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Robin Yardi 🐋🌈💙
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Odd animal lover & author

CORAL KEEPERS | 2025 | Scholastic
I KNOW THE WHALE | 2025 | Little Bee
OWL'S OUTSTANDING DONUTS | Lerner

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Hey bug (or #isopod) people, WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THE ROLLIE POLIES?

Is this just a bumper year for bugs or is this the Rollie Pollie #rapture?
September 22, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Take a break. Make a cup of tea. Go for a walk. Listen to music. Doodle. Paint. Cook. Snack. Lie on the floor. Sit on a rock. Sit in the sun. 15 minutes. Anytime now.
September 11, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Got my flu and covid shots at the drugstore and rewarded myself with Good & Plenty and Diet Coke.
🩷🤍❤️
A messy desk with a silver bowl of pink and white candy.
September 6, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Empower your new readers to fight injustice, claim their power, and go on an underwater adventure this summer in #CoralKeepers.

Illustrated by Paul Kellam
Published by Scholastic
June 23, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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My cat has the emotional and physical constitution of a frail victorian orphan set to inherit a creaky manor in the Yorkshire moors. Is he depressed and anxious? Yes. Is he living in peak luxury and privilege? Also, yes.
Nugget, a brown and white tabby cat, stares into the middle distance filled with discontent while surrounded by pillows.
June 3, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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What book do you think Willa (10) would like?

Me: Hmmm… what was the last book she really loved?

THIS ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

Any recs, @melanieconklin.bsky.social?
Shelfie of Melanie Conklin’s middle grade novel CRUSHED.
April 13, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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"Is it dead?” a kid asks…

I’ve heard this question many times from kids on field trips to the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History where it was my task to answer them.

Today, this book, illustrated by @mattschu.bsky.social and published by Little Bee, hopes to honor their question honestly.

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A black and white photo of a blue whale skeleton exhibited at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History History superimposed with the question: "Is it dead?" Illustrations from the picture book I KNOW THE WHALE by Robin Yardi with Illustrations by Matt Schu, published by Little Bee Books. A girl and her father beside a beached blue whale (top left), a girl and her father walking across the sand toward home as the sun sets behind them (top right), a girl drawing the outline of a blue whale on the asphalt outside her home with white chalk (bottom left), a girl exploring the articulated skeleton exhibit of the same beached blue whale at the Natural History Museum (bottom right), book cover of I KNOW THE WHALE (center).
April 1, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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The shivery crinkle of a Scholastic Book Fair flyer is nostalgic #ASMR therapy.
March 21, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Post a photo you took with no context to bring some zen to the timeline.
Tabby cat on the sun dappled carpet, green eyes filled with light and staring out the window, his shadow falls behind him like a cape
March 11, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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I think they missed me… and yes, my desk is always that messy.
The cat in my chair. The tortoise under the table. I was only gone for a couple hours.
March 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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An ocean scene with a superimposed book review pull quote: "This early chapter book series opener by Yardi blends real world science -- incorporated through interactive back matter -- with mystical adventure... Themes of friendship and believing in oneself permeate every page of this under-the-sea adventure." -- Publishers Weekly" A black and white illustration of three mermaid magicians from the Coral Keepers Scholastic Branches Chapter Book Series. Princess Finn and her friends Moon and Moon's little brother Link link hands and their magic medallions glow in friendship! An ocean scene superimposed with a book review pull quote: "Courage and cooperation rule the day in this magical tale for newly independent readers… VERDICT Fantasy writing for new-ish readers is growing increasingly robust, and this exciting series starter is proof.” -School Library Journal
March 4, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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I'm not ignoring world events so much as I'm hoping courage, friendship, and cooperation will win the day and inspire the hearts of young readers. They need it! They need us!💙

Happy pub day to me & Paul Kellam & many thanks to @brittanyjthurman.bsky.social for the beautiful embroidered book cover!💙
March 4, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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At a solstice party I was asked: have you been writing? I said yes, then clarified. I have 3 books coming out next year, but all that work is done and I have been actively "not writing" for about four weeks. Creative rest is writing too, my friends. Not writing is #writing. Inspiration will come. 🌟
image of a solstice altar with candles, evergreen leaves, and tangerines
December 22, 2024 at 5:31 PM
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I have 6 spots open for #WRAD2025! If they fill up, sign up and be first in line for my virtual author visits in March celebrating CORAL KEEPERS, SEARCH FOR THE SILVER SHELL, Book #1 in the new Scholastic Branches illustrated series by me and Paul Kellam!

