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Author and poet. I write for readers. Stay curious and stay inspired. Be respectful of others. Kindness matters. Member #SCBWI, #12x12, and The Writer's Loft. PBParty 2023 Honorable Mention. Seeking representation.
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News outlets: DO YOUR JOB! #DemandCoverage

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Enjoy this GIFT ARTICLE. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Honoring Virginia Hamilton, author of 41 #ChildrensBooks and winner of the National Book Award and the Newbery Medal (1975) as well as the Hans Christian Andersen Award (1992).

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Honoring Kay Nielsen, Danish illustrator and one of the masters from the Golden Age of Illustration. #ChildrensBooks #kidlitart

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From the weekend: a 2-mile birthday hike in Dedham, MA, and yes, I did make it to the top!

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Honoring Wanda Gag, pioneer in the development of #picturebooks, combining pictures and text across pages. "Millions of Cats" was first published in 1928. #ChildrensBooks

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Honoring Ezra Jack Keats, whose art career began at age 8 when he painted a sign for a store and was paid $0.25. The Library of Congress has named "The Snowy Day" as a book that shaped America. #ChildrensBooks #kidlitart

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Honoring Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang, English writer, editor, and translator, wife of Andrew, and, although not acknowledged (by Andrew) until The Lilac Fairy Book (1910), the main writer of the Rainbow Fairy Books. #ChildrensBooks #kidlit

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Honoring Eric Linklater, Welsh-born Scottish writer whose children's fantasy "The Wind on the Moon" won the 1944 Carnegie Medal. #ChildrensBooks #kidlit

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Honoring Kenneth Grahame, British writer. Born in Scotland, he spent most of his childhood with his grandmother in England. #ChildrensBooks #kidlit

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Absolutely PATHETIC! Explore this GIFT ARTICLE from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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And it's STILL windy out there! #HaikuSaturday #haiku

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Honoring Monica Shannon, Canadian-born American author of #ChildrensBooks. Her book Dobry, published in 1934, received the Newbery Medal in 1935. The stories told by her father's Bulgarian ranch-hands influenced her writing, as did her love for nature. #kidlit

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A lease DOGE decided to cancel: the lease for Skeen-Whitlock Building (Carlsbad, NM), a 90,000 sq. ft. facility that manages the nation’s ONLY storage area for DOD-created nuclear waste & the ONLY operating deep geologic nuclear waste storage facility in the world. #GovtStupidity

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Honoring Molly Brett, English author had illustrator of #ChildrensBooks. Her use of subtle colors and delicately-drawn details created magical scenes. #kidlitart

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Honoring Errol Le Cain, British-Singaporean animator and illustrator of #ChildrensBooks. In 1984 he won the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal. #kidlitart

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Honoring Howard Pyle, one of America’s most popular illustrators and storytellers. Pyle adapted his art to suit the story being illustrated, drawing on a broad range of styles, and was a celebrity in his lifetime. #ChildrensBooks #kidlitart

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Honoring Meindert DeJong, Dutch-born American writer of #childrensbooks. He won the international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1962. #kidlit

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Honoring Eric Blegvad, Danish-born illustrator of over 100 books, who spent much of his time between London and the U.S. Initially, he trained to be an airplane mechanic. #ChildrensBooks #picturebooks #kidlitart

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Honoring Lansing Campbell, American illustrator best known for his illustrations in the Uncle Wiggily series of books by Howard R. Garis. #ChildrensBooks #kidlitart

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Honoring Patricia MacLachlan, author of over 60 #ChildrensBooks and winner of the 1986 Newbery Medal.

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Today is #ReadAcrossAmericaDay

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Honoring Leo Dillon...#ChildrensBooks #kidlit #picturebooks #kidlitart

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Honoring Dr. Seuss... #ChildrensBooks #kidlit #picturebooks

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Honoring Sam McBratney... #ChildrensBooks #kidlit #picturebooks

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Honoring Vladimir Radunsky... #ChildrensBooks #kidlitart #picturebooks

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Supporting allies makes the U.S. stronger.

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#HaikuSaturday a day late:

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March #birthstone (#1) lore:

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Honoring Anthony Burgess #OTD #ChildrensBooks #kidlit

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“These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier & the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love & thanks of man & woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered.” Thomas Paine

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Honoring Bohumil Říha, a Czechoslovak writer best known for children’s books. For his lasting contribution to children's literature he received the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1980. #ChildrensBooks #kidlit

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Honoring Nora S. Unwin, wood engraver, book illustrator and writer born near London into a family already renowned for founding three different publishing houses, including Allen and Unwin. #ChildrensBooks #kidlitart

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Honoring Harold Jones, British artist, illustrator, writer of #childrensbooks, and one of the most original children's book illustrator of the early 1900s. Jones's most acclaimed work was Lavender's Blue: A book of nursery rhymes (1954). #kidlitart

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I want to put out a Little Free Library. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

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Honoring Louis Slobodkin, sculptor, writer, illustrator of numerous children’s books born Albany, NY. His 1st illustrated book was for friend Eleanor Estes’s book THE MOFFATS (1941). #ChildrensBooks #kidlit

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Honoring Andre Norton, author who first wrote juvenile fiction then focused on sci-fi and fantasy with themes of rites of passage to self-realization undertaken by misfits & displaced outsiders. #Kidlit #yalit

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Honoring Virginia Sorenson, author of the 1957 Newbery Award winning MIRACLES ON MAPLE HILL. She won the 1955 Children’s Book Award (Child Study Assoc. of America) for PLAIN GIRL. Her adult novels are considered her contribution to literature of the American west. #ChildrensBooks

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