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Claire Bobrow @clairebobrow.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Yeehaw! It’s a 25% off Preorder sale from @barnesandnoble.com for all Rewards and Premium members!! From 9/3-9/5 lasso your copy of COWBOYS AT THE BALLET using code PREORDER25 Here’s a handy link: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/cowboys-at... #BNPreorder #kidlitmegafeed @simonandschuster.bsky.social

Cover of the forthcoming picture book COWBOYS AT THE BALLET, showing an illustration of a stage set designed to look like a Western landscape in dusty oranges with a dramatic sky and a corral fence. There are 3 dancers in Western garb dancing in the foreground.

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Claire Bobrow @clairebobrow.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Looking forward to this book about legendary children’s book editor Ursula Nordstrom by @nancyhudgins.com! #nonfiction #mg #middlegrade #kidlit #kidlitillustration #megakidlitfeed

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Gina Perry @ginaperry.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Tossing it out there one last time #kidlitart ...Illustration Institute based on Peaks Island in Maine has fantastic free programming. I'll be attending a workshop with LeUyen Pham on Wednesday - I think there are still a few spots left. More info: www.illustrationinstitute.org/summer-2025-...

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Summer 2025 Events — Illustration Institute

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Claire Bobrow @clairebobrow.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Hooray! When Bumblebees Go to Sleep is releasing August 5th! And @barnesandnoble.com is offering 25% off on pre-orders TODAY (July 11th) using the code PREORDER25. Don’t snooze on this excellent deal! 🐝🌼😊 #kidlitmegafeed #boardbook #bumblebee #lullaby www.barnesandnoble.com/w/when-bumbl...

Promotional graphic showing 25% off pre-orders at Barnes & Noble bookstore of the forthcoming board book When Bumblebees Go to Sleep. The cover illustration depicts a bumblebee snuggled up inside a purple dahlia flower with a starry night sky and full moon behind.

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Claire Bobrow @clairebobrow.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Cowboys at the Ballet is coming your way next March! It’s a #picturebook about the legendary Agnes de Mille, by me & #IlariaUrbinati, from Atheneum Books/Simon & Schuster. Pre-order now @ Barnes & Noble, 25% off July 8-11 with code PREORDER25. #kidlitmegafeed www.barnesandnoble.com/w/cowboys-at...

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Cowboys at the Ballet: The Story of Choreographer Agnes de Mille|Hardcover

A spirited picture book about the epic struggle and dramatic breakthrough of Agnes de Mille, the legendary choreographer of Oklahoma! and Carousel whose work changed the course of Broadway history.Som...

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Claire Bobrow @clairebobrow.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

This artist, Sarah Jacoby, is also an incredibly gifted author/illustrator of picture books, including one of my all-time favorites, Forever or a Day. Magnificent! #picturebook #kidlit #art #illustration

Cover of the picture book Forever or a Day, by Sarah Jacoby, with an illustration showing 2 seated children in silhouette from behind, facing a large body of water, with a city and hills in the distance and a gorgeous sky drenched in sunset colors.

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Claire Bobrow @clairebobrow.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Good morning #kidlitmegafeed 😊I’m thrilled to introduce you to the cover of Cowboys at the Ballet, my debut picture book, created with awesome illustrator #IlariaUrbinati and coming next March from Atheneum Books/Simon & Schuster. Yeehaw! #kidlit #picturebook #nonfiction #ballet #dance #cowboy

Cover of the forthcoming picture book Cowboys at the Ballet, with an illustration showing 3 dancers in Western wear on a stage decorated to look like a corral with wooden fences and a reddish-orange, earth-toned background that evokes the Western landscape.

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Claire Bobrow @clairebobrow.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Yeehaw! Cowboys at the Ballet, my debut #picturebook, is coming next March, created with illustrator #IlariaUrbinati and published by Atheneum Books/Simon & Schuster. Available for pre-order now @ Barnes & Noble, 25% off July 8-11 with code PREORDER25. #kidlit www.barnesandnoble.com/w/cowboys-at...

