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Abbie James
@abbiewjames.bsky.social
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#Kidlit Writer: PB, MG, YA, poetry. #SCBWI.
MG novel coming spring 2027!
Youth Services at a Public Library. Licensed Behavior Specialist.
Wife & Mom. Gardener/Hiker/Birder. Environmentalist. She/her

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Just finished THE BURNING SEASON, a #MGLit novel in verse by Caroline Starr Rose. Such an engaging story and a fascinating glimpse into the lives of fire lookouts! Gorgeous cover art by David Dean.
#kidlit 📚👍
cover of THE BURNING SEASON shows a girl running out of a door at the top of a lookout tower onto the deck part surrounding the tower; the title is written in white smokey font across the middle; the background of the cover shows a green forest area, an orange forest area, and a burning snag to the right; photo is taken looking up at the sky with the book in my hand with blue sky and autumn trees in the background
November 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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frosty goldenrod
swaps its yellow sundress for
a fuzzy sweater

#HaikuSaturday 💚 #nativeplants 💚 #gardening
puffy off-white goldenrod flower seeds atop stems with fading green leaves; blurry other plants and frosted grass in the background
November 8, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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slugs and fungi
busy at work
a booming metropolis
in slow motion

Happy #FungiFriday!
a decaying tree stump covered in many tiny orange mushrooms to the left with fewer mushroom to the right; several slugs on the top
November 7, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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THE EXTRAORDINARY ORBIT OF ALEX RAMIREZ is an impactful novel in verse by Jasminne Paulino. 📚👍
Great cover by Dion MBD.
#kidlit #MGLit
cover shows a boy in a school science lab reading a science book; space-themed objects float above his head; photo is taken with the book in my hand in front of a wall with planets and satellites
November 7, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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#supermoon at dawn
thirty percent brighter...I
conversed with cashiers
momentum with each word past
hello. Both: stellar efforts.

#TankaThursday #introverts prompt: momentum
photo of sky and trees; triangle of light blue sky to the left and top; triangle of autumn tree leaves to the right and bottom; full moon behind one tree in the center without leaves
November 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Planning/planting for spring in fall! Thinking about those early pollinators searching for food.
Sowing @hungryhookfarm.bsky.social's fabulous seeds.
#nativeplants 💚 #gardening
picture taken from below looking up at a brown paper seed packet of Virginia bluebells in my hand with picture of bluebells and growing information; background is blurry trees with orange, yellow, and green leaves; sky behind trees is blue
November 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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a fungus face
only Halloween could love
bloody boo to you

(nah, I love it, too 🙃)

#HaikuSaturday inspired by @rebeccaupjohn.bsky.social's fun #facesinnature haiku. Spotted this #FungiFriday on an Appalachian Trail hike. 🥾🍃🍂 🍄
three round areas of red fungus on the side of a tree stump with chunky bark; the top fungus looks like a face with eyes, nose, and an open mouth; the mouth looks like a bright red tongue sticking out or blood
October 31, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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I love MILLIE FLEUR SAVES THE NIGHT by @christymandin.bsky.social. I've always been uneasy in darkness, so Millie is an inspiration. Fabulous back matter. One of my kids wants to go for a Halloween night walk in the woods, so I'll have to channel my inner Millie!
#kidlit 📚👍
cover of MILLIE FLEUR SAVES THE NIGHT shows a young girl in a grey dress and striped leggings reaching up to turn off a lightbulb hanging from a cord from above; in the background, white flowers bloom and turnips walk around; a large black creature with yellow eyes looms in front of a full moon; the background color is dark blue
October 31, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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cold nights bury bright.
pink flowers nearby long gone.
pokeweed's stem shines on.

#berrybright 💚 #haiku 💚 #nativeplants 💚 #gardening
picture taken from below looking up at pokeweed plant with blue sky in the background; pokeweed stem is bright pinkish purple and branches several times from the main stem; some brown shriveled leaves hang from the stem; there are various plant stalks and seed heads to the sides; some green and some fall leaves on trees in the background
October 29, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Loved THE UNEXPECTED LIVES OF ORDINARY GIRLS by @jandersoncoats.bsky.social! 👏 This engaging and nuanced story discusses education, immigration, religion, family, equal rights, and libraries💛. Set in 1910. Relevant now. Lovely cover by Margarita Kukhtina. #girlpower #MGLit #kidlit 📚👍
book cover shows a young girl in the bottom left; she's looking up; the bottom right shows flowers; the title is in the center with a blue background; the top shows a 1910 city with an entry arch that says "welcome;" photo is the book in my hand with blue and white rug background
October 29, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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rising from the ground
spirits of soybeans past haunt
monocrop harvests

#HaikuSaturday #spookyseason
sunrise landscape; light blue sky at top of photo; a few purple clouds with light underneath; a tree line in the distance with a field of soybeans between trees and where photo is taken; white haze above soybeans
October 25, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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hulled and cleaned and dried
toughest nut to crack and yet
shelling's the fun part 🙃

