Katherine Choppy Harrison
@kidlitkat.bsky.social
executive editor of ya, mg and picture books at knopf bfyr, writer of songs and picture books (POWER TOOL ALPHABET & BUT I’M A PUMPKIN!), appreciator of odd curiosities
Pinned
I needed plenty of safety gear to film this unboxing video for my new picture book, THE POWER TOOL ALPHABET! Thanks to @sourcebooks.bsky.social for making this book a reality and my assistant Harper for advising on tool selection. Coming to stores December 2 🔨🪚📚
Somehow this ice dancing movie is EXACTLY what I needed right now. Don't even care if it's a ripoff of The Cutting Edge.
January 29, 2026 at 3:49 AM
Somehow this ice dancing movie is EXACTLY what I needed right now. Don't even care if it's a ripoff of The Cutting Edge.
Does anyone know if there's simple desktop app to keep a running tally of something? My hope is to press a button that makes a pleasant noise and gives me dopamine rush each time I respond to a submission, keeping track of how many I've reviewed over the year.
January 23, 2026 at 8:22 PM
Does anyone know if there's simple desktop app to keep a running tally of something? My hope is to press a button that makes a pleasant noise and gives me dopamine rush each time I respond to a submission, keeping track of how many I've reviewed over the year.
Chilling.
She says ICE agents mocked her: “The ICE agent who had pepper sprayed into the vents of my car said ‘you guys gotta stop obstructing us, that’s why that lesbian b—— is dead,’ verbatim, speaking of Renee Good. Which filled me with absolute rage and shock..."
www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...
www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...
‘I was flooded with fear’: Minnesotans describe their encounters with ICE, being detained
From an Uber driver to a school drop off, MPR News spoke with Minnesotans who were stopped or detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
www.mprnews.org
January 14, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Chilling.
Question for the hive-mind: What is the etiquette around asking whether something is AI-generated in a professional setting? Is there a way to frame the question that minimizes offense to the person being asked?
January 13, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Question for the hive-mind: What is the etiquette around asking whether something is AI-generated in a professional setting? Is there a way to frame the question that minimizes offense to the person being asked?
Are we ready to talk about the 25th amendment yet? Asking for a country.
January 8, 2026 at 11:05 PM
Are we ready to talk about the 25th amendment yet? Asking for a country.
Reposting as a reminder to myself as much as anyone else.
If you have time to doom scroll, you have time to read books!
January 6, 2026 at 10:46 PM
Reposting as a reminder to myself as much as anyone else.
Reposted by Katherine Choppy Harrison
Zohran just went out and fixed the Williamsburg Bridge bike entrance. Just did it. No faffing, no nonsense. Bam. Fixed.
January 6, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Zohran just went out and fixed the Williamsburg Bridge bike entrance. Just did it. No faffing, no nonsense. Bam. Fixed.
Happy New Year, kidlit community! I spent the last few weeks reading no news and The Golden Compass out loud with my family and this is the world I want to stay in forever.
Have you read anything you loved lately?
Have you read anything you loved lately?
January 6, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Happy New Year, kidlit community! I spent the last few weeks reading no news and The Golden Compass out loud with my family and this is the world I want to stay in forever.
Have you read anything you loved lately?
Have you read anything you loved lately?
Good night and good luck… to CBS’s integrity
The most impressive thing about Bari is her ability to violate ethical principles while indignantly claiming to defend them.
Weiss concluded: “We need to be able to make every effort to get the principals on the record and on camera. To me, our viewers come first, not a listing schedule or anything else. And that is my North Star, and I hope it's the North Star of every person in this newsroom.”
December 22, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Good night and good luck… to CBS’s integrity
Hey @michaelhobbes.bsky.social and @notalawyer.bsky.social, maybe we need an update episode on this dude’s shameless pivot from scammy self help books to a scammy AI chatbot
Mark Manson is launching an AI Stoicisim coach intended to help people 'Subtly Not Give a F*ck'.
Mark Manson is launching an AI app to help more people ‘Subtly not Give a F*ck’
The best-selling author teamed up with a serial tech entrepreneur to deliver personalized, scalable life coaching that doesn't blindly flatter you.
www.fastcompany.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Hey @michaelhobbes.bsky.social and @notalawyer.bsky.social, maybe we need an update episode on this dude’s shameless pivot from scammy self help books to a scammy AI chatbot
Welcome to the world, little tool book! May you find your way into the hands of readers who love to make and build!
Special thanks to my dad, whose love of tinkering inspired my own, Jen Taylor who made a jackhammer look cute, & the whole team at @sourcebooks.bsky.social who made
it all possible ❤️
Special thanks to my dad, whose love of tinkering inspired my own, Jen Taylor who made a jackhammer look cute, & the whole team at @sourcebooks.bsky.social who made
it all possible ❤️
December 2, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Welcome to the world, little tool book! May you find your way into the hands of readers who love to make and build!
