Deborah Kops
@deborahkops.bsky.social
Author of children's and YA books, including Alice Paul and the Fight for Women's Rights and The Great Molasses Flood. Language lover, cafe writer and schmoozer, cake eater and baker, knitter.
The 2025 New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s Books
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November 9, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Received today: "Zohran Walks New York"--a tribute not only to Mamdani but to our amazing city. Congratulations to creator Millie von Platen and editor Carolyn Yoder for the vision to create and publish a nearly instant book.
At Bookshop and elsewhere: bookshop.org/a/3703/97816...
At Bookshop and elsewhere: bookshop.org/a/3703/97816...
November 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Received today: "Zohran Walks New York"--a tribute not only to Mamdani but to our amazing city. Congratulations to creator Millie von Platen and editor Carolyn Yoder for the vision to create and publish a nearly instant book.
At Bookshop and elsewhere: bookshop.org/a/3703/97816...
At Bookshop and elsewhere: bookshop.org/a/3703/97816...
Philip Pullman Brings Lyra’s Story to a Close
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November 2, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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My wonderful local bookstore put out its list of favorite November releases, and two of my wonderful friends are on it, and I am so grateful for my wonderful #kidlit community!
@silverunicornbooks.bsky.social @heatherlangbooks.bsky.social
@sarahsbrannen.bsky.social
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@sarahsbrannen.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 6:17 PM
My wonderful local bookstore put out its list of favorite November releases, and two of my wonderful friends are on it, and I am so grateful for my wonderful #kidlit community!
@silverunicornbooks.bsky.social @heatherlangbooks.bsky.social
@sarahsbrannen.bsky.social
@silverunicornbooks.bsky.social @heatherlangbooks.bsky.social
@sarahsbrannen.bsky.social
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I wrote about SCARY! SPOOKY! CREEPY! CHILDREN’S BOOKS! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/b...
How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Macabre
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October 26, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I wrote about SCARY! SPOOKY! CREEPY! CHILDREN’S BOOKS! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/b...
October 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Censorship is so 1984. Read for your rights.
Today kicks off #BannedBooksWeek, and this year's theme reminds us that the right to read belongs to all of us, that censorship has no place in contemporary society, and that we must defend our rights.
https://www.ala.org/bbooks.
Today kicks off #BannedBooksWeek, and this year's theme reminds us that the right to read belongs to all of us, that censorship has no place in contemporary society, and that we must defend our rights.
https://www.ala.org/bbooks.
October 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Censorship is so 1984. Read for your rights.
Today kicks off #BannedBooksWeek, and this year's theme reminds us that the right to read belongs to all of us, that censorship has no place in contemporary society, and that we must defend our rights.
https://www.ala.org/bbooks.
Today kicks off #BannedBooksWeek, and this year's theme reminds us that the right to read belongs to all of us, that censorship has no place in contemporary society, and that we must defend our rights.
https://www.ala.org/bbooks.
The interview with Jane Goodall, the first in a series of Famous Last Words, is wonderful: powerful, moving, and very frank. She was obviously a delightful person. You will probably like her choice of men to send to Mars. #JaneGoodall
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/a...
How Jane Goodall’s Death Initiated Netflix’s Newest Show
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October 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The interview with Jane Goodall, the first in a series of Famous Last Words, is wonderful: powerful, moving, and very frank. She was obviously a delightful person. You will probably like her choice of men to send to Mars. #JaneGoodall
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/a...
September 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
The women’s final yesterday at the US Open was a good game. Until the winning celebrity, Sabalenka, made a show of slipping on and thus endorsing an obscenely expensive watch, worth more than $200,000. #USOpen bling
September 7, 2025 at 10:11 PM
The women’s final yesterday at the US Open was a good game. Until the winning celebrity, Sabalenka, made a show of slipping on and thus endorsing an obscenely expensive watch, worth more than $200,000. #USOpen bling
Stephen King has written a picture-book version of Hansel and Gretel, with illustrations by Maurice Sendak, originally created for the stage sets and costumes of an opera. Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen discuss the results. #kidlit
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/b...
