Expression that’s making me smile today: Getting the partridge dizzy. It means “beating around the bush” in Spanish. 📷: Tisha Mukherjee, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Reminder #kidlit friends: this Thursday, September 3rd is #KidLitArtPostcard day! www.ginaperry.com/postcard

All about KidLitArtPostcard — Gina Perry Children's Book Author and Illustrator

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Anthology Update: Dream a Wild Breeze dirigibleballoon.org #DirigibleBalloon #PoetryForChildren 🎈 #KeepMeBreathing #YearOfReading2026 📖

I didn't think @troystory.bsky.social could write anything more heartwarming than HAT CAT, but he's done it with STILL FRIENDS, illustrated by Mike Deas. If your day needs a lift (whatever your age), I highly recommend this book from @orcabook.bsky.social. Bonus: It's 🇨🇦 through and through!

Word that’s making me smile today: aurora. One of its older meanings is that it’s the beginning or early period of something. The aurora of laughter in a conversation, the aurora of understanding. 📷: Fir0002/Flagstaffotos, GFDL 1.2, via Wikimedia Commons

I would be so grateful if everyone who sees this could give it a repost. Due to some unforeseen expenses, finances are tough, but I really do have a lot of positive stuff to offer. Website: www.joshuaseigal.co.uk Sending huge love to all @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social #BackToSchool #EduSky

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Word that’s making me smile today: synanthrope. Synanthropes are animals that live near humans but aren’t pets or livestock. They’re close to us … but they’re beyond our control. 📷: Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

#HaikuSaturday #haiku a rhythmic pulse in starlight cricketsong Please add a version if you feel like it. If you want your version posted with the other versions please include the hashtag #VersionsHaikuSaturday

Word that’s making me smile today: dendrophile. It’s a person who loves trees.

All these poets. And many others!

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Also - please join me if you will in flooding Bluesky with Canadian culture. Music, art, film, TV. Let’s show the vibrancy of this place I’m proud to call home.

schoolreadinglist.co.uk/resources/ho... 📚📖 Are you a book-loving teacher, librarian or home educator? 🕮🔖 ⭐✍️ Would you like to review new children's and young adult titles for the School Reading List website? ⌨️⭐ 🔍 Find out more! 🔎 #teachersofx #booktwitter

Idiom that’s making me smile today: talking about little cows and little calves. In Dutch, it means making small talk. 📷: Marilyn Peddle, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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One way you can help show your support for Canada 🇨🇦: boost / borrow / buy books by Canadians. To those with little ones in their lives: browse finalists in @kidsbookcentre.bsky.social CCBC Book Awards! I also highly recommend following @hkubiw.bsky.social for book suggestions & #CanKidLit hashtag.

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⭐ Finalists Announced for the 2026 CCBC Book Awards: Honouring Excellence in Canadian Books for Young People ⭐ https://bookcentre.ca/blogs/industry-news/finalists-announced-for-the-2026-ccbc-book-awards

Term that’s making me smile today: floordrobe. It’s the heap of clothes that don’t make it to the wardrobe or closet. This is one of the gems added to the Oxford English Dictionary in June.

Sometimes I wonder how much I miss when I'm not paying attention.

Word that’s making me smile today: comet. It comes from the Greek word komētēs, which means “wearing long hair.” To ancient observers, a comet’s glowing tail resembled long human hair flowing across the sky. 📷: Ballota, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Can you believe it's almost time for our next #kidlitartpostcard day? September 3rd, next Thursday! www.ginaperry.com/postcard

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Word that’s making me smile today: swash. It’s the sound that water makes as it rushes up the beach after a wave breaks on shore. 📷: Dietmar Rabich, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

summer morning like the after-sound of a bell

Word that’s making me smile today: sensommer. It means late summer. It’s recognized in Scandinavia as the fifth season: the golden stretch of time that spans late August to early September, when the days are still warm but a new chill has crept into the evenings.

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For day 19 of my #KidLit version of the #SealeyChallenge, I read A Lucky Thing, poems by Alice Schertle, illustrated by Wendell Minor 🐭🖱️ Published 10 years before The Little Blue Truck, this book shows a whole different side of Schertle’s talent as a poet 🛻🐮🐸 #poetry

Word that’s making me smile today: twi-thought. It’s a vague or indistinct thought.

Holding my book in my hands for the first time was pretty amazing. Where the Light Shines In hits bookstores everywhere on September 29! #middlegrade #2026debuts

Can you squeeze in one more road trip this summer? Why not use @shaunjexauthor.bsky.social's poetry collection about the oddest — and shyest — creatures in North America as your guidebook? Check out @littlethoughtspress.com's blog for details. www.littlethoughtspress.com/post/book-re...

Book Review: A Catalog of Curious Creatures by Shaun Jex

Reviewed by Jennifer ThomasSome people collect shells, comic books, or keychains. Shaun Jex collects tales about American creatures that most of us have never seen, “the type that people tell stories ...

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Word that’s making me smile today: glimmer-gauk. It’s an old dialect term for an owl. 📷: Quejaytee, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A thing about writing that has become very clear to me in working on the 2nd draft of my novel is how many of the problems in a piece can be easily resolve by deleting an entire paragraph and replacing with a single more clarifying sentence.

Carole Bromley has revised her guest poet page on my blog. Read the updated version and find out about both her, and her new book of ghostly poems here: brian-moses.blogspot.com/2017/09/gues... #York @carolebromley.bsky.social

Welcome to the Ssssssnake Hotel

GUEST POET: CAROLE BROMLEY I live in York and write poems for both adults and children. My first collection for children,  Blast Off! , w...

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