EduSky @annahumphrey.bsky.social @kriseasler.bsky.social

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Thank you, @slj.com, for this heartfelt review of our upcoming #picturebook, KENZIE’S LITTLE TREE! Emilie Leduc @orcabook.bsky.social @picturebookseh.bsky.social @pb25vibes.bsky.social #kidlit #EduSky #CanKidLit

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Talked to Grade 1s today for #WorldReadAloudDay. I asked how long they thought it took from acceptance of a #picturebook manuscript to it being on shelves. One guessed 2 years, one guessed 10,000 years. Told them it was somewhere in between, but it felt like the latter. #kidlit

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Do you have picture book manuscripts that you’d like to revise with a small, committed group of writers dedicated to helping you produce your best work? Check out this online, small-group workshop with me and Whale Rock Workshops! whalerockworkshops.corsizio.com/event/6716b5...

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Had a lovely time in the woods yesterday, working on the next book in the Rumie series. I love that I get to spend so much time in nature with these two cuties! #picturebookprocess

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Children's writers have done a great job of building online community--but sometimes meeting people in person is exactly what you need @karenkrossing.bsky.social @danachurchwriter.bsky.social @lanabutton.bsky.social @deborahkerbel.com @jessicavitalis.bsky.social @nadialhohn.bsky.social

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Friday CANSCAIP Booktasting at the #OLASC courtesy of Friday MC @karenkrossing.bsky.social

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I write picture books, so the Caldecotts are a big deal. Congratulations to all! That said, the Caldecotts are for art. I wish everyone celebrated the Charlotte Zolotow award, for best writing in a picture book, the same way—wouldn’t it be amazing if they were as well known?! #kidlitchat

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When picture books are adapted for film it either leans into the emotion or message of the book (Where the Wild Things Are; Grinch) or the emotion the book evokes (Peter Rabbit). Narrative books that work best. I don’t see me ever writing a narrative book that would works #kidlitchat

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Still trying to figure out Instagram for author community. I feel like it’s a good place to amplify the work of others, which has led to me connecting with people I wouldn’t otherwise. But is it community? Not sure... #kidlitchat

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I’m grateful for my #SCBWI chapter, which holds monthly zoom chats for published authors. Sometimes, you don’t even know what you don’t know. But then someone asks about taxes, or foreign rights, or a particular publisher—it’s like learning through a cozy gossip, and it’s so useful #kidlitchat

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It’s #portfolioDay! I will be scrolling. Illustrators, I’m an executive art director at Scholastic who oversees picture books and beginning readers (www.brianlarossa.com/work/scholas...). Interested in working together? I’ve created a contact form just for you! 🤗 ⬇️✨ bit.ly/LaRossa_Illu...

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Excited to buy this new edition of THE POWER OF SYMPATHY (1789). Hurray, @waterman.bsky.social @mypbjam.bsky.social @broadviewpress.bsky.social

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Writing resolutions for 2025: be accountable to my kidlit community by making sure I'm giving back. As part of that, I'll be hosting a monthly picture book club overseen by SCBWI-Canada East. Still figuring out what else I can take on that's manageable! #kidlitchat

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.@uw-english prof Jennifer Harris and Bryan Waterman (NYU) have co-edited a new critical edition of William Hill Brown's The Power of Sympathy and Other Writings. Many of Brown's plots draw on contemporary scandal and intrigue among the elite of Boston. https://buff.ly/3DkPArg

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Jennifer Harris (@mypbjam.bsky.social) and I are pleased to share the release of our @broadviewpress.bsky.social edition of William Hill Brown's THE POWER OF SYMPATHY (1789). Here's a short thread about the book, which its original printer, Isaiah Thomas, marketed as the first American novel. 🧵🗃️

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The Legendary Mo Seto is a star recommended Best Books title! For 199 more book recommendations from experts across the country, check out the latest edition of Best Books for Kids & Teens. The Fall 2024 issue is available online to everyone! Check it out: bookcentre.ca/best-books-f...

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There's a lot that needs to be done about this, and it will only get worse before it gets better. But right this second, one step today is, if you are gift shopping, GIVE BOOKS. Shop at your local bookseller, or they may not exist next year. This is the season the sustains them.

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Day 18: 31 Days, 31 Lists - 2024 Easy and Early Chapter Books. Whatever you might call them, today's books are titles that transition children into first reading on their own, then into reading for pleasure. Enjoy some of the best: #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2024/12/18/3...

submitted 75 days ago • 2 comments

Hard to narrow down favorite #picturebooks from 2024! Definitely: Champ by Payam Ebrahimi, Tove and the Island With No Address by Lauren Soloy, X. Fang’s We Are Definitely Human… and my book! The Keeper of Stars (illus Dorothy Leung). Because you get to love your own work, right?! #kidlitchat

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