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Readergirl4 resident 'BookDragon' @readergirl4.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

#HappyBookBirthday to #Briarwood &. @natalie Hyde @DCB! A great magical adventure story!

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Rebecca Upjohn @rebeccaupjohn.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Huge thank you to #WashingtonCounty, PA for using my book #LilyandthePaperMan during your Hunger and Homelessness week to raise awareness about the increase in food and housing insecurity. @secondstory.bsky.social Video on Instagram (where I'm not) and Facebook for more info. #kidlit #cankidlit

a screen shot of a woman with shoulder-length brown hair in a cream coloured sweater speaking to the video camera with the words Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Week November 16-22 across the lower part of the screen. Below the words Hunger & Homelessness Week appear in black type.

a screen shot of a woman's hand with rings and red nail polish touching the cover of a picture book called Lily and the Paper Man. The illustration shows a young girl in winter clothing looking worried.

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Maria Marshall @mmarshallauthor.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Don't miss this spectacular PB fracture of a familiar fairy tale full of hijinks, humor, and friendship! www.mariacmarshall.com/single-post/... @ashleybelote.bsky.social @randomhousekids.bsky.social #PPBF #kidlit #humor #kindness 📚👍

Book cover - a boy in red overalls and a red cap excitedly strides past a bush where a hungry wolf is hiding, waiting to pounce.

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Troy Wilson @troystory.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Because I still love it (and so should you). #kidlit 📚👍🏼

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Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

💖💀💖 Delightfully peculiar stories. Marvelous illustrations. 💖💀💖 Little dips in the quiet life of Gram, Gramps, and... a skeleton. 🫶🏼💀🫶🏼 Named John. 🫶🏼💀🫶🏼 📚👍🏼 Yay Yonder/Restless books for bringing such a beautiful read out in translation.

Pink and gray cover of John the Skeleton by Triinu Laan, illustrated by Marja-Liisa Plats, translated from Estonian by Adam Cullen. A skeleton gently waves its hand while red snails crawl all over it.

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Rebecca Upjohn @rebeccaupjohn.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

chipmunks chirp-tocking alarms —the morning news #haikusaturday #haiku

a chipmunk with a raised tail looking toward the camera. The edge of a brown and silver tarp, dry grass and brown leaves are the background.

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Rebecca Upjohn @rebeccaupjohn.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

A splendid event spotlighting ten new Canadian picture books (which I now need!) and their creators. 👇🏻 @picturebookseh.bsky.social @canscaip.bsky.social organized and hosted this wonderful event. Next one is in December. #KidLit #CanKitLit #PictureBooks Video by the @debbieohi.com

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Rebecca Upjohn @rebeccaupjohn.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

lost heads sunflowers warm ruminant stomachs #haikusaturday #haiku

several green stalks with lopped off flower heads in a garden with patch grass in the background

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Helen Kubiw ❤️ 🇨🇦 📚 @hkubiw.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Fab presentation (#graphicnovel) for #nonfiction #MG: informative & definitely entertaining. THE SUSTAINABLE SCHOOL by Erica Fyvie & illus by @ritchiescot.bsky.social from @kidscanpress.bsky.social covers #energy #history #transportation #STEM. canlitforlittlecanadians.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...

Book cover of The Sustainable School: A Journey Through Time and Energy by Erica Fyvie and Scot Ritchie depicts a school and children from 100 years ago (in sepia tones) and the same school today with today's kids (in colour)

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Rebecca Upjohn @rebeccaupjohn.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Thank you to The Heron's Nest for publishing one of my #haiku in the September, 2025 issue. theheronsnest.com/September202...

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The Heron's Nest - Volume XXVII, Number 3: September 2025

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Linda Ludke @lindamludke.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

True Colors by @elisegravel.bsky.social trans. Montana Kane is a totally tubular time capsule of growing up in the early 1990s filled with colourful hobbies, true-blue friends and undiagnosed ADHD. Here’s my ⭐ @quillandquire.bsky.social #bookreview: bit.ly/46biqGm 📚👍 #KidLit @dandq.bsky.social

The cover of True Colors: Growing up Weird in the 90s by Elise Gravel resembles a page from a lined notebook. A dark haired teen is sitting on the floor writing in her journal surrounded by a skateboard, board games, telephone and books.

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Readergirl4 resident 'BookDragon' @readergirl4.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

If a street could talk, what could it remember? #MyStreetRemembers is a brilliant book by @karenkrossing.com #Indigenous illustrator #CathieJamieson! text and bright vibrant images are perfectly suited and will have any age reader explore & ponder this unique book #HighlyRecommended⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

My Street Remembers by Karen Krossing and illustrated by Cathie Jamieson. Published by Groundwood Books. When the cover is opened it reveals an indigenous representation of turtle island that straddles the spine of the book. The back of the book shows the outline of a cityscape. The front cover shows a turtle walking and leaving tracks in the soil.

