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Joyce Grant
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Author | Journalist | Critical Thinking educator
I write book reviews for Publishers Weekly (PW)
Currently writing a book about libraries!
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Joyce Grant @jgcanada.bsky.social · Jun 10
Please save the date!
#medialiteracy #criticalthinking #booklaunch
@owlkids.bsky.social @mor10.com @jandolby.bsky.social
Invitation to the launch of children's book, Burst Your Bubble! on Saturday, Nov. 8 2025 at 1 p.m. ET at A Different Drummer Books on 513 Locust St. in Burlington, Ontario
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gennhutchison.bsky.social
I don’t know how to process the horrific fire hose of tragedy that has been omnipresent but has spiked this weekend, and I suspect I’m not alone. We aren’t meant to carry this much suffering and be able to function at “normal” capacity. Be gentle with yourself and others, if you can.
December 15, 2025 at 4:58 AM
jgcanada.bsky.social
Thank you @quillandquire.bsky.social for this wonderful review of Burst Your Bubble! #medialiteracy #criticalthinking #kidlit
December 2, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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picturebookseh.bsky.social
Picture Books, Eh’s FALL edition of The Great Canadian Picture Book Party is Dec 8 @ 7pm ET. Hear creators read their new books!
If you’re a CANSCAIP member, sign up through @canscaip.bsky.social. If not, message us at [email protected] for the link. See you, eh! #CANkidlit #kidlit #edusky
November 25, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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picturebookseh.bsky.social
Call out to traditionally published Canadian picture book creators with books coming out in 2026! Picture Books, Eh! is inviting anyone interested in joining our co-promotional community to get in touch: [email protected].
@canscaip.bsky.social @kidsbookcentre.bsky.social #CANkidlit #kidlit
November 23, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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alisonmcgauley.bsky.social
Cozy up with a warm drink and enjoy this stack of new books by members of @picturebookseh.bsky.social!
#kidlit #EduSky #CanKidLit #picturebooks #librarians
The title reads Fall Releases. We see the covers of the new Canadian picture books along with the Picture Books, Eh! graphic and black and white graphics of corn, a pumpkin, leaves and a mug of tea. Little Hearts in the Snow - Andrew Katz, Juliana Léveillé-Trudel and Joseph Sherman I'm a Big Rig! - Nancy Cohen and Claire Manning Butterfly Sea - Cynthia Mackey and Marie-Laure Couet Charlotte's New Moccasins - Jenn Moudahi and Rhael McGregot Burst Your Bubble! - Joyce Grant and Jan Dolby Just in Case - Megan Clendenan and Brittany Cicchese Levi's Gift - Kathy Stinson and Ellie Arscott
October 8, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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picturebookseh.bsky.social
Happy book birthday to BURST YOUR BUBBLE! 🎉

From CanLit For Little Canadians: "Joyce Grant's latest book will enlighten every one of us to the power and perils of algorithms in framing our interactions online."

#CANkidlit #kidlit
November 11, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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owlkids.bsky.social
It's #BookBirthday time for BURST YOUR BUBBLE! 🫧🎉

🧡 "A must-purchase for libraries." —⭐ SLJ, STARRED REVIEW
🧡 A California Reading Association Eureka! Honor Book (Silver)
🧡 Classroom Resource available at OwlkidsBooks.com 🔗

#ClassroomBooks #MediaLiteracy #BookSky
November 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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canscaip.bsky.social
PYI RECORDED registration open until November 30!

Watch your PYI recordings until January 31!

$150 CANSCAIP Members & Friends | $175 non-members

Register today: www.canscaip.org/event-6251775

#PYI2025 #CANSCAIP #CanKidLit
PYI RECORDED registration open until November 30! Watch your PYI recordings until January 31! $150 CANSCAIP Members & Friends | $175 non-members Select any four sessions - you also get the two keynotes. Many of the sessions had handouts, and you'll get those too. Want more than four? Order additional sessions for $10. Links to the recordings are sent a few days after registering. View the recordings as often as you like until January 31. Register today: https://www.canscaip.org/event-6251775 #PYI2025
November 11, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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canscaip.bsky.social
CANSCAIP Monthly Membership Meeting
Wed Nov 12
7pm ET

Elly Barlin Daniels
Olivia Daniels
@lenacoakley.bsky.social

#CANSCAIP
CANSCAIP Monthly Membership Meeting Wed Nov 12 7pm ET Elly Barlin Daniels Olivia Daniels @lenacoakley.bsky.social #CANSCAIP
November 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
jgcanada.bsky.social
On the BOOK BIRTHDAY 🎉of "Burst Your Bubble!" TY CanLit for LittleCanadians for this wonderful review.🫧
joycegrantauthor.com/2025/11/an-a...
#MediaLiteracy @jandolby.bsky.social @hkubiw.bsky.social @owlkids.bsky.social @mediasmarts.bsky.social @mor10.com @picturebookseh.bsky.social #kidlit
"An astonishingly fresh look at the power of algorithms" Review: CanLit for LittleCanadians - Joyce Grant, Author & Speaker
"... setting up opportunities to change the algorithms." Review: CanLit for LittleCanadians
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November 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Have a great launch @jgcanada.bsky.social for BURST YOUR BUBBLE! OUTSMART THE ALGORITHMS AND SEE WHAT YOU'RE MISSING today. Lots to absorb in this NF book for #MG readers, with fab art by @jandolby.bsky.social We should all be reading this one! canlitforlittlecanadians.blogspot.com/2025/11/burs...
Book cover of Burst Your Bubble!: Outsmart the Algorithms and See What You're Missing by Joyce Grant, illustrated by Jan Dolby, depicts a boy with a tool bursting a large bubble.
November 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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amazonchique.bsky.social Crystal Frasier @amazonchique.bsky.social · Nov 7
I still remember my anthropology professor’s favorite joke from college:
“What did Watson and Crick discover?”
“Rosalind Franklin’s notes.”
hormiga.bsky.social Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · Nov 7
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
November 7, 2025 at 10:55 PM
jgcanada.bsky.social
A reminder that my book launch is THIS SATURDAY at 1 pm, A Different Drummer Books in Burlington. Please come! There will be gazillions of bubbles and you’ll even get to hear me sing and play piano. True story!
@jandolby.bsky.social @owlkids.bsky.social
#medialiteracy #kidlit
November 4, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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owlkids.bsky.social
Happy #MediaLiteracyWeek!

