Colby Sharp
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Book 3 of #365PictureBooks BROKEN by X Fang.
So excited to find this at the library this week!
Agree with @colbysharp.bsky.social and Travis Jonkers from The Yarn podcast - it is a master class in simplicity, humor and heart. And, oh my gosh, the cat is hilarious!
#kidlit
So excited to find this at the library this week!
Agree with @colbysharp.bsky.social and Travis Jonkers from The Yarn podcast - it is a master class in simplicity, humor and heart. And, oh my gosh, the cat is hilarious!
#kidlit
January 6, 2026 at 2:25 AM
Book 3 of #365PictureBooks BROKEN by X Fang.
So excited to find this at the library this week!
Agree with @colbysharp.bsky.social and Travis Jonkers from The Yarn podcast - it is a master class in simplicity, humor and heart. And, oh my gosh, the cat is hilarious!
#kidlit
So excited to find this at the library this week!
Agree with @colbysharp.bsky.social and Travis Jonkers from The Yarn podcast - it is a master class in simplicity, humor and heart. And, oh my gosh, the cat is hilarious!
#kidlit
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Can't WAIT for this new book:
Excited to make THE MOON WITHOUT STARS my first middle grade read of 2026. Always interesting to see how creators follow up winning a Newbery Honor.
January 3, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Can't WAIT for this new book:
Back to school means I can’t wear the same hoodie/sweatpants combo for 3-4 straight days, right? 😭
January 4, 2026 at 12:19 AM
Back to school means I can’t wear the same hoodie/sweatpants combo for 3-4 straight days, right? 😭
Maybe writer’s block isn’t real. 🤷♂️
January 2, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Maybe writer’s block isn’t real. 🤷♂️
Excited to make THE MOON WITHOUT STARS my first middle grade read of 2026. Always interesting to see how creators follow up winning a Newbery Honor.
January 1, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Excited to make THE MOON WITHOUT STARS my first middle grade read of 2026. Always interesting to see how creators follow up winning a Newbery Honor.
I finished my first book for grownups yesterday. The Endurance Artist was a fascinating read about the man behind the beloved races The Barkley Marathon and Big’s Backyard Ultra. Loved it!
Time to get back to reading books for kids!
Time to get back to reading books for kids!
December 29, 2025 at 12:11 PM
I finished my first book for grownups yesterday. The Endurance Artist was a fascinating read about the man behind the beloved races The Barkley Marathon and Big’s Backyard Ultra. Loved it!
Time to get back to reading books for kids!
Time to get back to reading books for kids!
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Something for your holiday listening pleasure. @colbysharp.bsky.social and I take a look back at children's books in 2025 on The Yarn podcast: theyarn.slj.com/2025/12/24/t... @slj.com
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December 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Something for your holiday listening pleasure. @colbysharp.bsky.social and I take a look back at children's books in 2025 on The Yarn podcast: theyarn.slj.com/2025/12/24/t... @slj.com
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Sent out my first newsletter from Substack this morning. You might have to add me as a contact to save it from the dreaded Promotions Tab in the future. Here it is in case you missed it! travisjonker.substack.com/p/welcome-to...
Welcome to 100 Scope Notes on Substack! (+ 6 Substacks I Read Every Time)
Highlighting the serious and the absurd in children's literature.
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December 23, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Sent out my first newsletter from Substack this morning. You might have to add me as a contact to save it from the dreaded Promotions Tab in the future. Here it is in case you missed it! travisjonker.substack.com/p/welcome-to...
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We're re-releasing the original BABYMOUSE graphic novels (in FULL COLOR!) as 2-story-in-1 Flip Books! Out right now is BABYMOUSE: LOVE, which combines HEARTBREAKER and PUPPY LOVE! Go pick it up for someone you know who LOVES Babymouse! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/787092...
A Babymouse Flip Book: LOVE (Heartbreaker + Puppy Love) by Jennifer L. Holm: 9798217115976 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
2 COMICS IN 1! FOR THE FIRST TIME IN FULL-COLOR! Flip out with Babymouse -- a spunky elementary schooler with boundless imagination -- in this OVERSIZED edition for young readers that includes the two...
