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Jen Gennari

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Kidlit author! STIFLED (2026!), MUFFLED, MY MIXED-UP BERRY BLUE SUMMER. Teacher, editor, word lover. Earth fan. Tree hugger. Water baby. www.jengennari.com

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Jen Gennari @jengennari.bsky.social · Aug 8

This month’s book recs: Ishi Robinson’s Sweetness and Everything by @randyribay.bsky.social #booksky jengennari.substack.com/p/for-reader...

For Readers: Books that take us places

Change your perspective this August

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Jen Gennari @jengennari.bsky.social · 1d

Congrats to the finalists! Yay! Lots to read!
@nationalbook.bsky.social #kidlit

Finalists for the Young People's Literature award National Book Foundation.

Jen Gennari @jengennari.bsky.social · 4d

A silent brass ring
who was welcomed at this door—
who did we shut out?

#haikuSaturday

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 5d

History repeats.

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Jen Gennari @jengennari.bsky.social · 9d

Oh so nice (and true!)

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Jen Gennari @jengennari.bsky.social · 13d

Speak out against #censorship!

Jo Knowles @joknowles.bsky.social · 13d

Silencing authors leads to silencing kids. Many of us have witnessed the way a book has empowered a child to speak up for themselves or others. To get help. This is how change happens. Predators want to shut this down. That’s the tragedy of censorship. And it’s happening everywhere.

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Michelle Witte @michellewitte.bsky.social · 16d

Okay, everyone. I'm about to run a final spellcheck on a manuscript using the non-AI version of Microsoft Word (I had to cancel and ask for the cheaper special subscription to get it). Let's see how bad AI in general has f-ed up even the non-AI spelling and grammar check.

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Jen Gennari @jengennari.bsky.social · 17d

SUN day in Burlington VT! ☀️Day of action ! More solar for more people 💪🏻 #renewableEnergy @thirdactorg.bsky.social

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Jen Gennari @jengennari.bsky.social · 18d

Lovely!

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Betsy Bird @fuse8.bsky.social · 22d

Fall prediction time! Our penultimate prediction post before final considerations. Here are the titles I think have the best show at the two major literary awards. Do you agree? Disagree? Find out! #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2025/09/17/2...

2026 Newbery/Caldecott Fall Prediction Edition

Our penultimate prediction post before final considerations. Here are the titles I think have the best show at the two major literary awards. Do you agree? Disagree? Find out!

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Jen Gennari @jengennari.bsky.social · 25d

Aw thank you!

Jen Gennari @jengennari.bsky.social · 25d

Amazing!

Jen Gennari @jengennari.bsky.social · 26d

Indeed! I’m @highlightsfound.bsky.social right now!

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Jen Gennari @jengennari.bsky.social · 26d

Thank you! I feel the warmth of this community 💚

Jen Gennari @jengennari.bsky.social · 26d

Layered stone on stone
crafted lines like sentences
story in the woods

#haikuSaturday

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Cheryl B. Klein @cherylklein.bsky.social · 29d

Once again: the House and Senate passed a national childcare bill in 1971, sponsored by Shirley Chisholm & Bella Abzug among others — and effing Nixon vetoed it! Time to right the wrong!

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · Sep 9

I shit you not whoever runs on this nationally is doing Reagan numbers when it comes election time.

KRQE News 13 @krqe.com · Sep 9

Governor announces New Mexico will now provide free universal child care

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Jen Gennari @jengennari.bsky.social · Sep 7

Thank you so much! (We said goodbye to my aunt)

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Jen Gennari @jengennari.bsky.social · Sep 6

Haha

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Jen Gennari @jengennari.bsky.social · Sep 6

Ocean-breath rises
wet-kisses the stony shore
re-cycling wonder

#haikuSaturday #grateful

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · Sep 3

We are overdue for a “ Have you no decency” kind of moment.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 2

Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"

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Jen Gennari @jengennari.bsky.social · Aug 30

Red tomatoes, green
fall chill creeps into August
more sun-ripe days please

#haikuSaturday

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Jen Gennari @jengennari.bsky.social · Aug 30

Haha!

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · Aug 28

Good morning everyone. I hope you are okay today - especially you, Minneapolis. Check on your neighbors. Call your family members. Smile at children and old people. Pound your swords into plowshares. Topple tyrants with righteousness. Call your reps. Demand the cessation of gun sales. Pet a puppy.

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Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · Aug 25

Dear Democrats (and everyone):

No, doing something about Trump is NOT going to wait for midterms.

(Which should have been obvious from Day 1, but here we are. So DO SOMETHING!)

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 25

REPORTER: Are you prepared to order National Guard troops into American cities if those governors don't request the federal deployment?

TRUMP: I am

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Jen Gennari @jengennari.bsky.social · Aug 24

Great list! Lots to read.
#kidlit

Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic @grubreport.bsky.social · Aug 24

OH MY ZODx2!!

💚🧠Look who's on this list from the Washington Post among so many other amazing creators of kidlit! 🧠💚

#ZombieAndBrainAreFriends

@laancham.bsky.social @alexborbolla.bsky.social

Librarians pick the best new books for kids this fall

This season’s standout books for kids and teens include new work by Sy Montgomery, Chris Grabenstein and Lakita Wilson.

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Jen Gennari @jengennari.bsky.social · Aug 24

Thank you!