Laura Roettiger
@ljrwritenow.bsky.social
KidLit Author, Photographer, Educator
2 trad pub #PB #STEM + #Kindness
Here to connect with #Teachers, #Librarians, #Kidlit #Edusky
https://lauraroettigerbooks.com/
@picturebookgold.bsky.social
#HaikuSaturday #WordlessWednesday
2 trad pub #PB #STEM + #Kindness
Here to connect with #Teachers, #Librarians, #Kidlit #Edusky
https://lauraroettigerbooks.com/
@picturebookgold.bsky.social
#HaikuSaturday #WordlessWednesday
Pinned
I’m presenting at #NCTE #DreamBoldly Friday 11/21/25
9:30 am “Write What You Know: Using Cultural Roots and Dreams for Student Idea Generation” with acclaimed author-educators @emilybarthisler.bsky.social @annajordan.bsky.social & Stacy Nockowitz
#bookSky #writing #EduSky
9:30 am “Write What You Know: Using Cultural Roots and Dreams for Student Idea Generation” with acclaimed author-educators @emilybarthisler.bsky.social @annajordan.bsky.social & Stacy Nockowitz
#bookSky #writing #EduSky
November 14, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Y'all. I recorded this today... which is definitely NOT the end of November. Still. I hope you will join me and @mrschureads.bsky.social for this FREE @bookelicious.bsky.social event!
📆 12/2/25 - Starting at 7:30pm EST
🔗 Register required: www.bookelicious.com/event/22
#TLSkyChat #KidLit #EduSky
📆 12/2/25 - Starting at 7:30pm EST
🔗 Register required: www.bookelicious.com/event/22
#TLSkyChat #KidLit #EduSky
November 14, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Y'all. I recorded this today... which is definitely NOT the end of November. Still. I hope you will join me and @mrschureads.bsky.social for this FREE @bookelicious.bsky.social event!
📆 12/2/25 - Starting at 7:30pm EST
🔗 Register required: www.bookelicious.com/event/22
#TLSkyChat #KidLit #EduSky
📆 12/2/25 - Starting at 7:30pm EST
🔗 Register required: www.bookelicious.com/event/22
#TLSkyChat #KidLit #EduSky
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Well friends we have come to the end of our library map request road! Wyoming, you are the last state on our list that we are requesting for our library map. If you know of a library in WY, please let us know.
Thank you all!
Follow this thread to see what states followed us on our journey:
Thank you all!
Follow this thread to see what states followed us on our journey:
a woman says i 'm passionate about wyoming while sitting in front of a microphone
ALT: a woman says i 'm passionate about wyoming while sitting in front of a microphone
media.tenor.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Well friends we have come to the end of our library map request road! Wyoming, you are the last state on our list that we are requesting for our library map. If you know of a library in WY, please let us know.
Thank you all!
Follow this thread to see what states followed us on our journey:
Thank you all!
Follow this thread to see what states followed us on our journey:
I want to send you a copy of ROSIE THE DRAGON AND CHARLIE MAKE WAVES or ROSIE THE DRAGON AND CHARLIE SAY GOOD NIGHT plus fun swag!
#giveaway #books #win #trending #dragonbooks #kidlit #kidlitart
#giveaway #books #win #trending #dragonbooks #kidlit #kidlitart
November 13, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Via @aaronparnas.bsky.social - BREAKING: Trump Panics and Calls Republicans to try to Stop Epstein Vote open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
BREAKING: Trump Panics and Calls Republicans to try to Stop Epstein Vote
The White House is in an urgent panic mode behind the scenes as the House will soon force the vote to release the Epstein files.
open.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Via @aaronparnas.bsky.social - BREAKING: Trump Panics and Calls Republicans to try to Stop Epstein Vote open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
November 12, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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The #ReVISIONweek prize post is UP!
TY contributors! @meganefreeman.bsky.social @tcbrbookreview.bsky.social @imaginationsoup.bsky.social @juliefhedlund.bsky.social @writerjolene.bsky.social #JimAverbeck @literallylynne.bsky.social & @shannonstocker.bsky.social
#kidlit #kidlitart #writingcommunity
TY contributors! @meganefreeman.bsky.social @tcbrbookreview.bsky.social @imaginationsoup.bsky.social @juliefhedlund.bsky.social @writerjolene.bsky.social #JimAverbeck @literallylynne.bsky.social & @shannonstocker.bsky.social
#kidlit #kidlitart #writingcommunity
#ReVISIONweek 2025 Prize Winners!
