BRB, pitching The New Colossus as a kaiju movie.
Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now
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I write books, mostly #kidlit. My next picture book is I'M SORRY FOR THE BAGEL BURPS: A YOM KIPPUR APOLOGY. He/him. https://www.jacobsagerweinstein.com
Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.Go ahead. Compare him to a summer's day. He dares you. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is... SONNET 18
Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now
Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.
@pftompkins.bsky.social I hate to be one of those guys who @s you with an article I think you should see, but I felt this passage (from Jane Campion's remembrance of Sam Neill) deserved your attention. Apologies if I'm the one millionth person to send it to you.
For anybody who has taken out a hundred candles to put on Mel Brooks’ birthday cake: PUT. THE CANDLES. BACK.
Quite shocked - and a little ticked off - that @theguardian.com with its large book section has had zero coverage of the @carnegiemedals.bsky.social Kids books are a HUGE part of the industry, and the Carnegie is essentially our Booker. What’s up with that, @theguardian.com ?
This is exactly what aliens would write to lure humans into their brain-replacement machines. www.midjourney.com/medical/blog...
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If you got AI to write your book you didn’t write your book. Stephen King wrote your book. Octavia Butler wrote your book. Jilly Cooper wrote your book. Dav Pilkey wrote your book. Lisa Jewell wrote your book. I wrote your book. Every author whose work has been digitised wrote your book. You did not
They should build loads of data centers all over the place that contain huge quantities of books that people can borrow for free if they fill out a form to get a data center card and promise to return the books on time and don’t make too much noise in the data center.
Great article on the importance of illustration in children's books, and the delicate dance that has to take place between the text and the art. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...
‘I am very serious about being silly’: children’s illustrators on the art of storytelling
From The Twits to the Gruffalo… Quentin Blake, Cressida Cowell, Axel Sheffler, Lauren Child and more reveal how they bring children’s books to life
theguardian.com
This is the most delightfully nerdy pride flag I've ever seen!
Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious@rachellense.bsky.social · 2y agoI made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️🌈💖
I am super excited that my picture book about the artist Maurizio Cattelan has found a home at Phaidon, one of the world's great publishers of art books! And Sarah Matuszewski is the perfect illustrator; she's got the wild sense of humor that's essential if you're trying to capture Cattelan's work.
Subjectively, I believe that a Greatest Novels list without "Ramona Quimby Age 8" is flawed. Objectively, I know that a Greatest Novels list without ANY literature for children is fatally flawed.
Jill Twiss@jilltwiss.bsky.social · 3mo ago"Ramona Quimby Age 8" never makes these lists and yet it is what I have based my entire personality on. Is this an oversight?
New book deals on the way from @metahatem.bsky.social @dominiqueramseyart.bsky.social @jacobsw.bsky.social + more buff.ly/4mAUnCQ
The limericks that some people say lie flat, like a fallen soufflé. To make them completer, pay heed to the meter, and don't just throw out a bunch of clunky words and claim it's a limerick because the rhyme scheme is AABBA. #limerick
who suffered a terrible curse, It simply could not get much worse. were in the wrong place. for the lines in each case There once was a writer of verse #limerick
"It's National Limerick Day! Already again? Man, no way! These things are the best, no one can contest!" — a thing that most people don't say
In honor of Jewish American Heritage Month I’m reading aloud the beautiful picture book “What Rosa Brought” by @jacobsw.bsky.social and illustrated by Eliza Wheeler. A meaningful story about family, identity, and the power of love. youtu.be/mE9Tq9vFW3M?... @harpercollins.bsky.social
Storytime: What Rosa Brought | A Picture Book About Family, Identity, and Love
YouTube video by E Train Talks Books!
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MC, it's your cousin Marvin. Marvin Escher. You know that new style of graphic art you're looking for? Well, here it is! [HOLDS PHONE UP TO THIS POST]
Jacob Sager Weinstein@jacobsw.bsky.social · 12mo agoMC, it's your cousin Marvin. Marvin Escher. You know that new style of graphic art you're looking for? Well, here it is! [HOLDS PHONE UP TO THIS POST]
This is my regular plea to the lovely, wonderful, well-meaning teachers of the world: please do not assign your students books to read over the summer break! You are not inculcating a love of reading. You are just teaching your kids that reading is a chore that messes up their leisure time.
Children's Bookshelf@pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social · 3mo ago‘Relentless’ focus on literacy undermines reading for pleasure, says U.K. report | The Guardian
Victo Ngai’s art for QUEEN OF DAY is gorgeous. Bad news: you have to wait until January 12, 2027 to see it in full. Good news: you can feast your eyes on her cover today. #coverreveal #picturebook #queenofday #victongai #illustration #chessgame #childrensbooks #kidlit #bookstagram #newbookrelease
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Orban achieved a level of authoritarian consolidation unthinkable here and they still successfully got rid of him. Never let the doomers have the final say.
Islamophobia and antisemitism go hand-in-hand. The work to dismantle them is inextricably bound. That's what safety in solidarity means.
Growing Islamophobia is being overlooked — while drawing on an antisemitic framework
A striking aspect of the mounting rhetoric toward Muslims is how closely it mirrors the mechanics of antisemitism
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I keep looking for a central repository of charity auctions of interest to writers and readers, but none seems to exist. So I am going to start tracking them in this thread. Feel free to message need if you know of an auction I should include.