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Nica
@nicarolinam.bsky.social
Children's Book Editor, Weighted Blanket Lover, 💙🗽, Hot Dog & Oysters Girl, read the driest nonfiction when not working on picturebooks, & learning about too much all at once🦋 (pumping older book reviews into #skylightsocial 🎞️ we gotta get out of TT)
All I want to do is ignore the nation around me, under a blanket...and I know that to act this way is strictly out of the running. I guess, fighting for Democracy has to happen twice a century...and we dealt the short straw. We do it scared, people.
October 1, 2025 at 2:48 AM
💙📚 (Vid from '22) "The Magical Imperfect" by Chris Baron is a heartwarming Fall Read for young readers ages nine and up. 2 children share a beautiful #culturalconnection in this #middlegrade book full of American melting pot energy, with some California history baked into it's pages. #kidlit
September 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Posting full TT vid here so people from TT know it's-a-mee🍄 My dudes, I want to keep pushing my love for reviewing YA & below #books all over #skylightsocial / bluesky ...to connect with Youth is the biggest Joy and we betta do it through books! Cuz it's FUN 🥹😇 💙📚 (I'm long-winded, deal w/ it )
September 28, 2025 at 10:23 PM
(Filmed 22) I gift this book to teens consistantly. Adore it! "Reclaim the Stars" , edited by Zoraida Córdova 💙📚 has magical realism, fantasy, & sci-fi stories that create spark! Was just reminded it's Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month & as a child of a 🇻🇪 !hell yeah! #booksky #latinauthors
September 28, 2025 at 1:31 PM
🌎 ♻️ (Older review) "Turn the Tide" by Elaine Dimopoulos a great youth advocate / eco-lover's read for 4th grade +and up. Be The Change That You Want To See is the theme of this book, hunny
💙📚#Booksky #middlegradebooks #scienceclassroom #saveourseas
September 27, 2025 at 6:10 PM
💙📚 (Vid review from '22) "The Hound from the Pound" by Jessica Swaim --- rhyming picture book for aunties, uncles, and mentors to become a picture book reading, dog loving child's FAVORITE gift giver. Also the book was reprinted and easier to find than I orig thought #dogsky
#adoptdontshop
September 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
💙📚 an ADORABLE picturebook about accepting all kids into a club "Strictly No Elephants" by Lisa Mantchev; ill. by Taeeun Yoo 🐘 ("The Trouble With Giraffes" is a follow up that recently published) #schoollibrary #bookrec #childrensbooks #readtogether #simonandschuster
10/10 GIFT THIS BOOK
September 27, 2025 at 12:01 PM
💙📚 (A fave past vid/book!) Dumplings for Lili by Melissa Iwai is a must have picture book celebrating grandmas' cookin' #childrensbook
#kindergarten #schoollibrary #food #fatayer #tamales #pierogies #baos #raviolis
September 26, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Published in 2013 aHistorical Figure picture book, "The Tree Lady" by H Joseph Hopkins; ill. by Jill McElmurry #historicalfigures #edusky #picturebooks #teachersky #schoolprojects #historysky #coolwomen #horticulturist #balboapark #sandiego #california
September 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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September 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM
September 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
"Lightfall: The Girl and the Galdurian, Book 1" by Tim Probert (orig filmed in '22, two more books released since then and they ROCK) #graphicnovels #middlegradebooks #readmorebooks #fantasyquest #schoollibrary #fallreads #Adventuresky #kidlit #timprobert
September 25, 2025 at 7:28 PM
for a Beginner Social Advocate you may know! For Which We Stand, by Jeff Foster #Booksky #bookrec #scholastic #librarians #historyteachers #youthadvocate #edusky
September 25, 2025 at 6:13 PM
September 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Middle Grade Book Review! "Samira Surfs" by Rukhsanna Guidroz
September 24, 2025 at 8:34 PM