Grace Kendall
@gracekendallbooks.bsky.social
Executive Editor of award-winning and bestselling children’s books at FSG Books for Young Readers (Macmillan). Books, food, fine art, cocktails/mocktails, and Manhattan née Brooklyn. Opinions mine alone.
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The first people a dictator puts in jail after a coup are the writers, the teachers, the librarians — because these people are dangerous...Let us have the courage to go on being dangerous people.
From a lecture to the Library of Congress.
www.themarginalian.org/2014/04/10/d...
From a lecture to the Library of Congress.
www.themarginalian.org/2014/04/10/d...
Dare to Disturb the Universe: Madeleine L’Engle on Creativity, Censorship, Writing, and the Duty of Children’s Books
“We find what we are looking for. If we are looking for life and love and openness and growth, we are likely to find them. If we are looking for witchcraft and evil, we’ll likely find them, a…
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June 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
The first people a dictator puts in jail after a coup are the writers, the teachers, the librarians — because these people are dangerous...Let us have the courage to go on being dangerous people.
From a lecture to the Library of Congress.
www.themarginalian.org/2014/04/10/d...
From a lecture to the Library of Congress.
www.themarginalian.org/2014/04/10/d...
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Sixty years ago, five assassins from the Nation of Islam murdered Malcolm X. The FBI had spent years escalating the serious political differences between Malcolm and NOI leaders—and worsening petty jealousies NOI leaders had for Malcolm as his prominence rose.
February 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Sixty years ago, five assassins from the Nation of Islam murdered Malcolm X. The FBI had spent years escalating the serious political differences between Malcolm and NOI leaders—and worsening petty jealousies NOI leaders had for Malcolm as his prominence rose.
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“It’s a book about friendship & love… & reconciliation & redemption, it’s about the weight of history, & the necessity of hope in dark times. I like to say that it’s a book about love & resistance, love as a form of resistance, & resistance as an act borne of love.” @libbabray.bsky.social on GMA 🔥
Video Libba Bray talks 'Under the Same Stars'
February's 'GMA' YA Book Club pick became an instant New York Times bestseller.
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February 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
“It’s a book about friendship & love… & reconciliation & redemption, it’s about the weight of history, & the necessity of hope in dark times. I like to say that it’s a book about love & resistance, love as a form of resistance, & resistance as an act borne of love.” @libbabray.bsky.social on GMA 🔥
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Huge congratulations to @libbabray.bsky.social on UNDER THE SAME STARS hitting the New York Times Bestsellers list! 💫
February 12, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Huge congratulations to @libbabray.bsky.social on UNDER THE SAME STARS hitting the New York Times Bestsellers list! 💫
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Normalize pronouncing DOGE as DOUCHE.
February 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Normalize pronouncing DOGE as DOUCHE.