First, we want to thank EVERYONE who participated in #ReVISIONweek. Each year, we find ourselves so inspired by this event, and this year was no different! You can all consider yourselves winners b…
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November 11, 2025 at 3:57 AM
digitaledition.chicagotribune.com/shortcode/CH... meanwhile in #Chicago peaceful protesters are arrested outside the #Broadview facility and DHS is being given another week to get enough mattresses! Seriously? How many months have they been holding people there? 🧊thugs GO HOME!
Sat, 11/08/25
14 moms arrested in blitz protest
digitaledition.chicagotribune.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:14 PM
digitaledition.chicagotribune.com/shortcode/CH... meanwhile in #Chicago peaceful protesters are arrested outside the #Broadview facility and DHS is being given another week to get enough mattresses! Seriously? How many months have they been holding people there? 🧊thugs GO HOME!
my November view
captured before winds swirled
leaving me adrift
#photography #fallcolor #haikuSaturday #Haiku #writing
captured before winds swirled
leaving me adrift
#photography #fallcolor #haikuSaturday #Haiku #writing
November 8, 2025 at 12:13 PM
my November view
captured before winds swirled
leaving me adrift
#photography #fallcolor #haikuSaturday #Haiku #writing
captured before winds swirled
leaving me adrift
#photography #fallcolor #haikuSaturday #Haiku #writing
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holy shit -- one of Trump's toadies just passed out and the White House event is brought to an abrupt end
November 6, 2025 at 5:38 PM
holy shit -- one of Trump's toadies just passed out and the White House event is brought to an abrupt end
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Sandwich man leaving court
November 6, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Sandwich man leaving court
'Doesn't look good': ICE agent charged with drunken driving after shift at Broadview detention center www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/05/i... Untrained. Unvetted. And now a DUI. This is what is being sent to #Chicago
‘Doesn’t look good’: ICE agent charged with drunken driving after shift at Broadview detention center
An Immigration and Enforcement agent has been charged with drunken driving after his car crashed after a shift at the Broadview detention center.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:40 PM
'Doesn't look good': ICE agent charged with drunken driving after shift at Broadview detention center www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/05/i... Untrained. Unvetted. And now a DUI. This is what is being sent to #Chicago
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If Russell Vought wants a progress report on how his federal worker “trauma strategy” is performing, Virginia, who has the 2nd largest federal workforce, flipped 13 seats blue yesterday.
November 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM
If Russell Vought wants a progress report on how his federal worker “trauma strategy” is performing, Virginia, who has the 2nd largest federal workforce, flipped 13 seats blue yesterday.
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Reposting to correct an error: trump admin is quietly gutting 13 buildings and about 100 laboratories at Goddard campus that has been instrumental to Hubble and James Webb telescope missions. Staff say they’ve be locked and told to move equipment. Anything left behind will be thrown away.
NASA may be quietly gutting an iconic campus with what it calls strategic closures, workers fear
(CNN) — Alarm is growing among federal workers at NASA’s iconic Goddard Space Flight Center’s main campus in Greenbelt, Maryland — the nerve center for groundbreaking missions like the Hubble
www.wkow.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Reposting to correct an error: trump admin is quietly gutting 13 buildings and about 100 laboratories at Goddard campus that has been instrumental to Hubble and James Webb telescope missions. Staff say they’ve be locked and told to move equipment. Anything left behind will be thrown away.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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The Rhyme Doctors can help transform your rhyming or lyrical children's picture book from scary to spook-tacular with our expert critiques. Learn more: rhymedoctors.com @patriciatoht.bsky.social
@eileenmeyerbooks.bsky.social
@schaubwrites.bsky.social
@scbwi.bsky.social
@eileenmeyerbooks.bsky.social
@schaubwrites.bsky.social
@scbwi.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
The Rhyme Doctors can help transform your rhyming or lyrical children's picture book from scary to spook-tacular with our expert critiques. Learn more: rhymedoctors.com @patriciatoht.bsky.social
