Oval framed watercolor of a bald monk kneeling at a table and painting the word for rain on paper with green hills around him. Cover of Little Monk Writes Rain.
🩵 🌧️ Little Monk Writes Rain is so tender, fresh, and beautiful, I've found it impossible to review. 🌧️🩵
Thank you @ebyrbooks.bsky.social for bringing us voices from around the world. We sooooo need them. #KidLit 📚👍🏼
Author Kirsten Larson holding up her new craft book, TELLING IT TRUE: HOW TO WRITE NONFICTION KIDS (AND TEENS) WANT TO READ. A simple, light blue cover with a stock image of a typewriter over the title.
🤗 #kidlit / #YA #nonfiction writers 🤗
Wouldn't it be a relief to have an experienced NF writer guide you step-by-step through the process of building a great manuscript?
@kirstenwlarson.bsky.social does just that in TELLING IT TRUE, out now from Amazon: a.co/d/e7jfqZK
Coming soon on Bookshop!🔥
Cover of _Salmon Run_ by Annie Chen. A watercolor illustration of the life cycle of salmon with green underwater plants swirling around a full grown salmon and it's earlier life stages as they circle a glowing orange egg.
🫶🏼 💚 Salmon Run 💚 🫶🏼 by Annie Chen
Watercolors transport the reader to a water world,
revealing the salmon's lifecycle. So simple, so elegant.
It's enough to learn one beautiful thing about the world. 🐟
📚👍🏼 @anniechenwrites.bsky.social @redcometpressbooks.bsky.social
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.
💖💀💖 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.
Just coming here to share this!
I think it was a good decision! The one you went with is striking and easy to understand.
Yup. It was such a broad voter suppression proposal that the defeat doesn't say anything about the popularity of a voter ID requirement.
"Do you want to change Maine election laws to eliminate two days of absentee voting, prohibit requests for absentee ballots by phone or family members, end ongoing absentee voter status for seniors and people with disabilities, ban prepaid postage on absentee ballot return envelopes, limit the number of drop boxes, require voters to show certain photo ID before voting, and make other changes to our elections?"
It was so much more than voter ID. So even though the voter ID element alone should have killed it, in this case I think most voters would see something in it that would impact them or someone they're connected to. I'm not sure you can use this victory to draw conclusions about voter ID laws.
Such an encouraging story!
Cover of the picture book I'm Longer Than You: An Epic Contest of Measurement by Carolyn Fisher. A cartoon blue whale and supersaurus share a red speech bubble with the title in it.
✨The magical mind of @carolynfisher.bsky.social
has turned measuring (& its arbitrary conventions)
into delight and play.✨
🐋 So freakin' clever. 🦕
Plus, AWESOME backmatter:
There IS a 1 cm species of centipede! (I was skeptical.)
And I love donkey power! (Units!)
📚👍🏼
@kidscanpress.bsky.social
I LOVE your book! So delightful and clever.
FYI, There's a different cover up on Goodreads.
Re-posting this review with 📚👍🏼 to make the Kidlit Boosters feed!
Cover of the picture book Late Today by Jungyoon Huh, illustrated by Myungae Lee, translated by Aerin Park. A black kitten sits under a car in the rain. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/223924760-late-today?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=zdqP0ZT9bw&rank=1
Marvelous drawings of a traffic jam
and that rain-heavy sky
and so many looking away,
as a kitten crosses traffic.
But someone...
_screeech!_
A meditation
a provocation
a call to be late...
just in time.
I kept thinking,
"We're all this kitten."
👍🏼📚
@ebyrbooks.bsky.social
Cover of We Are Definitely Human by X. Fang. Three purple and blue aliens floating against a starry black sky with their flying saucer.
🌙 👽 So gentle and wise, this one. And funny. 👽 🌙
My 7-yo niece says it's "one of the best books ever." And repeats and repeats the title with dramatic glee.
We Are _Definitely_ Human by X. Fang
is definitely delightful.
May quiet books rule again. 📚👍
TY Tundra Books!
Color photograph of a wooden sign nailed to a tree in the middle of the woods with the word "library" and a right pointing arrow on it.
Even in the middle of the woods, readers need to know.
#library #kidlitcommunity
Yikes
Cover of _Shipwreck_ created by Deirdre Laide and Carlos Velez Aguilera: a ship at the bottom of the ocean.
🌊🚢 Gold belt chains, hidden bombs, and deadly fires. Find fascinating shipwrecks in these luminous spreads with beautifully balanced lyrical and informational text. 🫶🏼🚢 🌊
Spotted in the wild @boulderbookstore.bsky.social
📚👍🏼@deirdrelaide.bsky.social & Carlos Velez Aguilera
I'm harassed by a recurring dream that I have to go back to high school, but maybe I just need to make sure I get in your class and it'll be great.
Cover of This Year, a Witch by Zoey Abbott. Profile of a determined looking kid in a white witch hat and purple and blue striped shirt. Standing in front of greenish yellow wallpaper with leaf drawings.
🧙🧙 I adore the emotional arc in This Year, a Witch! 📚👍🏼
This was my first of Zoey Abbott's, and I immediately gobbled up every other one I could get.
She is _masterful_ at making a potent story out of every day stuff. Just exactly what I love. 💕
delightful style!
All things bright and beautiful! 🩷🧡💛🩵💜
I love it too!
The cover of In the World of Whales words by Michelle Cusolito, illustrated by Jessica Lanan. Two adult sperm whales lift a baby to breathe at the surface while a free diver looks on from below.
🐋🐋 What a book! 🐋🐋
This one is top of the top of the top. 📚👍🏼
From @mcusolito.bsky.social ⭐️
and @jessicalanan.bsky.social ⭐️
Frustrating! I'm so sorry your big announcement has that error. Sounds like a marvelous book!
Super intrigued! Integrating science and story, fact and feeling, is certainly my dream, so I can't wait to read it. In the meantime, can you say anything more about the science part? I'm puzzling over the "trillions of years ago" timeline in a universe much younger than that. What am I missing?
🐞🌿🧠 After a brief hiatus for budget reasons, I just rejoined @kirstenwlarson.bsky.social's Reimagine Insiders community.
Y'all, if you write #KidLit #NF, it is an unbeatable, high-quality deal in craft/industry education. 🦋🐋🦖
writers.kirstenwlarson.com/b/insiders
Colorful cover of Papa's Magical Water Jug Clock by Jesús Trejo and Eliza Kinkz. A boy rides a purple skateboard with a red water jug down a suburban sidewalk, as his father was a lawn in the background.
Working class occupations are sooooo underrepresented in #Kidlit. More of this please!
@jesustrejo.bsky.social masterfully turns an ordinary water jug into the golden thread on which the story beats are strung. And @elizakinkz.bsky.social makes nonstop fun of line and color.
📚👍🏼 #KidLit
Yay! So excited for this one! The world needs it!
Fun! And so eye-catching!
This work! It is so everything. Beautiful, painful, sharp, sly, but most of all--beautiful. I've just requested every Zahra Marwan book available to me on interlibrary loan. #kidlitartpostcard