Pauline Thompson
@paulinethompson.bsky.social
Children's author of Hooray For DNA! and more to come - universe willing. A fellow human on the journey... More stuff about me here: www.paulinethompson.com and @paulinethompson5022.
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Donate to Mabel's Fables Next Chapter Fund, organized by Eleanor LeFave
Mabel's Fables Bookstore opened at 662 Mount Pleasant Road, Toronto in September 1988… Eleanor LeFave needs your support for Mabel's Fables Next Chapter Fund
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April 23, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I love this bookstore! gofund.me/4027bb47
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Carl Sagan on how to live with mystery
Carl Sagan on Mystery, Why Common Sense Blinds Us to the Universe, and How to Live with the Unknown
“We are bathing in mystery and confusion… That will always be our destiny. The universe will always be much richer than our ability to understand it.”
www.themarginalian.org
March 26, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Carl Sagan on how to live with mystery
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Indie booksellers are already struggling & U.S./Canada tariff war could be disastrous for 🇨🇦indie bkstores.
Canadian bksellers have joined forces to ask govt to exempt BOOKS from the 25% counter-tariffs scheduled to start April 2nd (source: Publishers Weekly). #BookSky
youtu.be/sIwVgMYLlXo...
Canadian bksellers have joined forces to ask govt to exempt BOOKS from the 25% counter-tariffs scheduled to start April 2nd (source: Publishers Weekly). #BookSky
youtu.be/sIwVgMYLlXo...
Impact of retaliatory tariffs on indie bookstores
YouTube video by CTV News
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March 26, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Indie booksellers are already struggling & U.S./Canada tariff war could be disastrous for 🇨🇦indie bkstores.
Canadian bksellers have joined forces to ask govt to exempt BOOKS from the 25% counter-tariffs scheduled to start April 2nd (source: Publishers Weekly). #BookSky
youtu.be/sIwVgMYLlXo...
Canadian bksellers have joined forces to ask govt to exempt BOOKS from the 25% counter-tariffs scheduled to start April 2nd (source: Publishers Weekly). #BookSky
youtu.be/sIwVgMYLlXo...
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If you live in Canada and support independent bookstores, please make your voice heard! #CanKidLit #IndieBookstores #CanLit #BookSky
Upcoming Canadian tariffs on books coming from the US will hit independent Canadian bookstores hard since many of the books, including by Canadian authors, come through publishers and warehouses in the US. Cdn govt looking for feedback here: forms-formulaires.alpha.canada.ca/en/id/cm7upm...
Consultations on Canada’s Response to United States Tariffs on Canadian Goods: Comment Submission Form
forms-formulaires.alpha.canada.ca
March 25, 2025 at 10:21 PM
If you live in Canada and support independent bookstores, please make your voice heard! #CanKidLit #IndieBookstores #CanLit #BookSky
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#CanKidLit 🇨🇦 freelance editor & YA author highlight: Bev Katz Rosenbaum aka @bevrosenbaum.bsky.social. EXCELLENT developmental editor for writers, highly recommend. Also available for #SchoolVisits! bevkatzrosenbaum.com/contact.html
#FreelanceEditor #YA
#FreelanceEditor #YA
March 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
#CanKidLit 🇨🇦 freelance editor & YA author highlight: Bev Katz Rosenbaum aka @bevrosenbaum.bsky.social. EXCELLENT developmental editor for writers, highly recommend. Also available for #SchoolVisits! bevkatzrosenbaum.com/contact.html
#FreelanceEditor #YA
#FreelanceEditor #YA
Tariffs on books will hurt Canadian authors with US publishers. A 25% tariff on all books coming from the US is going to hurt all our Canadian bookstores as well. Oppose these two specific codes: 4901.99.00 and 4903.00.00. Register your response here:
Consultations on Canada’s Response to United States Tariffs on Canadian Goods: Comment Submission Form
forms-formulaires.alpha.canada.ca
March 25, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Tariffs on books will hurt Canadian authors with US publishers. A 25% tariff on all books coming from the US is going to hurt all our Canadian bookstores as well. Oppose these two specific codes: 4901.99.00 and 4903.00.00. Register your response here:
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There's still time to register for this weekend's webinar!
The webinar is fast approaching! Don't miss your chance to learn from a panel of expert literary agents.
Register today: www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticket...
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March 25, 2025 at 4:32 PM
There's still time to register for this weekend's webinar!
Hooray for a wonderful review of Hooray For DNA! by @the_inclusive_bookshelf on Instagram. A lovely start to the day. "But most of all, I love the implied message that we are all connected..." Full review here: www.instagram.com/p/DHiyhj8OGF... and here: @paulinethompson5022
March 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Hooray for a wonderful review of Hooray For DNA! by @the_inclusive_bookshelf on Instagram. A lovely start to the day. "But most of all, I love the implied message that we are all connected..." Full review here: www.instagram.com/p/DHiyhj8OGF... and here: @paulinethompson5022
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Born OTD in 1882, Emmy Noether fled from the Nazis to become one of the greatest mathematicians of all time, solving the puzzle that had stumped Einstein. Her remarkable story and the stunning Edna St. Vincent Millay poem read at her memorial, animated: https://
Dirge Without Music: Emmy Noether, Symmetry, and the Conservation of Energy (Amanda Palmer Reads Edna St. Vincent Millay, Animated by Sophie Blackall)
“Lovers and thinkers, into the earth with you. Be one with the dull, the indiscriminate dust.”
www.themarginalian.org
March 23, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Born OTD in 1882, Emmy Noether fled from the Nazis to become one of the greatest mathematicians of all time, solving the puzzle that had stumped Einstein. Her remarkable story and the stunning Edna St. Vincent Millay poem read at her memorial, animated: https://
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