🎉 Congrats to @barbakoffbooks.bsky.social!

Her debut 📚 THE SCHLEMIEL KIDS SAVE THE MOON was named a 2025 BANK STREET BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (Age 5–9).

Illustrated by Rotem Teplow. Published by The Collective Book Studio.

#kidlit #12x12PB

Love meeting so many inspiring📚 indie booksellers 📚at #NVNR2025 ! They’re on the front lines of building community and getting diverse books into kids’ hands. @newvoicesnewrooms @naibabooksellers @siba_books

Don’t miss my panel this afternoon on partnering with children’s authors for all ages!

On @marketplace.org's Make Me Smart, ALA President @samhelmick.bsky.social explains how attacks on federal funding, book bans, and the shift to digital are threatening the future of public libraries and why it matters to every community.
www.marketplace.org/episode/2025...
#UniteAgainstBookBans

Stopped in my tracks by this sign pointing out the IMLS absence from #ALAAC25

At #ALAAC25? Don’t miss my panel on uplifting young readers through empowering stories! 9:30am Sunday with @leewind.bsky.social and Alicia McKenzie. Plus, book signing at 11 at booth 1548.

So proud and excited that THE SCHLEMIEL KIDS SAVE THE MOON is a Bank Street best children’s book of the year! 🎉🎉🎉 Thank you @bankstreet.edu!

Beyond excited to share this news! Pumpkin Shabbat 🎃 🍁 🍂 is on its way to fill your bookshelves with goofy giggles, fall fun, and Jewish joy!

I’m incredibly honored to collaborate with brilliant folks like @familiusbooks.bsky.social @bookfairyangus.bsky.social @howlandlit.bsky.social

As the author of Pride Puppy, I'm used to misinformation- but I didn't expect to hear these lies at SCOTUS. (Also- bondage? Was Gorsuch referring to the family's dog being on a leash? Who knows?!) Anyway, please read this to see what's actually in the book! www.whatwouldjuliedraw.com/pridepuppy

As libraries across the country receive notices of critical grants being canceled, ALA has new advice to help libraries & institutions navigating federal grant terminations.

Steps 1 & 2: Notify your legal counsel and preserve all documents.

Read the rest: www.ala.org/news/2025/04...

If you’re at the WA Library Association conference, come visit me at the book bash! #wla2025

WOW! My debut picture book, THE SCHLEMIEL KIDS SAVE THE MOON, is a #finalist for the 2024 Foreword Indies PB of the year award! Check out the list. www.forewordreviews.com/awards/final...

@bookfairyangus.bsky.social I’d love to do this for PB or activity books! Let’s talk about pitching @caitlinrenata.bsky.social

Yesterday, @barbakoffbooks.bsky.social & I recorded a @ymwjpodcast.bsky.social episode on Sharing Joy Through Writing Even Amidst the Hard Times. We discussed how writing can be a place where we self-actualize/can just be. Never give up moments of being with yourself & who you are. #writingcommunity

Thanks for this reminder! I’m joining 12x12 for the first time this year. It seems like an amazing community! #kidlitchat #12x12PB

Kidlit Editors! Do you want a zany, voice-y PB with queer nonbinary Jewish rep and TONS OF PUMPKINS? 🎃🎃🎃 Of course you do. DM me or @bookfairyangus.bsky.social for a proposal! #onsub #pb

I am over the moon to be represented by @bookfairyangus.bsky.social at Howland Literary! Her vision and enthusiasm for my book, and her insight into the industry, are beyond incredible. So many good things to come!