Kate DePalma
@katedepalma.bsky.social
🌈 Creative Development Director at Barefoot Books 👣
📍Arby's on McKnight Road
📍Arby's on McKnight Road
Join me next week for a webinar on teaching children about diverse holiday traditions!
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October 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Join me next week for a webinar on teaching children about diverse holiday traditions!
shopbecker.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
@barefootbooks.bsky.social
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@barefootbooks.bsky.social
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dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience
October 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience
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Gonna repost this every time I come across it on socials. 💚
October 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Gonna repost this every time I come across it on socials. 💚
Editorial pals: My print copy of CMoS is the 16th edition. Can anyone tell me if the 18th gives the same guidelines? The entry is "plural forms of Native American group names." Thanks!!
PS My car proudly sports the CMoS magnet I got at ALA last year @chicagomanual.bsky.social
PS My car proudly sports the CMoS magnet I got at ALA last year @chicagomanual.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Editorial pals: My print copy of CMoS is the 16th edition. Can anyone tell me if the 18th gives the same guidelines? The entry is "plural forms of Native American group names." Thanks!!
PS My car proudly sports the CMoS magnet I got at ALA last year @chicagomanual.bsky.social
PS My car proudly sports the CMoS magnet I got at ALA last year @chicagomanual.bsky.social
When I start to lose clarity and focus on a book project, I turn on old episodes of Cheer and let Coach Monica set me straight
October 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
When I start to lose clarity and focus on a book project, I turn on old episodes of Cheer and let Coach Monica set me straight
Does anyone know any Welsh or German children's book authors?
October 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Does anyone know any Welsh or German children's book authors?
Just when I'm feeling so exhausted and burned out that I'm ready to throw in the towel, @deniselouisa.bsky.social has appeared in Pittsburgh deus ex machina to come to my house and eat takeout in our pile of daughters. She will be a sight for sore eyes 💗 SEESTER
October 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Just when I'm feeling so exhausted and burned out that I'm ready to throw in the towel, @deniselouisa.bsky.social has appeared in Pittsburgh deus ex machina to come to my house and eat takeout in our pile of daughters. She will be a sight for sore eyes 💗 SEESTER
This article features my collaborators and friends. This is insanity. Books that teach empathy must be pretty damn powerful if so many people are trying to silence them, hmm?
October 9, 2025 at 9:05 PM
This article features my collaborators and friends. This is insanity. Books that teach empathy must be pretty damn powerful if so many people are trying to silence them, hmm?
YES! Years ago I wrote an article about how @barefootbooks.bsky.social developed our version of Little Red Riding Hood to preserve the message about safety but strip out the sexualization of Little Red. It was SUCH a neat article but the publication folded and the article seems to be gone forever.
periodic reminder that if you write stuff that's published on the web for a publication you yourself do not own, PDF that shit as soon as it goes live
October 9, 2025 at 8:55 PM
YES! Years ago I wrote an article about how @barefootbooks.bsky.social developed our version of Little Red Riding Hood to preserve the message about safety but strip out the sexualization of Little Red. It was SUCH a neat article but the publication folded and the article seems to be gone forever.
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‘Ideas are like fish.’ 🐠
October 8, 2025 at 9:17 PM
‘Ideas are like fish.’ 🐠
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Donald Trump is breaching the Constitution and breaking the law.
A show of force so he can militarize our cities because of the 2026 elections.
We need to stand up together and speak up.
A show of force so he can militarize our cities because of the 2026 elections.
We need to stand up together and speak up.
October 8, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Donald Trump is breaching the Constitution and breaking the law.
A show of force so he can militarize our cities because of the 2026 elections.
We need to stand up together and speak up.
A show of force so he can militarize our cities because of the 2026 elections.
We need to stand up together and speak up.
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Listen. ONE of the reasons I rock with Dolly (Capricorn Gang) is because she’s always proven to me that integrity may cause you pain, but it will never be the reason you suffer. Which is not to say that suffering won’t come, but it’ll never be because you abandoned yourself. That’ll keep you going.
I hear she has supported school bands as well: www.thepinknews.com/2022/10/10/d...
Dolly Parton quietly funded Black school bands: 'The woman is a national treasure'
Dolly Parton paid for band uniforms and instruments for kids at majority Black high schools with zero publicity, a writer has revealed.
www.thepinknews.com
October 8, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Listen. ONE of the reasons I rock with Dolly (Capricorn Gang) is because she’s always proven to me that integrity may cause you pain, but it will never be the reason you suffer. Which is not to say that suffering won’t come, but it’ll never be because you abandoned yourself. That’ll keep you going.
Attention #dvpit #PB authors and illustrators!
