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Avery Udagawa @averyudagawa.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I look forward to moderating SWET Talk Shop: Catching Up with Writer Holly Thompson @hatbooks.bsky.social on Saturday, July 11 at 9 a.m. Japan Standard Time. Holly's #bicultural writing for young people has inspired me for years. #kidlit #pb #mg #ya #ListeningToTrees swet.jp/events/event...

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Holly Thompson @hatbooks.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Join me for a Narrative Poetry class, via #GrubStreet Boston on Zoom, 4 Thursdays, 6-9pm, in June. We'll read, explore, write & discuss works that fuse poetry plus narrative, short forms as well as verse novels. #versenovels #narrativepoetry #poetry #creativewriting grubstreet.org/workshop/nar...

Collage of verse novel covers: Everything is Poison; The Burning Season; Knocking on Windows; Radiant; Apple: Skin to the Core; A Sea of Lemon Trees; The Trouble with Heroes; When We Ride; Grace Notes; Lion of the Sky; King of the Neuro Verse; All the Love Under the Vast Sky; Bridge Across the Sky; Bright Red Fruit; Love, Sivvy

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SCBWI @scbwi.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

We stand alongside over 100 grassroots and national advocacy organizations, publishers, booksellers, parent groups, and professional associations in opposition to H.R. 7661.

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Holly Thompson @hatbooks.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I'm teaching Narrative Poetry four Thursdays in June: 6/4, 6/11, 6/18, 6/25, 6-9 pm EDT, via Zoom. Interested in the craft of poetry + story? Verse Novels? Join us from wherever you are for this 4-week workshop. Generative, supportive, inclusive. grubstreet.org/workshop/nar... #poetry #versenovels

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Writing Workshop: Narrative Poetry | GrubStreet

Starts Jun 4, 2026- In this class, we’ll explore the craft of narrative poetry—poems that tell stories–and various ways to build lines and employ…

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Linda Weste @lindaweste.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Heads up for three award-winning #VerseNovels by Holly Thompson @hatbooks.bsky.social Orchards #YA The Language Inside #YA & Falling into the Dragon's Mouth #MG #kidlit #writingcommunity #librarian #MGBookChat @yalsa.bsky.social @worldkidlit.bsky.social @librariesconnected.bsky.social

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Holly Thompson @hatbooks.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Thanks for sharing this post--4th of my 4 posts for "The Official SCBWI Blog"! #translation #SCBWI

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Holly Thompson @hatbooks.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

This summer I'm an SCBWI guest blogger. Watch for my posts every Thursdays throughout August on the SCBWI Official Blog. #1 of 4 is up--a focus on connections and volunteering. scbwi.blogspot.com/2025/08/scbw...

SCBWI banner for the SCBWI Official Blog

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Holly Thompson @hatbooks.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Thrilled to learn that LISTENING TO TREES: George Nakashima, Woodworker, with text by me and illustrations by Toshiki Nakamura is an SCBWI Crystal Kite Award winner! @artoftoshi.bsky.social @holidayhouse.bsky.social

Crystal Kite award winning seal and cover of Listening to Trees: George Nakashima, Woodworker by Holly Thompson, illustrated by Toshiki Nakamura

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Avery Udagawa @averyudagawa.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Savored a pre-event visit with Japan- and Massachusetts-based author Holly Thompson @hatbooks.bsky.social. My journey toward translating Sachiko Kashiwaba’s The Village Beyond the Mist began with translating a story by Kashiwaba-san for the #YA anthology TOMO, edited by Holly. www.hatbooks.com

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Holly Thompson @hatbooks.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

My GrubStreet summer course 6 Weeks 3 Picture Books starts June 2, meets 6 Mondays via Zoom, 6-9 pm EDT. Generative, supportive, inclusive. Join us? Only 3 spots left! Scholarships available. Details: grubstreet.org/workshop/6-w... #picturebookwriting #kidlit #picturebooks #creativewriting

Collage of recently published picture book covers.

