Randi Sonenshine
@rsonenshine.bsky.social
Children’s Author. K-12 Literacy Specialist. Bird Stalker, Tea Snob, Tree Climber, Rhymer. THE DEN THAT OCTOPUS BUILT. (Candlewick May 2024) Rep’d by BookStop Literary.
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Celebrate the first day of spring and Women’s History Month by learning about some very talented naturalists and artists, thanks to primary sources from the Library of Congress. Maybe you’ll be inspired to create your own masterpieces!
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Capture the First Signs of Spring with Nature Drawings | Minerva’s Kaleidoscope
Learn more about three female scientists who observed and drew nature, broadening the public's understanding of insects, birds, and fungi.
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March 21, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Celebrate the first day of spring and Women’s History Month by learning about some very talented naturalists and artists, thanks to primary sources from the Library of Congress. Maybe you’ll be inspired to create your own masterpieces!
blogs.loc.gov/families/202...
blogs.loc.gov/families/202...
As a reading specialist, literacy, coach, and children’s author, I cannot agree with this more! Teachers in my school district embrace graphic novels, and I sing their praises to parents whenever I have the opportunity! I’m thankful that our new GA ELA standards support this, too!
Spent the morning editing this for print! Available here
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February 28, 2025 at 11:05 PM
As a reading specialist, literacy, coach, and children’s author, I cannot agree with this more! Teachers in my school district embrace graphic novels, and I sing their praises to parents whenever I have the opportunity! I’m thankful that our new GA ELA standards support this, too!
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This is a pinnable post for the MSWL (Manuscript Wish List) & Call For Art & Writing feed. Searches list of approved users for terms like #MSWL #CallForArtists #CallForSubmissions
etc.
More info & to check if you're on the feed here. Those in my Editors, Agents & Art Directors lists already added.
etc.
More info & to check if you're on the feed here. Those in my Editors, Agents & Art Directors lists already added.
August 23, 2024 at 12:18 PM
This is a pinnable post for the MSWL (Manuscript Wish List) & Call For Art & Writing feed. Searches list of approved users for terms like #MSWL #CallForArtists #CallForSubmissions
etc.
More info & to check if you're on the feed here. Those in my Editors, Agents & Art Directors lists already added.
etc.
More info & to check if you're on the feed here. Those in my Editors, Agents & Art Directors lists already added.
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This is my plan for the new year🫶🏻
January 1, 2025 at 12:44 AM
This is my plan for the new year🫶🏻
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Oh. This post is a work of art. Well done, Travis. Well done indeed. #kidlit 📚👍
The Undies Case Cover Awards? Old news. Because today we have the winners of the 2024 ENDIES Endpaper Awards. 100scopenotes.com/2024/12/19/a... @carterhiggins.bsky.social @spikypenelope.bsky.social @slj.com
And the 2024 Endies Endpaper Awards Go To . . .
Announcing the winners of the 2024 Endies Endpaper Awards.
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December 20, 2024 at 7:05 PM
Oh. This post is a work of art. Well done, Travis. Well done indeed. #kidlit 📚👍
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Day 6: 31 Days, 31 Lists - 2024 Funny Picture Books. Today we look at a slew of books that are doing it right. From parrotfish and hilarious Iranians to science fiction, nonfiction, & more, there's something here for every humor lover on your list! #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2024/12/06/3...
31 Days, 31 Lists: 2024 Funny Picture Books
Funny books? They're difficult to create. Today we look at a slew of books that are doing it right. From parrotfish and hilarious Iranians to science fiction, nonfiction, and more, there's something h...
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December 6, 2024 at 2:47 PM
Day 6: 31 Days, 31 Lists - 2024 Funny Picture Books. Today we look at a slew of books that are doing it right. From parrotfish and hilarious Iranians to science fiction, nonfiction, & more, there's something here for every humor lover on your list! #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2024/12/06/3...
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Day 7: 31 Days, 31 Lists - Caldenotts. What precisely is a "Caldenott"? A book where the illustrator is inconveniently from a country other than America. Today, we celebrate artists deserving in every possible way, save location. #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2024/12/07/3...
31 Days, 31 lists: 2024 Caldenotts
What precisely is a
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December 7, 2024 at 2:10 PM
Day 7: 31 Days, 31 Lists - Caldenotts. What precisely is a "Caldenott"? A book where the illustrator is inconveniently from a country other than America. Today, we celebrate artists deserving in every possible way, save location. #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2024/12/07/3...
