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Emma Kantor
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Writer, film lover, Italian speaker, & senior editor, children's books, at Publishers Weekly (@pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social). Words in NYT Mag, the Millions, Electric Lit, Lit Hub, Hey Alma, & more. All quips my own. Brooklyn, NY. emmakantor.com
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Emma Kantor @emkantor.bsky.social · 8d
Thank you for leading the way! 📚🌏❤️
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Emma Kantor @emkantor.bsky.social · 8d
*Translated from the Italian by the brilliant Jack Zipes!* (Darn that Bluesky character limit!)
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Emma Kantor @emkantor.bsky.social · 8d
Happy International Translation Day and final day of World Kid Lit Month! So great to join illustrator Matthew Forsythe and Claudia Zoe Bedrick @enchantedlion.bsky.social for a conversation about THE GRAMMAR OF FANTASY by Italian author/educator Gianni Rodari. Buona lettura! @worldkidlit.bsky.social
Emma Kantor of Publishers Weekly and author-illustrator Matthew Forsythe at Sullaluna bookstore + bistro in NYC. Members of the audience joined in a drawing game inspired by Gianni Rodari's concept of the fantastic binomial, combining unexpected words/ideas at random to create the spark for a story. Pairs included "fairy + overalls"; "chicken + pizzazz"; "pig + escalator"; "pencil + garden" + more.
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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 9d
Danke @emkantor.bsky.social for writing about the upcoming Frankfurt Kids Conference at #fbm25 @buchmesse.de (which I am again moderating) for @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social

www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

This year with a keynote by Axel Scheffler!

#kidlit #booksky #buchsky #kidlituk
Frankfurt Book Fair 2025: Children’s Books in a Fragile World
This year’s Frankfurt Kids Conference will address the importance of engaging young readers in times of global unrest.
www.publishersweekly.com
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Emma Kantor @emkantor.bsky.social · 9d
Always a pleasure speaking with you about your good work, Lawrence! Wishing you all a positive and productive conference.
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Emma Kantor @emkantor.bsky.social · 9d
Required reading for cinephiles. I've been fortunate to attend the Bologna Children's Book Fair for the past few years. Next on my agenda: Il Cinema Ritrovato festival. @newyorker.com
The Exacting Magic of Film Restoration
Each year, at a festival in Bologna, movies that were once lost or damaged come back to life.
www.newyorker.com
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Writers Guild of America East @wgaeast.bsky.social · 21d
The following is a statement from the WGA on ABC’s decision to pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’
WGA Statement on ABC's Decision to Pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice. As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree. Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich. Silencing us impoverishes the whole world. The WGA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.
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Emma Kantor @emkantor.bsky.social · 21d
The Summer I Turned Pretty support group meeting starts NOW.
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Emma Kantor @emkantor.bsky.social · 21d
The A-Team: "I love it when a plan comes together."

Me: "I love it when a plan is canceled."
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Emma Kantor @emkantor.bsky.social · 22d
Three of us?! That sounds like a party.
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Alissa Wilkinson @alissawilkinson.bsky.social · 22d
My appreciation of Robert Redford, the star of THE CANDIDATE, who knew the power of the camera and tried to turn it in the right direction.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...
As an Activist, Robert Redford Understood the Power of Celebrity
www.nytimes.com
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Emma Kantor @emkantor.bsky.social · 22d
Oct 2 is my 35th Yom Kippur birthday too! No film plans as of yet. Maybe I'll rewatch Atonement.
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Emma Kantor @emkantor.bsky.social · 25d
I forgot that I had a paper cut until I reached into a jar of pickles.
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Emma Kantor @emkantor.bsky.social · 27d
Saw a new phrase on the dating apps: "casual ties over casualties."
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Emma Kantor @emkantor.bsky.social · Sep 5
This entire series is essential viewing. www.bam.org/film/2025/tr...
First As Tragedy, Then As Farce: Anti-Fascist Comedies
Filmmakers poke fun at authoritarianism by provoking laughter, thought and direct action.
www.bam.org
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Emma Kantor @emkantor.bsky.social · Sep 5
Trump to Sign Order Renaming the Defense Department as the Department of War
Duck Soup (10/10) Movie CLIP - To War (1933) HD
YouTube video by Movieclips
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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · Sep 4
I've got a really fun piece over @slj.com about Jane Austen turning 250. What are the ways her work has been remixed, retold, and revisited in YA? It's a stellar array of authors weighing in: www.slj.com/story/agelev...
Austen Ever After: YA authors revisit, remix Jane Austen’s work
This year marks the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth, and over the last half-decade, YA adaptations have brought even more excitement to her work.
www.slj.com
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Emma Kantor @emkantor.bsky.social · Aug 31
Ha! This was my first viewing, and I loved it. Glad it wasn't on a teeny tiny screen.
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Emma Kantor @emkantor.bsky.social · Aug 31
I went to a screening of "Lawrence of Arabia" today. Boy, that was long.

I'm referring to the line for the men's room at intermission.
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Emma Kantor @emkantor.bsky.social · Aug 30
I had my dad in my phone as "ICE" for "In Case of Emergency," but then I realized that could be misconstrued under our current regime.
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Emma Kantor @emkantor.bsky.social · Aug 20
Illuminating essay by Carlos Valladares (@cvall96.bsky.social) on cinema *luminary* Néstor Almendros. I can't wait to check out the Metrograph series and his autobiography, 'A Man with a Camera'!
Five Essential Lessons from Néstor Almendros - Journal - Metrograph
Encountering the master cinematographer through his own words.
metrograph.com
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Emma Kantor @emkantor.bsky.social · Aug 14
Biting into the leftover half of a bell pepper like it's an apple. Is this a cry for help, or a sweet homage to The Very Hungry Caterpillar?
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Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social · Aug 4
Jane Austen was a satirist – why isn’t she treated like one?
theconversation.com/jane-austen-...
Jane Austen was a satirist – why isn’t she treated like one?
Although many women writers were critiquing society in the 18th century, hardly any of them were considered satirists.
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Emma Kantor @emkantor.bsky.social · Aug 5
“Just because a book is tiny and its readers are little doesn’t mean it can’t be perfect. On its own scale, it can be as good as Tolstoy or Jane Austen.”

RIP Allan Ahlberg. "The Jolly Postman" was one of my childhood favorites and it is a work of epistolary perfection.
Allan Ahlberg, Whose Children’s Books Were Best Sellers, Dies at 87
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Emma Kantor @emkantor.bsky.social · Aug 5
"At first I thought the grandpa did it..."

I really wish I'd overheard the rest of this conversation.