We stand alongside over 100 grassroots and national advocacy organizations, publishers, booksellers, parent groups, and professional associations in opposition to H.R. 7661.

Love this!

And librarians love you!

Yes!

Love this man. Not just his music, but that he always stood for what he believed. He talked to talk and he walked the walk. Not many people do that.

National Library Week It's National Library Week, the American Library Association's celebration of all things library. This year's theme is

#HBOutoftheBox: How are YOU celebrating #NationalLibraryWeek?
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I never knew an African American woman was behind this. Thank you for sharing.

What? I never knew this. Thank you.

Wow!

A clear glass plaque in a rosewood stand reads SHOW ME READERS AWARD 2024-2025 Winner Sponsored by the Missouri Association of School Librarians Chosen by the Children of Missouri Hamsters Make Terrible Roommates Written by Cheryl B. Klein and Illustrated by Abhi Alwar

The cover of HAMSTERS MAKE TERRIBLE ROOMMATES, featuring an annoyed-looking brown hamster side-eyeing an open-mouthed white hamster

I got an award this past weekend and I am proud of it. The 1st-3rd graders in Missouri voted HAMSTERS MAKE TERRIBLE ROOMMATES their favorite picture book of the 2024-2025 year.

Whoo-hoo!

A colorful illustration of the front of a library with a librarian at the door waving to members of the community outside. A banner over the library reads "FIND YOUR JOY!" Logos for American Library Association and Library Champions in top right. Text below the illustration reads "Celebrate NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK, April 19-25, 2026"

It's #NationalLibraryWeek! Take time to discover what brings you joy at your library: browse the shelves, join a book club, attend a program, or get started on your next creative project in a makerspace.

Be sure to visit your library or ilovelibraries.org and celebrate your library all week long!

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Spotlight on our Reviews of the Week. Read the reviews here: www.hbook.com/section/book...
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Mayor Mamdani and President Obama read a picture book to a group of children.

Mayor Mamdani and President Obama chat and laugh with a group of children.

Mayor Mamdani and President Obama chat and laugh.

Children hug Mayor Mamdani.

Today, President Barack Obama and I read to a group of toddlers at Learning Through Play Pre-K Center in the South Bronx. 

In between singing wheels on the bus, we discussed our administration’s vision for this City — one where New York’s Cutest have the strongest start possible.

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Francis Gooding · Rocket Science for Monkeys: Sounds before Words So far as we know, true symbolic language is unique to the human species. The question of how we alone came to be...

‘There are many more fires, hunts and stone tools in Mithen’s story than babies and comforted children, and when it comes to thinking about talking it isn’t immediately obvious why that should be so.’

Francis Gooding investigates how we got to language.

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Triceratops
Historical fiction
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LOOKING FOR SMOKE by KA Cobell (Heartdrum) is nominated from the 2026-2027 Florida Sunshine State Young Readers Award (SSYRA) and 2026-2027 Florida Teen Reads Award. @epicreads.bsky.social @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social #YABooks

Wow!

Love this!

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Powerful.

Let’s grow!!

Rules for creative work always end up being rules for life as well, & they all come down to the same six principles, IMO:
1. Pay attention.
2. Tell the truth.
3. Honor your work.
4. Love your people.
5. Have fun.
6. Stay open.

Disney's new CEO, whose pay package is worth nearly $45M, just announced 1,000 layoffs.

Reminder that Disney paid an effective federal income tax rate of ZERO in 2025 and aims to buy back $7B of its own stock in 2026.

This is what corporate greed looks like.

First review, partial quote from review. Cover art for RAVEN, RISING (three middle school girls and black cats seated in a magical gazebo), Heartdrum logo (Alaska Native drum, young eagle feather), graphic of black cat on the logo, pink post background, purple/brown text.

★ “a gentle, uplifting portrait of a tween seeking and finding support.” —Publishers Weekly, starred

RAVEN, RISING by Christine Hartman Derr (Cherokee), cover art by Madelyn Goodnight (Chickasaw)(Heartdrum, summer 2026). Ages 8-up. @harperkids.bsky.social @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social #KidLit