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Jennifer Jack

@jsq-rd.bsky.social
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Teacher-librarian, book lover, grateful transplant recipient. Values and promotes diverse and own voices in books, art, and media. Always learning.

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Grant Snider @grantdraws.bsky.social · 14h
Which cover would you choose? See my rejected designs for The Year I Stopped Drawing (and the final cover) here: incidentalcomics.substack.com/p/cover-story
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Harrison Mooney @harrisonmooney.bsky.social · 14h
Hello friends. It’s cover reveal time for BITTERSWEET, the memoir I’ve been working on for nearly half a decade. I’m so excited for this to be out in the world come next April. Pre-order from East Vancouver’s Iron Dog Books or whatever local bookstore you support. irondogbooks.com/item/AS48k97...
The cover of Harrison Mooney’s Bittersweet is the silhouette of two starlings pecking at fresh oranges on a branch. The book is midnight blue. The title font is white. My byline is orange. You can tell at a glance it’s a very good book.
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@ExlibrisMrHunt @exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social · 21h
As a Teacher-Librarian, as a voracious reader all my life, as a Canadian, I’ve been shocked by what is happening in Alberta libraries. This Canadian Federation of Library Associations press release sums it all up…
CFLA-FCAB Statement on Canadian Library Month

On behalf of Canada’s libraries, the Canadian Federation of Library Associations opens Canadian Library Month 2026 by affirming the public’s right to read in Canada,  a right that must not be limited by age or by government opinion.

As young people in Alberta face new limits on their freedom to read in public libraries, along with increased scrutiny of their reading choices, libraries across Canada stand together to affirm that intellectual freedom and privacy are essential to informed decision-making and a healthy democracy.

Under Alberta’s new requirements, access to certain lawful library materials will no longer be ordinary or private. Libraries must physically separate these materials, control access to them, observe browsing, and establish processes for determining age and parental authorization. These requirements turn ordinary library access into a government-mandated process of monitoring and permission.

Canadians should understand that the changes being imposed on Alberta libraries establish both censorship and surveillance. While the government has not named the specific titles libraries must restrict, government representatives have identified the kinds of materials being targeted. Alberta libraries are not being given the option to determine that their collections are appropriate and should remain fully accessible.

More, next image…For decades, Canada’s libraries have upheld and promoted the universal principles of intellectual freedom reflected in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, including the freedoms to hold opinions and to seek, receive, and share information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. We are deeply concerned to see a government in Canada move toward censorship and increased surveillance of people’s reading choices.

Claims that children are being placed at risk in libraries misrepresents how libraries work and takes materials out of context to create fear. Parents and caregivers already have the right and responsibility to guide their children’s reading choices, and libraries have systems in place to support families in doing so.

