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Audrey Barbakoff is ✨kvelling✨ @barbakoffbooks.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Excited to be surrounded by amazing fellow librarians, authors, and book-loving folk at the American Library Association conference! Come find me - I’m the one with the sexy sprained ankle accessory. Signing MAZEL TOES! Sunday at 2 Presenting Monday at 11 (Shelf to Story) #ALAAC26

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Audrey Barbakoff is ✨kvelling✨ @barbakoffbooks.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Who’s at the @scbwi Western Washington conference today? I want to meet you in person!

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Danielle Render Turmaud, PhD @drenderturmaud.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

✨FREE ONLINE WRITING CONFERENCE!✨Mark your calendar for the Writer’s Workout Conference! The WW team has lined up some amazing speakers. And I’m honored to be one of them this year! My presentation will be on “Balancing Your Voice & Market Needs in the #Kidlit Journey"😄👇👇 Link in the comments below!

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Danielle Render Turmaud, PhD @drenderturmaud.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

1st @ymwjpodcast.bsky.social episode of 2026 dropped Sunday with @barbakoffbooks.bsky.social 😁👇🎉 We hope it encourages you! #writingcommunity #kidlit

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Read Your World @readyourworld.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Welcome to 2026 Author sponsor @barbakoffbooks.bsky.social ! The Schlemiel Kids Save the Moon features a modern-day twist on a Yiddish folktale. It was named one of the Best Books of the 2024 by the Bank Street College of Education. readyourworld.org/2026-author-... #ReadYourWorld #ad #kidlit

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Audrey Barbakoff is ✨kvelling✨ @barbakoffbooks.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

At #NCTE ? Don’t miss this panel of brilliant author-educators!

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Audrey Barbakoff is ✨kvelling✨ @barbakoffbooks.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Happy happy book birthday to MAZEL TOES!!! I’m so excited to have this book, esp Annita Soble’s glorious art, out in the world!

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12 x 12 Picture Book Writing Challenge @12x12challenge.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

🎉 Congratulations to @barbakoffbooks.bsky.social! 🎉 📚 MAZEL TOES!, illustrated by Annita Soble, published by The Collective Book Studio, officially came out today. ✨ Find it here: buff.ly/wokPQHw #kidlit #12x12PB

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12 x 12 Picture Book Writing Challenge @12x12challenge.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

🎉 Congrats to @barbakoffbooks.bsky.social! Her debut 📚 THE SCHLEMIEL KIDS SAVE THE MOON was named a 2025 BANK STREET BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (Age 5–9). Illustrated by Rotem Teplow. Published by The Collective Book Studio. #kidlit #12x12PB

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Audrey Barbakoff is ✨kvelling✨ @barbakoffbooks.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Love meeting so many inspiring📚 indie booksellers 📚at #NVNR2025 ! They’re on the front lines of building community and getting diverse books into kids’ hands. @newvoicesnewrooms @naibabooksellers @siba_books Don’t miss my panel this afternoon on partnering with children’s authors for all ages!

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

On @marketplace.org's Make Me Smart, ALA President @samhelmick.bsky.social explains how attacks on federal funding, book bans, and the shift to digital are threatening the future of public libraries and why it matters to every community. www.marketplace.org/episode/2025... #UniteAgainstBookBans

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Public libraries on the line

Funding cuts aren’t the only thing libraries are up against.

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Anna @annaneat.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Stopped in my tracks by this sign pointing out the IMLS absence from #ALAAC25

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Audrey Barbakoff is ✨kvelling✨ @barbakoffbooks.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

At #ALAAC25? Don’t miss my panel on uplifting young readers through empowering stories! 9:30am Sunday with @leewind.bsky.social and Alicia McKenzie. Plus, book signing at 11 at booth 1548.

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Audrey Barbakoff is ✨kvelling✨ @barbakoffbooks.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

So proud and excited that THE SCHLEMIEL KIDS SAVE THE MOON is a Bank Street best children’s book of the year! 🎉🎉🎉 Thank you @bankstreet.edu!

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Audrey Barbakoff is ✨kvelling✨ @barbakoffbooks.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Beyond excited to share this news! Pumpkin Shabbat 🎃 🍁 🍂 is on its way to fill your bookshelves with goofy giggles, fall fun, and Jewish joy! I’m incredibly honored to collaborate with brilliant folks like @familiusbooks.bsky.social @bookfairyangus.bsky.social @howlandlit.bsky.social

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Robin Stevenson @robinstevenson.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

As the author of Pride Puppy, I'm used to misinformation- but I didn't expect to hear these lies at SCOTUS. (Also- bondage? Was Gorsuch referring to the family's dog being on a leash? Who knows?!) Anyway, please read this to see what's actually in the book! www.whatwouldjuliedraw.com/pridepuppy

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pride puppy & SCOTUS — what would julie draw?

take a look at what's really in Pride Puppy!

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

As libraries across the country receive notices of critical grants being canceled, ALA has new advice to help libraries & institutions navigating federal grant terminations. Steps 1 & 2: Notify your legal counsel and preserve all documents. Read the rest: www.ala.org/news/2025/04...

New ALA advice on responding to federal grant cancellations. Show up for our libraries, American Library Association

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Audrey Barbakoff is ✨kvelling✨ @barbakoffbooks.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

If you’re at the WA Library Association conference, come visit me at the book bash! #wla2025

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Danielle Render Turmaud, PhD @drenderturmaud.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Yesterday, @barbakoffbooks.bsky.social & I recorded a @ymwjpodcast.bsky.social episode on Sharing Joy Through Writing Even Amidst the Hard Times. We discussed how writing can be a place where we self-actualize/can just be. Never give up moments of being with yourself & who you are. #writingcommunity

Quote that says “the most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.”

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Audrey Barbakoff is ✨kvelling✨ @barbakoffbooks.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Kidlit Editors! Do you want a zany, voice-y PB with queer nonbinary Jewish rep and TONS OF PUMPKINS? 🎃🎃🎃 Of course you do. DM me or @bookfairyangus.bsky.social for a proposal! #onsub #pb

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Audrey Barbakoff is ✨kvelling✨ @barbakoffbooks.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I am over the moon to be represented by @bookfairyangus.bsky.social at Howland Literary! Her vision and enthusiasm for my book, and her insight into the industry, are beyond incredible. So many good things to come!

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