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Faith Lapka Richardson @faithr.bsky.social · 9d

Oh, my. Such a powerful PB. It's like an intricate miniature of our history ... traveling our street, our timeline. Amazing book. Thanks for sharing, Karen Krossing. #kidlit #writingcommunity

Karen Krossing @karenkrossing.com · 23d

Thanks for hosting me, @picturebookseh.bsky.social!
@groundwoodbooks.bsky.social #CANkidlit #kidlit

Picture books, eh! @picturebookseh.bsky.social · 23d

New blog! "Karen Krossing Introduces My Street Remembers" @karenkrossing.com

"My Street Remembers peels back the history of one city street in North America to reveal the greater story of the land on which we live."

#cankidlit #kidlit

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Faith Lapka Richardson @faithr.bsky.social · 9d

So many phenomenal picture books this evening at the CANSCAIP PB event! I got those beautiful story shivers with this one ... thank you for sharing tonight, Laura Alary 🔦 #kidlit #writingcommunity

Picture books, eh! @picturebookseh.bsky.social · 20d

New blog! "Who Needs the Dark?" by Laura Alary @lauraalary.bsky.social

"When I was little I was scared of the dark. Like many children, I imagined shapeless creatures lurking in my closet or under the bed..."

Link to full blog below!

#Cankidlit #kidlit

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Who Needs the Dark? by Laura Alary

Cover of Who Needs the Dark? By Laura Alary. Illustrated by Risa Hugo. Published by Owlkids.

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Faith Lapka Richardson @faithr.bsky.social · 9d

RFK Jr. was never fit to be Department of Health and Human Services secretary—and his failed leadership since his confirmation has put lives in danger. Sign the petition! sign.moveon.org/petitions/fi...

Faith Lapka Richardson @faithr.bsky.social · 17d

Wow ... shades of today. Really sad that we are repeating history.

Principles Before Personalities @lizzyvoice.bsky.social · 18d

This is exactly what the orange fascist is doing to America.
Timothy Snyder said, "history instructs."
Post-WW2 Anti-Fascist Educational Film | Don't Be a Sucker | 1947
Please take 17 minutes to watch this👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K6-...

Post-WW2 Anti-Fascist Educational Film | Don't Be a Sucker | 1947

YouTube video by The Best Film Archives

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Faith Lapka Richardson @faithr.bsky.social · 25d

I'm in!

#kidlit #writingchallenge #writingcommunity #writesky

Lisa Cowan Pineo @lisacowanpineo.bsky.social · 25d

KidlitWriMo is coming asuen.com/kidlitwrimo-...
#kidlitwrimo #kidlit #middlegrade #picturebook #chapterbook #youngadult #beginningreader #october2025

KidlitWriMo is coming - Anastasia Suen

KidlitWriMo is coming #amwriting #kidlit #30for30 in October #picturebook #beginningreader #chapterbook #middlegrade #YAlit

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Sandra Proudman @sandraproudman.bsky.social · Aug 27

*Please Repost and Share*

IT'S THE LAST DAY TO BID IN THE WE THE PEOPLE SUMMER FUNDRAISER! Bidding will end at 6:15 PT / 9:15 ET today.

www.32auctions.com/WeThePeopleSummerAuction

XOXO
Sandra

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Faith Lapka Richardson @faithr.bsky.social · Aug 23

Fable has mad skills as a cucumber pointer. A must-have helper in the chaos garden when Greek salad is on the menu!

A chaos garden with Dalmatian pointing at a hidden cucumber. in the foreground, a metal colander full of freshly picked tomatoes and basil.

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Faith Lapka Richardson @faithr.bsky.social · Aug 20

I love this wildly productive time when the garden is going mad with flowers and fruit ... and I'm flinging out words like zucchini! #writingcommunity #kidlit #amquerying

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Faith Lapka Richardson @faithr.bsky.social · Aug 20

Wow. They must really be afraid of 'the Libs' ... what did 'the Libs' do to them??! Asking for a friend.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Aug 20

Because nothing says “you should feel free to come visit Washington” like standing in front of dozens of armed soldiers next to a guy who thinks women shouldn’t be able to vote 🙃

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MSNBC @msnbc.com · Aug 19

"It's just wrong to require grown people to get a permission slip to roam about freely. So, I resisted, I objected, the only way I knew how."

TX State Rep. Nicole Collier on why she will remain locked inside the Austin statehouse chamber until the House reconvenes.

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Faith Lapka Richardson @faithr.bsky.social · Aug 14

Okay. Officially having an attack of 'Writer's Kalopsia' 😆Suddenly fascinated by the wonderful word 'nor' ... 'no' plus 'or.' NOR Amazing! 🤣😂🤣 #writingcommunity #wip #kidlit #amquerying

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Faith Lapka Richardson @faithr.bsky.social · Aug 13

Just saw this! Yeah, kinda, but I actually ping off the horse's bored, or interested reactions ... probably based on my own inflection and energy, but they do react in different ways to my verbal wanderings!

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Faith Lapka Richardson @faithr.bsky.social · Aug 13

Smoky skies over Puck's head. Horses are now inside with hay, and I'm on my computer. No plum picking for now.