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📚👍 Seeing others through the eyes of a child with a generous spirit. www.mariacmarshall.com/single-post/... #kidlit #picturebooks #homelessness
The Picture Book Buzz - Interview w/Angela De Groot, Review of Not Pop-Pop + Giveaway
Debut author Angela De Groot shares her inspiration and the creation of her thought-provoking picture book - Not Pop-Pop!
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November 27, 2024 at 12:17 AM
📚👍 Seeing others through the eyes of a child with a generous spirit. www.mariacmarshall.com/single-post/... #kidlit #picturebooks #homelessness
Great advice!
Ways you can support your public library, a thread
1. Go to your local library and fill out request forms.
2. Show up at your local school board meetings. Sign up to speak. Remind them that access to books that are relevant and relatable INCREASES LITERACY, which is literally the job of schools
3. Show up at library board meetings. Same thing.
2. Show up at your local school board meetings. Sign up to speak. Remind them that access to books that are relevant and relatable INCREASES LITERACY, which is literally the job of schools
3. Show up at library board meetings. Same thing.
November 26, 2024 at 3:26 PM
Great advice!
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"Inside a poem, anything is possible. Maybe we can make that true of life as well."
Ada Limon's #NCTE24 keynote was everything my heart needed.
Ada Limon's #NCTE24 keynote was everything my heart needed.
November 24, 2024 at 8:02 PM
"Inside a poem, anything is possible. Maybe we can make that true of life as well."
Ada Limon's #NCTE24 keynote was everything my heart needed.
Ada Limon's #NCTE24 keynote was everything my heart needed.
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“Hope is our superpower.” - Bryan Stevenson at #NCTE24
Teaching kids to read, think, and write…this is hope.
#readmorehateless #readwidely #readallthebooks
#readthinkwritehope
Teaching kids to read, think, and write…this is hope.
#readmorehateless #readwidely #readallthebooks
#readthinkwritehope
November 23, 2024 at 3:53 PM
“Hope is our superpower.” - Bryan Stevenson at #NCTE24
Teaching kids to read, think, and write…this is hope.
#readmorehateless #readwidely #readallthebooks
#readthinkwritehope
Teaching kids to read, think, and write…this is hope.
#readmorehateless #readwidely #readallthebooks
#readthinkwritehope
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Bryan Stevenson tells us it's time to change the narrative. It's time for truth and reconciliation, and English teachers can do this work through the power of literature. Hopelessness is the enemy of justice: we have to be agents of hope and be willing to do the uncomfortable thing. #NCTE24
November 23, 2024 at 3:58 PM
Bryan Stevenson tells us it's time to change the narrative. It's time for truth and reconciliation, and English teachers can do this work through the power of literature. Hopelessness is the enemy of justice: we have to be agents of hope and be willing to do the uncomfortable thing. #NCTE24
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A starred review from School Library Journal for WIND IS A DANCE!
I'm beyond honored and excited for my first starred review. They love Josée Bisaillon's art as much as I do. "A first choice for any library."
#nfforkids #stemforkids #wind #weather @steamteambooks.bsky.social @kl4gm.bsky.social
I'm beyond honored and excited for my first starred review. They love Josée Bisaillon's art as much as I do. "A first choice for any library."
#nfforkids #stemforkids #wind #weather @steamteambooks.bsky.social @kl4gm.bsky.social
November 19, 2024 at 5:04 PM
A starred review from School Library Journal for WIND IS A DANCE!
I'm beyond honored and excited for my first starred review. They love Josée Bisaillon's art as much as I do. "A first choice for any library."
#nfforkids #stemforkids #wind #weather @steamteambooks.bsky.social @kl4gm.bsky.social
I'm beyond honored and excited for my first starred review. They love Josée Bisaillon's art as much as I do. "A first choice for any library."
#nfforkids #stemforkids #wind #weather @steamteambooks.bsky.social @kl4gm.bsky.social
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Excited for my picture book bio of ecologist Ruth Patrick, MAGIC IN A DROP OF WATER, coming March 25, 2025 from Rocky Pond/Penguin.