Let's read!! 🦈📖🐋
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Cover images of Robin Yardi's children's books: Owl's Outstanding Donuts, Search for the Silver Shell, Dive for the Black Pearl, I Know the Whale, The Midnight War of Mateo Martinez.
December 3, 2024 at 8:17 PM
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How did you all celebrate? This was my pumpkin pie and mountain of mashed potatoes. Predictably, my 13yo had more of an appetite for adventure than I did. 😳

I’m stunned with gratitude for the resilience, strength, and acceptance of the earth. She’s my 🪨.
A 13yo wearing a harness, helmet, and pfd while climbing a waterfall in a cave Bulbous iron oxide cave formation Greenish mountain of dripping crystal formations in a cave
December 2, 2024 at 6:40 PM
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I know my book people, but where are my #bird people? And... can any of you identify this feather I found today?
A 19 centimeter black and white feather held in front of a pretty painting of a pretty lady. A 19 centimeter black and white feather held in front of a pretty painting of a pretty lady.
November 16, 2024 at 12:41 AM
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Moments of solace and calm this week:

burning beeswax
meditation
walking fast
walking slow
the stare of a coyote
a butterfly's stillness
meadowlarks in grass
an upside down crow
cardamom under my pillow
water
tea
cutting fruit
a sister
swaying hugs
my shadow next to his
the mountain lion is back
a burning owl shaped candle a buckeye butterfly sunning near a stone two western meadow larks in the grass images from a driveway camera: a crow, a mountain lion, a mountain lion, a mountain lion, a fox
November 12, 2024 at 6:45 PM
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I will never feel ashamed of my hope or optimism, but I will also never be surprised by darkness again. It's there and we have to face it. I tend toward easy tears, I feel deeply for all of us, but today I'm just angry and resolved to not give up. To not shut up. I hope my voice and my work are part of building a safer, brighter world for our children. I hope yours is too.
November 6, 2024 at 4:49 PM
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Let's go vote. Let's go win.
Robin sitting in front of a steaming mug of tea with her "I Voted, Yo Vote" sticker on.
November 5, 2024 at 6:22 PM
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Me, effortlessly blending in:
Driveway photo captures of a raccoon standing on two legs in an array with 5 crows.
October 17, 2024 at 8:55 PM
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It’s finally cool enough to wear pants and no one is happier about it than the cat, who thinks shorts are an abomination.
My tabby cat finally sitting in my lap after the heat wave.
September 16, 2024 at 6:02 PM
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👋Present
Covers for Middle Grade titles by Robin Yardi: The Midnight War of Mateo Martinez, Owl's Outstanding Donuts, Coral Keepers / Search for the Silver Shell
September 16, 2024 at 3:08 AM
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Taking a break from writing to research bioluminescent jellyfish makes me sure my job is the BEST.

Then (somehow) I ended up on a side quest to find out if pink beetles exist and now I'm wonderfully overwhelmed by how many species of beetles there are.

I'll never have time to meet them all.
July 1, 2024 at 6:22 PM
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Yesterday I hiked down to Kirby cove and dunked myself in the ocean spontaneously in (some of) my clothes. It wasn’t writing, but it was a clarifying experience that will only help my writing.

The ocean always accepts us. It touches every shore. #ocean
June 28, 2024 at 4:42 PM
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The third grade teacher who stayed in the drop off line to greet the middle school students while wearing her inflatable unicorn suit is doing the work. #UnicornDay
April 9, 2024 at 4:17 PM