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Rowen MacCarald
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Author of over 80 nonfiction books for the educational market and the picture book How Mom Met Mama. https://www.rowenmaccarald.com/
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May 7, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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April 29, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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rspb.bsky.social
WORLD-FIRST: Ground-breaking research published today in the Ornithologist Journal has, for the first time, translated common UK bird vocalisations into equivalent phrases in the human language.

The results tell us a lot!

Extracts below... 🧵
The front cover of a scientific journal titled Ornithologist, dated 1 April 2025. The main headline reads: “BIRDS: DECODED - Groundbreaking New Science.” Below that, a subheading says: “What are the UK’s birds really saying? Pioneering new research provides the answers.”
April 1, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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naomidanis.bsky.social
Bold, outspoken trailblazer, Congresswoman Bella Abzug (1920–1998) was never a sugar-and-spice girl. ABZUGLUTELY! BATTLING, BELLOWING BELLA ABZUG, a picture book by @saraharonson.bsky.social, illustrated by Andrea D’Aquino, tells her story.
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March 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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sylvialiu.bsky.social
For Read Across America, I'm joining a bunch of wonderful children's poets to read from the anthology IF I COULD CHOOSE A BEST DAY (ed by Irene Latham & Charles Waters).

WHEN: March 3, 2025 at 1 p.m. EST (Sign up here: courage.thewritingbarn.com/free-virtual...)
March 2, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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astrokatie.com
Sharing these numbers because I wasn't aware of them myself. In the US:

* 1 in 5 unvaccinated people who get measles are hospitalized

* 1 in 20 children with measles get pneumonia

* 1 to 3 in 1000 die

If you're not immune, close contact with an infected person gives you measles 90% of the time
Measles – NFID
Measles is a highly contagious respiratory disease that can result in severe, sometimes permanent, complications including pneumonia, seizures, brain damage, and even death
www.nfid.org
February 26, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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saraharonson.bsky.social
Join us!!!! For community. Inspiration. Motivation. Accountability!
February 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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hilarymargitich.bsky.social
Hey, friends! Please join kidlit authors Karen M. Greenwald, Nancy Churnin, and me as we partner with Reader to Reader, a 501(c)(3) organization during the month of March. We will be collecting new children’s books to help a school without a library build one!

Stay tuned! #bookhero #kidlit
February 19, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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dmb-free2beeme.bsky.social
Check out my new post about surviving in scary times. dalemariebryan.substack.com/p/to-hell-in...
To Hell in a Handbasket
Day 49, Year 13 in Glasshalfull
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February 18, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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jocelynrish.com
While organizing the @kidlitforla.bsky.social auction, we connected with Rohan, an amazing 13-year-old who lost his home in the fires but is working to get books to other kids who who lost everything. This thread has details on how to help.

#kidlit #booksky #writers #authors #illustrators #books
kidlitforla.bsky.social Kidlit For Los Angeles @kidlitforla.bsky.social · Feb 18
If you’re looking for another way to help those impacted by the wildfires, you can donate books to bring a bit of comfort to kids who have lost everything.

All the info is at the website: sites.google.com/view/reading...

And you can follow the project on IG at @readingamongruins.

#kidlit Details⬇️
February 18, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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johannamation.bsky.social
Speaking of comics:

Whether this new administration “observes” it or not, it’s still Black History Month.

Here’s a list of great comics by Black creators, and/or centering Black characters & stories 🕊️ 📚

bookshop.org/lists/graphi...
Graphic Novels for Black History Month
Graphic novels created by Black authors/artists, and/or centering Black stories and culture.
bookshop.org
February 1, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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parkermolloy.com
I've been able to brush off most of the erasure of trans people from government websites, but this one is REALLY getting under my skin. It's just complete revisionist history.

