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Robin Brett Wechsler
@robinbwechsler.bsky.social
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Children's author, freelance editor/writer. An avid reader, walker, baker, voter, museum goer, bird feeder. Cat lady. Likely drinking tea.
12x12 I Courage to Create I SCBWI member
Writers' Loft member and PBCG leader
2025 PB Rising Stars HM
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Robin Brett Wechsler @robinbwechsler.bsky.social · Apr 11
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So many #PictureBooks have #SocialScience themes that we’d like to bring to attention of #NCSS2025 and #collectiondevelopment staff at home, beginning with Music of the Mountains @barefootbooks.bsky.social Booth 701 www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
MUSIC OF THE MOUNTAINS | Kirkus Reviews
A Pashtun girl hopes to honor her ancestors with a school performance.
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December 6, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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This classroom-ready lesson helps students notice details, ask meaningful questions & record their discoveries in science notebooks
Integrates inquiry-based learning, writing, & scientific thinking
👉🏼 www.patriciamnewman.com?p=13126

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December 3, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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If you've seen the latest season of "Stranger Things," you might have noticed the iconic cover of "A Wrinkle in Time" that Holly was reading. For a long time, nobody knew who had illustrated that cover -- until an enterprising Redditor got Endless Thread on the case:
Artist: Known — Illustrator for 'A Wrinkle in Time' gets long-overdue credit
The cover art for the 1976 paperback edition of Madeleine L'Engle's classic sci-fi/fantasy novel "A Wrinkle in Time" — featuring a winged centaur and a glowering, red-eyed face — is iconic. And yet, f...
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December 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Books for young readers reflect the reality that Indigenous people live on reservations, in cities, and all the places in between. In fact, upwards of 80% of Native people live in suburbs, off-rez small towns, or cities, with many regularly returning to visit their tribal homelands. #KidLit
Book Covers in a collage In YÁADILÁ! (GOOD GRIEF!), written by Laurel Goodluck (Mandan-Hidatsa-Tsimshian), illustrated by Jonathan Nelson (Diné), a Navajo family moves their grandmother, Nali, from her sheep camp home to their house, experiences hilarious frustration, and shows loving support for her. In TO WALK THE SKY: HOW IROQUOIS STEELWORKERS HELPED BUILD TOWERING CITIES, written by Patricia Morris Buckley (Mohawk), illustrated by E.B. Lewis (Lenni-Lenape), we find out how generations of Native workers have built a legacy of landmarks all over the North American continent—and even today, there are Native Americans still climbing up among the clouds, brave enough to walk the sky. In FIREFLY SEASON by Cynthia Leitch Smith (Muscogee), illustrated by Kate Gardiner (Nipmuck), suburban Kansas Citians and found sisters travel to the Mvskoke rez in Oklahoma and across the seas to India, following paths to family, culture, and wonder.
November 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Our first dual podcast episode! Just in time for the Hanukkah season. Enjoy The Borrow Hanukkah Latkes as we pair today with @bookoflife.bsky.social on the @fuse8nkate.bsky.social podcast! #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2025/11/30/f...
Fuse 8 n’ Kate: With Special Guest Heidi Rabinowitz, The Borrowed Hanukkah Latkes by Linda Glaser, ill. Nancy Cote
Our first dual podcast episode! Just in time for the Hanukkah season.
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November 30, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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#kidlit #bookreview THE BAGEL WHO WANTED EVERYTHING is at YABC!
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#somethingforeveryone #beyourbest
November 30, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Happy #FungiFriday! 💚
I love when fungi, ferns, lichen, and moss hang out together. Photo taken this summer at beautiful Cook Forest State Park.
mushroom in the center has a rust-colored cap and white, brown, and red stalk; there is a rock to the right with some lichen, moss, and fallen leaf matter; a fern grows behind the mushroom; a plant with thin leaves grows to the left
November 28, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Thank you @slj.com for this wonderful news!
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#TLsky #Skybrarian #schoollibraries #edusky #kidlit
November 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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"She had so much hope for saving this planet. We mustn’t disappoint Jane." We talk today with Jane Goodall's picture book biographer Patrick McDonnell about her life and legacy. #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2025/11/11/m...
Memorium…Jane: Patrick McDonnell Discusses Jane Goodall
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November 11, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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'Silhouettes' by Vermont printmaker Jeanne Amato #womensart
Print featuring a forest slope in snow with trees trunks causing long shadows in the low winter light
November 23, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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#KidLit events may be winding down for the holidays, but I just added a bunch of new events for 2026! Check out the updated list and sign up for weekly emails so you can stay in the know! #pb #mg #YA

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#KidLitEvents
November 22, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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WITH A NEEDLE AND THREAD: A JEWISH FOLKTALE FROM CUBA "teaches the value of conserving household items and materials for future, repurposed use; incorporates some Jewish life-cycle events...and introduces Cuban geography and history” www.sdjewishworld.com/2025/10/17/j....
November 16, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Happy (belated) International Inventors Day! kinderbookswitheverything.blogspot.com/2025/11/9th-...

