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Abbie James
@abbiewjames.bsky.social
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#Kidlit Writer: PB, MG, YA, poetry. #SCBWI.
MG novel coming spring 2027!
Youth Services at a Public Library. Licensed Behavior Specialist.
Wife & Mom. Gardener/Hiker/Birder. Environmentalist. She/her

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bare oak branches
warming outstretched hands
by the fire

Happy #HaikuSaturday 💙
top of an oak tree without leaves; sky behind tree is sunrise streaked with orange and pink and purple clouds
November 29, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Happy #FungiFriday! 💚
I love when fungi, ferns, lichen, and moss hang out together. Photo taken this summer at beautiful Cook Forest State Park.
mushroom in the center has a rust-colored cap and white, brown, and red stalk; there is a rock to the right with some lichen, moss, and fallen leaf matter; a fern grows behind the mushroom; a plant with thin leaves grows to the left
November 28, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Melissa Sweet's BALLOONS OVER BROADWAY is a fascinating look into the Macy's parade. I love her illustration style so much! #kidlit 📚👍 Happy Thanksgiving!
cover of BALLOONS OVER BROADWAY shows an illustration of a man holding a parade balloon by its strings; there's a crowd in the background holding regular balloons in front of tall buildings
November 27, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Red-shouldered Hawk
wears her freedom on her sleeve
wings glide past treetops
ignoring tempting branches
sits at tables on her terms

#TankaThursday #poem prompt: table
#birds 💙 #empowerment
photo taken looking up at blue sky; a hawk flies with outstretched wings; there are many bare tree branches at the bottom of the photo
November 27, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Happy #SundayYellow 💛 #Maple #Trees
center of picture is yellow maple leaf held upright by my fingers by the leaf's stem in front of the setting sun; background is a green field with trees blurry in the distance and a black road with yellow dividing lines in the foreground and fall leaves on the ground to the lower right and yellow leaves on the maple tree in the upper right
November 23, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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first fur, woolly bears
then orange coats, tiger moths
just missing lions

Happy #HaikuSaturday! (I have The Wizard of Oz in my brain/heart after watching Wicked For Good last night 😅)
#metamorphosis
woolly bear caterpillar on my hand above green leaves of an eggplant plant; sun is shining on objects; caterpillar is black on both ends with rusty brown color in the center; this type of caterpillar will become an Isabella tiger moth (Pyrrharctia isabella)
November 22, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Hericium coralloides/coral tooth fungus around a stump in my backyard. So gorgeous. Happy #FungiFriday! 💚
white fungus that looks like a cluster of tiny feathery/spikey/ice-crystal-like branches at the bottom of a tree stump with mulch underneath
November 21, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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no reset button
for birds crashing into glass
template, paint marker,
an afternoon reflecting
on a better bird's eye view

#TankaThursday prompt: button
#bird - friendly window 💚 #nature
photo taken looking up at three windows; the windows to the right and left have screens; the window in the center is just glass; the center window's reflection shows fall leaves on a tree and blue sky with white clouds; the window is has a grid of newly applied evenly spaced dots made with a silver paint marker (to prevent bird collisions)
November 21, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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My family really enjoyed WHO OWNS THE MOON? by @cylev.bsky.social & Jennifer Swanson. Lots of intriguing questions posed here alongside a great history of space exploration! Loved the plants on the ISS. 💚 But eek, humans have littered so much in space. 😬 Fabulous art by Thomas Gonzalez.
📚👍 #kidlit
cover of WHO OWNS THE MOON? shows the back of a person standing on the moon in a spacesuit facing a line of signs with different country's flags and different languages; the first sign says Warning No Trespassing; the top half of the cover is black with the title written in gray; the photo of the book was taken on a white painted wood background
November 20, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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last potatoes cleaned
edible pink tourmaline
autumn's gemstones

#HaikuSaturday 💚 #gardening
four pink potatoes in my hand with blurry purple kale, other plants, and a terracotta pot in the background
November 15, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Spotted these three brave sentinels on a summer hike at @hawkmountain.bsky.social. 💚

Happy #FungiFriday!
three mushrooms with brownish stems and whiteish caps with brown spikes grow in a row on a steep slope with large rocks above and below; moss covers the areas between the rocks; a small light brown mushroom grows above the row of three
November 14, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Just finished THE BURNING SEASON, a #MGLit novel in verse by Caroline Starr Rose. Such an engaging story and a fascinating glimpse into the lives of fire lookouts! Gorgeous cover art by David Dean.
#kidlit 📚👍
cover of THE BURNING SEASON shows a girl running out of a door at the top of a lookout tower onto the deck part surrounding the tower; the title is written in white smokey font across the middle; the background of the cover shows a green forest area, an orange forest area, and a burning snag to the right; photo is taken looking up at the sky with the book in my hand with blue sky and autumn trees in the background
November 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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frosty goldenrod
swaps its yellow sundress for
a fuzzy sweater

