We are honored! Thank you Eric Carle Museum! #goodbooksmakeadifference

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NEW. PEN America's latest report on school book banning in the 21-22 school year.

2,532 bans
1,648 unique titles
1,553 authors, illustrators, translators
138 districts
32 states
5,049 schools
4 mil students

🧵 pen.org/report/banned-…

Good info here!

Teach!

Happy birthday author, activist and Black Arts Movement pioneer Useni Eugene Perkins!! We’re so happy you’re part of the Just Us Books family and wish you many more blessed years!

incredible!

Where history and biography meet via The Horn Book

Six nonfiction books for middle-grade readers that merge the lines between history book and biography including Defiant by Wade Hudson

hbook.com/story/where-hi…

Cheryl and I are proud to be recognized as 2022 Carle Honors Mentors at the Annual Carle Honors Benefit Gala on 9/29. Learn about the event and support the Eric Carle Museum, an amazing organization that inspires a love of art & reading through picture books: bit.ly/RegisterCarle2…

Join the movement. Support our freedom to read and write!

When you attend your school board meeting to speak out in favor of all kids and book access for everyone, if you’re not sure what to say and how to say it, share this letter! 👇👇

Fighting book bans at the school board? Remember...

'Our Constitution does not permit the official suppression of ideas'

- William J. Brennan, writing for the plurality about the unconstitutional removal of books in school libraries, in Island Trees v. Pico (1982)

Don’t miss #REIYL2022 - Aug 12 & 13.

The theme is Safe Passage: Trauma Recovery and Community Restoration in Inclusive Youth Literature and Beyond

Keynote by Renee Watson; sessions ft Carole Boston Weatherford, Cheryl and Wade Hudson & more

reiyl.com/coming-up-next

Congratulations @Author_DDB & and Vanessa Brantley-Newton! THE QUEEN OF KINDERGARTEN is a New York Times Books bestseller! 🎉🎉🎉

A massive THANK YOU to all the teachers and librarians that have shared this joyful picture book with your young readers! 💕

Thanks for reading #theTalk

Commit this to memory. #freedomtoread

❓Did you know the 🏆KIDS' BOOK CHOICE AWARDS is the only national book awards program where the finalists & winners are picked by young people? 📚Kids vote for their top 5 in each category: everychildareader.net/finalists-2022…
No Adults Allowed! Every Child a Reader CBC Book KidLit TV

This work is so worthy of Kids’ Book Choice Award. No longer a kid but I vote YES!❤️

Video editor are amazing too. Just try editing 60 minutes down to 3! #kidlit