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Jen Arena
@jenarena.bsky.social
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Kids book author and kids book editor Check out some of my books! Acorn Was a Little Wild (S&S), Besos for Baby (Little Brown), GIVE (Knopf), Marta! Big and Small (Roaring Brook) agent: Stephanie Fretwell-Hill, Red Fox jenarenabooks.com
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Jen Arena @jenarena.bsky.social · May 30
I'm still in shock that this is happening!
MerryMakers is making a plush toy of the Acorn from Acorn Was a Little Wild! They captured Jessica Gibson's art perfectly.
MerryMakers sent me a prototype--it's the cutest little nut ever!
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Stuffed toy Acorn from the book Acorn Was a Little Wild (by Jen Arena illustrated by Jessica Gibson) with tan corduroy body, a dark brown cap, pink cheeks, and embroidered eyes, mouth, and eyebrows. Author Jen Arena in a flowered dress and cream sweater sitting and holding up the stuffed Acorn prototype from the book Acorn Was a Little Wild, illustrated by Jessica Gibson.
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Jen Arena @jenarena.bsky.social · 4d
What?!
And Jason was a witness.
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Jen Arena @jenarena.bsky.social · 5d
Ybor City in Tampa. Hint: it's not "Why-bor."
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 7d
$41 million: The amount of money we’ve raised for indie bookstores since 2020.

$0: The amount of money Amazon has raised for indie bookstores since 1994.
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Jen Arena @jenarena.bsky.social · 8d
A wall of authors who came to sign, great T-shirts . . . and art!
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Jen Arena @jenarena.bsky.social · 8d
BookPeople has such amazing shelf-talkers and displays, too!
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Jen Arena @jenarena.bsky.social · 8d
Is there any warmer welcome than going to a new city and a new bookstore and finding lots of copies of your books?
Thank you so much, Austin and @bookpeople.com!
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Jen Arena @jenarena.bsky.social · 13d
Yay, at last! Every week, he's updated me on the fridge saga at dog pack. Geez!
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Jen Arena @jenarena.bsky.social · 13d
Is it true?! Do you actually have a working refrigerator again?
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Jen Arena @jenarena.bsky.social · 13d
Ooh, love the picture! 😍
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Jen Arena @jenarena.bsky.social · 17d
I'm visiting Austin for the first time soon! I can't wait to go to @bookpeople.com because I've heard it's such a wonderful bookstore. 😊 📚
But what else should I do?
Where should I go?
And what should I eat?
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Jen Arena @jenarena.bsky.social · 18d
That's fantastic! We are celebrating here with you!
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Matthew Budman, book guy @matthewbudman.bsky.social · 20d
Thirty years ago tonight, a monumental event: the first installment of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE premiered on BBC One. @cristinabeltran.bsky.social & I have watched the five-hour series . . . how many times? A dozen? Two dozen?
Pride and Prejudice (1995) Trailer (1080p)
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Jen Arena @jenarena.bsky.social · 19d
Ditto! Whenever I'm sick, Dario knows to put it on for me.
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Children's Bookshelf @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social · 22d
The 25 Greatest Picture Books of the Past 25 Years | Slate
The 25 Greatest Picture Books of the Past 25 Years
There’s been a revolution in children’s storytelling—and it’s not just that the stories are more diverse.
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Jen Arena @jenarena.bsky.social · 24d
Apparently today is World Car Free Day!
Tonight I'm going to ride the FREE #1 bus to downtown and back. What should we do there?
1) Check out the '80s bar.
2) Walk the Riverwalk.
3) Get really bad Tampa pizza. (New Yorkers, you have no idea how lucky you are!)
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Jen Arena @jenarena.bsky.social · 27d
Yay! I'm so glad to hear it.
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Jen Arena @jenarena.bsky.social · 28d
Seriously, I think about that all the time. I'd hate to being starting out right now!
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Jen Arena @jenarena.bsky.social · 28d
Thinking about the idea that you need to do something 10,000 times to become good at it. With so many kids using AI for school assignments, and even to write texts, where will the next generation of writers and editors come from?
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Jen Arena @jenarena.bsky.social · Sep 10
That's just so Tampa!
We were walking by a restaurant in London once and Dario looked in the window and saw a guy he knew sitting at a table there.
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Children's Bookshelf @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social · Sep 8
Students in Louisville, Ky., are checking out library books at record rates after their public school district instituted a cellphone ban | WAVE
School cell phone ban creates surge in JCPS library visits
District leaders are calling it a culture shift within Jefferson County Public Schools.
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Jen Arena @jenarena.bsky.social · Sep 7
Aw, Matthew, this is so special! Look at their love.
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Jen Arena @jenarena.bsky.social · Aug 31
Our neighbor joked that it's now a street mural of a black hole. The eternal suck.
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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · Aug 28
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · Aug 27
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
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Jen Arena @jenarena.bsky.social · Aug 20
Right? Publishers should consider doing this more often.
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Jen Arena @jenarena.bsky.social · Aug 19
Me, if you still need help this winter! My husband will have a Fulbright in Dublin, and I'll be there with him, missing my dog.
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