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December 16, 2025 at 6:26 PM
We're re-releasing the original BABYMOUSE graphic novels (in FULL COLOR!) as 2-story-in-1 Flip Books! Out right now is BABYMOUSE: LOVE, which combines HEARTBREAKER and PUPPY LOVE! Go pick it up for someone you know who LOVES Babymouse! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/787092...
Loved Sweet Spot. There is nothing like a great middle grade baseball book. With the way youth sports have changed the last twenty years, they do not lend themselves as well to books for kids. Vickers found a way to do it! I could not put this one down. I cannot wait to see what young readers think.
December 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Loved Sweet Spot. There is nothing like a great middle grade baseball book. With the way youth sports have changed the last twenty years, they do not lend themselves as well to books for kids. Vickers found a way to do it! I could not put this one down. I cannot wait to see what young readers think.
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I have a few openings on my School Librarian Advisory Team for 2026 – if you're interested in taking the occasional survey, getting early copies of new books, & taking a peek behind the scenes of making kids’ books, it might be a good fit for you & your readers! Details: forms.gle/mkA9L5EuvjTu...
Kate Messner's School Librarian Advisory Team
With recent shifts in social media, support for libraries, and school budgets, it feels more challenging than ever to connect kids with books they’ll love. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how au...
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December 15, 2025 at 11:28 AM
I have a few openings on my School Librarian Advisory Team for 2026 – if you're interested in taking the occasional survey, getting early copies of new books, & taking a peek behind the scenes of making kids’ books, it might be a good fit for you & your readers! Details: forms.gle/mkA9L5EuvjTu...
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Day #13: 31 Days, 31 Lists - 2025 Translated Children's Books. So many incredible books hit our shores in a given year, that it only makes sense to write an entire post about them today. #31Days31Lists #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2025/12/13/3...
31 Days, 31 Lists: 2025 Translated Children’s Books for Older and Younger Readers
So many incredible books hit our shores in a given year, that it only makes sense to write an entire post about them today.
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December 13, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Day #13: 31 Days, 31 Lists - 2025 Translated Children's Books. So many incredible books hit our shores in a given year, that it only makes sense to write an entire post about them today. #31Days31Lists #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2025/12/13/3...
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I adore this book. If you need a gift for a kid, this is it.
We’ve spent a lot of time this year with Mac and Jon. Time with them is time well spent. Ending our week with Extra Yarn was lovely. 🧶
December 13, 2025 at 12:08 AM
I adore this book. If you need a gift for a kid, this is it.
We’ve spent a lot of time this year with Mac and Jon. Time with them is time well spent. Ending our week with Extra Yarn was lovely. 🧶
December 12, 2025 at 11:30 PM
We’ve spent a lot of time this year with Mac and Jon. Time with them is time well spent. Ending our week with Extra Yarn was lovely. 🧶
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Join Colby Sharp www.mrcolbysharp.com at CCIRA in Denver, CO in February. Register at ccira.org Colby brings literacy alive and will share his contagious enthusiasm for learners and learning! @colbysharp.bsky.social This conference can't be missed! Time to "Hit Refresh"! #CCIRA26
Colby Sharp
Teacher. Reader. Writer.
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December 7, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Join Colby Sharp www.mrcolbysharp.com at CCIRA in Denver, CO in February. Register at ccira.org Colby brings literacy alive and will share his contagious enthusiasm for learners and learning! @colbysharp.bsky.social This conference can't be missed! Time to "Hit Refresh"! #CCIRA26
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Teachers & librarians! If you want to Zoom with an author for World Read Aloud Day, the list of volunteers is going out in my newsletter tomorrow morning - it's not too late to sign up!
Over 200 authors will be Zooming into classrooms & libraries for World Read Aloud Day on 2/4!
Teachers/librarians - Want to be first to see the list so you can book a free visit? It'll go out in my email newsletter in early December! Sign up here: katemessner.us20.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...