How fucking dare they

Old vs. new
"By the time of Stonewall...we had 50 to 60 gay groups in the country. A year later... 1500." Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ+) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGBTQ+ civil rights and provided momentum for a movement. Stonewall National Monument New York INFO ALERTS MAPS CALENDAR FEES Pass "By the time of Stonewall...we had 50 to 60 gay groups in the country. A year later... 1500." Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGB civil rights and provided momentum for a movement.
February 14, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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grietbird.bsky.social
they start with the least protected groups

then they work their way up

this is fucking terrifying
February 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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jpuglow.bsky.social
Magic in a Drop of Water by @jwbottom.bsky.social is stunning! Her call to action for us to ensure #cleanwater is clear. Check it out! Ask your library to add it to their collections. Write a positive vibes #bookreview.
jwbottom.bsky.social Julie Winterbottom @jwbottom.bsky.social · Feb 10
A fun interview by picture book author Joyce Uglow about my writing process for Magic in a Drop of Water!
A fun interview about my writing process for Magic in a Drop of Water. @penguinkids #rockypondbooks #PBGreenSTEAM #stembooks @jpuglow.bsky.social
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Julie Winterbottom Shares her Creative Point of View on uGROnews
uGROnews is on Substack written by kidlit authors, Joyce P. Uglow and Kathy Groth
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February 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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aclu.org
President Trump banning the Associated Press from an event over their usage of "Gulf of Mexico" instead of "Gulf of America" may seem more absurd than alarming, but Trump's attacks on the free press are no joke.
AP statement on Oval Office access | The Associated Press
The Associated Press issued this statement on Tuesday from Executive Editor Julie Pace: As a global news organization, The Associated Press informs
www.ap.org
February 12, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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npr.org
The Associated Press says the White House blocked it from covering an official event on Tuesday because it did not refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. By @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social
White House blocks AP from event for using 'Gulf of Mexico'
The Associated Press says the White House blocked it from covering an official event on Tuesday because it did not refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.
www.npr.org
February 12, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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lisa70.bsky.social
Today is Internal Day of Women and Girls in Science.

I give you Dinosaur Lady by Linda Skeers.

A nonfiction children’s book about Mary Anning, who, at 12 years old, discovered the first plesiosaur skeleton in 1811.

#childrensbooks
#womeninstem
#booksky
DINOSAUR LADY | Kirkus Reviews
A new picture-book biography of the pioneering scientist and finder of bones.
www.kirkusreviews.com
February 11, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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bethhgier.bsky.social
My first book - IT’S LIKE WE TOUCHED THE MOON - launches in August! Really hoping MG readers will enjoy it! 🚀🚀🚀 Stand by for more info …
February 11, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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pragmaticmom.bsky.social
81 Children’s Books for Young Activists

buff.ly/3Vur0ur via @pragmaticmom

#ReadYourWorld #Activists #BlackHistoryMonth #KidLit #picturebooks #middlegrade
81 Children's Books for Young Activists - Pragmatic Mom
75 Children's Books for Young Activists, a book list to inspire the next generation of youth to become activists for change.
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February 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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jpuglow.bsky.social
Join me online on March 8 #PB at @thewritingbarn thewritingbarn.com/class/free-p...
STUCK! The Story of La Brea Tar Pits available at bushelandpeckbooks.com
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February 9, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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drscotthadland.bsky.social
Amid today’s massive NIH cuts to universities, please know that my research colleagues:

- Develop new cancer treatments for kids
- Are curing sickle cell disease
- Build new tech to help premature babies survive
- Prevent teens from dying of drug overdose
- And more

