Adventure awaits! From the January 2026 issue of Notes from the Horn Book.

Jan #NotesfromtheHornBook: 4 pg-turning tales where Black history/identity affects the action www.hbook.com/story/advent...
#BlackHistoryMonth @littlebrownyr.bsky.social @torbooks.bsky.social @penguinkids.bsky.social @traceybaptiste.bsky.social @pdjeliclark.bsky.social @rhymeswithcapri.bsky.social

This is awesome! Thank you!

Authors, we are excited to include your books in our 26th Annual Troybery Award Program! Get the list at bit.ly/troybery26
@traceybaptiste.bsky.social @gregvaneekhout.bsky.social @alangratz.bsky.social @ravenaguron.bsky.social @aprilhenry.bsky.social @jodimeadows.bsky.social

Fans of @traceybaptiste.bsky.social's exhilarating BOY 2.0: get ready for KID X coming in 2026! Our favorite superhero Coal is back with more adventures as he continues to develop his powers. Find KID X on shelves in February, and BOY 2.0 in paperback (with a brand new cover!) in January.

Black woman with long, curly hair smiling and wearing a khaki coat and white shirt.

LAcon V is proud to welcome @traceybaptiste.bsky.social as a Special Guest at the 84th World Science Fiction Convention. Tracey is an educator and New York Times bestselling author whose Caribbean folk tale-inspired works include The Jumbies and Moko Magic.

Author Tracey Baptiste Shares “Because Claudette” | Read Aloud + How to Draw YouTube video by Crayola Learning

Because of Claudette’s brave stand against injustice, history was transformed. Celebrate the life of Claudette Colvin with this FREE Read Along, Draw Along episode featuring the picture book bio that teachers cause & effect through Claudette with creators @traceybaptiste.bsky.social & Tanya Engle.

Pow Wow Grounds

My friends local to Minnesota, whom I trust a great deal, would like to share the following resources that could use support.

PowWowGrounds - Native American Coffee Shop doing direct food and supply aid to their communities-

Venmo @powwowgrounds

www.powwowgrounds.com

Venmo | Joyce Uptown Food Shelf Use Venmo to connect with Joyce Uptown Food Shelf (@JoyceUptown) - Joyce Uptown Foodshelf is the oldest food shelf in Minneapolis, and distributes over 80,000 pounds of food each month to the resident...

Joyce Uptown Food Shelf - collection for those who can’t leave their homes

www.venmo.com/u/JoyceUptown

GiveMN | Ignite generosity. Grow giving.

Isuroon is direct support to the Somali community

www.givemn.org/donate/Isuro...

Pay Kurt Kopatich using PayPal.Me Go to paypal.me/kpattonleather and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

Twin Cities Leather (and adult toy store Smitten Kitten) have stopped regular operations to become a staging and delivery space for food and supply donations- they are requesting monetary donations to keep them afloat without any income

www.paypal.com/paypalme/kpa...

I happen to super love My Bones and My Flute which is a very old Caribbean story that I read when I was probably too little to read such fare, but which explains a lot about what I write now. 🫣
Yay for EVIL LIBRARIAN!!!

Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching.

secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

You know what's annoying? When someone reaches out with a professional Q and I take the time to answer it, and then they don't bother to respond.
Is my time not valuable?
But if I don't respond...

Thank you!

Happy book birthday to:

Moko Magic: Museum Mayhem by @traceybaptiste.bsky.social
Wildlife Rescue series @katemessner.com
Our Solar System! A Stellar Neighborhood by @stacymcanulty.bsky.social

We can’t wait to read them! Thank you for being part of BookBreak!

Are you familiar with @traceybaptiste.bsky.social's MOKO MAGIC middle grade mystery series?

Well, book two, MUSEUM MAYHEM, came out this week.

If the young people in your life enjoyed THE JUMBIES series from Tracey, they're going to love these books, too!

I’d add @traceybaptiste.bsky.social's Jumbies books, @anneursu.bsky.social's Cronus Chronicles & @authorgracelin.bsky.social's novels for MG readers, & @tracydeonn.bsky.social's LEGENDBORN, Kristin Cashore’s GRACELING, & Garth Nix’s Abhorsen trilogy for YA.

Thanks for including Super Goat Girl!

Monthly Book Recommendations: August 2025 | Libraries 4 Schools Book Recommendations: August 2025 | With fiction, non-fiction and picture books galore, check out what we were reading last month!

As we work our way into autumn, transport yourself to sunnier weather by checking out our book recommendations from over August! We had quite the reading haul last month, so there really is something for everyone 👀
www.libraries4schools.com/2025/09/05/b...
#BookSky #ChildrensBooks #BookReview

Tiffany D. Jackson At a Crossroads | Margaret A. Edwards Award In a deeply personal acceptance speech at ALA Annual in Philadelphia in June, the YA author discussed her life influences, racism in publishing, and professional uncertainty.

Tiffany D. Jackson At a Crossroads | Margaret A. Edwards Award
In a deeply personal acceptance speech at ALA Annual in Philadelphia in June, the YA author discussed her life influences, racism in publishing, and professional uncertainty.
www.slj.com/story/Tiffan...

Librarian Leads Reading Garden Project Missouri elementary school library media specialist Carly Bogaards helps promote education, wellness, and community with an expanding outdoor program.

Librarian Leads Reading Garden Project
www.slj.com/story/Librar...

Hey #KidLit friends, the #KidLitforCeasefire auction items are live & will open for bidding on the 18th! I'm offering a 30 minute AMA, and a custom crocheted basket based on the book cover of your choice, a la the examples below. Peruse all the items at the link! www.32auctions.com/organization...

'Bout to take some ginger ale and robitussin for this anxiety cuz nothing else is working.

James Ransome spoke with PW about his new picture book, ‘A Place for Us,’ destigmatizing the rising unhoused population, and his advocacy for the working class buff.ly/Hr0GVoL

Good news! After last week's hearing, which 100+ people attended, the picture book "A Map for Falasteen" by Maysa Odeh and illustrated by Aliaa Betawi remains on the Watertown library's suggested summer reading list! Thanks to @wbur.org for reporting on this story: www.wbur.org/news/2025/08...

U.S. Constitution | Constitution Annotated | Congress.gov | Library of Congress The original text of the United States Constitution and its Amendments.

It appears that the Constitution, as it is on Congress's website, has been altered. The Constitution.

The original: web.archive.org/web/20250601...

Today's: web.archive.org/web/20250806...

Note Article One, Sections 9 & 10.

honestly thinking hard about the rational philanthropists out there who could easily step up and provide $500 million in funding to keep mRNA vaccine research on track

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."

- Antoine de Saint Expery

Early universe’s ‘little red dots’ may be black hole stars Puzzling objects spotted by NASA’s JWST telescope may be entirely new class of celestial entity

It's a literal black hole sun, for all those who remember 90s grunge www.science.org/content/arti...

Anyway, is there a place to get reliable news about what's happening in Sudan? Because no one seems to be covering it.
Thanks.