Thank you @thecoloradosun and @thebookiesbookstore for recommending @nancyillustrator’s and my picture book 🩷 Gratitude to you all as this Thanksgiving week winds down 🩷
@chroniclekidsbooks
@agentemurph
Today is the day. Let's do this. For our ancestors. For our kids. For us. For future generations. For our planet.
When we fight, we win.
We are in this together.
Harris&Walz. Joy&Liberty.
Keep Kamala and carry onala.
#harriswalz
Join @meganfemery of @thehealinglibrary and me at the @colibrariesforearlyliteracy conference today! We’ll be talking about strategies and resources for self-care and the kids you care about as you tackle trauma-touched topics 🩷 We’re all in this together 🩷
2024 CLEL Bell award-winning authors:
Sandra Lamouche
@huili_illo
Dinalie Dabarera
@fidgets.and.fries
@mrschureads
@chooseyourownadventure has been NOMINATED for the second year in a row as a finalist for @museumofplayroc’s TOY HALL OF FAME! If you have fond memories of reading a Choose book, or if you enjoy them right this minute, would you take a minute and vote for them?
museumofplay.org/players-choice-ballot/
From @kidlitforkamala: a list from Diverse Bookfinder of picture books, middle grade, and YA about characters of Haitian ethnicity. Check it out at diversebookfinder.org/ethnicity/haitian/
I brought this list to the librarians in my kids’ schools and they’re making displays and passing the idea along to other local libraries.
It is one way to take action. To challenge lies. To nurture connection.
@ibizoboi
@the.awakened.teacher
@kendaleyart
@phildiederich
@duttonbooks
@candlewickpress
@harperteenbooks
Yup, today is natlvoterregday! If you haven't registered, today is the perfect day!
(So is tomorrow and the day after that and, you know, the day after that...)
@csoontornvat
Another first for me: holding the Chinese edition of @nancyillustrator’s and my book in my hands. Thank you for sending it, @vmaryrock and @chroniclekidsbooks 🩷 Different language, but same emotion. I’ll never NOT be humbled by that.
@agentemurph
@emliterary
Grief is universal and it is so very personal. It connects us profoundly and it makes us feel so alone too. Let me see your grief and I'll let you see mine, on this day and all days.
If you are living with grief, pick up AS LONG AS YOU NEED by @jspark3000 and IT'S OK THAT YOU'RE NOT OK by @refugeingrief. These books and these authors save me every day.
@nancyillustrator
@chroniclekidsbooks
@emliterary
It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood!
@meganfemery (of @thehealinglibrary) and I will be at The Fred Rogers Institute on June 22, presenting "Use Your (Best) Words!: Modeling and Instilling Healthy Language for Kids' Resiliency Toolkits" (along with therapist Selina Farmer from afar!)
We'll be talking about creating trauma-informed materials rooted in SEL, ECRR standards, bibliotherapy, and holistic art & play based therapy activities any person working with children can adapt (for free!)
@barefootbooks
@chroniclekidsbooks
@emliterary
TELEPHONE OF THE TREE 🌳 is coming May 7! Order it now! Don’t miss this latest book from the only @alisonmcgheewriter on the planet 🩷 I’m in constant search for the loose threads, the tiny holes, the rips in the corners that lead to magic, to hope, to love. I’m telling you—Alison is one of the few people behind it all.
Recently, I’ve been on a mission to make some kind of sense of grief. I often wish I wasn’t on this search. But I am. I guess we all are at some point.
Alison, her words, her books—they’re light as I look. I urge you to find out if they’re light for you too 🩷
@rockypondbooks
#empathykidlit