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@librarianemeritus.bsky.social
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Retired children's librarian currently indulging in hobbies and nature walks, Social Justice Warrior, (She/Her), #kidslit #childrensbooks

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Hannah Ann Krueger @hanzzkrueger.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
It’s Read-A-Thon Week for our Red Panda and #LunchboxSketches 💗📖 ✏️🌈📚 #KidLit #KidLitArt
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uosdɯᴉS ɐuɐꓷ 🦄 @danacorn.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
I’m kinda on fire with these book cover remakes. Here’s “Unicorn Playlist.”
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
I don't usually get too worked up about book covers, but this edition of RF Kuang's Katabasis is stunning. Picked this up at my local indie bookstore recently and wow!
The book on a light tan fabric background. The layers of hell are illustrated with lots of color and detail.The edges of the book. The top are flames, the bottom are ocean waves, and the long edge has both with silhouetted figures falling into fire and water. At the center is a plaque: Hell is other people.
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Lynn Lovegreen @lynnlovegreen.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
This is a great week to read the Alaska Authors Against Book Bans opinion piece. www.adn.com/opinions/202... #BannedBooksWeek #FreedomtoRead
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Anne Marie Pace @annemariepace.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Having a book made into a TV show (and then another one!) was never on the bucket list. But since it has happened, I may as well enjoy it. The show is adorable! So much fun wordplay just like my books and just like the original animated show.
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Jack Phoenix (a comics librarian) @comicslibrarian.com · 06/10/2025
I’m a little late, but happy Canadian Library Month to my Canadian colleagues! 🇨🇦📚
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Becky Calzada @becalzada.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
The book banning of Indigenous stories in libraries has impacts on readers| Removal of their stories continues the erasure of histories and contributions of Native Nations and their citizens Thank you @tracisorellauthor.bsky.social for writing this Op-Ed www.cherokeephoenix.org/opinion/opin...
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OPINION: Banning books erases Native voices and experiences
Book banning is not new. A small minority seeking to decide and limit what the majority can access and read has existed for millennia.
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Kathleen Lowry @lifeontamiami.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
You know a book has to be good when the toddler stops his destruction of CandyLand to check it out. The Book of Rules by @briangehrlein.bsky.social is a family favorite #kidlit
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The Library Faery @libraryfaery.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Only thing I bought at the festival - besides a burger. He's about 4 inches tall. Even Death likes a good book. He's going the library next week. #booksky
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Gabrielle Plastrik @gplastrik.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Banned Books Week starts today 📖 bannedbooksweek.org
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Banned Books Week | October 5-11, 2025
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 06/10/2025
It was a beautiful Sunday in Portland. Farmer’s markets, the Portland Marathon, peaceful protests, and some views of Mt. Hood. This city is vibrant, peaceful, and resilient. We do not need a federal occupation, and we sure as hell don’t want one.
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SCBWI New Mexico @scbwi-nm.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
#Albuquerque Teen Club Book club visit Oct 4: Khadijah VanBrakle will discuss her newest YA novel, “My Perfect Family” (Kirkus starred review) as a special iteration of Read Between the Spines Teen Book Club. libevents.abqlibrary.org/event/148921... #books #kidlit #scbwi #YAlit
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SCBWI New Mexico @scbwi-nm.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
🥳🥂Radiant by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson won the inaugural Paul Rhetts Award in the 2025 New Mexico Book Awards. This award is given to the most highly rated book in the contest. Nelson’s was among 47 winners and 156 finalists in 39 categories. nmwriters.org/nm-book-awar... #books #kidlit #scbwi #YAlit
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NM Book Awards - New Mexico Writers
NM Book Awards The New Mexico Book Awards, a nearly two-decades-old book competition, was slated to cease this year. Instead, it is under new management by New Mexico Writers, who will continue the mi...
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SCBWI New Mexico @scbwi-nm.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Congrats to Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, Laurel Goodluck, Khadijah VanBrakle, Korie Leigh, Jennifer Bohnhoff, Linda Wilson, RJ Mirabel, and all winners/finalists of the New Mexico Book Awards! It’s great to see so many SCBWI NM members in the list. nmwriters.org/nm-book-awar... #books #kidlit #scbwi
Part of the website for the New Mexico Book Awards shows two winners, 
Fatima Tate Takes The Cake by Khadijah VanBrakle and Radiant by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
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@ExlibrisMrHunt @exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
WAIT! Silly me. I did take Fri #LibrarianFashion photos—just saw them, totally forgot (been a bit out of it with distractions)…fresh haircut too. Enjoy! SHARE your go-to (or occasional extra spiffy) library look, your librarian fit check?? (Gotta get back to @sartoriallibrary.bsky.social soon!)
