I love everything @humanities_tn does, when they asked me to redo the logo for @chapter.16 I did jumping jacks. Literary news, articles, and events for Tennessee? I’m never not hearkening to their whisperings and recommendations. We settled on a direction but i do have fondness for some others!

Can you even ever actually!!!!

Last chance to preorder “Dragonflies of Glass” from @parnassusbooks.bsky.social in time to get a complimentary print! Some nice reviews rolled in past few weeks in advance of release!

I love @jamiattenberg.bsky.social !!! Last time I went to see her was at the Harvard Bookstore 9 years ago and tonight at @thebookshopnash.bsky.social My mom observed “Jami doesn’t put any space between herself and others” and it’s like, truuuuuue

Illustrator: Can you send me pictures of like 3 of the shop dogs to include in the catalog art?
Parnassus store manager: Ohhh…there are 5 shop dogs. We can either show all of them or none.
Illustrator: I understand. Send all the dogs.
#independentbookstores #illustration #childrensbookillustration

“…a man’s reach should exceed his grasp. So should a child’s. For myself, I will never talk down to—or draw down to—children." (2 of 2)
—Barbara Cooney, 1959
#childrensbooks #kidlit #barbaracooney #libraries #authors #illustrators

"I believe that children in this country need a more robust literary diet than they are getting…It does not hurt them to read about good and evil, love and hate, life and death Nor do I think they should read only about things that they understand... (1 of 2)