@eileenmeyerbooks.bsky.social
@schaubwrites.bsky.social
@scbwi.bsky.social
@eileenmeyerbooks.bsky.social
@schaubwrites.bsky.social
@scbwi.bsky.social
lauraroettigerbooks.com/2025/11/04/w... my interview with @barbakoffbooks.bsky.social celebrating MAZEL TOES! Read the blogpost and comment to enter the #giveaway #writing #BookSky #Bilingual board book
Welcome Author Audrey Barbakoff – Giveaway Alert
Today I have the pleasure of sharing my interview with Audrey Barbakoff, the author of a fabulous new board book, MAZEL TOES!, illustrated by Anitta Soble. Audrey and I met earlier this year over z…
lauraroettigerbooks.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:49 PM
lauraroettigerbooks.com/2025/11/04/w... my interview with @barbakoffbooks.bsky.social celebrating MAZEL TOES! Read the blogpost and comment to enter the #giveaway #writing #BookSky #Bilingual board book
I’m presenting at #NCTE #DreamBoldly Friday 11/21/25
9:30 am “Write What You Know: Using Cultural Roots and Dreams for Student Idea Generation” with acclaimed author-educators @emilybarthisler.bsky.social @annajordan.bsky.social & Stacy Nockowitz
#bookSky #writing #EduSky
9:30 am “Write What You Know: Using Cultural Roots and Dreams for Student Idea Generation” with acclaimed author-educators @emilybarthisler.bsky.social @annajordan.bsky.social & Stacy Nockowitz
#bookSky #writing #EduSky
November 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I’m presenting at #NCTE #DreamBoldly Friday 11/21/25
9:30 am “Write What You Know: Using Cultural Roots and Dreams for Student Idea Generation” with acclaimed author-educators @emilybarthisler.bsky.social @annajordan.bsky.social & Stacy Nockowitz
#bookSky #writing #EduSky
9:30 am “Write What You Know: Using Cultural Roots and Dreams for Student Idea Generation” with acclaimed author-educators @emilybarthisler.bsky.social @annajordan.bsky.social & Stacy Nockowitz
#bookSky #writing #EduSky
Boosting - an interview between 2 friends of mine from @scbwirockymtn.bsky.social
Pleased to post a one question interview with @zombicatures.bsky.social #kidlit #middlegrade #graphicnovel @scbwirockymtn.bsky.social
bethsbiblio.blogspot.com/2025/11/inte...
bethsbiblio.blogspot.com/2025/11/inte...
Interview with Stan Yan: The Many Misfortunes of Eugenia Wang
Beth's Biblio includes recipes, picture book reviews and information for parents, teachers and librarians.
bethsbiblio.blogspot.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Boosting - an interview between 2 friends of mine from @scbwirockymtn.bsky.social
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Deeply depressing to see the post about layoffs an hour after Lex wrote this about how much traffic Bluesky drives to Teen Vogue's political coverage.
November 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Deeply depressing to see the post about layoffs an hour after Lex wrote this about how much traffic Bluesky drives to Teen Vogue's political coverage.
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Trump’s CBS “Confession” Should Be the Biggest Story in America
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Trump’s CBS “Confession” Should Be the Biggest Story in America
Imagine if Joe Biden admitted to selling pardons like this.
endlessurgency.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Trump’s CBS “Confession” Should Be the Biggest Story in America
endlessurgency.com/p/trumps-cbs...
endlessurgency.com/p/trumps-cbs...
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I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
October 7, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
This is a great opportunity to elevate your work as a writer or an illustrator! A one-on-one mentorship.
Check out the list of amazing mentors! Including me! ☺️ applications due Monday 11/3/25
Check out the list of amazing mentors! Including me! ☺️ applications due Monday 11/3/25
Want to take your work to the next level? RMC's mentorship program will do that. For authors and illustrators at any stage of their journey, PB to YA, coming in with anything from rough ideas to completed works. Application window closes Monday (11/3). scbwi.org/regions/rmc/RMC-mentorship-program
Michelle Begley Mentorship Program | Colorado, Wyoming (Rocky Mountain)
The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators provides the resources, professional networking, and community-building opportunities that support writers, illustrators, and translators throug...
www.scbwi.org
November 2, 2025 at 2:36 AM
This is a great opportunity to elevate your work as a writer or an illustrator! A one-on-one mentorship.
Check out the list of amazing mentors! Including me! ☺️ applications due Monday 11/3/25
Check out the list of amazing mentors! Including me! ☺️ applications due Monday 11/3/25