We call on the people of Alberta to recognize the seriousness of this legislation and to work to restore young people’s right to read and everyone’s right to be free from government surveillance in libraries. We also call on local and provincial governments across Canada to stand with libraries, prevent censorship efforts from spreading, and uphold every person’s right to make their own reading choices.
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Jennifer Jack @jsq-rd.bsky.social · 21h
Happy birthday! 🎂🍾🥂🎆
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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Our Fable book club is reading Alyson Stoner's memoir this month. And… 📚 St. Martin's Press and Fable are giving you a chance to win a copy of Alyson's book! 😁 •Comment in the "Giveaway" chat room 📚 Thank you, St. Martin’s Press 😊 fable.co/club/mychal-threets-book-club-with-mychal-118918706640
Mychal Threets book club is reading their Alyson Stoner memoir in October. Picture includes a smiling Alyson Stoner and Mychal together
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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"No one is too small to make a difference." - Greta Thunberg. Children's educators are activists. Activists are those who take strong, direct action to support or oppose change. Children's educators support, believe in children. Children make a difference, they are capable of significant change.
Mychal and Ms. Rachel smiling together for a photo
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En Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
_[T]his possible outbreak is nothing like the COVID-19 pandemic because plague is "a much different pathogen," said Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at the University of Saskatchewan..."You're not going to be walking around feeling fine, shedding [plague] everywhere..."_ www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
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Did a Russian lab worker die from pneumonic plague? What we know — and don't know | CBC News
An unnerving story has emerged from southeastern Russia involving the death of 28-year-old woman from pneumonia and fears that she may have been exposed to a form of plague at the lab where she worked...
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Jennifer Jack @jsq-rd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I absolutely loved Song for a Whale. As a hearing impaired person it really spoke to me. Looking forward to adding this to our library wish list.
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Lynne Kelly 🐘🐳🐣🐙 @lynnekelly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Paperback day! Three Blue Hearts is available in paperback now, wherever you like to get your books 🐙 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/753918...
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Three Blue Hearts by Lynne Kelly: 9780593898420 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of Song for a Whale comes a deeply moving story about a boy, an octopus, and the extraordinary bond that changes them forever—perfect for fans...
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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 06/10/2026
New series alert! #MicroPD where I simplify wtf teachers need to do to teach the things. #EduSky
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Jennifer Jack @jsq-rd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Say it in a different voice!💀
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Valerie Bolling @valeriebolling.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thank you for resharing this, @12x12challenge.bsky.social! So much has changed since I recorded that episode.
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
when you confirm with your friend that the kingsgate mall podcast isn’t coming out until tuesday so it’s fine to talk about the book launch on monday, also there are two elections happening, it’s fine, it’s totally fine, we’re all having fun anyways here are the launch details for those curious!
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Jennifer Jack @jsq-rd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Didn’t they promise this during the last election?
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 05/10/2026
There’s a special kind of joy in watching a young person get hooked on a book. Teachers get to witness those moments every day. Enter to win one of six Canadian books for kids and teens. 📚 #Sponsored #TyeePresents thetyee.ca/Presents/202...
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CONTEST: Win a Book to Celebrate World Teachers’ Day | The Tyee
One lucky Tyee reader will get to choose from six great reads for kids and teens.
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Orca Book Publishers @orcabook.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Blanket Saves the Day is Sara Cassidy’s third wordless picture book. Read the Orca Blog to hear about how she crafts a wordless picture book and why kids should give them a try! blog.orcabook.com/sara-cassidy...
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Sara Cassidy on writing wordless picture books
Blanket Saves the Day is Sara Cassidy's third wordless picture book. It's a sweet story about Josie, who never goes anywhere without her...
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Gennifer Choldenko @choldenko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
✨Cover reveal!✨ I'm delighted to share my next book, LAST NIGHT AT THE CARNIVAL GRAVEYARD. Coming August 24, 2027. Thank you to Travis Jonker for hosting the reveal. 100scopenotes.com/2026/10/05/c... @mackidsbooks.bsky.social #BookSky
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DJ On @dqojr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A song I wrote for Charli XCX
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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My name is Mychal. I love books. I celebrate the freedom to read 📚✨
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Grant Snider @grantdraws.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Year I Stopped Drawing comes out next month! Pre-order it from Amulet books: www.abramsbooks.com/product/year...
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Freshet News @freshetnews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Check out ''Ojiichan's Dragon' book release at Nikkei Centre - Freshet News': www.freshetnews.ca/ojiichans-dr...
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'Ojiichan's Dragon' book release at Nikkei Centre - Freshet News
The all-ages graphic novel by Burnaby's Jeff Chiba Stearns is about how Japanese Canadians were treated during WWII
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Jennifer Jack @jsq-rd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Bananas!
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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago
I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861
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Jennifer Jack @jsq-rd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
So many great things in there! Wish I lived in your neighborhood. Love the little ghosts and stickers.
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Jennifer Jack @jsq-rd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You’re so lucky, Brandon! 🏊‍♂️
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Gillian Judson, PhD @perfinker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
YES! Two opportunities to learn from the amazing Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer. Where: Online through @outdoorlearningjd.bsky.social Find out more: outdoorlearning.com/resources-by...
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Author Padma Venkatraman @padmatv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
♥️ @lyndamh.bsky.social
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Jennifer Jack @jsq-rd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thank you!
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Jennifer Jack @jsq-rd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’m still masking, too. Would you mind sharing what type of protection you are wearing?
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Christina Shah @christinashah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Living East Van, Writing East Van: A Literary Panel. Join me at the VPL for a lively reading and conversation with @normannawrocki.bsky.social, Evelyn Lau(!), and Nick Marino Oct 24th, 2:30 pm! 📕 Register here: vpl.bibliocommons.com/events/6a906... #poetry #eastvan #hastings-sunrise
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Living East Van, Writing East Van: A Literary Panel
What does it mean to be an East Van writer? For almost 150 years, East Vancouver has been the predominant home for Vancouver’s immigrant and working-class communities. More than a geographic location...
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Cynthia Leitich Smith (Native Books for Young Readers & More) @cynleitichsmith.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Sept. 30 in Canada honors the lost children and survivors of residential schools, their families, and communities. Given parallel assimilation policies, the U.S. has adopted the date as a National Day of Remembrance for Indian Boarding Schools. #KidLit
Orange background with blue corners and white text. Sept. 30 is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and National Day of Remembrance for Indian Boarding Schools. 

Featured cover art: 

FREE TO FLY, written by Karina Iceberg, illustrated by Steph Littlebird (Heartdrum, 2026). Age 4-up.

STEALING LITTLE MOON: THE LEGACY OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN BOARDING SCHOOLS by Dan Sasuweh Jones (Scholastic, 2024). Ages 9-up.

IN OUR OWN WORDS: TRUE STORIES OF INDIAN BOARDING SCHOOLS by Brenda J. Child, Benay McNamara (Christy Ottaviano Books, 2026). Ages 9-up.

WHEN WE WERE ALONE, written by David A. Robertson, illustrated by Julie Flett (Highwater, 2016). Ages 4-up.

I AM NOT A NUMBER, written by Jenny Kay Dupuis and Kathy Kacer, illustrated by Gillian Newland (Second Story, 2016). Ages 4-up. NOTE: Look for the the English-Ojibwe language edition.