Cover of the forthcoming picture book Cowboys at the Ballet: The Story of Choreographer Agnes de Mille, showing a stage with 3 dancers in Western wear against a backdrop of a corral with a wooden fence and hilly, earth-toned landscape behind.

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Claire Bobrow @clairebobrow.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

I’m thrilled to share the cover of my debut #picturebook, created with super-talented illustrator #IlariaUrbinati! Please say hello to…Cowboys at the Ballet:The Story of Choreographer Agnes de Mille, coming from Atheneum Books/Simon&Schuster next March!! #kidlit #picturebook #dance #ballet #cowboy

Cover of the forthcoming picture book Cowboys at the Ballet: The Story of Choreographer Agnes de Mille. The cover shows an illustration of 3 dancers in cowboy and Western clothing dancing on a stage whose backdrop shows a corral with wooden fences set against a reddish-orange dry Western landscape and a dramatic sky.

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Claire Bobrow @clairebobrow.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Hello friends! My first book is releasing next month & you can get 25% off all Barnes & Noble pre-orders from July 8th-11th! So buzz on over today to barnesandnoble.com for your copy of WHEN BUMBLEBEES GO TO SLEEP!! Art by the fab Natalia Vasilica. Thank you! 🐝 #kidlit #boardbook #bedtime #bumblebee

Cover image of the forthcoming board book WHEN BUMBLEBEES GO TO SLEEP showing an illustration of a night sky, full moon, stars, and a bumblebee snuggled up in a purple dahlia, ready to snooze.

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Claire Bobrow @clairebobrow.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

It’s my first book! Coming August 5th 😊🐝 If you’re curious to learn how I came to write a lullaby for children (and bumblebees), please check out my latest Substack post: open.substack.com/pub/clairebo...

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My First Book--the Backstory!

How I came to write a lullaby for children and bumblebees

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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

I categorically refuse to accept either of these as normal or routine. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/u...

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Like School Shootings, Political Violence Is Becoming Almost Routine

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12 x 12 Picture Book Writing Challenge @12x12challenge.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Want to speak up with more confidence? Advocating for Yourself and Your Work is 25% off through June 30! Code: YOUMATTER buff.ly/1TiDe0y

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Claire Bobrow @clairebobrow.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Hello #Rose people! A mystery rose just bloomed in our garden. Based on old purchasing records, I believe it’s either Baronne de Prevost or Marchioness of Lorne. I’d love to identify it properly. Any thoughts? Thank you! #roses #gardening #flowers #bloomscrolling

Photo of a deep pink, many-petalled, old-fashioned rose in full bloom.

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Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic @grubreport.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Did you know that bumblebees actually sleep in flowers for warmth? I learned this from @clairebobrow.bsky.social amazing book WHEN BUMBLEBEES GO TO SLEEP. Feel like this chonky bee is slipping into a Golden Poppy sleeping bag.

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Claire Bobrow @clairebobrow.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Here’s Bermuda’s Kathleen for #RoseWednesday —hands down our most popular rose with the bees. Bumblebees and honeybees can’t seem to get enough. The flowers start pale apricot, then go pale pink and finish dark pink, similar to Rosa mutabilis. #flowers #bloomscrolling #roses #nature #gardening

Photo of a honeybee on the pale apricot bloom of a Bermuda’s Kathleen rose. The older blossoms in the background have faded to pale pink and dark pink.

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Claire Bobrow @clairebobrow.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

For #FlowerFriday, here are the 2 roses in our garden most-beloved by bees of all stripes: Bermuda’s Kathleen and Clytemnestra. A couple of oddballs perhaps, but they’re practically indestructible, very vigorous and healthy, and a total delight. #roses #gardening #bloomscrolling

A bee on a Clytemnestra rose, which is pale pink with touches of apricot, and has a boss of deep golden stamens.

