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Kate DePalma @katedepalma.bsky.social · 2d

I think you misspelled 'neurotic weirdo' 🤠

Kate DePalma @katedepalma.bsky.social · 2d

Every time I pick up one of my books that is already published I find something I want to change about it 🫠

Then I remind myself of the wise adage: better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without!

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Kate DePalma @katedepalma.bsky.social · 2d

This has been on my wishlist for a LONG time -- thank you for mentioning it. I did not realize there wasn't a Nowruz board book out there -- what a gap!

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Kate DePalma @katedepalma.bsky.social · 2d

This article features my collaborators and friends. This is insanity. Books that teach empathy must be pretty damn powerful if so many people are trying to silence them, hmm?

Kyle Lukoff @kylelukoff.bsky.social · 2d

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

‘They didn’t even read the book’: How children’s authors are being canceled over Palestine

Authors tell of book bans, cancellations and harassment – ‘they’re trying to disconnect us from our stories’

www.theguardian.com

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Kate DePalma @katedepalma.bsky.social · 2d

YES! Years ago I wrote an article about how @barefootbooks.bsky.social developed our version of Little Red Riding Hood to preserve the message about safety but strip out the sexualization of Little Red. It was SUCH a neat article but the publication folded and the article seems to be gone forever.

Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 3d

periodic reminder that if you write stuff that's published on the web for a publication you yourself do not own, PDF that shit as soon as it goes live

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Feana Tu’akoi @feanatuakoi.bsky.social · 3d

‘Ideas are like fish.’ 🐠

David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 7d

I am going to need a bigger boat...

#poetry
#amwriting
#quoteoftheday

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3d

Donald Trump is breaching the Constitution and breaking the law.

A show of force so he can militarize our cities because of the 2026 elections.

We need to stand up together and speak up.

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 3d

Listen. ONE of the reasons I rock with Dolly (Capricorn Gang) is because she’s always proven to me that integrity may cause you pain, but it will never be the reason you suffer. Which is not to say that suffering won’t come, but it’ll never be because you abandoned yourself. That’ll keep you going.

PJR23 @stixx23.bsky.social · 3d

I hear she has supported school bands as well: www.thepinknews.com/2022/10/10/d...

Dolly Parton quietly funded Black school bands: 'The woman is a national treasure'

Dolly Parton paid for band uniforms and instruments for kids at majority Black high schools with zero publicity, a writer has revealed.

www.thepinknews.com

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Kate DePalma @katedepalma.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks, I've added you! :)

Kate DePalma @katedepalma.bsky.social · 4d

You are already on my list! :)

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Kate DePalma @katedepalma.bsky.social · 4d

If you think you'd be perfect to write or illustrate a book in this series, or know someone who would be, please reply and let me know! We will add you to our database of potential contributors. 🌍📚

Happy #dvpit day y'all!

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Kate DePalma @katedepalma.bsky.social · 4d

Attention #dvpit #PB authors and illustrators!

@barefootbooks.bsky.social has a line of board books about different countries around the world called Our World:
www.barefootbooks.com/our-world-se...

We work with authors and illustrators from the featured countries to create each book.

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Our World Series | Ages 0-4 years | Barefoot Books

Explore more in our series of global learning books for babies and toddlers!

www.barefootbooks.com

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Kate DePalma @katedepalma.bsky.social · 4d

We here at @barefootbooks.bsky.social are cheering on #dvpit today! Our editorial team is deep in deadline season and not able to participate this time around but we will be at the next one. 💗

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Barefoot Books @barefootbooks.bsky.social · 5d

Happy book birthday to three new Our World titles! 🎈🎂

Watch the northern lights dance in the sky in Iceland, snack on some chôm chôm in Vietnam, and play ice hockey in Canada!

Click the link to get your copies! tinyurl.com/7upvwjj6

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Kate DePalma @katedepalma.bsky.social · 5d

I really try not to let football outcomes impact my daily life but I have to say that learning that the Jags beat KC last night just put the biggest smile on my face

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Kate DePalma @katedepalma.bsky.social · 8d

I was researching for a book in progress to see if we have any extant quotes from Pocahontas and I guess I walked right into this one

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Kate DePalma @katedepalma.bsky.social · 9d

This Friday finds me in the approximate condition of a Looney Tunes character with loose piano keys for teeth

Kate DePalma @katedepalma.bsky.social · 10d

I got to talk picture book endmatter and prelims with the gigantic minds at @pubspotlight.bsky.social today and my brain is TINGLING! I feel lucky to know y'all.

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Basil 🌿 @basil-mage.bsky.social · 24d

Bruh

Drawing if a tired puppy with the caption; "This too shall pass but like wtf"

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Kate DePalma @katedepalma.bsky.social · 24d

Couldn't have said it better myself 👀

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Kate DePalma @katedepalma.bsky.social · Sep 12

This week as I absolutely flail my way toward a huge deadline I am grateful for this article about the Millennium Dome. It reminded me that it could be worse -- at least I'm scrambling to finish something that doesn't suck!

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020...

Was the Millennium Dome really so bad? The inside story of a (not so) total disaster

The long read: Even before it opened, the Dome had become a byword for failure. But two decades on, it could be time for a reassessment

www.theguardian.com

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Em Brunson-Frederick @bemmmer.bsky.social · Sep 10

Read to your kids so they’ll have an ounce of empathy, I’m begging you

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Kate DePalma @katedepalma.bsky.social · Sep 10

Do you ever get the sense that the entire children’s publishing industry is made up of like 100 extremely overworked people doing the job of about 10000 people?

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Patrick Daugherty @rotopat.bsky.social · Sep 7

Justin Fields and Aaron Rodgers one-upping each other in today's dual revenge game

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Kate DePalma @katedepalma.bsky.social · Sep 7

WHAT A F&%$ING FOOTBALL GAME HOLY S%$T GO STEELERS