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Jeanette Bradley @jbradley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Spending today painting imaginary people in an imaginary setting with an imaginary light source with my imaginary brush and palette on my virtual canvas. Could not have imagined this as my life as a kid.

A snippet of a virtual canvas rough draft painting in soft pastel colors.

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Jeanette Bradley @jbradley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Coming summer 2027 from Islandport: SOME WISHES by @alisongoldberg.bsky.social and myself. Can’t wait to share this book with all of you!

Alexandra Hinrichs at Islandport Press has acquired world rights to Some Wishes by Alison Goldberg (l.), illustrated by Jeanette Bradley. This rhyming story explores the power of wishes and the many ways we make them through the lens of a child experiencing serious illness. Publication is scheduled for summer 2027; the author represented herself, and Emily Mitchell at Wernick & Pratt Agency represented the illustrator.

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Jeanette Bradley @jbradley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This GN is so, so good. I’m lucky enough to have gotten a sneak preview

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Jeanette Bradley @jbradley.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

First Amendment freedoms—of speech, religion, and the press—are what all other freedoms are built on.

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Jeanette Bradley @jbradley.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Monday morning work from home fun: city has parked tree chipping machine right outside. Vibrations coming up from ground shake the whole house with each branch fed into the grinder. Trying to revise complex nonfiction. Brain feels like it’s inside a cocktail shaker. 💃🏻🪩🕺🏽

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Jeanette Bradley @jbradley.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

As my kids would say “a sick burn”

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Jeanette Bradley @jbradley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Where are the Disney lawyers when we need them?

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Jeanette Bradley @jbradley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I don’t know if you’ve been in PVD since the bridge debacle, but most days the bridge is backed up to Warwick

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Jeanette Bradley @jbradley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Way more interested in what a 4 year old human thinks than what LLMs are supposedly “doing”

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Jeanette Bradley @jbradley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Congrats to David Morales! Happy to have such a strong supporter of Freedom of Expression as Providence’s new mayor!!

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Jeanette Bradley @jbradley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Stop thinking about that story you want to write and start writing it! Join me & the budding writing community at the Jamestown Arts Center for support, encouragement, and challenge this fall! www.jamestownartcenter.org/education-st...

Stop waiting.
start writing.

Jamestown Arts Center
Writing in Community
second Wednesday evening

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Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

ORPHANED CATS NEED FOREVER HOME IN NORTHEAST (PLEASE READ *ENTIRE* THREAD) My wife's childhood friend died Thursday, leaving his two *mildly* special-needs cats. The elder, Wally, is about 13. ABSOLUTELY affectionate cat; GLORIOUSLY dim. His only issue is that he poops in bathtubs if given a chance

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Jeanette Bradley @jbradley.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Art director: We love the cup, can you make it a double page spread? Can you also show us the characters interacting with the water source? We’re thinking a town water treatment facility in the rain. Dress characters appropriately.

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Jeanette Bradley @jbradley.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I just got an ad for a religious “AI trainer” job. What does an unreliable narrator mean for religions of the book?

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Jeanette Bradley @jbradley.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Hydration is the eternal struggle!!!

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Jeanette Bradley @jbradley.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The bleakest part of the robot-and-AI teacher push to me is that billionaires send their kids to Waldorf schools where kids play with wooden blocks and silk play scarves and go for nature walks and don’t use any technology at all. They know.

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Jeanette Bradley @jbradley.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I mean, where is the neurodivergent pattern recognition when you need it?

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Jeanette Bradley @jbradley.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Things I didn’t predict when I chose children’s book illustration as a career: *decline in illustration payment rates *development of plagiarism technology (aka AI) *M*GA *M*GA targeting #kidlit & education *decline in reading across all ages *robot teachers/AI classrooms

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Jeanette Bradley @jbradley.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

What a surprise. Who could have predicted this move.

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Jeanette Bradley @jbradley.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Thinking of starting a #snailmail letter club (subscription to an analog monthly physical letter with art prints, stickers etc) What would interest you more: (1) thoughts on living a creative life w/ art & writing prompts, or (2) a serialized contemporary fantasy story told through letters?

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Jeanette Bradley @jbradley.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

#kidlit #illustrator friends take note: You must opt out of Meta’s new image model to retain copyright control of your work!

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Jeanette Bradley @jbradley.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Curious why you want to print it? You could have someone make a bespoke cake topper for you out of clay, metal, glass, or paper-mache (lighter) that would be a unique keepsake

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Jeanette Bradley @jbradley.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Today at ALA - a Publisher’s Weekly Program Pick Panel! Neuropositive Picture Books at 1pm in W183 A with @keilavdawson.bsky.social @lindsayhmetcalf.bsky.social @kdmaz.bsky.social @chloeitoward.bsky.social and @kidlitjennaj.bsky.social

ALA 2026: Program Picks
Celebrity sightings, division presidents' programs, and educational sessions are among the hundreds of events scheduled during the American Library Association's Chicago conference.
Compiled by Nathalie op de Beeck | Jun 05, 2026
Neuropositive Picture Books
Picture book creators Jeanette Bradley, Keila V.
Dawson, Jenna Elyse Johnson, Katie Mazeika, Lindsay H. Metcalf, and Chloe Ito Ward will discuss positive representations of neurodiversity and disability in their new work. (1-2 p.m., W183 A)

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Jeanette Bradley @jbradley.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

As someone for whom parent celebration days are also complicated, I always feel weird where people say this to me, but congratulations on breaking the generational trauma cycle!