Bay horse forehead and ears, smoky orange sky above with hidden sun.

smoky sky treeline with orange encircled sun

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Faith Lapka Richardson @faithr.bsky.social · Aug 13

Good memoir and essay (like this) may save our history from this escalation in whitewashing. LOVED THIS. open.substack.com/pub/thinkbig...

Mohawk Skywalkers: The History Stephen Miller Whitewashed

The Kanien'kéhá:ka Haudenosaunee ironworkers were vital to building Miller's favorite monuments to modern America

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Faith Lapka Richardson @faithr.bsky.social · Aug 12

Not sure whether to pick that flower or worship it ... Strange alien communication? Making my tinfoil hat now! (okay, anything to avoid working on this next chapter.) 😉🤣😬👽#wip #writingcommunity

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Faith Lapka Richardson @faithr.bsky.social · Aug 4

I tell the story to my horses. Literally sit on a mounting block surrounded by my horses and tell them the story. Then I wonder out loud with them. Somehow, in that horse discussion, the story moves!

Nino Cipri @ninocipri.bsky.social · Aug 4

If I'm stuck while outlining, I'll start a list called "Stupid things that could happen next" and write a bunch of nonsense ideas down. Pterodactyl attack. Everyone starts singing. Someone transforms into a werewolf.

Eventually the ideas become less stupid, and usually I find a solution.

Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · Aug 4

Alright, share your terrible writing tips that actually work.

Mine is: stop for the day in the middle of a paragraph, a sentence, even in the middle of a word. It feels SO wrong but it makes it 1000x easier to pick up the thread the next day.

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Faith Lapka Richardson @faithr.bsky.social · Aug 4

We all have that same choice: the choice to STOP homophobia.

LGBTQ Shrink @drronholt.bsky.social · Aug 2

Homosexuality is not a choice, but homophobia is.

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Faith Lapka Richardson @faithr.bsky.social · Aug 4

I love this idea ... I've not seen a Venn diagram poem before. Great job!!!

Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · Aug 4

The mathematician John Venn was born on this day in 1834. To commemorate the occasion, here’s a poem in the form of a Venn diagram.

Poem title: At the Intersection

The poem is divided into two overlapping circles.

The left-hand circle is titled ‘me’ and the text reads:
the day we
went out to have
an ice-cream, we said nothing
just let our silence melt in
the air as we walked across the common
our love never tiring at all

The right-hand circle is titled ‘you’ and the text reads:
we should
have talked it over but
nothing ever seems to get
in your fat head. You are so
common that I wish we’d never met
at all and I’d married Tim instead

In the intersection of the poem (where the two circles overlap), the text reads:
we
have
nothing
in
common
at all

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Faith Lapka Richardson @faithr.bsky.social · Aug 4

Berry, Destroyer of Worlds, with his evil genius sister, Honey. They've taken out one pod and one umbrella and are now ready for breakfast. It's a good day. #WIP #BerryDestroyerofWorlds #kidlit #amquerying

Honey the goat standing beside a wrecked dog 'igloo' or pod, and a tattered sun umbrella.

Berry standing on a second dog 'igloo' or pod, starting his attack on it, too.

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Faith Lapka Richardson @faithr.bsky.social · Jul 31

Every bloom reminds me to pray for nurses. It's a tough profession. Stay safe, keep burnout away, my colleagues! Thankful for a wonderful class of nursing students who gifted me this lovely plant when they graduated a few years ago. #nursing #caregivers #nursesky

apricot rose and rosebud against a weathered wood porch railing

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Faith Lapka Richardson @faithr.bsky.social · Jul 23

We need Colbert’s bold and frank commentary now as much as ever, and we need to stop corporations like CBS from cowing to political intimidation of this administration. Add your name to the petition to demand they reverse their decision and keep Colbert on air! sign.moveon.org/petitions/co...

Keep Colbert on Air!

We need Colbert’s bold and frank commentary now as much as ever, and we need to stop corporations like CBS from cowing to political intimidation of this administration. Add your name to the petition t...

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Faith Lapka Richardson @faithr.bsky.social · Jul 22

Berry, Destroyer of Worlds. #wip #kidlit #writingcommunity

disgruntled goat "Berry" in a green hammock.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · Jul 16

74% of teens use AI for friendship. Half talk to their AI friend EVERY DAY. One-third report the AI has said something that makes them uncomfortable.

AI friendship bots are a freight train headed for our kids. It's malpractice not to protect them.

Teens flock to companion bots despite risks

Nearly three-quarters of teens have chatbot friends, according to a new survey.

www.axios.com

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Faith Lapka Richardson @faithr.bsky.social · Jul 15

Yup. Impostor syndrome doesn't care about any past success ... it's kind of like that Jack-in-Box pop up that scares the heck out of kids the first 101 times they play with it. Then, it doesn't. You just sort of realize it's going to happen! And carry on. 😄

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Faith Lapka Richardson @faithr.bsky.social · Jul 14

Penelope waiting for her hay. "I get it, Penelope," she said, rechecking her email again. #amquerying #kidlit #writingcommunity #writesky

Miniature appaloosa horse standing in front of an old red barn, waiting for her hay.

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