November 18, 2024 at 12:46 AM
Excited for my picture book bio of ecologist Ruth Patrick, MAGIC IN A DROP OF WATER, coming March 25, 2025 from Rocky Pond/Penguin.
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So excited to be presenting today about #naturenonfiction and #poetry at #NCTE2024 with @teresarobeson.bsky.social @marciefatkins.bsky.social @debrakshumaker.bsky.social
November 23, 2024 at 2:16 PM
So excited to be presenting today about #naturenonfiction and #poetry at #NCTE2024 with @teresarobeson.bsky.social @marciefatkins.bsky.social @debrakshumaker.bsky.social
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A very exciting day today. I presented at two panels at NCTE with amazing authors about using STEAM books and poetry techniques in the classroom and also found out WIND IS A DANCE is an NCTE 2025 Notable Poetry Book!
#windisadance #stemforkids #ncte #ncte2024
#windisadance #stemforkids #ncte #ncte2024
November 24, 2024 at 12:20 AM
A very exciting day today. I presented at two panels at NCTE with amazing authors about using STEAM books and poetry techniques in the classroom and also found out WIND IS A DANCE is an NCTE 2025 Notable Poetry Book!
#windisadance #stemforkids #ncte #ncte2024
#windisadance #stemforkids #ncte #ncte2024
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Yet another incredibly inspiring session! #ncte24 “We have to do real writing and real reading with our students because we never know when one of those things will reach those kids.” ~Rief. “The kids that struggle the most need languages the most.” ~Draper. “Every kids has a story to tell.” ~Kittle
November 23, 2024 at 10:05 PM
Yet another incredibly inspiring session! #ncte24 “We have to do real writing and real reading with our students because we never know when one of those things will reach those kids.” ~Rief. “The kids that struggle the most need languages the most.” ~Draper. “Every kids has a story to tell.” ~Kittle
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Thank you authors! Such great ideas and energy.
Thank you authors! Such great ideas and energy.
First session at #NCTE24. Phenomenal. Just phenomenal. Thank you.
November 22, 2024 at 12:01 AM
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Thank you authors! Such great ideas and energy.
Thank you authors! Such great ideas and energy.
November 19, 2024 at 12:01 PM
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📚Libraries are #2 on the list
IPPR’s new report identifies 9 ‘foundational assets’ for healthy places:
1. Space for sport & exercise
2. Libraries
3. Green spaces
4. Youth clubs/centres
5. Swimming pools
6. Safe streets
7. Cycle network
8. Public transport
9. Community assets
Austerity undermined many of these building blocks.
1. Space for sport & exercise
2. Libraries
3. Green spaces
4. Youth clubs/centres
5. Swimming pools
6. Safe streets
7. Cycle network
8. Public transport
9. Community assets
Austerity undermined many of these building blocks.
September 17, 2024 at 6:51 PM
📚Libraries are #2 on the list
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Big thrill to learn our book is an honour book for 2024! #kidlit #kidlitmegafeed
September 17, 2024 at 10:03 PM
Big thrill to learn our book is an honour book for 2024! #kidlit #kidlitmegafeed
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I sent an autographed copy to Archie the Dog (my sister-in-law's Westie) in thanks for his help with my book: posing for reference photos! My sis-in-law just sent this photo of Archie w/his copy of #IWantToReadALLTheBooks. 😁
Posting my "Archie behind the scenes" video in the thread below 👇🏼
Posting my "Archie behind the scenes" video in the thread below 👇🏼
September 17, 2024 at 10:10 PM
I sent an autographed copy to Archie the Dog (my sister-in-law's Westie) in thanks for his help with my book: posing for reference photos! My sis-in-law just sent this photo of Archie w/his copy of #IWantToReadALLTheBooks. 😁
Posting my "Archie behind the scenes" video in the thread below 👇🏼
Posting my "Archie behind the scenes" video in the thread below 👇🏼
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Please join me, along with Josh Funk, this coming Sunday 9/22 at 11am at Lala Books in Lowell, Mass. for a picture book story time! We'll be sharing Pigs Dig a Road and Attack of the Scones, and there will be some special snacks!
September 17, 2024 at 10:30 PM
Please join me, along with Josh Funk, this coming Sunday 9/22 at 11am at Lala Books in Lowell, Mass. for a picture book story time! We'll be sharing Pigs Dig a Road and Attack of the Scones, and there will be some special snacks!