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Anna Osborn @annagotangcoosborn.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

How did I not know about @ellenoh.bsky.social’s scary books?!?! Thank you #UnboundBookFestival for the opportunity to learn!

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Anna Osborn @annagotangcoosborn.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

@ellenoh.bsky.social brings so much light into the world! Thank you #UnboundBookFestival for bringing her to COMO!

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Anna Osborn @annagotangcoosborn.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

I have officially reached the Easter candy eating stage of writing my dissertation. 🐣 🐰 Brain food for sure. #PhDpursuit #pagesoverquality

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Anna Osborn @annagotangcoosborn.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

COMO peeps, if you’re looking for a reason to eat out tonight, help our JMS PTSA with our Noodles and Co fundraiser!

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Anna Osborn @annagotangcoosborn.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Teacher peeps in COMO or those who can drive in…join us! This year’s books are so good!!! And, we’ll have snacks!!!

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Anna Osborn @annagotangcoosborn.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

I was going to wait until finishing to post but I’m full on bawling in Chapter 8. 😭😭😭

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Anna Osborn @annagotangcoosborn.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

@sguillory262.bsky.social’s Nowhere Better Than Here was a tough read for someone who lived on the Louisiana coast but it has stuck with me for so long that I had to send my Cajun mom a copy. My note told her to grab the tissues.

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Anna Osborn @annagotangcoosborn.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Marathon listening to YA & middle grade for an upcoming PD & am loving my most recent reads. Lei and the Fire Goddess had me laughing out loud, googling Hawaiian folktales, and holding my breath during Lei’s big race with the fire goddess Pele! @maliamaunakea.bsky.social @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social

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Anna Osborn @annagotangcoosborn.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Just finished the AsAm YA romance Clementine and Danny Save the World (and each other) from Livia Blackburne and LOVED IT! Perfect snow day read. @harpercollins.bsky.social

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Anna Osborn @annagotangcoosborn.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Just mailed off copies of Randy Ribay’s Everything We Never Had to my dad & brother. Love it so much! It will have you thinking abt family & history & all the things that make/break us. If you have a FilAm male in your life or someone with difficult family bonds, gift it to them. And yourself.

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Anna Osborn @annagotangcoosborn.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Today is the last day of #CoMoGives 2024. Please consider supporting the work Nora Stewart Early Learning Center does with our COMO littles.

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Anna Osborn @annagotangcoosborn.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Last 2 days of #COMOgives24. If you’re looking for a local organization to help, Nora Stewart Early Learning Center is fabulous! If you have any questions about their work, let me know. I’ve had the honor to be on their board for the past several years.

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Mae Respicio 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @maerespicio.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Hello Bluesky! (Happy to be here!) I write #MG books and my latest, ISABEL IN BLOOM, is a novel-in-verse praised by the NYT as a "sweet and heartfelt novel [that] explores how bumpy beginnings can offer chances for new growth." My author brand is a blend of tender, joyful, and Filipino-Dad jokes 🥰🇵🇭

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ALA’s Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table @libcomix.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Applications for the 2025 Will Eisner Graphic Novel Grants for Libraries are now open! These grants recognize libraries for their growth of graphic literature and award funds graphic novel collection development and programming. More info and apply: buff.ly/4exe0e1

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Cody Miller @hcodymiller.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Right now is a good time to call your reps and tell them you are against ANY form of book banning (including the "Parents Bill of Rights" bill). The GOP House majority is going to be super slim in January, and they couldn't get the entire caucus behind the bill last time. We can beat this bill!

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SF Said @whatsfsaid.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I don't believe in "good reading" & "bad reading". Comic books, graphic novels, manga, picture books, joke books, sports reports, all kinds of poetry & prose: it's all reading, and it's all good! Let kids read for pleasure - and they'll be readers FOREVER! #reading #literacy (Art: Bill Watterson)

Calvin and Hobbes cartoon by Bill Watterson, showing Calvin and Hobbes reading comics for pleasure

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Anna Osborn @annagotangcoosborn.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

How did I only just learn about candle warming lamps? The best of both worlds—my favorite scented candle with a worry that the dogs will jostle and knock down an open flame. LOVE! 🕯️❤️🕯️

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Anna Osborn @annagotangcoosborn.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I once heard someone say a #PhDpursuit is like therapy, constantly uncovering motives & beliefs…and memories. The “clerk” in this family story was a local comic guy named James. He was a comic expert, a historian with unlimited knowledge he shared w/local comic patrons. 1/

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William J. Brady @williambrady.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

New paper out in @ScienceMagazine! In 8 studies (multiple platforms, methods, time periods) we find: misinformation evokes more outrage than trustworthy news, when it does it's shared more + ppl are less likely to read before sharing. w/ @killianmcl1 @Klonick @mollycrockett 🧵👇

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Jung (정) “Average Asian” @jungkim.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

If you need yet another reason to stop buying from Amazon. #BDS

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Anna Osborn @annagotangcoosborn.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

@hcodymiller.bsky.social @jungkim.bsky.social @mrbgilson.bsky.social Are you watching #SellingSuperman on Prime? Just bought the season and am watching Ep 1. Lots of comic history! #graphicnovels

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Carol Jago @caroljago.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

In classrooms, the one doing the talking is the one who’s doing the learning.