A bee on a Bermuda’s Kathleen rose, which starts out pale apricot, then turns pale pink, and then finally deep pink before fading. It reminds me of Rosa mutabilis, but with much smaller flowers.

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Claire Bobrow @clairebobrow.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I missed #RoseWednesday, so Friday will have to do! Here’s New Dawn, the first rose to receive a patent. It got off to a slow start in our garden (I could barely dig a hole, thanks to neighboring roots), but after a few years, it’s finally hitting its stride. #roses #gardening #flowers

Close-up photo of the rose New Dawn, a pale pink, multi-petaled beauty surrounded by lots of unopened buds.

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Claire Bobrow @clairebobrow.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

‘Gentle Hermione’ rose for #RoseWednesday. It might have the most enticing fragrance of all our roses? The overall plant form is graceful and willowy, and the blossom color is a beautiful luminescent pink. Highly recommend this one! #roses #bloomscrolling #flowerreport

Photo of an open blossom of the rose ‘Gentle Hermione.’ The color is a gorgeous luminescent pink, and the leaves are a matte, mid-green.

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Nancy Hudgins @nancyhudgins.com · 19/05/2025

80 years ago today, in 1945, Harper & Row published THE CARROT SEED, by Ruth Krauss, illus. by her husband, Crockett Johnson, edited by the extraordinary #UrsulaNordstrom. A #PB, it was Ruth’s debut book. Ursula would edit and publish approximately 20 more of Ruth's books. #KidlitHistory #kidlit

The cover is a mustard yellow, with the title in big and bold red type. This is the 75th Anniversary edition. There's a drawing of Harold dropping a seed in the ground.

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Karen B. McCoy @karenbmccoy.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

In this podcast interview with The Academic Life, I talk about the importance of libraries! We delve into information literacy, and the importance of working with your campus libraries. Go to podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a... or wherever you get your podcasts!

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Academic Librarians: A Discussion with Karen McCoy

Podcast Episode · The Academic Life · 05/15/2025 · 56m

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Claire Bobrow @clairebobrow.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Rose ‘Madame Alice Garnier,’ a happy rambler scrambling up the garden fence (and threatening to swallow it…). #rose #bloomscrolling #flowers

Photo of the rose Madame Alice Garnier, a small-flowered, many-petaled, peachy pink rambler, in full bloom.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Roses are redde Noble are the manatees Yf we wante a bettir future Teach artes & humanityes

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

"..You have the right to be angry sometimes" - Little My, character in the Moomin books by Tove Jansson who first appeared in 1950. She is small, determined, mischievous and fiercely independent and partly based on the author herself. #WomensArt #Monday

Pen and ink drawings of the same small female character from taken from book illustrations in diffetent positions on a cream background

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Plese repost & share thys dire but important newes about medieval studyes (of ynterest to anyone who doth care about any kynde of learninge & bookes, too):

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Julia Breckenreid @juliabreckenreid.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

It's May 1st! No One Told Sandra Day O'Connor What To Do, written by @mollygolden.bsky.social and illustrated by me, is in stores now 🙂🎉 #sandradayoconnor #picturebook

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Claire Bobrow @clairebobrow.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

A sad state of affairs 😭 My parents reading to me, and later me reading to my own children, has been one of the great joys of my life.

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Claire Bobrow @clairebobrow.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Vanessa Bell—an artist, a revolutionary, and a rose.

Photograph of a single bloom of the rose ‘Vanessa Bell’ in a clear glass bud vase. This multi-petaled rose has white outer petals and a creamy yellow center. If buttercream frosting were a rose, this would be it. And the fragrance is divine.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

SAVE BAY AREA ARTS: "And sure, artists don’t necessarily need to go to art school. But art schools are a necessary part of a vibrant arts scene. These graduates go on to create the artworks, projects and spaces that shape our understanding of each other and that shared thing we call culture."

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So You Wanna Go to Art School?

Aspiring artists have fewer places to get degrees in the Bay Area, putting the region’s artistic future in jeopardy.