💚 Happy Friday! 💚 #hammertime 💚 #haiku 💚 #bloomscrolling 💚 #nativeplants 💚
about two dozen black walnuts in their brown shells in a basket with white asters at the top of the photo and grass to the right; one walnut in my hand at the bottom
October 24, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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black walnut trees
first to lose their leaves and
let the blue fall through

#haiku 💚 #nativeplants
photo looking up toward blue sky taken from the ground standing under several black walnut trees; a few of the trees have a few yellow leaves, but most have bare branches; about 20 walnuts remain on the trees on the right side
October 23, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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bees and buckeye
pairing spots and stripes
fall fashion

#nativeplants 💚 #haiku 💚 #bloomscrolling
one buckeye butterfly and several bees on blue (actually purple) New England asters
October 21, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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I love my Fayoumi that one of my kids named Puffy. She's so spunky and makes the cutest sounds when she's happy to see us or when we give her one of her favorite foods--blueberries or peanuts.
Fayoumi hen in center has a white neck and black and white striped feathers on the body; she is standing on one leg; a black and white barred rock hen is to the left; they are in short grass with large plants behind them
October 21, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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Just finished THIS WAY TO HAPPY by @alisongreenmyers.bsky.social. Great sub-200-page #MGLit that explores family dynamics, change, and friendship set at an amusement park similar to one many PA, NY, NJ, & MD residents will recognize😉. Authentic and nuanced. Lovely cover by John Hendrix. #kidlit 📚👍
cover of THIS WAY TO HAPPY shows a stream winding toward an amusement park in the distance at night; the title appears on lit up road signs; two people stand in the foreground; photo is taken with the book in my hand in front of artwork of a Ferris wheel
October 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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I saw one the other day, too! Hanging out on the broom on my front porch.
Carolina mantis on broom
October 20, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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plants beside the sea
waving under blue skies
heart swells💚

#yellowSunday #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #haiku
Cape Henlopen, Delaware is so beautiful!
beach landscape photo taken at Cape Henlopen, DE; shades of light blue sky with a few gray clouds at the top of the picture; a wooden fence to the left with goldenrod flowers in the front and center; grasses and trees in the background center and left; sandy beach and ocean to the right
October 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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chicken wing clouds
a hen guards her nest
broody sky

Happy #HaikuSaturday! ⛅
landscape taken at Cape Henlopen, Delaware; top of photo shows dark clouds to the right and at the horizon; middle shows gray ocean and white waves; bottom shows tan beach sand; large rocks to the left
October 18, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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I once came home to this pomelo my kids named Chauncy.
pomelo with marker-drawn smiling face
October 16, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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a sunrise so clear
its glass could crack under a
pinecone's spiral fall
endless possibilities
fragile hope in a new day

#TankaThursday prompt: pinecone #nature
dawn landscape; top of picture is clear dark sky; orange sunrise to the lower left; field at bottom; line of tree silhouettes across the middle
October 16, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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cotton candy sky
clouds sweetened by sunlight and
spun sugar below

#haiku
pink clouds and blue sky alternating above strings of white lights zigzagging back and forth between stores in an alley
October 15, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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STAR SAILOR: THE STORY OF WORDS is such a fun introduction to etymology! It prompted great discussions.

Written by Sara Cassidy, with gorgeous art by @whatwouldjuliedraw.bsky.social, and published by @orcabook.bsky.social. #IReadCanadian #kidlit 📚👍
cover of STAR SAILOR: THE STORY OF WORDS shows an upside down astronaut with an open book; streamers are coming out of the book with words and pictures on them; the background of the cover is space with stars, a planet, and a spaceship; author and illustrator name are in the lower right; the picture is taken with the book in my hand over a teal patterned rug
October 12, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Leaves fall from dull skies.
Fluttering breeze stills, nudges,
"Look. Find autumn's wings."

#HaikuSaturday 💚 #nativeplants
photo taken from the ground looking up; the top right portion of the photo is gray sky and the bottom left portion of the photo is goldenrod, New England asters, and blurry tree tops a bit further away; a monarch is in the gray sky portion heading toward the flowers
October 11, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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SCATTERGOOD by @hmbouwman.bsky.social is one of the best books I've read this year! Such an authentic and nuanced discussion about the existential questions that I suspect many of us share. Lovely cover art by Angie Kang. Thanks for the recommendation, @pollyf.bsky.social!
#kidlit upper #MGlit 📚👍
cover of SCATTERGOOD has a light orange (as if sunset) background; the top left corner is a chess board pattern and these squares morph into a flock of birds in flight as they continue down the page; the bottom shows a girl in a blue dress walking to the left on a lane towards a large building with a few lights on inside; there are trees/bushes on the sides of the building; the book title and author are above the building
October 10, 2025 at 11:53 AM