This is a horror.

Do *not* miss the alt-text for a great story.

Whoa! I’m an editor in US publishing, & your Icelandic schedule sounds wild to me, because it sounds like there would be a HUGE rush of work once a year and less urgency the rest of the time? Vs. our multiple “seasons” of publishing through the year, which equal deadlines & urgency all the time.

I Am Begging You to Read This On Muslims, and Jews, and Shibboleths, and the Olympic Sport of Collective Punishments

This is maybe the best thing I have ever read about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the language we use around it, and the people that language hurts. Really worth the time. mohusseini.substack.com/p/i-am-beggi...

A clear glass plaque in a rosewood stand reads SHOW ME READERS AWARD 2024-2025 Winner Sponsored by the Missouri Association of School Librarians Chosen by the Children of Missouri Hamsters Make Terrible Roommates Written by Cheryl B. Klein and Illustrated by Abhi Alwar

The cover of HAMSTERS MAKE TERRIBLE ROOMMATES, featuring an annoyed-looking brown hamster side-eyeing an open-mouthed white hamster

I got an award this past weekend and I am proud of it. The 1st-3rd graders in Missouri voted HAMSTERS MAKE TERRIBLE ROOMMATES their favorite picture book of the 2024-2025 year.

The 11 most challenged books of 2025, according to the American Library Association The ALA says 4,235 titles were challenged at U.S. libraries — the second-highest year on record. Forty percent of the challenged works involved LGBTQ+ subjects or the experiences of people of color.

As the editor of a book on this list, allow me to say again that book banning is a catastrophe for freedom of speech in America. There is no silver lining. It's all harm.

You can fight back by calling your reps to demand they vote against HR 7661, which is effectively a national book banning bill.

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

@tressiemcphd.bsky.social Relevant to your athletic-wear interests

Right to Read Day: April 20, 2026: Everywhere. For your freedom to read, For access to information, For understanding our past, For our communities, For our libraries. Unite Against Book Bans, ALA 150, American Library Association.

Today & every day, Lee & Low Books supports & fights for the right to read!

This #RighttoReadDay, we encourage you to join the fight by taking action in your community. The American Library Association has made it easy by providing ways you can do just that: uniteagainstbookbans.org/right-to-rea...

Rules for creative work always end up being rules for life as well, & they all come down to the same six principles, IMO:
1. Pay attention.
2. Tell the truth.
3. Honor your work.
4. Love your people.
5. Have fun.
6. Stay open.

This thread is amazing, full of creative humans helping someone be creative by offering dozens of beautiful, practical variants on "you've got this! Let yourself mess around & fail! Do something else! It's all good."

i really wish "children are people and people are not property" was not a radical opinion but unfortunately it's the central question up for debate with much of politics

I'm so out of patience with this kind of mockery. Yes, progressive language is jargon-y and occasionally irritating. You know how long ago that started? Roughly the dawn of time. So be irritated privately. But whining about it is like discrediting a picket sign because you hate the font.

So after Barack and Zohran sang the Wheels on the Bus, the children did this:

None of this is what I meant, but if it’s what works for you, God bless!

Rules for creative work always end up being rules for life as well, & they all come down to the same six principles, IMO:
1. Pay attention.
2. Tell the truth.
3. Honor your work.
4. Love your people.
5. Have fun.
6. Stay open.

A gift for all your acquaintances who wrote a picture book yesterday and want you to give it to your agent...
deborahunderwood.substack.com/p/the-easy-p...

Please enact a two-year moratorium on the use of AI in NYC Public Schools The use of AI in the NYC schools is expanding, despite the lack of rigorous protections and the growing evidence that it can undermine student privacy, cognitive skills, creativity, critical thinking,...

actionnetwork.org/petitions/pl...

ads peaked in 1891 i guess

now the topper is on the cake

nailed it

Background is an illustration from Kiyoshi’s Walk by Mark Karlins, illustrated by Nicole Wong. The illustration depicts Kiyoshi and his grandfather out and about in the city. Kiyoshi looks up in wonder at his grandfather while his grandfather has one hand up, a pigeon’s feather floating above him. More pigeons are scattered throughout the illustration. Towards the top is the book cover of the aforementioned title. Lee & Low Books logo. Illustrations copyright © 2021 by Nicole Wong.

Background is an illustration from Kiyoshi’s Walk by Mark Karlins, illustrated by Nicole Wong. The illustration depicts Kiyoshi and his grandfather out and about in the city. Kiyoshi looks up in wonder at his grandfather while his grandfather has one hand up, a pigeon’s feather floating above him. More pigeons are scattered throughout the illustration. Towards the center is a haiku that reads, “The sky calls to us— / Pigeons, the whir of feathers. / Our arms could be wings.” Lee & Low Books logo. Illustrations copyright © 2021 by Nicole Wong.

🎉Happy Haiku Day! In Kiyoshi's Walk, Kiyoshi wonders, "Where do poems come from?" after watching his grandfather compose a haiku.

📚This picture book about a young aspiring poet & his grandfather shows that the answer lies all around us–if we take the time to look: www.leeandlow.com/books/kiyosh...

I saw someone on here arguing the other day that you don’t own a book, you only own a license to the book and the book itself is a token of the license. I assure you, I own my books. I can lend them out. I can read them aloud to my child. I can sell them to other people. I can hit you with them

That makes sense. When I rode it with my family, we drove from their house to the station in Fremont and parked there.

I'm glad she was able to complete her degree and go home safely, but good lord, what a shameful episode for the US. It's a loss to the children's literature community that she wasn't able to stay here without fear of further violence and reprisal.

The BART is pretty great? I rode it with family in December and was impressed by how bright and comfortable it was.

One of the things I love most about NYC, and something I cherish, is walking, biking and taking the subway. It’s actually superior to being in a car whenever you have the choice.

Love this story about my beloved alma mater @carleton.edu! For our graduation party, my best friend & I hosted an afternoon tea at Dacie Moses House, serving dozens of fresh-baked scones with cream and jam. Carleton is a great school for creative, crunchy, goofy people.

zombie hello kitty piñata, as requested (in great detail) by my then-4yo daughter for her birthday party: pink dress, pink mardi gras pearls, yellowing white fur, missing half of the right arm, blood spilling down in red streamers from arm-stump (including exposed bone), mouth caked with blood of varying shades of red & brown (old brown blood on the top & getting brighter red toward the bottom of the mouth/face where bright red streamers hang in front of the dress), wood door knobs painted black—one with a bright blue x in the middle and the other with the same blue iris w red bloody veins throughout, & a bashed in skull w exposed brains spilling out in red & pink streamers

this is the zombie hello kitty piñata custom ordered by my sweet sweet 4yo daughter 🤩😅

Saeed, did you see the theory that Act III is dropping May 29? A prognosticator on TikTok had a great rationale for it. We live in hope!