SHARDS OF SILENCE by Brian Young, cover art by Lynnette Haozous (Heartdrum, 2026). Ages 12-up.
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Bookelicious @bookelicious.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
With Bookelicious Presents live virtual author events, your students can meet the authors behind the books they love! R.L. Stine, Jason Reynolds, Kate DiCamillo and more! 🔗 Explore the full 2026–27 lineup at: bookelicious.com/bp
Flier with author lineup and their books: With Bookelicious Presents live virtual author events, your students can meet the authors behind the books they love!

R.L. Stine, Jason Reynolds, Kate DiCamillo and more!

🔗 Explore the full 2026–27 lineup at: bookelicious.com/bp
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Katherine Applegate @kaaauthor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Gennifer @choldenko.bsky.social and I are so excited for the Decatur Book Festival in #DecaturGA next weekend! We'll be sharing our new #Dogtown book, I AM A GOOD DOG. And lots of other wonderful authors will be there, too! Learn more on the festival website: www.decaturbookfestival.com
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Jennifer Jack @jsq-rd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Wow! Great designs.
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Valerie Bolling @valeriebolling.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It's hard to believe October will be here next week. I hope everyone has a fabulous fall and that I'll see you at one or more of my events. #kidlit #octoberevents #authorlife
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Sean Carleton @seancarleton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
.@niigaanwewidam.bsky.social and I will be on CBC airwaves tomorrow. Listen to: Qulliq: Iqaluit (Nunavut); Weekend AM (Newfoundland); Weekender (Yukon/NWT); North by Northwest (BC); All in a Weekend (Montreal) Saskatchewan Weekend; In Town & Out (Ottawa); Fresh Air (Toronto).
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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Happy Give Like Dolly Day! Dolly’s Day 🦋💜 Dolly Parton spent a lifetime inspiring kids to read, inspiring us. Now it’s our turn! Support your local imagination library program. Give like Dolly, help like Dolly. Let’s make her proud ✨
Smiling Dolly Parton in colorful butterfly dress
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Betsy Bird @fuse8.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"We were hoping to help readers, writers, teachers, librarians and students all connect around the humanizing powers of reading and writing together." A talk with two powerhouse authors/podcasters. #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2026/09/25/d...
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DiCamillo! Yang! Talking! Right Here! It's a Dive Into the StoryKind Podcast with Kate DiCamillo and Kelly Yang - A Fuse #8 Production
"We were hoping to help readers, writers, teachers, librarians and students all connect around the humanizing powers of reading and writing together." A talk with two powerhouse authors/podcasters.
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Grant Snider @grantdraws.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Here's a comic from my book Thinking About Thinking, published by @abramscomicarts.bsky.social
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Jennifer Jack @jsq-rd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There is far too much political news in BC right now.
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Cynthia Leitich Smith (Native Books for Young Readers & More) @cynleitichsmith.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's the 5th anniversary of Heartdrum, an acclaimed imprint featuring heartfelt, groundbreaking & unexpected books highlighting the present & future of Native peoples & strength of young Indigenous heroes. We've published nearly 50 books with more to come! #KidLit @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social
Celebrating Five Years of Heartdrum: an imprint centering Indigenous stories, authors, and illustrators! Graphic with geometric turquoise design against light yellow. Cover art showing: AN EXPANSE OF BLUE, JUST LIKE GRANDMA, A LETTER FOR BOB, STRONGER THAN, LEGENDARY FRYBREAD DRIVE-IN, REZ BALL, JO JO MAKOONS (BOOK 6), LOOKING FOR SMOKE, HEALER OF THE WATER MONSTER, RAVEN, RISING and WE STILL BELONG.
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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Wow! I got to virtually speak with approximately 30,000 library kids & teachers via First Book and The LEGO Group 🥹 Thank you for giving this neurodivergent librarian an opportunity to say it’s okay to not be okay. The library is for everyone. You’re never too old to play. We all have a story ;
Smiling Mychal in colorful attire, he holds a copy of his and Lorraine Nam’s picture book open as he is surrounded by books
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
Share with everyone you know. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JI4...
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Elizabeth Banks in "Just a Little Heart Attack"
YouTube video by American Heart Association
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Jennifer Jack @jsq-rd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The bush dog looks like it walks on tiptoe all the time.
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I’ll always love this
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Jennifer Jack @jsq-rd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Feel better soon!
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John Schu @mrschureads.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Happy book birthday to @kaaauthor.bsky.social and @choldenko.bsky.social's I Am a Good Dog! mrschureads.blogspot.com/2026/04/i-am...
I Am a Good Dog
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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In 31 years, the dearly beloved Dolly Parton gifted approximately 332,411,218 books to kids all over the world with her Imagination Library true heroes 🦋📖 We get to honor Dolly. We get to give like Dolly. We get to support literacy like Dolly. We love you, Dolly Parton! Our Queen of Book Joy 🌈 ✨
Mychal smiles and holds up a Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library tote bag
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Jennifer Jack @jsq-rd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Looking forward to listening.
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Jennifer Jack @jsq-rd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Remember to breathe, Justin! You’ll get through the next month.
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