A New ‘Hansel and Gretel’ Unites Stephen King With Maurice Sendak
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September 1, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Stephen King has written a picture-book version of Hansel and Gretel, with illustrations by Maurice Sendak, originally created for the stage sets and costumes of an opera. Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen discuss the results. #kidlit
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/b...
Happy #NationalDogDay! Daisy would like you to know, in case you’re contemplating getting one, that most of their lives they’re just two-year-olds in dog suits.
August 26, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Happy #NationalDogDay! Daisy would like you to know, in case you’re contemplating getting one, that most of their lives they’re just two-year-olds in dog suits.
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Happy Ratification Day!
Happy Ratification Day!
August 19, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Happy Ratification Day!
Happy Ratification Day!
You never know when you're going to stumble on some wonderful source you weren't looking for. The Web. An eternal crapshoot. #Amwriting
August 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM
You never know when you're going to stumble on some wonderful source you weren't looking for. The Web. An eternal crapshoot. #Amwriting
Tonight is the peak of the Perseus meteor showers!
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/s...
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How to Watch the Strongest Meteor Shower of the Summer
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August 12, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Tonight is the peak of the Perseus meteor showers!
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/s...
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The Netanyahu government’s extermination of Gaza intensifies. Malnutrition is rampant, children are starving to death, people are shot while waiting for meager food rations — and US weapons allow it to happen.
Trump and Congress must act NOW. Stop the slaughter. Feed the people.
Trump and Congress must act NOW. Stop the slaughter. Feed the people.
July 25, 2025 at 8:24 PM
The Netanyahu government’s extermination of Gaza intensifies. Malnutrition is rampant, children are starving to death, people are shot while waiting for meager food rations — and US weapons allow it to happen.
Trump and Congress must act NOW. Stop the slaughter. Feed the people.
Trump and Congress must act NOW. Stop the slaughter. Feed the people.
Which US senators and representatives are working to stop the government from sending billions of dollars in military aid to Israel until it ends this genocidal war? And which US political groups on the left are most effective at trying to do the same? #GazaWar
July 25, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Which US senators and representatives are working to stop the government from sending billions of dollars in military aid to Israel until it ends this genocidal war? And which US political groups on the left are most effective at trying to do the same? #GazaWar
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting will lose $1.1 billion if the House approves this package. Please call your representatives and demand they vote No.
The Senate voted to approve a $9 billion rescission package aimed at clawing back money already allocated for public radio and television — a major step toward winding down nearly six decades of federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. https://n.pr/44QnXjT
Senate approves cuts to NPR, PBS and foreign aid programs
The Senate voted to approve a $9 billion rescission package aimed at clawing back money already allocated for public radio and television.
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July 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting will lose $1.1 billion if the House approves this package. Please call your representatives and demand they vote No.
Happy Bastille Day!
July 14, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Happy Bastille Day!
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#SCOTUS blocks Florida's law banning undocumented people from crossing into the state. www.npr.org/2025/07/09/n...
Supreme Court blocks part of Florida's immigration law
Immigrant rights organizations sued the state arguing that its new law conflicts with federal immigration law, and under longstanding Supreme Court precedent, states must bow to federal law in the eve...
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July 9, 2025 at 9:44 PM
#SCOTUS blocks Florida's law banning undocumented people from crossing into the state. www.npr.org/2025/07/09/n...
The author "reveals Morison as a hard worker, a devoted literary citizen and one of the most important book editors of the 20th century." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/b...
You Know the Novelist. Now Meet Toni Morrison the Editor.
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July 6, 2025 at 8:21 PM
The author "reveals Morison as a hard worker, a devoted literary citizen and one of the most important book editors of the 20th century." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/b...