@steamteambooks.bsky.social #bookposse #teachers #librarians #educators#bookstagram #booktok #homeschoolers #edusky #scicomm #STEM #STEAM #WomenInSTEM #edtechchat #WomenWhoCode #WomenInTech
November 12, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Q&A with Audrey Ades about her new children's picture book, JASON BELONGS.
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November 5, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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You never know what will come out of a broken crayon. #Uplift

More broken crayons, classroom activities, my broken crayon #KidLit picture book with Linda Sue Park: debbieohi.com/resources/re...
A broken brown crayon is arranged so the tip points downward, with the broken end positioned above a drawing. The drawn figure is a bundled-up child in winter clothing holding a mug with a heart on it. A line from the crayon’s broken bit, connects to the mug as if pouring liquid into it.
November 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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GATHER GRATEFUL, written by me with rich and gorgeous art by Alexandra Finkeldey, has been out in the world for a whole month!!

So grateful for all the love, reviews, readings…and everything yet to come.

🧡🍂🧡🍂

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October 16, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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An interview with Jeff Gottesfeld about FIGHT FOR THE RIGHT TO READ coauthored by Michelle Y Green & illustrated by Kim Holt yabookscentral.com/author-chat-...
November 12, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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In Spark: Jim West's Electrifying Adventures in Creating the Microphone, Ainissa Ramirez introduces readers aged 5-9 to inventor Jim West. It’s the 1st of her children’s picture books on Black innovators. www.nasw.org/member_artic... bsky.app/profile/aini... ScienceWriters.org #SciWriBooks
October 23, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Mark your calendar, Greater Boston - because THIS is an event you DON'T want to miss! The 2nd Annual Newton Children's Book Festival will be held at the New Art Center in Newtonville, MA from 11am-3pm on Sunday, 11/16.

art credit: @jannieho.bsky.social
#booksky #kidlit
November 6, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Today I’m celebrating the release of my dear amiga’s book 📕♥️

Congratulations, Maritere! 🥳

I invite you to read this lovely interview to learn more about Maritere’s book and journey.

https://marianariosramirez.com/tio-ricky-doesnt-speak-english/

#kidlit #bilingual #pb #picturebooks
November 4, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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November is Native American Heritage Month! We celebrate and honor the traditions, culture, and community of the country’s Native and Indigenous peoples. Here are some projects we once funded when we weren’t infiltrated by evil overlords.

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NEH Resources for Native American Heritage Month
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November 1, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Every act pushes the resistance forward. MAGA accounts are out in force claiming none of it will make a difference but if your voice didn’t matter, they wouldn’t try so hard to silence it. Your voice matters. Remember to vote!
November 2, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Join #CanKidList #kidlit creators at these free November events hosted by #SCBWICanadaEast. For more information and to register, visit www.scbwi.org/regions/cana...
November 2025 Canada East Chapter FREE Events Calendar: Nov. 6 @ 7:00 p.m. - BIPOC Talk (online) Nov. 10 @ 5:00 p.m. — PAL Shop Talk (online) Nov. 19 @ 7:00 p.m. — Bookish (online) Nov. 20 @ 7:00 p.m. — Drawn Together (online) Nov. 22 @ 10:00 a.m. — Translator Shop Talk (online) Nov. 22 @ 1:00 p.m. — Montreal Mingle (in-person) Nov. 23 @ 10:00 a.m. — GTA Sketch & Scrawl (in-person) Nov. 27 @ 7:00 p.m. — The Write Idea (online) Nov. 29 @ 11:00 a.m. — GTA Mingle (in-person) The calendar includes the SCBWI logo, and is surrounded by a scattering of words to describe the events: book club, laughs, mingles, learning, get-togethers, networking, shop talks, and sharing. Register for FREE at https://www.scbwi.org/regions/canada-east/events. All times listed are ET (Eastern Time)
November 1, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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I’m doing a book giveaway as a guest blogger at @bandersonwriter.bsky.social ’s blog at bethandersonwriter.com/2025/10/31/b...

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Behind the Scenes Halloween Edition: “Making It Scary Meant Facing My Haunted Past” by Stan Yan
Happy Halloween! There’s a lot of scary stuff out there. But there can also be a lot of scary stuff inside oneself! With THE MANY MISFORTUNES OF EUGENIA WANG, amazing author/illustrator Stan …
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November 1, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Happy Halloween!🎃 Have a fun and safe night! #kidlitart #kidlit #illustration #art #halloween
October 31, 2025 at 4:11 PM