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Holly Thompson @hatbooks.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

So much energy and fun at #SeaweedSaturday in Portland, ME. Good eats, art and demos. Thanks to all those who made this happen for the second year in a row. Copies of #TheWakameGatherers went home with many new friends : ) Thank you @leeandlow.bsky.social

Portland, ME Seaweed Saturday exhibitors

Author Holly Thompson with The Wakame Gatherers readers

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Holly Thompson @hatbooks.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Seaweed Saturday is 4/26 at Gulf of Maine Institute, Portland & I'll be there w/ The Wakame Gatherers. Seaweed Saturday features arts, seaweed panels, marketplace, tastings, hands-on activities, food trucks & more! #SeaweedSaturday #Maine #Wakame #picturebooks @leeandlow.bsky.social

Photos of posters for Maine Seaweed Week and Seaweed Saturday in Portland, ME, plus photos of seaweed

Photo of cover of the picture book THE WAKAME GATHERERS by Holly Thompson, illustrated by Kazumi Wilds.

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Holly Thompson @hatbooks.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Ready to craft narrative poems/verse novels in Nat'l Poetry Month? My GrubStreet class NARRATIVE POETRY begins April 2 on Zoom, 6-9 pm EDT, for 4 Tues eves. Join us? See grubstreet.org/workshop/nar... #narrativepoetry #versenovels #poetry #poetrywriting #creativewriting #nationalpoetrymonth2025

Collage of verse novels and poetry books by various authors.

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Holly Thompson @hatbooks.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Grateful to Doylestown Living magazine for 2 features: Mira Nakashima & the Nakashima Foundation for Peace, plus tribute to George Nakashima w/ Q&A with me! See pages 25-30 for this double feature. Get a copy in Doylestown, PA or visit my HATbooks blog--link in my bio. #picturebooks #NF #biography

Photos of two Doylestown Living magazine articles, one featuring Holly Thompson and first page of interview regarding creating of her picture book Listening to Trees: George Nakashima, Woodworker, by Holly Thompson, illustrated by Toshiki Nakamura, published by Neal Porter/Holiday House, and photo of the the second article featuring Mira Nakashima on the Nakashima Foundation for Peace. Cover of magazine Doylestown Living also included.

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Holly Thompson @hatbooks.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Florida friends--I'm doing 3 #ListeningtoTrees events this week in Palm Beach & Broward counties. Join and learn more about the life of woodworker George Nakashima. For makers ages 6 and up. Link to Hatbooks blog in bio. #GeorgeNakashima #nonfiction #picturebooks @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social

photos of picture book Listening to Trees and furniture made by George Nakashima that were exhibited at the Morikami Museum and Gardens

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Holly Thompson @hatbooks.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

My 2025 Zoom picture book writing classes--SOON at GrubStreet.org : INTRO TO PBs: Mon 1/27 & 2/3 6-9 pm--overview & writing explorations. 6 WEEKS, 6 PBs: 6 Mondays fr. 2/24 6-9 pm Craft, revise 3 text for 3 PBs w/ group feedbac, revision. #picturebookwriting #Zoom #PBclasses hatbooks.blogspot.com

Collage of recently published picture books

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Holly Thompson @hatbooks.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I'm thrilled to be presenting with MFA Boston curator Asako Katsura at this Japan Society Boston event on George Nakashima & my #picturebook Listening to Trees. Free event. Join us? Dec. 10, 6 pm EST. Register: loom.ly/qcvYK_4 @holidayhouse.bsky.social #ListeningToTrees #nonfiction #biography

Japan Society Boston announcement for event on 12/10/2024, 6 pm about the picture book Listening to Trees: George Nakashima, Woodworker, with author Holly Thompson and MFA art curator Asako Katsura.

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Holly Thompson @hatbooks.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Hooray! Listening to Trees: George Nakashima, Woodworker is a 2025 NCTE Orbis Pictus Recommended title! Such an honor for Listening to Trees--Orbis Picture Award is for outstanding NF for children. Thanks to @holidayhouse.bsky.social @artoftoshi.bsky.social #biography #NealPorterBooks

Picture book Listening to Trees: George Nakashima, Woodworker, with Orbis Pictus Recommended Book seal on cover.

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Kate Messner @katemessner.com · 02/12/2024

Teachers & librarians! Want to Zoom with an author for World Read Aloud Day? Here's all the information about how WRAD Zoom visits work, plus a list of over 300 author & illustrator volunteers! katemessner.com/zoom-with-an...