Special thanks to my dad, whose love of tinkering inspired my own, Jen Taylor who made a jackhammer look cute, & the whole team at @sourcebooks.bsky.social who made
it all possible ❤️
Special thanks to my dad, whose love of tinkering inspired my own, Jen Taylor who made a jackhammer look cute, & the whole team at @sourcebooks.bsky.social who made
it all possible ❤️
My picture book is out tomorrow so we bought a table saw to celebrate! One more sleep til THE POWER TOOL ALPHABET… 🪚📚🎉
December 1, 2025 at 7:14 PM
My picture book is out tomorrow so we bought a table saw to celebrate! One more sleep til THE POWER TOOL ALPHABET… 🪚📚🎉
Kidlit community, nothing fills me with self-doubt and disappointment more than these annual best of the year lists.
If you’re feeling blue, remember it’s subjective, and this year I’m seeing very few of my faves (the ones I didn’t work on) recognized.
Let’s all raise a glass to the unlisted!
If you’re feeling blue, remember it’s subjective, and this year I’m seeing very few of my faves (the ones I didn’t work on) recognized.
Let’s all raise a glass to the unlisted!
November 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Kidlit community, nothing fills me with self-doubt and disappointment more than these annual best of the year lists.
If you’re feeling blue, remember it’s subjective, and this year I’m seeing very few of my faves (the ones I didn’t work on) recognized.
Let’s all raise a glass to the unlisted!
If you’re feeling blue, remember it’s subjective, and this year I’m seeing very few of my faves (the ones I didn’t work on) recognized.
Let’s all raise a glass to the unlisted!
Now and again, especially in Autumn, I think of Strega Nona—and how clutch it would be if someone made Tomi DiPaola branded pasta shapes
November 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Now and again, especially in Autumn, I think of Strega Nona—and how clutch it would be if someone made Tomi DiPaola branded pasta shapes
UGH why am I such a cringey Millennial and, more importantly, why is this latest Jeff Tweedy album so good 😭
November 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
UGH why am I such a cringey Millennial and, more importantly, why is this latest Jeff Tweedy album so good 😭
Reposted by Katherine Choppy Harrison
theconversation.com/learning-wit...
I think the maddening thing here is many more critical folks who study info search, learning, etc could have (and have been) saying this. The process matters
I think the maddening thing here is many more critical folks who study info search, learning, etc could have (and have been) saying this. The process matters
Learning with AI falls short compared to old-fashioned web search
Doing the mental work of connecting the dots across multiple web queries appears to help people understand the material better compared to an AI summary.
theconversation.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:34 PM
theconversation.com/learning-wit...
I think the maddening thing here is many more critical folks who study info search, learning, etc could have (and have been) saying this. The process matters
I think the maddening thing here is many more critical folks who study info search, learning, etc could have (and have been) saying this. The process matters
Reposted by Katherine Choppy Harrison
Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
November 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
Prose like this is a good reminder that we editors are doing Important Work.
November 17, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Prose like this is a good reminder that we editors are doing Important Work.
I needed plenty of safety gear to film this unboxing video for my new picture book, THE POWER TOOL ALPHABET! Thanks to @sourcebooks.bsky.social for making this book a reality and my assistant Harper for advising on tool selection. Coming to stores December 2 🔨🪚📚
November 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I needed plenty of safety gear to film this unboxing video for my new picture book, THE POWER TOOL ALPHABET! Thanks to @sourcebooks.bsky.social for making this book a reality and my assistant Harper for advising on tool selection. Coming to stores December 2 🔨🪚📚
Was getting a cat the best choice ever? Or has the toxoplasmosis fully taken over my brain? Some mysteries will never be solved.
November 13, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Was getting a cat the best choice ever? Or has the toxoplasmosis fully taken over my brain? Some mysteries will never be solved.
Reposted by Katherine Choppy Harrison
Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
November 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
“Empathy is the oxygen of democracy.” -Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress
November 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
“Empathy is the oxygen of democracy.” -Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress
National treasure Carla Hayden speaking at the RHCB town hall on a random Thursday, someone pinch me 🤩
November 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
National treasure Carla Hayden speaking at the RHCB town hall on a random Thursday, someone pinch me 🤩
Reposted by Katherine Choppy Harrison
Happy book birthday to A Quick Trip to the Store by Sam Wedelich!
November 11, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Happy book birthday to A Quick Trip to the Store by Sam Wedelich!
Totally obsessed with all my Spring 2026 middle grade covers!!! Do you have a favorite?
MACAW: art by @georgeermos.bsky.social ; design by Jen Valero
MOON: art by Robbi Behr ; design by Jen Valero
WILDERNESS: art by David Dean ; design by Suzanne Lee
MACAW: art by @georgeermos.bsky.social ; design by Jen Valero
MOON: art by Robbi Behr ; design by Jen Valero
WILDERNESS: art by David Dean ; design by Suzanne Lee
November 12, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Totally obsessed with all my Spring 2026 middle grade covers!!! Do you have a favorite?
MACAW: art by @georgeermos.bsky.social ; design by Jen Valero
MOON: art by Robbi Behr ; design by Jen Valero
WILDERNESS: art by David Dean ; design by Suzanne Lee
MACAW: art by @georgeermos.bsky.social ; design by Jen Valero
MOON: art by Robbi Behr ; design by Jen Valero
WILDERNESS: art by David Dean ; design by Suzanne Lee