Petting Queen Lola is a mentally healthy way to absorb the daily news of the regime. #lifebalance

🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen.

Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.

Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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BIG NEWS! Registration isn't yet available (but will be soon!) for our Tuesday, April 8th Connect:

Newbery Honor author and National Book Award finalist Gary D. Schmidt will talk about his novel, The Labors of Hercules Beal, from idea to completion, as well as answer your questions. #SCBWI #kidlit

Democracy is what’s up.

Queer kids need to have access to books that celebrate their lives and value their existence.

Queer kids need to know that these books exist.

Banning books is not about books.

Banning books is about the erasure of identities.

The nazis banned books.

Erasure is the precursor to eliminationism.

Just sat in on a terrific (and packed!) @americanbookseller.bsky.social Winter Institute panel called "Engaging the In-Between: Combatting the Middle Grade Reading Crisis" & want to share some highlights & thoughts. (thread)

I have 1000s of books on different Goodreads lists, but I'm finding it difficult to justify giving Bez*s any more of my time or attention (or money) -- I signed up with @thestorygraph.com today and I'll be logging my reads and to-reads there. Join me: app.thestorygraph.com/profile/jedi...

Hello Friends! Welcome to #MSWL Day 2025! 🎉

This is our first #MSWL Day on Bluesky, and we have new features to share!

Rather listen than read? Here’s a how-to! vimeo.com/1055984106

Here’s our Bluesky search guide: youtu.be/LnZt1MCjKZE?...

I’ve been keeping this blog (www.erikbrooks.com) since 2005 and will put in a little extra time this month to spruce it up! A quick new header is in place to reflect a pivot from Instagram and Facebook. I’m ramping my illustration work back up again and can take this chance to try some new things.

@erikbrooksbooks.bsky.social Here’s a platform Martha B has started for creatives. joyfulresistance.honeycommb.com/posts/16162668

★ A “child’s imagination is set alight” in Elisha Cooper’s “winningly granular” picture book HERE IS A BOOK

Nice to be in front of kids. We talked characters and what they love, taking that away, ticking clocks, and endings. Invented Jackson’s beloved anime is ripped away when the power goes out. Favorite moment: kindergartener said at the end: "I've never stood this close to someone so famous before."

I thought you should know that in 2024 New Jersey, Minnesota, Illinois, California, and Maryland have all enacted legislation that bans book bans & censorship in both, school and public libraries, and protects librarians.

Anti-freedom to read legislation is not a niche issue, y'all. It's a bellwether. It's a tell. It's anti-education and anti-empowerment. It's anti-exploration, anti-other, anti-empathy. And it's anti-honesty. Keeping an eye on -- and speaking up against -- this legislation is part of the resistance.

Buying from a local indie trailsendbookstore to #readfreely. I read what I want. If a book is not for me, I put it down. @authorsagainstbookbans @americanbooksellers @ABFEFreeExpression

First school visit in a while coming up. Our book got a story walk!