People are who not teachers may never understand that there are students who etch themselves on our souls.
It’s rare that we can predict who they’ll be, but there’s no mistaking it when it happens. For good or for ill, that’s my kid and their existence impacts how I see my job and the world.
Three soft and fuzzies, coming up. 🧵 🪶 🐣
view of dog
Sure did!
From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
Octavia E. Butler, 1998:
"Planet Earth: You. Are. A. Crew."
Artemis II mission specialist Christina Koch reflects on what it means to be a "crew."
This will end your night on a good note.
Gratitude. 🚀 🌕
My hand holding a giant pill bug/wood louse knit out of green/blue gradient yarn. It has blue antennae, 14 blue to green legs and the shell fades from light green to blue to blue green. In the background is a blurry garden.
The Pillbug in its rolled up form. It has a button on its head and a loop at its tail so it stays rolled. It is sitting on a woven rug.
#FOFriday and it’s time. I finished my not-so-mini minibeast, the Roly Poly Pillbug! It’s huge. It’s soft. It rolls up and becomes a cushion. It’s perfect 🤩
🧶 #Knitting
We are pleased to host a giveaway of the middle grade novel, WHERE ELLA WENT by @lauriemorrison.bsky.social (ABRAMS Amulet), out on April 14.
To enter, L + RP and confirm your entry in our Friday weekly update: kidlit411.com/2026/04/the-... (+ more ways to win)
Bluesky is temporarily working again. Here's a duckling to be permanently in your heart!! 🪶 🐣
Someone with the handle @velocity69.bsky.social is sharing a video with the caption:
"The highest quality video of the moon was just released…
so beautiful
* Artemis II"
It's gone viral, but it's not from Artemis II. If you've shared it, you might want to un-share.
Men need to women up and know when to help.
This is the domestic violence hand signal.
Thanks for the opportunity!
🦥*GIVEAWAY ALERT*🦥
Today's the day! Sloths and Their Moths is out in the world! Comment, like, and repost to be entered to win a copy. I'll draw a random winner on April 6, so get your entry in by then🥳
@tielmourpress.bsky.social @steamteambooks.bsky.social
Oh my gd, the Artemis II crew doing a parody of a bad 1980s sitcom intro from in space.
Source: www.instagram.com/p/DWwuHPfCZ8Z/
Pull up a chair (and maybe some matzah 😉) and join me for a special Passover episode of E Train Talks!
👉🏼Whether you’re celebrating, learning, or just curious, I’d love for you to tune in and watch the full episode.
@baronchrisbaron.bsky.social @joshlevy.bsky.social
youtu.be/hz55DJppj7Q?...
Today is National School Librarian Day. THANK YOU, school librarians & school library workers. We celebrate you. For so many library kids, the school library is the only place they have access to books. It is where they learn to believe that stories are for them. Thank you for your library joy 💛📚🥹🤟🏽
Incredible footage from a United Airlines flight of the Artemis II launch.
This is Molly. She was finally found a week after her human fell down a 180-foot waterfall while hiking together in New Zealand. Her human was badly injured and rescued by helicopter, but Molly was missing. A week later, Molly was found at the base of the waterfall and reunited with her human. 14/10
This is awesome!
I took Poppy to see the exhibition today. I think she enjoyed being reunited with her #PackedLunchPostIt notes. She even added one of her own to the Visitor's Gallery.
Photograph of a car with a squirrel inside of it, perched on the steering wheel. The car is the color of champaign at a beige convention, and the squirrel is the color of squirrels. The squirrel is holding a package of crackers in it's mouth. They are the kind like you get at a restaurant, where you get two crackers wrapped in plastic. The driver's side window is slightly cracked. This is how the squirrel got in, and how it got out. It threw the crackers out first, and then climbed out after them. Everything in this operation suggested that this was not the squirrel's first rodeo.
A closeup of the squirrel sitting on the steering wheel. The squirrel deserves a name, so we'll call her Anjeloma, and she's what you might call a winner. She is still squirrel colored. The crackers are white, and labeled "Zest." As if Anjeloma needed more zest. Squirrel, please. You can't see much of the car, but you can see smudges of grunge at the edges of the windshield, where the wipers have cast aside the debris of previous rains and pollen-falls.
The world is stupid, but I just watched a squirrel break into a car in the parking lot below me, steal a package of crackers, and escape to a nearby tree. So at least somebody is winning.
The uncomfortable truth about immigration. Charles Barkley had the guts to say what everybody's thinking, on live TV. If he can do that in front of millions, you can absolutely have that conversation with your family and friends.
Graphic that shows the cover of This Wolf Was Different by Katie Slivensky and Hannah Salyer, featuring a close up of a wolf with a human reflected in her eyes, and the caption above that reads "The New York Public Library Best Books of 2024" and also the cover of I, Rock: A Geology Tale by Katie Slivensky and Steph Stilwell, which shows a cartoon rock with googly eyes sitting on a cross section of the ground, with the caption above that reads, "SLJ Best Book of 2025".
#Librarians and #Teachers, if you're looking to expand your #KidLit science selections, or grownups, if you have a kid who loves nature, I recommend my picture books, illustrated by Hannah Salyer (This Wolf) and Steph Stilwell (I, Rock), pubbed by Beach Lane Books! 😃
www.katieslivensky.com/books
dudes rock
A photo of 4 rectangular shaped embroidered iron-on patches featuring bright colors and different invertebrates + text. From top to bottom, there is a dark blue “Nudibranch Admirer” patch with sea slugs, a teal blue “I Love Jumping Spiders” patch with peacock jumping spiders, a light orange “Awed by Isopods” with different isopods, and light blue “#1 Bug Enthusiast” with true bugs.
New iron-on patches for invertebrate lovers are now available! 🐛❤️
available here: shop.fossilforager.art
Let me know in the comments which invertebrate or creature patches you’d like to see from me next! 🪳
Switch your lights off at 8:30 pm local time today as part of #EarthHour2026 to raise #ClimateChange awareness! And read Nanette Heffernan & Bao Luu's book EARTH HOUR: A LIGHTS-OUT EVENT FOR OUR PLANET! Happy #earthhour! #kidlit #booksky 🌎❤️🌎
March 28 will be the biggest protest in US history. Find your local No Kings event to make it clear that America rejects the regime’s brutality at home and abroad. app.sosha.ai/s/2w3XjC26
