I hope they get soon!

Happy Women’s History Month! My Taylor Swift reader is out and it’s so sparkly!!! Also this SLJ review! “This early reader biography will delight the youngest of Taylor Swift fans.…Swift’s current popularity may ensure that the library shelf and this book never get back together, like ever.” 🥰🫶🫶🫶

Thank you!

I love Jenny’s work!

Thank you! Happy Valentines Day!

I am so proud to work on @chrisgrab.bsky.social amazing books and wowowowow @douglasholgate.bsky.social ‘s gorgeous artwork brings the graphic novel adaptations to dazzling, almost glowing life! Coming in October-and available for preorder now!

Love!!!

10 years. 11 Books! Happy book birthday to @juddwinick.bsky.social - Hilo 11 is onsale today! One of the biggest joys of my career has been editing these. They’re the books my kids clamored for when they were little and that their friends younger siblings ask me for now. Aaaahhhh!

NEWS: Kendrick Lamar's halftime performance is projected by Fox to be the most-watched halftime performance in Super Bowl history. Expected to top 130 million viewers for the performance when the final number comes out.

Hilo 11 is onsale tomorrow!

This is amazing!

Not exaggerating when I say I would like a personal, handwritten apology from every pundit who barfed out a dozen "the left wants to change the way you talk!" op-eds based on non-mandatory guidelines in obscure PDFs.

(And energized. And thinking).

This felt like the first crack of hope/light coming through and i am so grateful.

Ooh can’t wait to see!

So relatable! (I think you should buy heart shaped paper doilies and red and pink construction paper and craft to your heart’s content (even If he only sits with you under duress for two minutes).

Graphic Novels for Black History Month Graphic novels created by Black authors/artists, and/or centering Black stories and culture.

Speaking of comics:

Whether this new administration “observes” it or not, it’s still Black History Month.

Here’s a list of great comics by Black creators, and/or centering Black characters & stories 🕊️ 📚

bookshop.org/lists/graphi...

HILO 11: The Great Space Iguana
Is almost here!
This time we’re going on a space adventure! It’s got aliens, it’s got snotty reptiles, it’s got gladiator battles, and more trail mix than you would imagine for this sort of thing. Honest.

Lol!

MS librarian & #mglit author friends: we would love your support for a new category focused on ages 12-15 called #youngteenlit. See this article written by me and @overbooked.bsky.social that outlines the need for it.

#tlsky #skybrarians #kidlit
@michiganmasl.bsky.social @glma-inc.bsky.social

I was going to do an introduction post and i may still, but also these came into my house on the same day, purchased by two different family members and now i just found out that i have been putting conditioner on my arms for the past two days and that actually is a pretty accurate introduction.

Where Is the Kid Lit Community Online? As social media communities splinter, authors and publishers wonder where their next digital water cooler will be.

Children’s authors and publishers share how they’re navigating the splintering of social media and fostering community online

Bookshop.org enters the e-book arena, giving indie stores a new way to compete with Amazon "Everything Amazon can do, we want to do as well or better," says CEO Andy Hunter on boosting indie sales digitally.

This is VERY good news. Love bookshop.org and all the stuff they do!

www.salon.com/2025/01/28/b...

Following!

What a huge milestone!!!

HILO BOOK 11: The Great Space Iguana — is almost here!
This marks 10 years of HILO!!!
I am so very proud and so very grateful.
Book 11 drops on February 11th, 2025. Click the link in the bio to pre-order.
“TEN YEARS!”

@amedyckman.bsky.social i was so excited when they announced your name last week-congratulations!

Dorothy Porter in 1939, at her desk in the Carnegie Library at Howard University. Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Manuscript Division, Howard University

Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜

The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization.

Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵

Me too! I just joined yesterday and was looking for you-i’m glad you’re here!