Kate Milford
@katemilford.bsky.social
Author of fantasy, mystery, and adventure for young readers, writing from Brooklyn, Nagspeake, and Jigamaria. The most recent Roaming World tale, RIALTO, is out now. The first SEACRITTERS adventure sets sail 3/16/27!
Octoberish *and* a subtropical spring — in case you seek a book for this time of year
Kathleen Jennings@tanaudel.bsky.social · 4mo agoHONEYEATER, a (double-Ditmar Award winning! AUREALIS shortlisted! Locus 2025 recommended!) haunted subtropical tale, is available now! Order through your favourite bookstore or: USA: torpublishinggroup.com/honeyeater/ Australia: panmacmillan.com.au/9781761562303/
If you think I would pass up this opportunity, you don't know me.
we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.
shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social · 5d agoi especially love all the dopes saying “when the internet first went mainstream everyone hated it too” like it happened in the pioneer days so no one can dispute it, like mf’ers we were THERE
Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.
Almost there! I leave for book tour tomorrow and am getting all my ducks in a row before I go- including signing books @carlemuseum ! But there’s still time to join the virtual visit—just order from @carlemuseum before Oct 14th and you’ll get the link for the Oct 21 webinar.
When one of the most engaging novels for kids of the year involves severed pinky toes, ominous packs of wild dogs, and rusty, unsettling metal buckets, then it's time to ask @aaronstarmer.bsky.social some questions. An ideal way to kick of October. #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2026/10/02/t...
The Uncanny: Five Questions for Aaron Starmer on You Are Now Old Enough to Hear This - A Fuse #8 Production
When one of the most engaging novels for kids of the year involves severed pinky toes, ominous packs of wild dogs, and rusty, unsettling metal buckets, then it's time to ask its author some questions.
afuse8production.slj.com
Roses are red, These times are quite trying
Anybody out there got a lead on where one might acquire a 19th century traveling library of the variety that was delivered by tender to lighthouses? I want one because reasons. historyofinformation.com/images/Scree...
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The number of times as a children's bookseller I had to thread the needle between a kid whose eyes were lighting up at my recommendations based on their stated preferences and the (paying) parent who clearly wanted me to be recommending LITTRACHUR from the adult lit stacks
Aliette de Bodard@aliettedebodard.com · 2w agoIll never forget the parent who told me in absolutely devastated tones that their kid (who was first in class) read comics for their leisure time and they should read real books Me: its leisure time. Let her be a kid, darn it.
2. Don't criticize their choices. Whatever they're reading - comics, fan fiction, non-fiction, even books by celebrity writers whom you may have good reason to dislike - let them read. Books with problematic content? Use them as an opportunity for discussion. But don't shut down their reading.
1. Make sure you're doing it yourself. Kids read most readily when parents read. Seeing the adults around them reading, hearing them talk about what they're reading, is often the best way to engage their interest.
I had cause to share this on the work slack and so by law... www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPCJ...
Lip Sync Battle - Tom Holland
YouTube video by Comedy Central Latinoamérica
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Jim Henson would have been 90 (yup, you read that right: NINETY) years old today. You can celebrate his life by celebrating creativity, diversity, peace, imagination, and silliness.
Happy 90th to Jim Henson (posthumous). It’s safe to say that he as someone whose lifetime scarcely overlapped with mine did more to shape my worldview than many of the adults in my immediate life. Be kind, sing songs, be a little weird, make someone wonder how you did that today.
Toad opened his present from Frog. It was a beautiful new clock. The two friends sat by the fire. The hands of the clock moved to show the hours of a merry Christmas Eve.
word friends I need help! Isn't there a fancy, like, Greek- or Latin-derived word that basically means an empty thing that we as people pour meaning into??? I may be explaining this poorly.
#worldkidlitmonth Eiko Kadono (1935- ) began writing in 1970 and has published about 250 books, mostly picture books. She has also translated around 100 titles from other languages.
Read Japanese Literature@readjapaneseliterature.com · last mo.A short and incomplete list of Japanese children's writers for #worldkitlitmonth.
Tomorrow is Arthur Rackham's birthday, so that's a fun thing.
ooh, I like this take - all the elements are present, so call it what it is: not liminal (which was never quite right, tbh), but gothic for a new generation of people who don’t remember why we built that shit in the first place, or what it was supposed to be *for*
Emily C. Hughes@emilyhughes.bsky.social · 3w agoalso a shoutout to @shirachess.bsky.social's excellent essay about Backrooms and the Institutional Gothic, which you should read!! thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/backrooms-an...
“When I was small,” said Frog, “my mother and father and I went out for a picnic. On the way home we lost our way. My mother was worried. ‘We must get home,’ she said. ‘We do not want to meet the old Dark Frog.’
it's not some grand statement it's just "i saw someone bullying children and thought 'fuck that'"
BREAKING: Wyld Stallyns will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran
Preeti Chhibber@runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 3w agoBREAKING: Crash and the Boys will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran