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Philippa Dowding @phdowding.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Honored to publish "The Love Song of Mr. Byrd" (Oct/25), with @cormorantbooks.bsky.social. An independent publisher, all their books are entirely made in Canada! Written by Canadians Illustrated by Canadians Edited by Canadians Designed by Canadians Published by Canadians and Printed in Canada!

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Helen Kubiw ❤️ 🇨🇦 📚 @hkubiw.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Love Vicki Grant novels: the laughs, the storytelling, the characters...Out tmrw: DEATH BY WHOOPEE CUSHION from #TundraBooks delivers all. And there's #STEM and a mystery to solve. ( #Science #teachers: use for lessons re acids/bases) canlitforlittlecanadians.blogspot.com/2025/07/deat...

Book cover of Death by Whoopee Cushion by Vicki Grant depicts a giant orange whoopee cushion with skull and crossbones letting air out as two kids in lab coats run away

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SCBWI Canada West @scbwicanadawest.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Join #SCBWICanadaWest for a kit lit chat on Wed, Jul 30 from 5-6pm/pst with an interactive Q&A hosted by @kenrolston.bsky.social @deborahpaquette.bsky.social @annely-so.bsky.social Connect with the Canadian Kit Lit community. Use #SCBWICanadaWest to find us. #scbwisummerconference2025

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Rebecca Upjohn @rebeccaupjohn.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

trilling toads pause their songs my path parts through the dusk #haikusaturday #haiku #amwriting #poetry

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Rebecca Upjohn @rebeccaupjohn.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Thank you @thesolitarydaisy.bsky.social for including my #haiku in Issue 56 - Festivals and Celebrations!

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Readergirl4 resident 'BookDragon' @readergirl4.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

These are now 'Frankie' approved! Thank you Kelly Collier, can't wait to share 'Steve' with all my students in the fall!

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Rebecca Upjohn @rebeccaupjohn.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

A #Canadiankidlit collection #TodayIAm, 10 stories of belonging by @chadgalucas.bsky.social, @martychan.bsky.social, @lisellesambury.bsky.social, Michael Hutchinson, Rosena Fung, @dannyramadan.com, @jaelrichardson.bsky.social , @mahtabnarsimhan.bsky.social, Angela Misri & Brandon Wint #kidlit 📚👍🏻

a book cover of a purple background with two girls and a boy in different coloured clothing - the title Today I Am is written in yellow, subtitle: 10 stories of Belonging. Edited by Jael Richardson, author of Gutter Child.

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Rebecca Upjohn @rebeccaupjohn.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

a rose by another name- bumblebee bonanza #haikusaturday #haiku #amwriting #bloomscrolling #micropoetry

a bumblebee in the centre of a dark pink rose blossom

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Rebecca Upjohn @rebeccaupjohn.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

To alleviate angst I #knit - this one is for my month old great nephew to grow into. Pattern: #GrowingGardenCardigan. Yarn: #CottonChirp, both from #PurlSoho. Somehow the act of knitting turns down the volume in my head enough to re-set. Plus making something for someone...🧶

a partially knitted baby sweater in off white with stripes of different blues.

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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 21/05/2025

MÉTIS LIKE ME by @tashahilderman.bsky.social & @risahugo.bsky.social, published by #TundraBooks. This beautifully illustrated story encourages readers of all cultural backgrounds to embrace our own cultural roots. www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/710553... 📚👍🏽 #SchwartzAwards #CanKidLit #EduSky

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Betsy Bird @fuse8.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

A Newbery winner switches gears and writes a work of older nonfiction for her young readers. Today we answer why, and discover just how cool Joey Guerrero truly was. I interview @erinentrada.bsky.social #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2025/05/21/e...

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Erin Entrada Kelly Goes All Nonfiction on Us! A Talk About AT LAST SHE STOOD

A Newbery winner switches gears and writes a work of older nonfiction for her young readers. Today we answer why, and discover just how cool Joey Guerrero truly was.

