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12 x 12 Picture Book Writing Challenge @12x12challenge.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Congrats to the members whose books were voted in as Crystal Kite Honor Books! Three cheers for @suzylevinson.bsky.social, @valeriebolling.bsky.social, and @lisaljrogers.bsky.social! Such a well deserved recognition for three #picturebooks we love! #amwriting #kidlit #poetry #writingcommunity

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Lisa Rogers @lisaljrogers.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Super way to pair books & notice authors' approaches to the same topic! Appreciate having this educator see the possibilities in looking closely at BEAUTIFUL NOISE & SILENCE SOUNDS SIMPLE in the classroom & at home! #music #educators #JohnCage @johncagetrust.bsky.social @randomhousekids.bsky.social

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Lisa Rogers @lisaljrogers.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Dug deep to answer these questions about my 2 2025 picture book bios, Joan Mitchell Paints a Symphony, ill. Stacy Innerst, & Woody's Words, ill. Susan Reagan, from Simply 7's Jena Benton! These interviews w/creators are full of fantastic insights! #kidlit #amwriting jenabenton.com/2026/06/16/s...

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Simply 7 with Lisa Rogers: JOAN MITCHELL PAINTS A SYMPHONY; & WOODY’S WORDS

What do a famous painter and an influential writer have in common? They’re both creators of course!

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Lisa Rogers @lisaljrogers.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Excited to start working with my mentee, A. Meredith Hughes, through @pbrisingstars.bsky.social! Check out her profile & that of all the other mentees! www.pbrisingstars.com/mentees #writing #mentoring #kidlit

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Lisa Rogers @lisaljrogers.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Excited to meet young readers (& dog lovers) on Sunday, 5/3, 11 am @ the lovely Book Shop of Needham! I'll be reading Woody's Words & Hound Won't Go & we'll all have a doggone good time!! #storytime #picturebook #WilsonRawls #dogbook

Poster for storytime with author Lisa Rogers at The Book Shop of Needham on May 3 at 11 a.m, reading the picture books Woody's Words and Hound Won't Go.

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Lisa Rogers @lisaljrogers.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Right now I am seeing cherry blossoms float from the tree outside my window & thinking about the joy & wonder of a poetic image. Here I chat about how picture books are their own kind of poetry -- with 12 x 12 founder Julie Hedlund no less! #spring #PoetryMonth #picturebook #poetry #nature

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The Horn Book @thehornbook.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Day 11 of #HBWomensHistoryMonth features JOAN MITCHELL PAINTS A SYMPHONY: LA GRANDE VALLÉE SUITE by @lisaljrogers.bsky.social ; illus. by Stacy Innerst (Calkins/Astra) www.hbook.com/story/review... #WomensHistoryMonth #kidlit

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Lisa Rogers @lisaljrogers.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

A fabulous afternoon at the Boston Ballet! The breathtaking premiere of My'Kal Stromile's The Leisurely Installation of a New Window combined with w/Frederick Ashton's The Dream showcased the depth, strength, & beauty of these dancers! #BostonBallet

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Lisa Rogers @lisaljrogers.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Unagented/agented #picturebook writers, check out #PBRisingStars FREE summer #mentorships. I'm a mentor for the 2nd time & my '24 mentee later signed with an agent! Can't promise you'll land an agent or book deal, but this experience can be transformative! All the details @ www.pbrisingstars.com/

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Melissa Stewart @mstewartscience.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Writers! Librarians! Teachers! Looking forward to this virtual presentation next week. Register: tinyurl.com/fsfc9mhf @scbwi.bsky.social @scbwirockymtn.bsky.social @steamteambooks.bsky.social @tcbrbookreview.bsky.social #kidlit #edusky #TLsky #Skybrarian

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Stefan Karlsson @stefankarlsson.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