#NIH #MedSky #research #science
February 8, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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leewind.bsky.social
Proud to stand up in this statement connecting the dots between our current president's Executive Order on Gender and how it will impact #kidlit books with #LGBTQ+ content -and how it constitutes censorship. This is a tipping point. If left to stand, other communitys' books will be targeted next.
Statement on the Trump Administration’s January 20, 2025 Executive Order Targeting Transgender, Intersex, Nonbinary, and Gender-Nonconforming Americans On January 20, the White House issued an executive order stating that the United States government will only recognize two sexes, male and female, as defined “at conception.” The ripple effect of this order will undoubtedly affect public schools, public libraries, and the literature that is shelved in both. Among the many harms it causes, the order targeting transgender, intersex, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming Americans threatens unconstitutional censorship that could have a grave impact on literature for years to come. In dismissing trans, intersex, and nonbinary identities, the order blacklists LGBTQIA+ literature and invites the government to dictate the perspectives, beliefs, and identities that can exist in public forums receiving federal funding, amounting to financial coercion through the arbitrary withholding of funds. This censorship may begin with LGBTQIA+ perspectives, but it will not end there: allowing the government to censor one group erodes the First Amendment rights of all Americans, creating a precedent for silencing dissenting voices. If allowed to stand, the order will create new funding requirements imposed not only on federal entities, but private citizens and institutions who contract with them. Those requirements can and will be manipulated to dictate speech. The broader chilling effect on literature could be even harder to undo. Writers rely on funding from sources like the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as the state-level institutions they fund. Trans, nonbinary, and intersex experience is vastly underrepresented in literature but disproportionately targeted by bans. During the 2022-2023 school year, 30% of books banned included LGBTQIA+ characters or themes. Such censorship robs us of perspectives that enrich the American story. Though the executive order in question tries to paint LGBTQIA+ people and allies as bullies enforcing their perspective on others through “legal and other socially coercive means,” that’s exactly what the order itself does, just as book-banning pressure groups have done since 2020 in school boards and libraries around the country. The fate of trans, intersex, and nonbinary people is not a political ideology, it’s a matter of human rights, civil rights, and freedom of expression. Government erosion of those rights should concern all Americans, regardless of their investment in LGBTQIA+ literature specifically. This executive order is censorship, pure and simple, and it has no place in a free society. It must be rescinded or stayed as soon as possible, and at the latest, before the earliest implementation deadline, February 19, 2025. Financially blacklisting trans, intersex, and non-binary perspectives will rob us of a vital literature yet to be written while insulting the dignity of LGBTQIA+ people everywhere. This return to McCarthyism by other means is a leap backwards to a grim chapter of American history. Sincerely, the undersigned, • American Booksellers Association • American Booksellers for Free Expression • Andrews McMeel • Annie's Foundation • Audio Publishers Association • Authors Against Book Bans • Berry Powell Press • Cardinal Rule Press • Charlesbridge Publishing • Chestnut Publishing House • Comic Book Legal Defense Fund • Deborah Sloan and Company and Kidsbuzz • Developmental Texts • Empowering Latino Futures • EveryLibrary • Firewater Media Group • Florida Freedom to Read Project • Foreword Reviews • Freedom to Read Project • Gryphon Publishing Consulting, LLC • Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) • IngramSpark • Judging by the Cover: A Bookstore • Lafayette Citizens Against Censorship • Lambda Literary • Latino 247 Media Group • Lee Wind, author Logos of many of the signing organizations, the list of which continues with • Levine Querido • Library Futures • Livingston Parish Library Alliance • Louisiana Citizens Against Censorship • Macmillan Children's Publishing Group • The National Book Critics Circle • National Coalition Against Censorship • NorthSouth Books • Nosy Crow • Patagonia • Publishers and Writers of San Diego and Orange County • PEN America • PFLAG Fresno • PubWest • Rattling Good Yarns Press • Read Freely Alabama • Red Comet Press LLC • Rutherford County Library Alliance • Sara Paretsky, Writer • SCBWI • SEAT • SparkPoint Studio • St Tammany Library Alliance • Stone Bridge Press • Texas Freedom to Read Project • Walker Books Group for Candlewick Press, Holiday House Books, and Peachtree Publishing • We Need Diverse Books
February 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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saraharonson.bsky.social
It is always an honor to chat with @brokentusk1.bsky.social!
www.umakrishnaswami.com/blog/process...
Process Talk: Sarah Aronson on Abzuglutely: Battling, Bellowing Bella Abzug — Uma Krishnaswami
You know you’ve heard this quip before: “This Woman’s Place is in the House — The House of Representatives.” But do you know who said it? Bella Abzug (1920-1998) was a lawyer, politician, social activ...
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February 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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darbysaxbe.bsky.social
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM