Paradise of Exiles: Making Masks in Venice or, The Best Kind of Souvenir is the One You Make Yourself

Paradise of Exiles: Making Masks in Venice
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Storytime! (no unaccompanied adults... must bring children ages 0-5) 👨‍👦☺️

Denver Public Library: Central Children's Library
10 W 14th Ave, Denver, CO 80204
Date: Sunday, November 16, 2025
Time: 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm (Mountain Time)

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Thanks, Amy! We will be taping the piece this weekend, but I don't know yet when it will air. I'll be sure to post when it does!

"You Are Not Alone" On this edition of Conversations, Ingrid Law talks with host Dan Skinner about her lyrical picture book "You Are Not Alone."

I was on the radio! In Kansas! Next up, Colorado Matters (in November... CPR.org)... but first, here's Kansas Public Radio, with Dan Skinner, on his show "Connections"... (Thanks, Dan!)
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Seattle area friends! I'll be at Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park, Washington, on Saturday, Sept 27th, at 11:00. I'll be reading Xin's and my picture book and chatting with kiddos and parents. If you're in the area, bring the littles with you and say hi! www.thirdplacebooks.com/event/storyt...

Drop-in meet & greet party at Barbed Wire Books on Saturday, September 6th, from 10am-1pm, celebrating the launch of Xin Li's and my new picture book YOU ARE NOT ALONE. Call or email the shop to reserve your copy of You Are Not Alone or any of my Savvy Books: 303-827-3630 barbedwirebooks@gmail.com

9 Questions with Author Ingrid Law Bestselling Author and Newberry Honoree, Ingrid Law, Discusses Writing, Authors, Books, and her Debut Picture Book: You Are Not Alone.

9 Questions with Author Ingrid Law

Andrea Gibson "Letter to My Dog, Exploring the Human Condition" @ Underground Arts, Apr. 13, 2015 YouTube video by Finesse1178

This was my first introduction to Andrea Gibson and it made me cry then, and makes me cry now. They were a master of the human condition.

Poet Andrea Gibson, candid explorer of life, death and politics, dies at 49 Andrea Gibson, a celebrated poet and performance artist, has died at age 49. Their wife, Megan Falley, announced the news on Monday.

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Poet Andrea Gibson, candid explorer of life, death and politics, dies at 49 😭

Book Review: You Are Not Alone A Picture Book with a Powerful Message for Children and Adults

Happy Tuesday, Friends! I’m excited ro share my review for this powerful picture book: YOU ARE NOT ALONE, written by @ingridlaw.bsky.social and illustrated by Xin Li!

#picturebooks #bookreview

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Book Review: You Are Not Alone A Picture Book with a Powerful Message for Children and Adults

Book Review: You Are Not Alone - Thank you, Carissa Mina, for the wonderful review.

First industry review, from Publishers Weekly 😃📚♥️

Happy Arbor Day! If you can't celebrate by planting a tree, celebrate by inhaling the fragrance of spring blossoms or admiring the green of unfurling leaves, or just whispering a word of gratitude to a neighborhood tree or two as you walk by. My book, THE LAST APPLE TREE, culminates in a school Arbor Day assembly, fitting for a book that stars a very old apple tree that is the lone survivor of a vanished orchard, and the secrets it holds in its bark and branches. . . .

Happy Arbor Day! This recent book of mine culminates in an Arbor Day school assembly, fitting for a story that stars an heirloom apple tree, lone survivor of a vanished orchard, and the secrets concealed in its bark and branches.

Emily Pérez's "What’s a Thing You Can Finish What’s a Thing You Can Fix" Thoughts on restlessness.

Emily Pérez's poem featured at the top of this essay by Devin Kelly is a doozy. (as is the essay) Definitely a poem I needed to read this week. Oof.

Fun and amazing to have Savvy on this list of @kirkus_reviews top 500 books (children’s and adult) of the last 25 years. Thanks, Kirkus! Thanks, Team Savvy! Makes me want to make a top 500 books list from my own reading life these past 25 years.

What an honor to have two books on Kirkus's list of Best Books of the 21st Century (So Far)! Congratulations to Anne Ursu, Ingrid Law, and all the authors on this epic list.

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So happy to share my sister's again (she's brilliant): rattle.com "Even So" by Michelle Visser (selected for online publication by the poetry journal Rattle and posted on 3/27/25).

Per Via Aerea: Letters from a Young Woman 9.18.1991 (Memoir) Correspondence sent to the United States from Italy in the 1980s-1990s

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Ingrid Law on Substack From my sister’s memoirs (in transcribed letter form, from her time living in Italy as a young woman in the late 1980s and early 1990s)… a tender read, and also so funny.

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Hey, artists, in case you were wondering if your work matters: I'm a scientist working on climate change and biodiversity, and I would not be who I am today without The Lorax, The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, The Last Unicorn, and The X-Files. I know I'm not alone. Thank you for all you do.

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

Help public libraries today by:
✅ Downloading an ebook
✅ Registering for a program
✅ Sharing a post from your library
✅ Emailing staff and thanking them
✅ Mark your calendar to attend the next library board of control meeting
✅ Ask 5 friends to do the same

We got a Costco membership for the first time in our lives today. They asked why & I said because treat your workers well, you value diversity, & you didn’t cave in to authoritarian demands. He said: “We’ve been getting lots of folks saying that, thanks for joining.”

Who needs a gallon of ketchup?

Ingrid standing, leaning toward the camera, wearing a tee-shirt with the words "Liberty Dies Where Books Are Banned" printed on it

New T-shirt... continuing to build my collection of clothes that speak for me (for the days I actually leave the house). #AABB #AuthorsAgainstBookBans #ForOurLibraries #FreePeopleReadFreely #UniteAGainstBookBans

"Cozy" books--particularly cozy fantasy/scifi sells well in the indie bookstore where I work. A lot of people need more cozy and less trauma right now. 🫖🧶🐈‍⬛🐕

In an effort to share helpful tools for panic attacks etc, here's one to try if you or someone you know needs help finding a moment of calm. The 5-4-3-2-1 Grounding Technique: Find 5 things you can see, 4 things you can touch, 3 things you can hear, 2 things you can smell, and 1 thing you can taste.