Selfie: Tall guy me with trim l’il beard, faux hawk fade haircut, bright blue framed square lens glasses, royal-ish blue collared shirt with white not-quite-paisley-but-similar(ish) pattern, grey (machine made 😢) cardigan with black trim, bright two-toned pink tie with floral print and metallic tinged blue/black and silver/white accent lines and branches/leaves.

Snazzerific!Photo looking down at bottoms of black Jean clad legs and wild zebra-esque print socks in bright pink, black, light blue and (not visible) yellow stripes.

Black Converse were not yet on my feet…Close-up selfie, outfit/appearance as described previously, thumbs-up gesture prominent in foreground.
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Just posting this. Everyone knows why.
Text of the fourth amendment “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
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Children's Bookshelf @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
PEN America has released its annual report on the book banning crisis in K–12 public schools, naming the top five most banned titles and authors
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U.S. Faces ‘Expanded and Escalated’ Book Censorship, PEN America Reports
PEN America has released its annual report on the book banning crisis in K–12 public schools, naming the top five most banned titles and authors. PEN found censorship increasingly routine; Florida,…
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Sean F Halloween @seanfhall.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
I'm going to keep posting old stuff and you can't stop me. #halloween #kidlit #art
Drawing of a small ghost, witch and pumpkin with arms and legs sitting on logs roasting marshmallows over the fire. They are in the forest surrounded my falling leaves.
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MayumiSasage @mayumisasage.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Hi, #KidLitArtPostcard Day! I'm Mayumi, a Japanese #kidlit illustrator. Excited to take on new projects! Picture books, board books, and book covers are my favorite things to work on✨ #kidlitart Rep'd by lovely @essiewhite.bsky.social at @stormliterary.bsky.social 🌐 mayumi-sasage.com
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Kathy Fork @babyfork.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
‘Tis the season for spooky picture books! 👻🎃☠️ Here’s a nice selection at Grass Roots Books in Corvallis, Oregon. (And I’ve got a manuscript that would fit perfectly in that empty spot!) 🧙‍♀️
Halloween picture books on a shelf at Grass Roots Books in Corvallis, Oregon.
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Brooke Baum @brookebaum.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
🎃 31 Days of Halloween Books 🎃 Day 2: INSIDE A HOUSE THAT IS HAUNTED by Alyssa Satin Capucilli and illustrated by Tedd Arnold Why I love it: The bold, super fun illustrations and rhythmic, predictable story engages preschoolers and encourages them to get involved! #kidlit #booksky #halloween
Cover of INSIDE A HOUSE THAT IS HAUNTED
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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
money where my mouth is: a book I really enjoyed lately was the House of Quiet by Kiersten White. fantasy mental illness, but still treated with compassion, and very very creepy, good mystery
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Steve "It's TAY-tro" Tetreault @drtlovesbooks.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Got kicked out of the library for a meeting. Took 4 carts of stuff with me so I could keep functioning for the day - push one, pull another, two trips. Ppl looking at me in the halls like, “Are we evacuating the building?" 😂 #LibraryLife #TravellingLibrary #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians
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a man in a yellow jacket is pushing a cart full of luggage
Alt: a man in a yellow jacket is pushing a cart full of luggage while dragging a travel trunk.
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Kellie Nicely @kellienicely.com · 03/10/2025
Woolly Hare + Honey Pomelo 🐇 #drawtober #sketchtober #artober idk what -tober anyone is doing but hopefully doing a daily watercolor + ink thing (plus all my other backlog of work) #kidlitart #watercolor #art
watercolor & ink illustration of a woolly hare with 3 red honey pomelo slices and a half pomelo slice and a large pomelo behind it. ginkgo leaves are scattered about
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Sara Weingartner @saraweingartner.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Happy October #kidlitartpostcard Day! Tricks and treats a teeny bit early. I am an illustrator/author seeking representation for picture books and other illustration projects, www.saraweingartner.com. #kidlitart #picturebookillustration #kidlitillustration #picturebook #Elephant #mouse #halloween
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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
That's not most people, obviously, but it's also not that rare. To put that in perspective: people who are neither XX nor XY are more common than people with Multiple Sclerosis. Roughly as common as people with Down syndrome, or people with Parkinson's disease.