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Anastasia Suen @anastasiasuen.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

#kidlit Book of the Day: Hannah and the Wrong Note #family #school #concert #picturebook #fiction from @owlkidspublishing asuen.com/hannah-and-t... 📚👍

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Troy Wilson @troystory.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Four Faves, Dragon Edition. 📚👍

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Becky Levine @beckylevine.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

When you need mentor texts for wildly different projects. Thx, @kirstenwlarson.bsky.social for your podcast interview w/ @kamalani3.bsky.social. After hearing you talk about KAHO'OLAWE - THE TRUE STORY OF AN ISLAND AND HER PEOPLE, I knew I needed it. The art by Harinani Orme is perfect! #kidlit 📚👍🏻

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John Schu @mrschureads.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

I spent a fabulous morning with 300 2nd, 3rd, and 4th graders! Thank you, Bob Beard Elementary School in San Antonio, for sharing your big, bright, and beautiful ideas with me!

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Monica Burns @ClassTechTips @classtechtips.com · 15/05/2025

📚 Summer break is almost here… but the learning doesn’t have to stop! #EduSky 🎧 From audiobooks to author interviews, there are so many creative ways to keep kids engaged with reading. 🔗 Check out all the ideas on the blog and get inspired: classtechtips.com/2024/05/16/s...

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Deborah Kerbel @deborahkerbel.com · 28/03/2025

Canadian #kidlit creators, if you're not following @hkubiw.bsky.social yet, you should be. Her outstanding book review blog is one of the most viewed & influential in our community. Thank you for your hard work and dedication to Canadian children's books, Helen. You're a rockstar 🤩 🇨🇦 📚

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Deborah Kerbel @deborahkerbel.com · 31/03/2025

I’m excited to share a sneak peek of the adorable 'book sibling' for WHAT ABOUT AN OCTOPUS? WHAT ABOUT AN ELEPHANT? will be stomping into bookstores August 2025 😊 Illustrated by Dawn Lo & published by @owlkids.bsky.social 🐘🐙📚🇨🇦 #ireadcanadian #informationalpicturebook #picturebook #fall2025 #kidlit

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Deborah Kerbel @deborahkerbel.com · 03/04/2025

With shrinking review outlets for 🇨🇦 kidlit, the loss of CM Reviews leaves quite a void. Feeling grateful for all their years of steadfast support for 🇨🇦 kids books & sad to see it end. A review of NO HUDDLES FOR HELOISE appears in the latest (& possibly final 😔) issue. Thank you for everything, CM!

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gracemac.bsky.social @gracemac.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

gift in red paper full of tear drops humble onion. #haikusaturday #dailyhaikuprompt #senryu

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Rebecca Upjohn @rebeccaupjohn.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Keeping its eye on us. Happy #EarthDay. (Let's not bork it up.) 👀🤞🏻🖖🏻

a hole in a tree trunk where a branch may have been looks like an eye with a vertical pupil.

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Rebecca Upjohn @rebeccaupjohn.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Day 23 for #NationalPoetryMonth in celebration of blossoms opening in many places in many forms: #CherryBlossoms by #ToiDerrecotte - for my friend Janet, with whom I've gone with, to stand in the delicate light of the cherry trees in spring.

Cherry blossoms

Toi Derricotte 1941 -

I went down to mingle my breath with the breath of the cherry blossoms.

There were photographers: Mothers arranging their children against gnarled old trees; a couple, hugging, asks a passerby to snap them like that, so that their love will always be caught between two friendships: ours & the friendship of the cherry trees.

Oh Cherry, why can't my poems be as beautiful?

A young woman in a fur-trimmed coat sets a card table with linens, candles, a picnic basket & wine.

A father tips a boy's wheelchair back so he can gaze up at a branched heaven.

All around us

the blossoms flurry down whispering,

Be patient you have an ancient beauty.

Be patient, you have an ancient beauty.

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Kids Can Press @kidscanpress.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Get ready for Jane’s Walk during the first weekend in May! Jane’s Walk is a movement of free, citizen-led walking conversations inspired by Jane Jacobs.

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Rebecca Upjohn @rebeccaupjohn.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Congratulations to @robinstevenson.bsky.social on her new picture book A Hug on the Wind!

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Readergirl4 resident 'BookDragon' @readergirl4.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Happy Book Birthday to #Bennys on the case by Wesley King! An amazing story full of heart, kindness and celebrates uniqueness in a multitude of ways! Get your copy today! #diversity #mosiacdownsyndrome #mystery

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Rebecca Upjohn @rebeccaupjohn.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Shout out to Karen Upper @readergirl4.bsky.social a Near North #OntarioSchools #Librarian extraordinaire. #RightToReadDay #NationalLibraryWeek #kidlit She has supported me since my first book #LilyAndThePaperMan appeared in 2007 📚 #kidlit

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Charlene Chua @charlenedraws.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Yup, it’s the pups!

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