#HaikuSaturday 💚 #nativeplants 💚 #gardening
puffy off-white goldenrod flower seeds atop stems with fading green leaves; blurry other plants and frosted grass in the background
November 8, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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slugs and fungi
busy at work
a booming metropolis
in slow motion

Happy #FungiFriday!
a decaying tree stump covered in many tiny orange mushrooms to the left with fewer mushroom to the right; several slugs on the top
November 7, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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THE EXTRAORDINARY ORBIT OF ALEX RAMIREZ is an impactful novel in verse by Jasminne Paulino. 📚👍
Great cover by Dion MBD.
#kidlit #MGLit
cover shows a boy in a school science lab reading a science book; space-themed objects float above his head; photo is taken with the book in my hand in front of a wall with planets and satellites
November 7, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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#supermoon at dawn
thirty percent brighter...I
conversed with cashiers
momentum with each word past
hello. Both: stellar efforts.

#TankaThursday #introverts prompt: momentum
photo of sky and trees; triangle of light blue sky to the left and top; triangle of autumn tree leaves to the right and bottom; full moon behind one tree in the center without leaves
November 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Planning/planting for spring in fall! Thinking about those early pollinators searching for food.
Sowing @hungryhookfarm.bsky.social's fabulous seeds.
#nativeplants 💚 #gardening
picture taken from below looking up at a brown paper seed packet of Virginia bluebells in my hand with picture of bluebells and growing information; background is blurry trees with orange, yellow, and green leaves; sky behind trees is blue
November 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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a fungus face
only Halloween could love
bloody boo to you

(nah, I love it, too 🙃)

#HaikuSaturday inspired by @rebeccaupjohn.bsky.social's fun #facesinnature haiku. Spotted this #FungiFriday on an Appalachian Trail hike. 🥾🍃🍂 🍄
three round areas of red fungus on the side of a tree stump with chunky bark; the top fungus looks like a face with eyes, nose, and an open mouth; the mouth looks like a bright red tongue sticking out or blood
October 31, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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I love MILLIE FLEUR SAVES THE NIGHT by @christymandin.bsky.social. I've always been uneasy in darkness, so Millie is an inspiration. Fabulous back matter. One of my kids wants to go for a Halloween night walk in the woods, so I'll have to channel my inner Millie!
#kidlit 📚👍
cover of MILLIE FLEUR SAVES THE NIGHT shows a young girl in a grey dress and striped leggings reaching up to turn off a lightbulb hanging from a cord from above; in the background, white flowers bloom and turnips walk around; a large black creature with yellow eyes looms in front of a full moon; the background color is dark blue
October 31, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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cold nights bury bright.
pink flowers nearby long gone.
pokeweed's stem shines on.

#berrybright 💚 #haiku 💚 #nativeplants 💚 #gardening
picture taken from below looking up at pokeweed plant with blue sky in the background; pokeweed stem is bright pinkish purple and branches several times from the main stem; some brown shriveled leaves hang from the stem; there are various plant stalks and seed heads to the sides; some green and some fall leaves on trees in the background
October 29, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Loved THE UNEXPECTED LIVES OF ORDINARY GIRLS by @jandersoncoats.bsky.social! 👏 This engaging and nuanced story discusses education, immigration, religion, family, equal rights, and libraries💛. Set in 1910. Relevant now. Lovely cover by Margarita Kukhtina. #girlpower #MGLit #kidlit 📚👍
book cover shows a young girl in the bottom left; she's looking up; the bottom right shows flowers; the title is in the center with a blue background; the top shows a 1910 city with an entry arch that says "welcome;" photo is the book in my hand with blue and white rug background
October 29, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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rising from the ground
spirits of soybeans past haunt
monocrop harvests

#HaikuSaturday #spookyseason
sunrise landscape; light blue sky at top of photo; a few purple clouds with light underneath; a tree line in the distance with a field of soybeans between trees and where photo is taken; white haze above soybeans
October 25, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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hulled and cleaned and dried
toughest nut to crack and yet
shelling's the fun part 🙃

💚 Happy Friday! 💚 #hammertime 💚 #haiku 💚 #bloomscrolling 💚 #nativeplants 💚
about two dozen black walnuts in their brown shells in a basket with white asters at the top of the photo and grass to the right; one walnut in my hand at the bottom
October 24, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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black walnut trees
first to lose their leaves and
let the blue fall through

#haiku 💚 #nativeplants
photo looking up toward blue sky taken from the ground standing under several black walnut trees; a few of the trees have a few yellow leaves, but most have bare branches; about 20 walnuts remain on the trees on the right side
October 23, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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bees and buckeye
pairing spots and stripes
fall fashion

#nativeplants 💚 #haiku 💚 #bloomscrolling
one buckeye butterfly and several bees on blue (actually purple) New England asters
October 21, 2025 at 12:27 PM