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Claire Bobrow @clairebobrow.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Woohoo! Presale opportunity for my debut board book with Natalia Vasilica! B&N Rewards and Premium Members get 25% off from April 23-25, and Premium members get an extra 10% off. Be sure to use code: PREORDER25 #BNPreorder #boardbook #kidlit #bees #bedtime www.barnesandnoble.com/w/when-bumbl...

Cover of the board book WHEN BUMBLEBEES GO TO SLEEP, showing an illustration of a sleepy bumblebee resting inside a large purple flower with a night sky and a prominent full moon in the background.

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Claire Bobrow @clairebobrow.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Happy Earth Day. Here’s to the flowers! #gardening #flowers Clematis montana ‘Alba’

Close-up photo of Clematis montana ‘Alba’ flowers, which have four bright white petals and a boss of yellow stamens in the center.

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Claire Bobrow @clairebobrow.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

California Ninebark shrub in the garden. The lime-green leaves add a lift to shady spots. #gardening #natives

Close-up photo of the blooms on a native California Ninebark shrub—clusters of tiny white flowers with golden-yellow eyes, arranged in “puffballs” (kind of like Spirea). The foliage is a beautiful pale lime green. Maybe “chartreuse” is a more accurate description?

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School Library Journal @slj.com · 10/04/2025

SLJ Special Project: Reasons to Love Libraries Our ongoing celebration of what makes libraries essential, innovative, and beloved community institutions. Share yours! More: slj.com/page/reasons... #exclusivetoBlueSky #libraries #LibraryLove #advocacy @staceyabrams.com @mychal3ts.bsky.social

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Reasons to Love Libraries

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Kim Collazo @kcollazo.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Hey #STEM friends who teach about the importance of #bees! Make sure you check out @booksbycindy.bsky.social’s new #PB —you’ll want to add this to your collection!🐝 susannahill.com/2025/04/08/t...

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Tuesday Debut – Presenting Cynthia Mackey!

Hello, Everyone! So glad to see you all!

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Unite Against Book Bans @uabookbans.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

It’s #RightToReadDay. NEW data from @oif.bsky.social shows that 72% of book bans in 2024 were initiated by organized groups and elected officials. We need EVERYONE to #UniteAgainstBookBans & take action against these organized attempts today: uniteagainstbookbans.org/right-to-rea... #DrawnToFreedom

Take action today. Right to Read Day. April 7, 2025 #RightToReadDay. #DrawnToFreedom. Unite Against Book Bans. bit.ly/RightToReadDay. Above the text is an illustration by Nate Powell featuring people at a public library and various things you can do at the library.

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Claire Bobrow @clairebobrow.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

I second this recommendation with all my heart. An outstanding book—for everyone!

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Claire Bobrow @clairebobrow.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

It’s been a wild week. If you need a moment of rest, give a listen to this wildly beautiful piece of music: m.youtube.com/watch?v=fCSQ...

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Alison Balsom | Sound The Trumpet | Eternal Source of Light Divine

YouTube video by Alison Balsom

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Susan Brubaker Knapp, contemporary expert quilter, as well as an artist and author (Via J.Cannel FB) #WomensArt

Quilted textile artwork with images of various realistic lookibg butterflies and moths in different colours, shapes and sizes on a black background

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A.J. Irving 🩷💜💙 @ajirving.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

GOOSE EGG ISLAND has a perfect balance of information, tension, and tender moments. The gorgeous language by Julia Richardson and breathtaking art by @menekarepka.bsky.social will delight little birders and nature lovers! #kidlit #kidlitart

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Claire Bobrow @clairebobrow.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

The rose ‘Munstead Wood’ isn’t messing around.

Close-up photo of a newly sprouted rose stem, pinkish green in color, which is covered in sharp, spiny thorns that are reddish-pink in color.

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Claire Bobrow @clairebobrow.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

A truly wonderful picture book. Don’t miss this one!

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Nobodye good doth evir attack the fundinge of libraryes

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