Eric Carpenter
ericcarpenter.bsky.social
Eric Carpenter
@ericcarpenter.bsky.social
📚 Elementary school librarian in atlanta, constant reader, occasional wood worker, reluctant book reviewer.
📚 2026 ALSC Children's Literature Legacy Award Committee Chair.

📚 "All reading is reading. Let them read how ever and whatever they want!"
How are typical schools defined? High poverty schools?
What does it say about schools that are 45% high high poverty and 45% affluent?
Students can live in high poverty and attend a school with equal numbers of high poverty and affluent students.
September 22, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Also college football players scheduled to appear on ESPN or ABC should not suit up on Saturday. (This would have an immediate impact)
September 18, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Don't worry, it will be between the two of you AND Chronicle.
September 6, 2025 at 3:31 PM
A quick search reveals that Jane Yolen has 168 titles in the database. I think the results are limited to only showing up to 200 titles as Nora Roberts 200, James Patterson 200 and Stephen King 200 show exactly 200 titles. Those three are each due over half a million dollars....
September 6, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Meanwhile AASL is publishing this trash
August 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Librarians and booksellers can download advanced listening copies from @libro.fm (it's like a galley for your ears)
August 7, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Get some day old chicks and shove them underneath her at like 4am she'll think she's a new mom and raise them.
August 2, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Just got the audio today. It's high up in the listening queue.
August 2, 2025 at 12:09 AM
A great companion book is Rebels, Robbers, and Radicals: The Story of the Bill of Rights by @terikanefield.bsky.social
It does for the bill of rights what Fault Lines does for the constitution.
July 31, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I've found when talking to students (K-5) that the environmental argument is the easiest to grasp. It's way less abstract than the many other reasons AI is the worst. Elementary students are generally horrified to discover how much harm AI does to the earth every time it is used.
July 29, 2025 at 11:29 PM