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Elinne Becket, PhD @bielleogy.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Lol I read this to my class
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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
really enjoying all the people trying to explain the bible to the pope today
Pope Leo XIV
Today, more than ever, we must return to the heart, the center of feeling and emotion, the locus of freedom. Though it includes reason, the heart transcends and transforms it. Only by returning to the heart can we undergo a true ecological conversion that transforms our personal

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I reject this whole heartedly. What you fail to see Mr Pope, the Bible says
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Librarian Emeritus @librarianemeritus.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
One more book I read for the Notable Small Press Books of 2025 #100smallpress project was Prisons Must Fall by Mariame Kaba and Jane Ball from @haymarketbooks.org with striking illustrations utilizing strong colors on dark backgrounds.
Image of the cover of the children's picture book Prisons Must Fall by Mariame Kaba and Jane Ball, illustrated by Olly Costello, and published by Haymarket Books.  The title, Prisons Must Fall appears in orange against a black night sky studded with white dots to indicate stars.  Six ribbon streamers in bright colors wave up from the ground into the black sky.  At the bottom of the image is the top of a gray stone wall.  There are four simplified human figures on the wall.  One figure, dressed in yellow, sits on the left end of the wall and leans back supported by their arm.  To the right of that figure is a figure dressed in orange supported by a walking cane in one hand and holding aloft a tambourine.  To the right of that figure is a figure dressed in green raising one arm and one leg as if dancing.  And on the right end of the wall is a figure dressed in pink with their hair in a pony tail who is also raising one arm and one leg as if dancing.
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Librarian Emeritus @librarianemeritus.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Yet another book I read for the Notable Small Press Books of 2025 #100smallpress project was Good Morning, Space by Linda Bondestam translated from the Swedish by AA Prime from Restless Books. The illustrations tumble in a riot of color and action and space aliens with one very stubborn child.
Image of the cover of the children's picture book Good Morning, Space by Linda Bondestam translated from the Swedish by A. A. Prime.  Most of the image depicts a room with a dark blue wall and floor.  There is a window with the top half covered by a shade with a pattern of green diamonds.  Through the bottom of the window we can see outer space with pinpoint stars and a pink planet with a blue ring around it.  Two pink blob aliens are floating around the planet.  Under the window on the floor is a digital clock that reads 04:05.  In front of the window is a child with blue skin and shoulder length straight hair.  The child is wearing sky blue pajamas covered with fluffy white clouds.  The child is holding something up to their right eye to look out the window at the planet and the floating aliens.  Peaking out from the left side of the child is a small green alien with yellow eyes on stalks above its head.  On the right side of the room are two more aliens.  One alien is a green blob with two antenna that have yellow stars on the ends.  The other alien is a pink blob with yellow eyes on stalks.
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Librarian Emeritus @librarianemeritus.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Another book I read for the Notable Small Press Books of 2025 #100smallpress project was Rus and Moose by Chuchu Wang from Restless Books. The illustrations are exuberant and wonderful, plus info about the life of a long haul trucker (and his friend who is a moose).
Image of the book cover for the children's picture book Rus and Moose by Chuchu Wang.  An illustrated image looking out through the windshield of the cab of a big rig truck.  In the left hand driver's seat is a man in a white t-shirt and sunglasses with short, black hair and pink skin and a stubbly beard who is holding the steering wheel.  In the right hand passenger seat is a moose with a large head and wide eyes and a slight smile who is looking at the driver.  Between the moose and the driver are the dials, knobs, buttons, and screens of the dashboard.  Along the bottom edge are wildflowers and grass intruding into the mechanical environment and reminding the viewer of the moose's natural habitat (which is not usually a big rig).
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Librarian Emeritus @librarianemeritus.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Finishing up work for Notable Small Press Books of 2025 #100smallpress and looking back on some of the picture books I read, including There Doesn’t Have to be a Reason by MC Kasper @catalystpress.bsky.social (animal facts + body positivity = cute story).
Image of children's picture book titled There Doesn't Have to be a Reason by MC Kasper.  A cartoon bear is sitting on the ground facing away so the bear's back and tail are shown.  The bear's head is turned and it is looking over its shoulder towards the viewer with a small smile.  The bear is also waving its left paw.  The smile and the wave make the bear seem friendly.