Teachers/librarians - Want to be first to see the list so you can book a free visit? It'll go out in my email newsletter in early December! Sign up here: katemessner.us20.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...
December 3, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Teachers & librarians! If you want to Zoom with an author for World Read Aloud Day, the list of volunteers is going out in my newsletter tomorrow morning - it's not too late to sign up!
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It's Day 3 of 31 Days, 31 Lists! Tis a gift to be simple, so that's what we're celebrating today! Enjoy these picture books for our younger readers, one and all. #31Days31Lists #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2025/12/03/3...
31 Days, 31 Lists: 2025 Simple Picture Books
Tis a gift to be simple, so that's what we're celebrating today! Enjoy these picture books for our younger readers, one and all.
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December 3, 2025 at 12:09 PM
It's Day 3 of 31 Days, 31 Lists! Tis a gift to be simple, so that's what we're celebrating today! Enjoy these picture books for our younger readers, one and all. #31Days31Lists #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2025/12/03/3...
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And now Kirkus... I have never had a book appear on so many Best Books of the Year lists, and it's honestly a little overwhelming.
Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who has shared THE TROUBLE WITH HEROES this year and continues to put it into the hands of just-right readers. ❤️
Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who has shared THE TROUBLE WITH HEROES this year and continues to put it into the hands of just-right readers. ❤️
December 2, 2025 at 9:30 PM
And now Kirkus... I have never had a book appear on so many Best Books of the Year lists, and it's honestly a little overwhelming.
Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who has shared THE TROUBLE WITH HEROES this year and continues to put it into the hands of just-right readers. ❤️
Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who has shared THE TROUBLE WITH HEROES this year and continues to put it into the hands of just-right readers. ❤️
Ended our day with the picture book biography Blips on a Screen. This one is always a hit with my 5th graders. It is hard for them to imagine a life without video games being played on television.
December 2, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Ended our day with the picture book biography Blips on a Screen. This one is always a hit with my 5th graders. It is hard for them to imagine a life without video games being played on television.
Easy to see why this one is getting to much buzz. Wow! I’ll be reading BROKEN aloud to kids for the rest of my career. It is just sooooooooo darn good. A read aloud gem!!
December 2, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Easy to see why this one is getting to much buzz. Wow! I’ll be reading BROKEN aloud to kids for the rest of my career. It is just sooooooooo darn good. A read aloud gem!!
Always fascinated by the conversations my class has when I read A Walk in the Words aloud. This year’s class spent a lot of time talking about the Hall of Fame for slow readers. They were blow away by the people featured on that page.
December 2, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Always fascinated by the conversations my class has when I read A Walk in the Words aloud. This year’s class spent a lot of time talking about the Hall of Fame for slow readers. They were blow away by the people featured on that page.
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Tomorrow on the blog: one of my favorite posts of the year. The Most Astonishingly Unconventional Children's Books of 2025.
November 30, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Tomorrow on the blog: one of my favorite posts of the year. The Most Astonishingly Unconventional Children's Books of 2025.
Set this reminder to cancel my LSJ account a year ago (after my discount ran out). Didn’t expect it to be the week of Duke and a new football coach. Keep those quick takes coming, @grahamcouch.bsky.social! 🤷♂️
November 30, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Set this reminder to cancel my LSJ account a year ago (after my discount ran out). Didn’t expect it to be the week of Duke and a new football coach. Keep those quick takes coming, @grahamcouch.bsky.social! 🤷♂️
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Are you ready to celebrate the books you know, and discover the ones you had no idea about? December's gonna be a WHOLE THING!! afuse8production.slj.com/2025/11/30/i...
It’s Almost Heeeere….
Are you ready to celebrate the books you know and discover the ones you had no idea about? December's gonna be a WHOLE THING!!
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November 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Are you ready to celebrate the books you know, and discover the ones you had no idea about? December's gonna be a WHOLE THING!! afuse8production.slj.com/2025/11/30/i...
Started this one last night.
November 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Started this one last night.