FEBRUARY 5, 2025 WORLD READ ALOUD DAY graphic has a lavendar background with cartoon animals celebrating - including a panda, elephant, giraffe, and bear. Presented by litworld.org

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Holly Thompson @hatbooks.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

In LA for college and school visits, Japanese American National Museum exhibits and signing copies of #ListeningtoTrees. All is well! 😀 #georgenakashimawoodworker @nakashimawoodworkers #japaneseamericanhistory #picturebooks #woodworking @holidayhousebks @nealporterbooks

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Holly Thompson @hatbooks.bsky.social · 02/09/2024

Coming soon...LISTENING TO TREES: GEORGE NAKASHIMA, WOODWORKER. Pre-order now from your favorite bookshops. Words by me, illustrations by Toshiki Nakamura, written in haibun form, with pages of back matter, plus a foreword from Mira Nakashima. #ListeningToTrees #GeorgeNakashima #PictureBooks

Cover of picture book Listening to Trees: George Nakashima, Woodworker, Words by Holly Thompson, Picture by Toshiki Nakamura, with an illustration of young George hiking among trees.

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Holly Thompson @hatbooks.bsky.social · 14/06/2024

Thrilled that my Zoom summer course 6 Weeks, 6 Picture Books course at grubstreet.org is full! But you can still join the waitlist. We'll read PBs, study mentor texts, learn more PB craft, write, revise, share feedback. And if you can't join this course, maybe next time : ) #picturebooks #kidlit

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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 31/05/2024

For those were at #KidLitAMA or anyone else interested in kidlit illustration, I highly recommend listening to @literaticat.bsky.social's excellent interview with Scholastic Executive Art Director @brianlarossa.com: www.jenniferlaughran.com/literaticast... #KidLitArt

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65: Inside the Art Department with Art Director Brian LaRossa

Literary Agent Jennifer Laughran and her friends dish about the world of Children's Publishing. Become a Patron! Patreon donations go directly to paying the fees to run the podcast. Any amount over...

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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 14/06/2024

Hey #KidLit Community! Official #KidLit Mega Feed launch is tomorrow 12p ET w/ @boringstorybook.com @charlenedraws.bsky.social & me! Hoping you'll all post. Special thx to advisors & cheerleaders @brianlarossa.com @bossett.social @rose.bsky.team @danirabaiotti.bsky.social @blueskyfeedcreator.com!

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Andrea Brown Literary Agency @andreabrownlit.bsky.social · 14/06/2024

We're just about at 1K followers on here :) Happy to see you and talk about excellent books, authors, and illustrators!

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Read Japanese Literature @readjapaneseliterature.com · 19/03/2024

Happy release day to Nahoko Uehashi's The Deer King, vol. 2—Returners (trans. Cathy Hirano). I haven't read this one myself, but I've heard good things about it. And I *have* read Uehashi's The Beast Player (also trans. Hirano), which is a must-read Japanese fantasy novel.

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The Deer King, Vol. 2 (Novel): Returners Volume 2 a book by Nahoko Uehashi, Masaaki Yamamoto, and Cathy Hirano

Van's chase to rescue the kidnapped Yuna leads him to the Ahfal Oma, the People of the Fire Horse. They reveal that the sickness plaguing Aquafa is no random resurgence but a carefully orchestrated re...

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Greg Pincus @gregpincus.bsky.social · 19/03/2024

There shall be a #kidlitchat at 9 PM Eastern tonight, and it shall also be at 6 PM Pacific cuz we are so good at multitasking in that way. No matter what time it is for you, I hope you'll join us!

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Holly Thompson @hatbooks.bsky.social · 07/03/2024

This month @worldkidlit features Seeking a Publisher, showcasing global kidlit books available now for translation into English. Today features books orig. pub'd in Japanese & Arabic; two are books I've translated that are now #seekingapublisher! hatbooks.blogspot.com/2024/03/worl...

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Avery Udagawa @averyudagawa.bsky.social · 07/03/2024

This week's Book of the Week at the Cooperative Children's Book Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, is 2024 #PrintzHonor book FIRE FROM THE SKY by Moa Backe Åstot, translated from Swedish by Eva Apelqvist! #SCBWITranslation #YA ccbc.education.wisc.edu/fire-from-th...

