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Kate DePalma
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🌈 Creative Development Director at Barefoot Books 👣

📍Arby's on McKnight Road
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Join me next week for a webinar on teaching children about diverse holiday traditions!

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October 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Editorial pals: My print copy of CMoS is the 16th edition. Can anyone tell me if the 18th gives the same guidelines? The entry is "plural forms of Native American group names." Thanks!!

PS My car proudly sports the CMoS magnet I got at ALA last year @chicagomanual.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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I was researching for a book in progress to see if we have any extant quotes from Pocahontas and I guess I walked right into this one
October 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Friday morning 🧸
Photograph of a majestic brown pitbull resting her elegant head on top of a 1980s Care Bear plush
August 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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When I send them messages like this I KNOW they are not sure if I am joking or not
July 22, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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m o o d
Headline: "TJ Kelleher to Depart Basic Books" The VP and editorial director will step down in August after 16 years at the Hachette Book Group imprint. Basic Books Group publisher Lara Heimert said Kelleher had "decided to leave publishing and embrace a new life as a gentleman farmer."
July 2, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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I told my best friend about Ma'am O'Graham, my imaginary Victorian-era mammogram provider, and she replied with this. I do truly loathe AI artwork but must concede that this particular image is a good use of this technology
June 11, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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PS I had to see what the summary says and I am quite sure it has more words than the book. 🙃
May 14, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Yes, thank you, this 10-spread board book is far too taxing for me to comprehend without the aid of artificial intelligence

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Screenshot of a PDF of a simple picture book for preschoolers with a popup that says "This appears to be a long document. Save time by reading a summary."
May 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Heyyyy We're a Bologna Book Fair highlight!

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Caption: Nancy Traversy (r.), CEO and co-founder of Barefoot Books, and executive editor Kate de Palma (l.) are gearing up for the May release of Rise Up!: Powerful Protests in American History by Rachel C. Katz, illustrated by Sophie Bass, a nonfiction title about social activism tied to the 250th anniversary of American independence on July 4, 2026. Barefoot will be teaming up with the nearby Concord Museum in Massachusetts for a number of events around the anniversary, beginning with April 19, the day of “the shot heard round the world,” which marked the start of the American Revolutionary War.
April 11, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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One thing about me: if I get a Shen Yun flier in the mail, I WILL hide it somewhere for my husband to find
Image of a closed kitchen cabinet door Image of an open kitchen cabinet door with a Shen Yun advertisement taped up inside
March 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Yes. This is me in every room I've ever walked into:
Still from the movie Clueless of two girls talking with the caption "Then Dee and I had to design a lighting concept."
March 14, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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"Does anyone have anything else to add before we adjourn the meeting?"
first frame of famous "this is fine" cartoon with dog calmly drinking coffee in a burning room
February 25, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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I ran some errands today wearing basically this outfit and ngl I looked great
February 17, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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do you ever feel

like a plastic bag
blobfish with gelatinous, distorted frown
February 10, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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photo of girl crying while coloring on the first day of kindergarten
February 3, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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me today

how bout y'all
Image taken from a Little Monster picture book of the Little Monster character crying on a bench. The original book text says "I wanted to cry, but I didn't. I was brave instead." The text has been altered by hand to say "I wanted to cry, so I did! I was brave and sad."
February 3, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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What's getting you through the crumbling of American democracy today?

For me it's the 1970s Temptations album Psychedelic Shack
January 31, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Gulf South pals!!
January 22, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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I am blessed to report that everyone is happy and healthy at my house. My child is suddenly a leggy tween. I confess I haven't been doing tons of my own writing because I've been consumed with editorial work. I spent much of last year being thoroughly humbled by the creation of this gem! 😅
January 17, 2025 at 2:04 PM