Hear from author @jgcanada.bsky.social on these important books👇

▶️ ow.ly/4o5F50Xkv16

@kidscanpress.bsky.social #MediaLiteracy #CriticalThinking #Teachers #Classroom #Algorithm #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Influencer #FakeNews #Journalism #NationalInternetDay #BookSky
Think critically with these books! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?: HOW TO SPOT FAKE NEWS AND FIND THE FACTS (Kids Can Press) BURST YOUR BUBBLE!: OUTSMART THE ALGORITHMS AND SEE WHAT YOU’RE MISSING (Owlkids Books)
October 30, 2025 at 4:57 PM
jgcanada.bsky.social
Happy #MediaLiteracyWeek! Check out this adorable House Hippo by ceramic artist Naomi Frohlich!

@mediasmarts.bsky.social
#MediaLiteracy #misinformation @kidscanpress.bsky.social
@owlkids.bsky.social
@jandolby.bsky.social #criticalthinking #DigitalLiteracy #NationalInternetDay
A ceramic house hippo, a Canadian symbol of critical thinking
October 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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In Toronto and feeling witchy? Here's the event for you! @picturebookseh.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM
jgcanada.bsky.social
Want a reading "palate cleanser" -- a book you might not normally think to pick up? @bookgaga.bsky.social suggests "Burst Your Bubble!" along w/others including the latest poetry by @paulvermeersch.bsky.social
TY BookGaga!
@owlkids.bsky.social

bookgagabooks.ca/2025/09/27/c...

Image: BookGaga
Four books: Burst your Bubble!, Rebel with a Clause, Death When You're Feeling Blue, Remarkable Bright Creatures
October 15, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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karenkrossing.com
Cover reveal! Dorothy Leung and I are so excited for you to meet Tansy, whose life is disrupted one blustery day, by a pesty cloud that just won’t go away.

☁️ THE CLOUD THAT STUCK ☁️ officially comes out April 14, 2026, and is available for pre-order now.
@charlesbridge.bsky.social #kidlit #CANkidlit
October 7, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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debbieohi.com
THE LIBRARIANS @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social is a *must-see.*

Thanks to @ifla.org Met Lib for the private screening at Toronto Reference Library.

Terrifying, deeply moving. I know several of the librarians & recognized books by many #KidLit #YALit friends. 😢

#BannedBooksWeek #LibrarySky

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Panel discussion taking place in a conference room with four speakers seated on stage in front of an audience. A large screen beside them displays a slide that reads, “America’s war on books is more than a war on words. THE LIBRARIANS. Directed by Kim A. Snyder.” The slide also shows several film festival logos.
October 8, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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debbieohi.com
Met up with #KidLit friends at the private screening of THE LIBRARIANS today, including @karenkrossing.com @jgcanada.bsky.social Hélène Boudreau and @maureentai.com (who recently moved to Toronto from Hong Kong). #TorKidLit
Group of smiling people, one of whom is wearing a t-shirt that reads "I Read Banned Books" Two smiling people giving a thumbs up outside of the Toronto Reference Library. Author Joyce Grant holding up a copy of her new book with Jan Dolby, Burst Your Bubble. Debbie Ridpath Ohi and Karen Krossing. Karen is wearing a t-shirt that reads "I Read Banned Books."
October 8, 2025 at 7:46 PM
jgcanada.bsky.social
Can I ask a favour? If your child used TKN and "taught" you something they learned from one of our news articles, could you please DM or email me? Thank you!
October 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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stormsy.bsky.social
Still quite busy with a fun project (plus I'm painting again!) so I'll just leave this spot with a cartoon of a belching rat. #Rat #Rats #RatBelching #RatBurping #kidlitart #Drawing #Ink
October 1, 2025 at 8:35 PM
jgcanada.bsky.social
An incredible woman, who has left us with a legacy that will continue to educate and inform us for many decades. So grateful to her -- she will be sorely missed.
A screen cap of a NYT article about the passing of Jane Goodall at age 91
October 1, 2025 at 6:52 PM
jgcanada.bsky.social
Another fantastic evening from @picturebookseh.bsky.social -- hearing about a wonderful crop of gorgeous Canadian picture books that have recently hit bookshelves. And great Canadian music! Love, love, love this event
September 30, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Well, this is delightful news. 📚
bookriot.com/new-host-of-...
Meet the New Host of Reading Rainbow: Mychal the Librarian
After 20 years, Reading Rainbow is back! The new host is Mychal the Librarian, who has been spreading library joy online for years.
bookriot.com
September 29, 2025 at 5:31 PM