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Jeanette Bradley @jbradley.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I know a lot of people only post process videos but I keep seeing job postings from AI companies for people to teach process videos to AI, so that’s not even safe now

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Jeanette Bradley @jbradley.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Found through algae, followed for OFMD

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Keila V. Dawson @keilavdawson.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Save the date! Presenting Neuropositive Picture Books: A Celebration of New Neurodiversity-Affirming Titles * Saturday, June 27, 1pm, at #ALAAC26 📍 McCormick Place, W 183 A *Signing copies of NO BRAIN THE SAME, 3pm 📍Charlesbridge Booth #3015 @lindsayhmetcalf.bsky.social @jbradley.bsky.social

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Jeanette Bradley @jbradley.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Congratulations! So well deserved!

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Jeanette Bradley @jbradley.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Happy book birthday to this celebration of neurodivergent young leaders! #kidlit #newrelease Yay for No Brain the Same!

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Jeanette Bradley @jbradley.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Thank you to everyone who helped bring this book into the world! So excited to be able to share NO BRAIN THE SAME from @charlesbridge.bsky.social

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 29/05/2026

Do YOU live in New York State? Do YOU want to fight the onslaught of book banning? You are needed RIGHT NOW. Critically. In the next few days. If you click this link, you will be put right through to your rep (and it provides some optional talking points): secure.ngpvan.com/EPPvPAF5FEW4...

secure.ngpvan.com

Fight for the Freedom to Read: Tell lawmakers to pass the Freedom to Read Act!

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Jeanette Bradley @jbradley.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

These have the first amendment original document on them (I photoshopped it to fit into a postcard format)

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Jeanette Bradley @jbradley.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Message me! Right now I’m using very simple ones that have a photo of the first amendment on them. I can share printable postcards &/or design that can be ordered from a printer.

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Jeanette Bradley @jbradley.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Coming from @charlesbridge.bsky.social June 2 - NO BRAIN THE SAME! Meet 14 neurodivergent young people who are shaping our future:

COMING JUNE 2!
NO.
BRAIN
THE SAME
Neurodivergent Young Activists
Shaping Our Future
Edited by LINDSAY H. METCALF, KEILA V. DAWSON, and JEANETTE BRADLEY
Illustrated by JEANETTE BRADLEY
NO BRAIN THE SAME
NEURODIVERGENT YOUNG ACTIVISTS SHAPING OUR FUTURE

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Jeanette Bradley @jbradley.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Providence friends: tonight! Come for the free books, stay for the great conversation. 5:30-7 @ Track 15. Look for the table with books!

Freedom to Read
Postcard Happy Hour at Track 15
Friday, May 29, 5:30 - 7:00 PM
Drop in, grab a drink or a snack and catch up with friends!
We will be writing postcards to our Congresspeople about federal bills that threaten the freedom to read.

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Rhode Island Authors Against Book Bans @aabbri.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Happy Hour at Track 15 - Friday May 29, 5:30 - 7:00 PM. There will be door prize giveaways, good conversation, and fun (as well as postcards)

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Jeanette Bradley @jbradley.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Hoping to see some #RIFTR friends this Friday at Track 15! We’ll have door prize giveaways (of course they are books & book-related!) as well just lovely place to hang out on a Friday afternoon before your weekend starts.

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Jeanette Bradley @jbradley.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

It’s a gorgeous day for a glass of wine on the lawn and postcards to your reps! See you 2-4!

Postcard Party
Saturday, May 16 2:00 - 4:00 PM
Gooseneck Vineyards
Drop in, grab a glass of wine or a snack, and write a postcard to your reps urging them to oppose HR 7661, the federal book banning bill currently in the House.

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Jeanette Bradley @jbradley.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I was curious enough about the exact words he said at the event that I signed up for threads (ugh) And I join in you in being super bummed out -/ even more so by some library influencers saying they agree with him 🙁

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Jeanette Bradley @jbradley.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

He often takes the credit for Kalssen’s illustrations

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Jeanette Bradley @jbradley.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

2/2 Every child deserves to find that deep connection and feeling of being seen in a book. Maybe it’s in humor, maybe it’s in a reference book about the periodic table, or in an “I love you/you have value” story that some adults see as “crud” We are all different, kids included.

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Jeanette Bradley @jbradley.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

As a creator of (NF & F) #kidlit books Barnett would label “didactic,” I’ve seen kids hug my books or cry seeing themselves represented on the page. I get emails from parents saying my book is their child’s lovey. Kids fall in love with books that touch their soul’s truth. 1/2

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