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Holly Thompson @hatbooks.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

Editors, are you following the Seeking a Publisher posts at #WorldKidLit? So far children's to YA works from Europe, Africa, Americas have been shared. More global stories available for translation TK! #translation #worldlit #kidlit #YA #MG #PB worldkidlit.org

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Holly Thompson @hatbooks.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

Yikes! #kidlitchat is weekly! I have to speed up my writing!

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Holly Thompson @hatbooks.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

What I've been doing lately: writing a biography PB, drafting a comedy PB, revising a math PB, teaching PB writing, reading tons of PBs, lugging tons of PBs, loving new PBs, loving old PBs, drafting more PBs, dreaming PBs...but I think I'm supposed to be writing a novel. #kidlitchat #picturebooks

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Holly Thompson @hatbooks.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

For those of you in Japan: #kidlitchat happening shortly Wed. 11am Japan time.

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Holly Thompson @hatbooks.bsky.social · 05/03/2024

My picture book The Wakame Gatherers, illustrated by Kazumi Wilds, has been chosen as the 2024 Read Maine Agriculture book, and I'm heading to Maine soon! Details: maine.agclassroom.org/programs/read/ More about The Wakame Gatherers at www.hatbooks.com Hooray and thank you @leeandlow.bsky.social ❤️

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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 05/03/2024

Do you have a kidlit or YA book launching in the next few months? Feel free to reply in the appropriate thread below: March 2024 launches April 2024 launches May 2024 launches 2024 Kidlit/YA Book Launches: debbieohi.link/Bluesky-Book... #EduSky #Skybrarians #KidLitSky #BookBirthday

Promotional graphic for KidLit & YA book launches with a bright blue background. Features a large white butterfly at the top and three colorful text blocks stating 'March 2024,' 'April 2024,' and 'May 2024,' each with a corresponding QR code. The URL 'DebbieOhi.link/Bluesky-BookLaunches' is at the bottom.

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Maria Marshall @mmarshallauthor.bsky.social · 29/02/2024

Excited to interview Kao Kalia Yang about the background of her new book and offer a sneak peek at this poignant and powerful picture book - The Rock in My Throat. www.mariacmarshall.com/single-post/... Jimei Lin Carolrhoda Books LernerBooks #interview #kidlit #nonfiction

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Toshi(ki) Nakamura | 中村俊貴 @artoftoshi.bsky.social · 01/02/2024

Hi again #KidLitArtPostcard day! I'm Toshi, a kidlit illustrator. I’m currently wrapping up a book and looking for more Picture book & board book projects to work on! Rep’ed by Hannah Mann at Writers House Thank you in advance😊 artoftoshi.com/illustration artoftoshi@gmail.com

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Toshi(ki) Nakamura | 中村俊貴 @artoftoshi.bsky.social · 02/02/2024

This illustration is from a picture book I illustrated, Listening to Trees, written by Holly Thompson. Will be published in October!

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Toshi(ki) Nakamura | 中村俊貴 @artoftoshi.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

猫の日 Apparently today 2/22 is Cat Day in Japan🐈

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Publisher Spotlight @pubspotlight.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

"Sing along to this rollicking counting song set in the Bronx and celebrate Latinx culture including dance and Spanish words” w/ BOOGIE IN THE BRONX from Barefoot Books www.pragmaticmom.com/2018/09/ownv...

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70+ #OwnVoices Children’s Books for Latinx Heritage Month

As I read all these #OwnVoices books, I noticed that many revolved around the importance of family and food. In fact, they are intertwined together. Family recipes are passed down over generations. Gr...

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Betsy Bird @fuse8.bsky.social · 23/02/2024

In the first of our two-part series on this, one year after the War in Ukraine, we talk to Oleksandr Shatokhin about creation, reception at home and abroad, and impact of 2023's YELLOW BUTTERFLY. #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2024/02/23/t...

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Harold Underdown @hunderdown.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

Delighted to be Debbie's guest!

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Cheryl B. Klein @cherylklein.bsky.social · 28/02/2024

Hey#kidlitsky! The Kweli Color of Children's Literature Conference is April 19-21, and if you're a BIPOC author or illustrator, it's a wonderful weekend of learning, connections, and community, with an incredible presenter lineup. More info & registration here: www.eventbrite.com/e/2024-kweli...

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2024 Kweli Color of Children's Literature Conference

Join us April 19 - April 21 for an incredible weekend with top editors, agents, authors and illustrators in children's book publishing.

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