@barefootbooks.bsky.social has a line of board books about different countries around the world called Our World:
www.barefootbooks.com/our-world-se...
We work with authors and illustrators from the featured countries to create each book.
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@barefootbooks.bsky.social has a line of board books about different countries around the world called Our World:
www.barefootbooks.com/our-world-se...
We work with authors and illustrators from the featured countries to create each book.
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Our World Series | Ages 0-4 years | Barefoot Books
Explore more in our series of global learning books for babies and toddlers!
www.barefootbooks.com
October 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Attention #dvpit #PB authors and illustrators!
@barefootbooks.bsky.social has a line of board books about different countries around the world called Our World:
www.barefootbooks.com/our-world-se...
We work with authors and illustrators from the featured countries to create each book.
(1/2)
@barefootbooks.bsky.social has a line of board books about different countries around the world called Our World:
www.barefootbooks.com/our-world-se...
We work with authors and illustrators from the featured countries to create each book.
(1/2)
We here at @barefootbooks.bsky.social are cheering on #dvpit today! Our editorial team is deep in deadline season and not able to participate this time around but we will be at the next one. 💗
October 8, 2025 at 4:07 PM
We here at @barefootbooks.bsky.social are cheering on #dvpit today! Our editorial team is deep in deadline season and not able to participate this time around but we will be at the next one. 💗
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Happy book birthday to three new Our World titles! 🎈🎂
Watch the northern lights dance in the sky in Iceland, snack on some chôm chôm in Vietnam, and play ice hockey in Canada!
Click the link to get your copies! tinyurl.com/7upvwjj6
Watch the northern lights dance in the sky in Iceland, snack on some chôm chôm in Vietnam, and play ice hockey in Canada!
Click the link to get your copies! tinyurl.com/7upvwjj6
October 7, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Happy book birthday to three new Our World titles! 🎈🎂
Watch the northern lights dance in the sky in Iceland, snack on some chôm chôm in Vietnam, and play ice hockey in Canada!
Click the link to get your copies! tinyurl.com/7upvwjj6
Watch the northern lights dance in the sky in Iceland, snack on some chôm chôm in Vietnam, and play ice hockey in Canada!
Click the link to get your copies! tinyurl.com/7upvwjj6
I really try not to let football outcomes impact my daily life but I have to say that learning that the Jags beat KC last night just put the biggest smile on my face
October 7, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I really try not to let football outcomes impact my daily life but I have to say that learning that the Jags beat KC last night just put the biggest smile on my face
I was researching for a book in progress to see if we have any extant quotes from Pocahontas and I guess I walked right into this one
October 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I was researching for a book in progress to see if we have any extant quotes from Pocahontas and I guess I walked right into this one
This Friday finds me in the approximate condition of a Looney Tunes character with loose piano keys for teeth
October 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM
This Friday finds me in the approximate condition of a Looney Tunes character with loose piano keys for teeth
I got to talk picture book endmatter and prelims with the gigantic minds at @pubspotlight.bsky.social today and my brain is TINGLING! I feel lucky to know y'all.
October 1, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I got to talk picture book endmatter and prelims with the gigantic minds at @pubspotlight.bsky.social today and my brain is TINGLING! I feel lucky to know y'all.
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This week as I absolutely flail my way toward a huge deadline I am grateful for this article about the Millennium Dome. It reminded me that it could be worse -- at least I'm scrambling to finish something that doesn't suck!
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020...
Was the Millennium Dome really so bad? The inside story of a (not so) total disaster
The long read: Even before it opened, the Dome had become a byword for failure. But two decades on, it could be time for a reassessment
www.theguardian.com
September 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
This week as I absolutely flail my way toward a huge deadline I am grateful for this article about the Millennium Dome. It reminded me that it could be worse -- at least I'm scrambling to finish something that doesn't suck!
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020...
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Read to your kids so they’ll have an ounce of empathy, I’m begging you
September 10, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Read to your kids so they’ll have an ounce of empathy, I’m begging you
Do you ever get the sense that the entire children’s publishing industry is made up of like 100 extremely overworked people doing the job of about 10000 people?
September 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Do you ever get the sense that the entire children’s publishing industry is made up of like 100 extremely overworked people doing the job of about 10000 people?
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Justin Fields and Aaron Rodgers one-upping each other in today's dual revenge game
September 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Justin Fields and Aaron Rodgers one-upping each other in today's dual revenge game
WHAT A F&%$ING FOOTBALL GAME HOLY S%$T GO STEELERS
September 7, 2025 at 8:10 PM
WHAT A F&%$ING FOOTBALL GAME HOLY S%$T GO STEELERS