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Kellee Moye @kelleemoye.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

#ALAN24 attendees: please make sure to fill out the interest and feedback survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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ALAN Feedback & Interest Survey, Nov 2024

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Anna Osborn @annagotangcoosborn.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Sherri Smith’s #Pearl is breathtaking. Now to just figure out what she wrote for Wonder Woman!!! #NCTE24

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Kevin Wong 黃浩文 @kevinwongla.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

"Your English is so good!" A common but problematic phrase. In this short article, I unpack how linguistic bias shows up in language classrooms & explore 4 practical ways to foster inclusivity & celebrate linguistic diversity. Let’s rethink how we value every voice. www.linkedin.com/pulse/unmuti...

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Unmuting Diversity: Challenging Linguistic Bias in the Language Classroom

“Your English is so good!” This seemingly innocuous phrase often reveals underlying linguistic bias. While meant as a compliment, it implies surprise that someone could master English so well—an assum...

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Anna Osborn @annagotangcoosborn.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Tired is clicking “convention center” when I meant to click “airport”. Grateful for a patient Uber driver. 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️#ALAN24 #NCTE24

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Dr Coley Lehman @readingispolitical.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

ALAN day 2 keynote made me cry. Thank you @aidenschmaiden.bsky.social for speaking about how resilient stories are, how books get banned, but those stories can’t be erased. I’m going back to my work with your reminder that “teaching empathy is an act of resistance.” #ALAN24 #EduSky

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Anna Osborn @annagotangcoosborn.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

LOVE @jungkim.bsky.social’s question about @scottmccloud.bsky.social’s jacket. She asked just as I was thinking “He sure does really look like #UnderstandingComics Scott.” #ALAN24

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Anna Osborn @annagotangcoosborn.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Excited I got a copy of David Anthony’s The Longest Egypt! My @rickriordan.bsky.social readers will love it. Hoping I have Flora Ahn’s A Brush of Magic (Korean mythology-inspired). Kids love all mythos! #ALAN24 @leeandlow.bsky.social @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social @penguinschoollib.bsky.social

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Anna Osborn @annagotangcoosborn.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Love listening to @mrschureads.bsky.social & Maya Van Wagenen talk about their books’ audiobooks. Also cool to listen to Victoria Villarreal talk about her approach as an audiobook reader while prepping and recording. #ALAN24

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Jo Knowles @joknowles.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

There's a meme going round that begins: "Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you..." My challenge to you now, is to imagine how different your life might be if you'd never read them, and share _that_. These are the futures we're robbing from kids every time a book is banned.

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Anna Osborn @annagotangcoosborn.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Seema Yasmin talks of building “cognitive resistance” to disinformation. “Teach students to spot a lie.” #ALAN24

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Sarah Mulhern Gross @thereadingzone.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Happy day 2 of #alan24! I’m excited to moderate a conversation today between Brian Selznick and M.T. Anderson called “Nature’s Perils”.

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Jung (정) “Average Asian” @jungkim.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

“When you fight for books, you fight for lives.” @aidenschmaiden.bsky.social speaking beautifully about the need for kids to see themselves in stories—especially in light of current times. #ALAN24

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LitProfSuz @litprofsuz.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

An inspirational ending of Day 1 of #ALAN24 with Randy Ribay's metaphor of the sequoia tree facts as related to letting them read.

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop transformed how we see children's books and the world. Explore her powerful story in this oral history, created by the Coretta Scott King Book Awards Round Table for the 55th anniversary of the award. 📚 #MirrorsWindowsAndSlidingGlassDoors youtu.be/Zm6zmaERJ3c?...

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Oral History of Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop

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Kate Messner @katemessner.com · 25/11/2024

Educator @msguerrette.bsky.social created the most amazing teaching & discussion guide for my upcoming novel-in-verse THE TROUBLE WITH HEROES. You can download the pdf here: www.bloomsbury.com/media/le1cko...

Book cover THE TROUBLE WITH HEROES has a blue-sky and green mountains background with a middle school boy with an orange backpack looking into the distance. A drooly Bernese mountain dog is looking up at him adoringly. Text reads: Teaching & Discussion Guide against a sky blue background

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Anna Osborn @annagotangcoosborn.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Randy Ribay: “Let the fire bring life.” #ALAN24

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Anna Osborn @annagotangcoosborn.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

@kwamembalia.bsky.social, I so want to meet you and talk the possibility of submitting an “If you like ___, you’ll like ___” session for #NCTE25! #ALAN24

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Anna Osborn @annagotangcoosborn.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

#ALAN24, see @kelleemoye.bsky.social’s request for notes!

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Cody Miller @hcodymiller.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Banning books as a strategy to curtailing other rights has a long history. One example that sticks with me is the '08 Prop 8 ad that warned voters that kids would have to read "King and King" in schools if marriage equality weren't overturned. Ban gay books, then ban gay rights. That's the playbook.

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Anna Osborn @annagotangcoosborn.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Let the learning about the newest young adult literature begin! First up, immigrant stories in-verse. #alan24

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