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Connor Anderson @connorwa.bsky.social · 2h

This is my Tom Holland "Umbrella" lip sync.

Yeah, my youngest is mostly done with the short chapter books like Kingdom of Wrenly and magic Treehouse, but can’t manage something like Wings of Fire and that gap is hard. But I’ve also found that “audiobook of something long so it’s familiar” makes the jump easier.

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K.A. Doore @kadoore.com · 6h

9yo described to me how WoF went around her school: a friend of hers was reading it, so she got into it, and now all of her friends read them and talk about the characters and plot, and more kids see WoF and are interested and it *spreads*

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lit_patches @litpatches.bsky.social · 18h

Sense and Senisibility by Jane Austen but now you can offend a mummy and become cursed for the rest of your miserable short life

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 07/10/2026

that kind of discovery requires a different world of in-depth reviews and critical essays in a sphere of independent magazines and bloggers &c. in the absence of a robust bookish internet of this kind, what you get is books that vanish into the dark and can at best hope to be "rediscovered" some day

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 07/10/2026

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 07/10/2026

(Sorry, hadn’t meant to get on a soapbox this morning, and don’t mean any of this as a critique or directed at the original post that sparked this. Apparently I’ve got some Feelings about things right now)

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 07/10/2026

My kids are bored of hearing @mskellymhayes.bsky.social story about working for police torture accountability in Chicago with no expectations of success, but if you don’t know that story well enough to answer kids (or yourself) when despair is calling, learn it. Practice telling it.

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 07/10/2026

We made libraries! We stopped a hole in the ozone!

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 07/10/2026

At some point, knowing that everything is systems can make kids (and the rest of us), feel small, and that’s another reason it’s good to understand history. Miracles happen all the time, usually after lots of hard work, and usually in unexpected ways.

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 07/10/2026

“Everything is systems, and systems can be understood and can change” is really good to learn. Fitting in love and awe is also important - kids are usually good at this if we can listen to them.

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 07/10/2026

And then when they’re asking why protein powder has heavy metals in it, they already know that plants suck up what’s in the soil. (And if you’ve talked about why we have seat belts, they also understand government regulatory frameworks or lack thereof)

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 07/10/2026

When you’re driving around & the leaves are changing colors and they change to different hues and intensities in different areas, you can teach your kids that they can learn to notice microclimates and the soil chemistry trees are growing in.

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 07/10/2026

When your kid’s in preschool & loves a Disney movie and you take them shopping, you can teach them the term “brand marketing” and make a game of finding it. and then when they’re 8 or 12 or whatever, you can remind them of this & make them think about their impulse buy choices.

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 07/10/2026

this is true of basically every object and social interaction and teaching this to kids (and others) is incredibly important

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 07/10/2026

Having grown up in Minnesota and only recently moved to Maine, I really enjoy Troy Jackson’s accent. It doesn’t sound like home, but it rhymes enough.

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The Shire-Reckoning @shire-reckoning.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It’s dark. Sam asks for a tale. Strider tells of Tinúviel: ‘It is a fair tale, though it is sad, as are all the tales of Middle-earth. ‘The leaves were long, the grass was green, The hemlock-umbels tall and fair, And in the glade a light was seen Of stars in shadow shimmering…’

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Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Great Tolkien Reread meets "The Uruk-Hai" today, our first close-up view of Orcs (and our first Merry and Pippin POV chapter). This is an opportunity to talk about how Tolkien humanizes his most problematic invention, and where he stops short. wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-...

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The Great Tolkien Reread: The Uruk-Hai

"Merry and Pippin Captured by Orcs" by Inger Edelfeldt Neither Pippin nor Merry remembered much of the later part of the journey. Evil dream...