For Days 10-11 of my PB reading challenge I read inspiring PB bios written by @lisaljrogers.bsky.social, illus. by Il Sung Na & @cgroenink.bsky.social, respectively. Loved how these books introduce kids to creative icons while showing how music & poetry is all around us! 💜 #StoryStudy #KidLit

Two book covers: On top, Beautiful Noise: The Music of John Cage. And on bottom, 16 Words: William Carlos Williams & “The Red Wheelbarrow”

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Kidlit For Growing Minds @kl4gm.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Our February newsletter, with intro article written by @lisaljrogers.bsky.social, is ready to read! Find book news, teaching tips, and more. Includes a downloadable booklist by our creatives to celebrate Women’s History Month in March! bit.ly/4acrFHj #edusky #booksky #schoollibrarians #skybrarian

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A Celebration of Women’s Achievements in a “Golden Age of Children’s Literature”

By Lisa Rogers

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Lisa Rogers @lisaljrogers.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Super excited to be a mentor for #pbrisingstars 2026!! This is an incredible 1-on-1 opportunity for unagented writers (agented writers may apply to other mentors) to hone their craft. Check out my wishlist & get the deets at kidlit411.com & pbrisingstars.com!! #mentorship #amwriting #kidlit

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Lisa Rogers @lisaljrogers.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Honored that the Texas Library Association chose WOODY'S WORDS: WOODROW WILSON RAWLS AND WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS for its Texas Topaz Nonfiction Reading List! I hope it encourages readers to pursue their dreams. Grateful to Woody & Sophie's family for their support. tinyurl.com/TLA-Reading-...

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Lisa Rogers @lisaljrogers.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Celebrate Elvis' birthday 🎉 today with your Elvis favorites! A favorite song, 🎸🎶🎵 favorite movie, his favorite food -- fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches --or even a favorite Elvis book! 🎸🎶🎵 Share your faves! #ElvisPresley #Elvis #LittleGoldenBook #graceland

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Kidlit For Growing Minds @kl4gm.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Happy New Year! The January edition of our newsletter, with an intro by educator Tina M Cho, is ready to read. Find book news, teaching tips, World Read Aloud Day (WRAD2026) signups, book news, inspiration, & more! 💕📚💕 tinyurl.com/29z5zewf #edusky #booksky #schoollibrarians #skybrarian #WRAD2026

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A New Tale for a New Year

By Tina Cho

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12 x 12 Picture Book Writing Challenge @12x12challenge.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

How Teresa Robeson's 12 x 12 Critique Group pushed her to publishing success! Find your own critique group in the #12x12pb #writingcommunity! Registration begins in January. Find out more at 12x12challenge.com/m... #amwriting #picturebook #kidlit #booksky @teresarobeson.com

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Teresa Robeson @teresarobeson.com · 17/12/2025

Love being on the same stage as my friends, @heidieys.bsky.social @barbrosenstock.bsky.social @joycewanbooks.bsky.social @bandersonwriter.bsky.social and @lisaljrogers.bsky.social 🤩 Thank you, Astra Kids Books and @ala-booklist.bsky.social! You can enjoy the sounds of melting snow in the video 😆

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Lisa Rogers @lisaljrogers.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Rant alert re: misused homophones - pet peeve I wish I didn't have. Read my 1st adult contemporary fiction book in a long time for book club, thought it intelligent & clever. Then...the misuse of palette for palate, multiple times. The horror! The horror! Share your homophone horrors? #homophones

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Lisa Rogers @lisaljrogers.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Can't wait to read & sign JOAN MITCHELL PAINTS A SYMPHONY by me & Stacy Innerst at the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver TODAY, Sunday 11/23, 1 PM! Free admission for kids. clyffordstillmuseum.org/events/book-... #JoanMitchell #womenartists #abstractexpressionism #clyffordstill #kidsbooks #artbooks

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KidLit TV @kidlittv.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

❤️📚 This #Thanksgiving celebrate & honor Native American culture with these books & crafts for young readers! www.kidlit.tv/celebrating-... @carolelindstrom.bsky.social @mackidsbooks.bsky.social #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth

