MANY thanks to the incredible educators and librarians who shared and supported CLAYMATES
@mrschureads.bsky.social @heisereads.bsky.social @colbysharp.bsky.social @donalynbooks.bsky.social @margiemyers.bsky.social @lkliterary.bsky.social @hansonhallway.bsky.social & many others.
See you in April!
I keep encountering new spec fic mags just sort of randomly on my feed, so let me remind y'all that I cover short spec fic for Reactor and I want to read your issues! Editors, pls connect via contact form about reviewer copies. Authors and readers, link me in the replies
bookjockeyalex.com/contact/
Congratulations, Debbie!
My latest commentary, in @slj.com with @tasslyn.bsky.social on the Mahmoud v Taylor decision. These wonderful books -- and their authors -- deserved better.
I was a fast reader and good test-taker. More than once, a teacher shamed me in front of my classmates for finishing a test too fast. This only happened on the first tests in their classes. After grading my work, they never said a word about it again.
Hyun Sook and I can't be at @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social annual, but we did draw our last appearance on stage at a @libcomix.bsky.social panel with @jerrycraft.bsky.social into an upcoming book!
Sad to learn that Wonderopolis is closing at the end of July. What an incredible resource! I wonder if government funding cuts are the reason...https://familieslearning.org/blog/ncfls-digital-learning-platform-wonderopolis-to-close/
This article was a labor of love, & I’m so glad it’s published! It’s OPEN ACCESS, so please feel free to download and share!
Article Link: ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#Literacies #EnglishEducation #Colonialism #TextSelection #Afrofuturism #AcademicSky #EduSky
2025 Boston Globe–Horn Book #Nonfiction Honor Book: UP, UP, EVER UP!: JUNKO TABEI: A LIFE IN THE MOUNTAINS by Anita Yasuda; illus. by @yukoart.bsky.social (@clarionbooks.bsky.social / @harperkids.bsky.social @harperstacks.bsky.social) www.hbook.com/story/presen... #BGHB25 #kidlit @bostonglobe.com
2025 Boston Globe–Horn Book #Nonfiction Honor Book: UPROOTED: A MEMOIR ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOUR FAMILY MOVES BACK by @ohtruth.bsky.social (Roaring Brook/ @mackidsbooks.bsky.social @mackidssl.bsky.social) www.hbook.com/story/presen... #BGHB25 #kidlit @bostonglobe.com #graphicmemoir
I’m mentoring a few job-seekers & noticing a generational divide in expectations. I’m curious, if you reach the interview stage of a job search, do you expect to be notified when the position has been filled? Do you follow up? Do you just assume after a period of time that you weren’t hired?
“Building off the work of: Katy Wishow, Shana Frazin, Donna Santman, & Gaby Layden.”
Read Gwen’s article for Edutopia here: edut.to/4jz9uy4
The Hajj Begins On Jun 4th – Here Are Related Teaching & Learning Resources larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2025/06/01/t...
June 8th Is World Oceans Day – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2025/06/01/j...
I wrote the Scholastic educator guide for it! Fantastic book!!
Congratulations to #BankStreet's 2025 inaugural Youth Choice Award winner, “Louder Than Hunger” by @mrschureads.bsky.social. This new award honors an outstanding book on sensitive subjects written for a youth audience. Read more: s3.amazonaws.com/bankstreet-w... @bankstreetlibrary.bsky.social
WE MATCH! Chris Barton Illustrated by Sharon Glick Humor and high-energy abound as a lovable bunch of dogs discover what they have in common during an action-packed day at the dog park. ASTRA YOUNG READERS
An engaging picture book in a comic-style format ASTRA YOUNG READERS THESE DOGS MATCH. We match. Yup. I mean, we totally match Yup. You said it.
From New York Times-bestselling author Chris Barton and illustrator Sharon Glick ASTRA YOUNG READERS
"Love this picture book that shows young readers that we have far more in common than just the way we look. Books like this are needed now more than ever.” —Silver Unicorn Bookstore THESE DOGS MATCH. We match. ASTRA YOUNG READERS
It’s been more than 5 years since my previous fiction picture book was published (FIRE TRUCK VS. DRAGON, the week the pandemic officially began 😑), so it feels great to at last be within 2 months of the 7/15 publication day for WE MATCH!
Good morning! I'll be on @velshi.com on MSNBC today talking about book bans and my novel Last Night at the Telegraph Club.
And the plagiarism and theft of intellectual property is just fine with you. Got it!
Imagine every author with books in your school library came to the next faculty meeting and you had to explain why stealing their work to train LLMs is OK at your school. What would you say? I’m open to reasonable arguments. I see folks skirting this issue, so I’m asking outright.
I’m in Washington DC tonight for meetings at the Library of Congress tomorrow. We’ve all just learned that Dr. Carla Hayden was fired via email. I’m honored to have met Dr. Hayden and learned from her. This is horrible news.
35 Great New Titles, Including a YA Novel from Brain Selznick and an Adult Book from John Green
The Freedom to Read Foundation annually distributes $1,000 Krug Memorial Fund programming grants to support activities that raise awareness of intellectual freedom and censorship issues during BBW (Oct 5-11). Libraries, schools, and non-profit community orgs can apply.
www.slj.com/story/Amicus...
AASL April is School Library Month
Happy School Library Month! www.ala.org/aasl/advocac...
Happy Opening Day! While you wait for a game, take a look at @workmanpub.bsky.social Barnes & Tuya's WHO GOT GAME: BASEBALL. Thanks, @yabookscentral! @serendipitylit.bsky.social msyinglingreads.blogspot.com/2025/03/open...
Here’s a thread of books I’ve read in 2025 that I’ll keep adding to, in case there are fellow family saga lovers out there to share and recommend. First up, fun and easy bc that’s what I needed. Emily Henry’s Happy Place.
National Poetry Month is coming up & we have an amazing preorder gift for my new novel THE TROUBLE WITH HEROES!
Preorder from your favorite bookstore & Bloomsbury will send you a pocket poetry notebook w/ writing prompts & blank pages for your own poems! Details here: www.formpl.us/form/5094781...
“The first people a dictator puts in jail after a coup are the writers, the teachers, the librarians —because these people are dangerous. They have enough vocabulary to recognize injustice and to speak out loudly about it. Let us have the courage to go on being dangerous people.”
—Madeleine L’Engle
