I love me some libraries! The library was always my sanctuary, my safe space, my second home. Today, the library is sanctuary to the books I write, the stories I tell! Ever and always, my safe space. This is from Jumping Off Library Shelves, an anthology by Lee Bennett Hopkins. #nationallibraryweek
This is my lunch time book and I did NOT want to go back to work today. I just wanted to keep reading! It's so good.
Heartdrum and Fuse 8 logos. Photo of Rosemary Brosnan (blond with shoulder length curly hair in pink v-neck shirt) and Cynthia Leitich Smith (brunette with long hair wearing purple glasses and gray v-neck shirt), both smiling in round frame. Quote: “Heartdrum has published over 30 books! Heartdrum’s books have picked up 74* starred reviews and counting...numerous awards and accolades.” *Update: 77 starred reviews! Blue background, white text.
Heartdrum celebrates 5th anniversary! Heartdrum, the Native Voices Imprint, Turns Five: We Talk with Curator Cynthia Leitich Smith and Editor Rosemary Brosnan by Betsy Bird from Fuse 8 Production at School Library Journal: afuse8production.slj.com/2026/04/16/h...
Bright orange graphic titled “Announcing the Winners of the 2025 Black Creatives Revision Workshop!” Beneath the title is an illustration of a hand holding a pencil and writing on a heart designed to look like a blank sheet of notebook paper. The logos for Penguin Random House and We Need Diverse Books are located at the bottom of the graphic, along with their respective social media handles.
Penguin Random House and We Need Diverse Books are thrilled to finally announce the winners of the 2025 Black Creatives Revision Workshop!
Seventeen-year-old junior class vice president Grace Bak has her entire future all mapped out. With plans to become a doctor like both her parents, Grace has her sights set on Boston University's intensive science summer program--which will put her on the fast track to medical school. When she's not at school or studying, Grace writes and illustrates her webcomic, Sun God, inspired by the Korean myth of Haemosu about two teenage gods trapped in human form who are cursed to live in the modern world, and perhaps worst of all, to attend public high school. She started the comic as a way to honor her grandmother who used to tell her all the old myths before she died. Grace never expected the comic to go viral, but it has, and she's still spinning from the excitement of having thousands of readers. But somehow the power of all those readers has conjured the real Haemosu and now it's up to Grace to get him back to his own realm. As Grace and Hae try to figure out a way for Hae to return home, the two become close. Hae challenges everything Grace has ever believed about herself even making her braver in the face of her near-crippling anxiety. Hae learns he is fallible, after all and what it means to sacrifice for those you love. But Hae isn't the only god to find themselves suddenly trapped in the mortal realm and now a battle is on the horizon. Grace and Hae fight side by side, but in the end, will their burgeoning love keep them together or tear them apart?
GODS & COMICS is out in the world today! ☀️💜 I hope you'll like my take on the "power" of fandoms and what happens when a writer's characters come to life, with supernatural antics thrown in! 👯 #booksky #godsandcomics
Links: www.katchowrites.com/gods-comics
Happy #BookBirthday to HOLD by award-winning author Randy Ribay & illustrated by Caldecott honoree Zeke Peña!
★ “Delightfully tender.” —Kirkus Reviews
★ “An ebullient picture book debut.” —Publishers Weekly
★“This small but lively adventure humorously honors the everyday victories.” —The Horn Book
This Is Just To Say
I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update
and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize
Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying
Just remember, whatever stats ALA drops, the reality is even worse. A not insignificant number of schools don't report to ALA, and ALA doesn't have the staff in OIF to go out and track down this information. This looks bad, but it's likely worse.
www.ala.org/news/2026/04...
Don't forget to hassle your reps to vote against HR 7661, the National Book Ban Bill.
5calls.org/issue/federa...
I grew up without a TV (and before the internet was widely available), so my main source of entertainment was my local library. My library was especially important during long, boring summer months where I had little to do.
Books! Comics! Magazines Newspapers! I could even watch videos at my library! And it was all for free! It felt magical!
Over the summer, I'd spend practically every day at my local library. But there was one problem... "Why're you lying around here? Go out! Go to the library!"
...my library was closed on Mondays. "I can't! It's Mondayyy!" "Oh. Right."
It's National Library Week! The theme this year is Find Your Joy and we asked @faitherinhicks.bsky.social about her connection to her childhood library, the Milton Public Library ❤️📚
Check out Faith's graphic novel, INBETWEENS here: tinyurl.com/yck72em7
#NationalLibraryMonth #MiltonPublicLibrary
Loved this book!
The state of Utah has banned four more books, bringing the number of state-sanctioned book bans to 32.
Of those, 24 are by women and the average publication date is 2009.
bookriot.com/utah-book-ba...
That cover!!!
There should be a law passed, and enforced, that we will no longer have for profit prisons of any kind! Ever again! Incentivized incarceration should be a crime against humanity and should be retroactively enforced! They know what they are doing is wrong!
She’s back! Acevedo has returned to the #YA space & this mix of prose & poetry was beautifully written, steeped in Dominican myths, while also addressing issues of mental illness & the juvenile justice system.Out 9/15: bookshop.org/a/102434/978... #yalit #books #tlsky #skybrarian #skybrarians
I hate Al and I refuse to use it Peter, if you don't use Al a bunch of super rich men will lose a lot of money I already said I hated Al Harry, you don't need to sell it to me
What the Dem platform for 2028 must be:
1. Epstein Trials
2. ICE Trials
3. War Crimes Tribunals
We don’t want to hear about a $10,000 tax credit for starting new AI businesses.
We demand JUSTICE.
Another great way to give kids a strong start is to fully fund libraries. 😍
His Face is the Sun is book I didn't want to put down. While it is YA, it crosses over to adult readers.
☀📚☀
yabooknerd.blogspot.com/2026/04/revi...
I turned the TV off during the credits of the season finale of The Pitt. Didn't realize there was more! In case you did the same, here's what we missed . . .
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLFO...
#ThePitt #karaoke #finale
Only 38 away from 2,000 click below to do your part to help us get there! actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Good Comics for Kids News: Svetlana Chmakova Goes Back to Berrybrook with ‘Fight’
goodcomicsforkids.slj.com/2026/04/17/s...
Light brown graphic displaying a series of books with slightly yellowed pages along the bottom. There are vines, leaves, and pink flowers emerging from between the pages. Above the books is a stack of brown parchment pages, upon which the post title says, “Twenty-Seven Diverse Verse Novels and Poetry Collections”.
There’s a lot to celebrate this April, including #NationalPoetryMonth! Looking for some diverse novels-in-verse and poetry collections to dive into? Here are 27 ideas for where to start!
Today's job is working on building the teen summer reading badges for Readsquared.
I really wish there was an easier way to do this and not something to recreate year after year.
It seems like there could be an algorithm in place that would create the badges for you....
Graphic showing cover of free downloadable to celebrate National Library Week Mad Libs.
Get ready for #NationalLibraryWeek and share this free printable Mad Libs for a fun activity celebrating libraries!
📚 penguinschoollibrary.com/NLWMadLibs