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Kidlit For Growing Minds @kl4gm.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

The Nov. newsletter with an article by author @lynnstreetbooks.bsky.social is ready to read! Find book news, teaching tips, inspiration, and #KidLitForGrowingMinds members who will attend NCTE! 📚 #NCTE2025 #edusky #booksky #schoollibrarians #skybrarian tinyurl.com/zk4asf3m

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Every Seed (and Book) Holds Possibility

By Lynn Street

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Lisa Rogers @lisaljrogers.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

❤️ this! "...using picture books for STEAM and PBL is about building bridges: between literacy and science, imagination and innovation, the classroom and the real world...we offer students the tools to question, create, experience, and connect." @lindsayamoretti.bsky.social #Educators #PBL #STEAM

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Alison McGauley @alisonmcgauley.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Cozy up with a warm drink and enjoy this stack of new books by members of @picturebookseh.bsky.social! #kidlit #EduSky #CanKidLit #picturebooks #librarians

The title reads Fall Releases. We see the covers of the new Canadian picture books along with the Picture Books, Eh! graphic and black and white graphics of corn, a pumpkin, leaves and a mug of tea.

Little Hearts in the Snow - Andrew Katz, Juliana Léveillé-Trudel and Joseph Sherman

I'm a Big Rig! - Nancy Cohen and Claire Manning

Butterfly Sea - Cynthia Mackey and Marie-Laure Couet

Charlotte's New Moccasins - Jenn Moudahi and Rhael McGregot

Burst Your Bubble! - Joyce Grant and Jan Dolby

Just in Case - Megan Clendenan and Brittany Cicchese

Levi's Gift - Kathy Stinson and Ellie Arscott

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Teresa Robeson @teresarobeson.com · 11/10/2025

Celebrate International Day of the Girl by reading stellar picture biographies about some notable #WomenInSTEAM ...by me, @jwbottom.bsky.social, and @lisaljrogers.bsky.social (members of @kl4gm.bsky.social )!

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Lisa Rogers @lisaljrogers.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

A productive 30 minutes writing outside, punctuated by my pup's baying. Perfect! #kidlit #amwriting

Badge for KidLitWriMo October writing challenge that says I'm writing 30 minutes for 30 days

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Stephanie Gibeault @stephaniegibeault.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Thank you so much, @loritecler.bsky.social, for the kind review of THE DOG WHO SAVED THE BEES (written by me, illustrated by @davidhohn.bsky.social, and published by Sleeping Bear Press)!

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Picture Book Gold @picturebookgold.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Check out @lisaljrogers.bsky.social's post about doing too much telling in writing--w/before & after examples of her own from Woody's Words: Woodrow Wilson Rawls and Where the Red Fern Grows. PLUS a lovely review by @lynnbbooks.bsky.social! All on Lynn Becker's fab blog! #writingtips #ShowDontTell

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Lisa Rogers @lisaljrogers.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

"Love the day. Do not leave the sky out of your landscape." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson #poetry

Photograph of wispy clouds against a blue sky

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Picture Book Gold @picturebookgold.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

So fab for Picture Book Gold's @viviankirkfield.bsky.social & friend to celebrate #InternationalDotDay w/the incredibly talented & giving @peterhreynolds.bsky.social -- where will your dot take you?? #creativity

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Lisa Rogers @lisaljrogers.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Without his wife Sophie, Wilson Rawls wouldn't have pubbed WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS. WOODY'S WORDS tells that story. What did you achieve b/c you asked for help? What if you didn't ask? Thx @deborahkalb.bsky.social for hosting me! deborahkalbbooks.blogspot.com/2025/09/q-wi... #EduSky #TLSky #kidlit

