I just read MAEVE MULVANEY HAS HAD ENOUGH by @kellyamangan.bsky.social and it's a strong recommend. All the characters are nuanced and well observed, but I want to particularly single out the MC's relationship with her parents. It's very hard to get a realistic parent-child relationship in MG...

This book is based on a time when I was a jerk to my big brother on the holiest day of the Jewish year. If I'm lucky, I will eventually get Jason Kirschner to illustrate ALL my embarrassing childhood memories.

Nice try, Thames Water. Abbey Road is one of THE BEATLES' major works.

I've never seen a "Do Not Enter" sign that made me more eager to enter.

I'll take it!

All I want in life is for concerned citizens to describe me as a Learned Dandy.

Want my feedback on your picture book, novel, or unusually long shopping list? I'm offering a critique of a work up to 1,000 words for The Artists Against Anti-Semitism auction. (There are other items involving less famous people, like Henry Winkler and Bruce Springsteen.) tinyurl.com/2h7s34c6

During a visit to Delphi, Greece, my daughter spotted Clippy’s ancient ancestor on this millenia-old vase. “Hey! It looks like you’re uttering an oracular prophecy. Would you like help?”

I second all the votes for Lloyd Alexander! I loved those as a kid, reread them as a grownup, and was relieved to discover they're just as wonderful as I remember.

Also at the risk of being self-promotional-- Lloyd Alexander was a big influence on my kids' fantasy Hyacinth & The Secrets Beneath.

I love this post by Eliza Wheeler on the research she did for WHAT ROSA BROUGHT. Her attention to detail is astounding. #kidlit
wheelerstudio.com/2024/07/08/b...

I hope putting a dreidel in space is just the first step on a decade-long multibillion-dollar NASA project to come up with more interesting rules for dreidel.

“Hello, M&S? I think the bananas you sold me are defective.”

Want to observe International Talk Like A Pirate Day but haven't mastered the complex grammatical rules of curse generation? Here's a handy chart from The Government Manual For New Pirates.

Hi! My third picture book WHAT ROSA BROUGHT comes out in November. It's the true story of my mom's experiences in Nazi-occupied Vienna. As you can imagine, it's a particularly personal book. I'd love to talk about it with any interested teachers or librarians.