Excited to be back with my occasional Pa'Lante IG Live Series highlighting Latinx/BIPOC authors and #biligualparenting resources. Our guest this WED is author @cynthiaharmony.bsky.social
Join me and learn more about Cynthia, her books, motherhood and more. 4pm pst
#writingcommunity #auhtorslife
A story about hugs from the heart Apapacho Love written by Cynthia Harmony illustrated by Erika Meza
Happy Book Birthday to Apapacho Love by @cynthiaharmony.bsky.social & Erika Meza, a gorgeous picture book featuring a Mexican American family that’s as comforting as a warm embrace—great for readalouds, storytime, Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, and baby gifts!
#edusky #valentinesday
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More details of Apapacho Love on @cathyso.bsky.social blog 💞https://cathyso3.wordpress.com/2025/12/09/coming-to-you-soon-apapacho-love/
Librarian, educators & bookseller friends... APAPACHO LOVE Digital Arc is now available on Edelweiss. Hope you can take a look and give some 💗 to this book about love, when we need it most! Coming out in 7 weeks from @fsgbooks.bsky.social Gracias y apapachos 🤗
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Tucson friends join us!
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First bookish newsletter! 🥳 Short read with updates, links, book recs, discount code and giveaways to come...
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Dear parents:
You see all this stupidity going around? Please read to your kids. Let them see you reading. Keep books around. Buy them books if you can. Show them how cool the library is. Tell them book banning is bad. Make reading part of their lives. It helps make good people.
“No Kings” demonstration, Ocean Beach, San Francisco
Graphic with a swirling background made up of alternating light pink and dark pink stripes. At the top, in curved yellow letters are the words, “Cover Reveal.” Beneath is a thumbnail image of the book cover for “Apapacho Love,” written by Cynthia Harmony and illustrated by Erika Meza. The cover shows a Latine child embracing their parent in a warm hug, as yellow sparks and squiggles emerge from behind them. At the bottom of the graphic is the book’s release date, which is January 13th, 2026.
Graphic with a swirling background made up of alternating light pink and dark pink stripes. At the center is a pink box with rounded corners containing a brief synopsis for the upcoming picture book, “Apapacho Love,” written by Cynthia Harmony and illustrated by Erika Meza. The summary reads as follows: “Every day for Luna starts and ends with Mami’s apapachos. Her warm cuddles fill Luna's heart, like stars fill the sky. They make her feel safe. They make her feel seen. But, oh no, Mami has to take a trip! What will Luna do without Mami's hugs? Maybe…apapachos can come from other people, too. Like Abue’s, which makes Luna feel brave. And Daddy’s, which makes her giggle. Not to mention her dog, Benito’s wet nuzzle which tells her to rise and shine with a smile. It turns out even when Mami’s far away, her love is all around. Apapacho love is everywhere! A gorgeous picture book featuring a Mexican American family that’s as comforting as a warm embrace – great for Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, and baby gifts!”
We’re thrilled to share a first look at the beautiful cover for APAPACHO LOVE, written by @cynthiaharmony.bsky.social and illustrated by @erikadraws.bsky.social!
APAPACHO LOVE will be published by FSG Young Readers and released on January 13th, 2025.
📖 Learn more: bit.ly/4kkpl4s
Congrats Karen, looking forward to reading!
thank you for sharing friend! 🧡
Hoping to attend your session on Saturday!
Tucson friends: workshop for children Saturday March 15th 2.30pm Education Room 349 and book signing, see you soon! #kidlit #booksigning #tucsonfestivalofbooks
Here’s what I (truly!!!) don’t understand — why? Isn’t? There? Backlash???! Like WHY IS IT ALLOWED??? TO JUST REVERSE??? A CENTURY OF DIPLOMACY??? OFFEND OUR ALLIES??? SIDE WITH OUR ENEMIES??? WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS HAPPENING????
Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.
Oh so gorgeous!
For the record, do I think a one-day boycott is going to make much of an economic impact? No. Do I think that a sort of "Baby's First Boycott," performative though it is, might be useful to make some folks aware of the impact of their economic power, and how it might be wielded politically? Maybe.
Striking how easily you can get millions of people to vote for a boot on their own face just by lying to them about the boot going on someone else's face.
Thanks so much for sharing!
Congratulations Debbie! 🎉
Congratulations, well deserved! 🎉
Congratulations! 🎉
Because young people dream, hope, and dare. I was one of them when I voted in my first presidential election in Mexico, my generation didn’t listen to the “adults” and ended a 70 yo corrupt regime. Young people hold change and stories can reaffirm and strengthen that truth.
It’s really hard not to see it that way, odd timing
PEN America: Trump Administration’s EO, 'Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling,' claims to undo indoctrination, but in fact enforces its own ideological conformity on public education and poses a serious threat to free expression in education. pen.org/press-releas...
“President Trump issued an executive order to find out what education funds he can legally rescind based on curriculum he doesn’t like. Existing law already answers that question — nothing.”
- California Dept. Of Education
What can you do about book banning? How can you support essential public institutions of democracy like public libraries and public schools? Want to understand why "school choice" is an outright lie?
I've got OVER FOUR YEARS of those answers and more in this pinned thread.
🎉 Thank you!
Friends, A Flicker of Hope is an ALA Notable book!! #kidlit
Thank you @wearealsc.bsky.social
@devonholzwarth.bsky.social
@jmcgowanbks.bsky.social
@penguinschoollib.bsky.social
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Full circle, congratulations!! 🎉