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Lisa Rogers @lisaljrogers.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Super excited for Sunday's launch at Wellesley Books in MA! 7 years in the making -- this librarian can't wait any longer to share Wilson Rawls' incredible life story with you all! Plus 🐾 dog treats, activities, & prizes! Tomorrow at 2 pm. ❤️ #kidlit #EduSky #TLSky #librarians #PictureBooks

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Lisa Rogers @lisaljrogers.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Hey dog-loving readers! Who doesn't want their own hound ears? Launching Woody's Words: Woodrow Wilson Rawls and Where the Red Fern Grows by me & illustrator Susan Reagan w/crafts, prizes, dog treats, & reading. 2 pm on 9/7 @Wellesley Books www.facebook.com/events/73577... #hounddog #Dogsky #kidlit

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Lisa Rogers @lisaljrogers.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Celebrate #kidlit nonfiction w/Melissa Stewart's blog--packed with awesome teacher-tested lesson ideas, fantastic book picks, readers' theater, & more! So much in this wrap-up! #TLsky #librarians #skybrarian #booksky #nonfiction

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Kidlit For Growing Minds @kl4gm.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Our Sept. newsletter, article by @lisaljrogers.bsky.social, and #giveaway is ready to read! Find book news, teaching tips, inspiration, & more. Subscribe to receive a special download and bio book list by our KL4GM creatives! 💕📚💕 #edusky #booksky #schoollibrarians #skybrarian tinyurl.com/2yzd9orb

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Picture Book Biographies: Teaching Tools Full of Possibility

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Lisa Rogers @lisaljrogers.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Grateful to @slj.com for this awesome review of WOODY'S WORDS: WOODROW WILSON RAWLS AND WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS by me & Susan Reagan! I relied on SLJ as a school #librarian & still do! TY, SLJ! #WhereTheRedFerngrows #Edusky #librarians #SchoolLibrarians #Skybrarian #Skybrarians #TLSky #biography

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Lisa Rogers @lisaljrogers.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Just a few days left to enter the #giveaway for Woody's Words: Woodrow Wilson Rawls and #WhereTheRedFernGrows From @slj.com: "Stunning verse and illustrations...This book would work beautifully in lockstep with any classroom unit" on the novel. Out 9/9! #edusky www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

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Woody's Words: Woodrow Wilson Rawls and Where the Red F…

The life of Woodrow “Woody” Wilson Rawls, the author of…

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Lisa Rogers @lisaljrogers.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

A new book doesn't happen too often, so I'm super excited for next week's launch of WOODY'S WORDS! If you loved #WhereTheRedFernGrows, I think you'll love Woody's life story. Join me @ Wellesley Books, request an ARC on Edelweiss, reread the classic novel, hug a hound! #dogsofbluesky #hounddogs

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Lisa Rogers @lisaljrogers.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

#Librarians enrich our world! Congratulations to @laurenkerstein.bsky.social & @beccastatt.bsky.social on the publication of HOPE RODE, about Kentucky's brave Packhorse librarians! #reading #libraries

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Lisa Rogers @lisaljrogers.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Honoring Elvis' music & life during ✨ Elvis Week ✨ w/a #giveaway 🎵 Win a signed copy of ELVIS PRESLEY: A LITTLE GOLDEN BOOK BIOGRAPHY by joining my newsletter at lisarogerswrites.com. Free BEAUTIFUL NOISE: THE MUSIC OF JOHN CAGE activity kit w/signup. Ends 8/18/25. US only. 🎶 #ElvisPresley #Elvis

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Lynn Becker @lynnbbooks.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Ahoy! If you’ve in the Denver area, I hope you’ll come out and have a kraken good time at the farmers market this Sunday! Get some swag (and vegetables ?) and support a local indie bookstore!

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Lisa Rogers @lisaljrogers.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Love the quiet of an evening paddle on the pond. #reflection #kayak #vitaminN

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Laura Roettiger @ljrwritenow.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

magic streetlight art beauty surrounds those who look, even after dark #haikuSaturday #photography

Streetlight pattern at the NYBG photography by Laura Roettiger

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