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Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Two days till reviewer deadline for #100smallpress & I can't even tell you how much the reviews are GIVING ME LIFE! We're 90% there & we have: *12 genres *71 small presses *29% queer or BIPOC authors Can't wait for you to read the whole list in November in LitHub. #booksky
2025 100 Notable Small Press Books seal with Stay tuned! circled next to it. A stack of books that say on the front and spines: Coming in November. In Lit Hub. 50+ reviewers. Fiction, CNF, Poetry, Horror, Romance, Translation, Kid Lit, Graphic Novels & more. #100smallpress
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Banu Ozkazanc-Pan @banuop.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Two great books I’m reading about women and power #booksky #nonfiction
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
“It is painful to say this… but the United States urgently needs a strong alternative to the government public health guidance it has relied on in the past. I urge public health experts to come together to invest in organizations that provide independent, trustworthy sources of information”
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Opinion | Why I left my job leading public health messaging for the CDC
Public health policy must be guided by facts and not fantasy.
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Dem leaders: if you fight back, we will rally behind you. This isn't complicated. More of this please.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
They are breaking Social Security, because they do not like Social Security.
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Long waits, waves of calls, web crashes: Social Security is breaking down
A flood of cuts led by Elon Musk has sent the agency into chaos as a new commissioner prepares to take charge.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
I'll also add, in the era of mask bans, it's punk to wear masks to keep yourself safe.
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
If you'd consider wearing a mask again, it doesn't have to be all or nothing. Highly recommend doing so on public transit, healthcare settings (including pharmacies) and grocery stores.
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Heather Antos @heatherantos.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Always err on the side of kindness. Instead of "Fuck off," try saying,"Kindly fuck off."
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Kara BOOOOOchanan 🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @magicariot.com · 24/03/2025
Heya! I'm part of another bundle on Itch for the Trans Rights Readathon! If you wanna grab Magica Riot and a whole bunch of other awesome trans lit by some of my favorite other folks, check this out! $18 gets you 19 works! #TransRightsReadathon itch.io/b/2940/last-...
Artwork that says "TRANS RIGHTS READATHON" over a photo of somebody holding the trans pride flag on a city street
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Feral Appalachian witch in Texas 🎃🧙‍♀️ @cybrarerin.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Calling all Texans in Houston/Fort Bend area, time to go hang out with Beto and Tim! www.mobilize.us/poweredxpeop...
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Congressional Town Hall with Tim Walz & Beto O'Rourke · Powered by People
Big news! Gov. Tim Walz and Beto O’Rourke are coming to Houston/Fort Bend area for a town hall on Thursday, March 27th at 6 PM. Doors open at 5:30 PM. Event begins promptly at 6 PM. This is your ch...
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 25/03/2025
I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.
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Jack Phoenix (a comics librarian) @comicslibrarian.com · 26/03/2025
“Hey, sorry I know you were counting on me, but I won’t be headed to California after all. Cat situation, yeah. No, that won’t work, there’s two of them. Yeah, sorry. [hangs up] Ugh, that’s a shame.”
A black cat is lying curled up inside an open suitcase on a bed, surrounded by wrinkled bedding.Two cats are lounging together inside an open suitcase on a bed. One cat is black with a glossy coat, while the other is black and white. The bed has beige sheets, and there’s a patterned item visible in the suitcase.
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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
This speaks volumes: Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada. leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03... munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...
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Stanley from Yale to Toronto
Jason Stanley (philosophy of language, epistemology, political philosophy), Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, has accepted a senior offer from the University of Toronto, where he will be thr...
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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
“People tend to become dependent upon AI chatbots when their personal lives are lacking. In other words, the neediest people are developing the deepest parasocial relationship with AI.”
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Dylan @dylmdav.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I'm sorry but going to the white house after they tried to erase the contributions of the most important player in the history of your team is coward shit
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Brian Kirby @boringstorybook.com · 26/03/2025
Kids respond so strongly to humor, like a comforting friend. A lot of books that take on serious issues dwell on the trappings of sadness, and I think a goofy friend of a book is even more needed. #kidlitchat
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Julie Winterbottom @jwbottom.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Yay! It's pub day for MAGIC IN A DROP OF WATER: HOW RUTH PATRICK TAUGHT THE WORLD ABOUT WATER POLLUTION! Beautifully illustrated by #SusanReagan. @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social @penguinkids.bsky.social @steamteambooks.bsky.social #pbgreensteam #stembooksforkids #rockypondbooks
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