Elaine Ann Allen
@eaallen.bsky.social
Writer. ✍️☕️Author of children’s books about Animals. 📚ElaineAnnAllen.com
A wonderful speech and a beautiful ceremony for my girl 👏 👩🎓 💐
May 27, 2025 at 6:33 PM
A wonderful speech and a beautiful ceremony for my girl 👏 👩🎓 💐
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“Life is better when we leap together.” Kermit the Frog delivered a commencement speech at the University of Maryland on Thursday, the alma mater of his creator, Jim Henson. nyti.ms/4dwMuhQ
May 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
“Life is better when we leap together.” Kermit the Frog delivered a commencement speech at the University of Maryland on Thursday, the alma mater of his creator, Jim Henson. nyti.ms/4dwMuhQ
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CBF MD Exec. Director Allison Colden calls oyster restoration “one of the Chesapeake Bay’s greatest success stories.” She says, “The strong results should encourage us to maintain, and even accelerate, the momentum for large-scale oyster restoration.”
Here's How the Maryland Oyster Population Tripled in the Last 20 Years | Chesapeake Bay Magazine
Yearly oyster reproduction surveys and accounts from watermen will tell you that the Chesapeake Bay wild oyster population is getting better and better.
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May 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM
CBF MD Exec. Director Allison Colden calls oyster restoration “one of the Chesapeake Bay’s greatest success stories.” She says, “The strong results should encourage us to maintain, and even accelerate, the momentum for large-scale oyster restoration.”
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“People who are in library leadership, on boards, and certainly librarians even today, are not interested in limiting, shaping, prescribing how that creative and generative expression should be had.” - John Chrastka, Executive Director, EveryLibrary.
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"Reading builds empathy": The case for saving America's libraries
America needs "third places" like our libraries more than we ever have, both functionally and philosophically.
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April 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
“People who are in library leadership, on boards, and certainly librarians even today, are not interested in limiting, shaping, prescribing how that creative and generative expression should be had.” - John Chrastka, Executive Director, EveryLibrary.
www.salon.com/2025/03/30/r...
www.salon.com/2025/03/30/r...
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“Thankfully, General Assembly members came to the same conclusion we did: that investments in clean water and air are investments in Marylanders—our health, our jobs, and our ways of life,” said Allison Colden, CBF Maryland Executive Director www.cbf.org/news-media/n...
Chesapeake Bay Foundation Thanks Maryland Legislators for Preserving Clean Water Funding
Over the past week, members of the Maryland House of Delegates and Senate each approved versions of the State Fiscal Year 2026 operating budget, which preserve funding for key agencies and programs th...
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April 2, 2025 at 1:49 PM
“Thankfully, General Assembly members came to the same conclusion we did: that investments in clean water and air are investments in Marylanders—our health, our jobs, and our ways of life,” said Allison Colden, CBF Maryland Executive Director www.cbf.org/news-media/n...
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Women's History Month 2025: Q & As with Picture Book Authors Honoring Influential Women
Women's History Month 2025: Q & As with Picture Book Authors Honoring Influential Women
In honor of Women’s History Month, we spoke with seven creators of picture book biographies highlighting overlooked female figures in history.
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March 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Women's History Month 2025: Q & As with Picture Book Authors Honoring Influential Women
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It's World Book Day!
Dressing up is fun, but it's not the purpose of World Book Day. Every child deserves a book to call their own, and that's why the World Book Day books matter. For some children, these books are the first books they've owned.
#WorldBookDay
Dressing up is fun, but it's not the purpose of World Book Day. Every child deserves a book to call their own, and that's why the World Book Day books matter. For some children, these books are the first books they've owned.
#WorldBookDay
March 6, 2025 at 8:54 AM
It's World Book Day!
Dressing up is fun, but it's not the purpose of World Book Day. Every child deserves a book to call their own, and that's why the World Book Day books matter. For some children, these books are the first books they've owned.
#WorldBookDay
Dressing up is fun, but it's not the purpose of World Book Day. Every child deserves a book to call their own, and that's why the World Book Day books matter. For some children, these books are the first books they've owned.
#WorldBookDay
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Need anything? Plan ahead. The Boycott is tomorrow!
February 27, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Need anything? Plan ahead. The Boycott is tomorrow!
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American Library Association Establishes Public Supporter Program
American Library Association Establishes Public Supporter Program
Using its I Love Libraries website as a platform, the ALA has launched a public supporter program intended to generate donations and keep library patrons apprised of the group’s advocacy work and…
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February 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
American Library Association Establishes Public Supporter Program
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OVER FIFTY ORGANIZATIONS REPRESENTING AUTHORS, PUBLISHERS, BOOKSELLERS, LIBRARIANS, DISTRIBUTORS, AND MORE SIGN JOINT LETTER OBJECTING TO CENSORSHIP IN EXECUTIVE ORDER ON GENDER IDENTITY
February 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
OVER FIFTY ORGANIZATIONS REPRESENTING AUTHORS, PUBLISHERS, BOOKSELLERS, LIBRARIANS, DISTRIBUTORS, AND MORE SIGN JOINT LETTER OBJECTING TO CENSORSHIP IN EXECUTIVE ORDER ON GENDER IDENTITY
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Hearing reports that Musk’s cronies are targeting NOAA — infiltrating key systems and locking out career employees.
NOAA is vital for weather forecasting, scientific research and more. Their critical work saves lives.
My team and I are looking into this and we will not stand for it.
NOAA is vital for weather forecasting, scientific research and more. Their critical work saves lives.
My team and I are looking into this and we will not stand for it.
February 5, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Hearing reports that Musk’s cronies are targeting NOAA — infiltrating key systems and locking out career employees.
NOAA is vital for weather forecasting, scientific research and more. Their critical work saves lives.
My team and I are looking into this and we will not stand for it.
NOAA is vital for weather forecasting, scientific research and more. Their critical work saves lives.
My team and I are looking into this and we will not stand for it.
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Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow Sunday and predicted six more weeks of wintry weather, his top-hatted handlers announced to a raucus, record-sized crowd at Gobbler’s Knob in Pennsylvania.
Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, handlers say, predicting 6 more weeks of winter
The woodchuck’s weather forecast is an annual ritual that goes back more than a century in western Pennsylvania, with far older roots in European folklore.
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February 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow Sunday and predicted six more weeks of wintry weather, his top-hatted handlers announced to a raucus, record-sized crowd at Gobbler’s Knob in Pennsylvania.
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Children's books build empathy, compassion, and understanding. They can transport readers to whole new worlds and back again, all without leaving your sofa. They can comfort, they can delight.
They are magical.
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They are magical.
#kidlituk
January 30, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Children's books build empathy, compassion, and understanding. They can transport readers to whole new worlds and back again, all without leaving your sofa. They can comfort, they can delight.
They are magical.
#kidlituk
They are magical.
#kidlituk