🍎 Teachers & Librarians! Discover KLTV's UPDATED Show List before #backtoschool: one Google Doc, every episode, searchable & linked! 🔍 Need a read-aloud for circle time? A rainy day drawing lesson? A podcast for after-school club? An interview for English class? 👉 https://www.kidlit.tv/KLTVShowList

🎉Happy book birthday to WIDE LOAD ON THE ROAD by Stephen Savage 🚚 KidLit TV is celebrating with a brand new episode of Ready Set Draw! 📺🎨 #kidlit

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🚚 BEEP! BEEP! Know a little one who loves BIG vehicles? Join in as @savageillustrator.bsky.socialshows beginners how to draw the big red truck from his new picture book, WIDE LOAD ON THE ROAD: A BIG RED TRUCK'S JOURNEY! 👉 https://www.kidlit.tv/ReadySetDrawWIDELOADONTHEROAD @mackidsbooks.bsky.social

🐰 Heads Up! What happens when your jokes fall flat on the 1st day of school? Find out in UNFUNNY BUNNY by SNL's Kenan Thompson & illus. Tony Neal! Guaranteed to give you the giggles! 🤩 Watch Kenan read it 👉https://www.kidlit.tv/ReadOutLoudUNFUNNYBUNNY @mackidsbooks.bsky.social @mackidssl.bsky.social

Don’t miss out on this HUGE book giveaway! #kidlit

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☀️📚 KIDS CRAFT & ACTIVITY BOOK GIVEAWAY! Our friends at Schiffer Kids are treating one winner to a summer's worth of mazes, crosswords, word searches, drawing books, flower-making kits, & MORE! 🌸 To enter, sign up for the KidLit TV newsletter 👉 https://kidlit.tv/newsletter @roxiesstudio.bsky.social

🟠 #InternationalDotDay is coming — our favorite day of the year! 🎉 We're partnering with the @intldotday.bsky.social team on TWO new programs to help you celebrate! Free sign-up + Educator Handbook 👉 https://www.internationaldotday.org @peterhreynolds.bsky.social

🥟 Heads Up! In CHINESE MENU: THE HISTORY, MYTHS, & LEGENDS BEHIND YOUR FAVORITE FOODS, @authorgracelin.bsky.social serves the tales behind American Chinese food.  🎬 A BIG MOONCAKE FOR LITTLE STAR storytime w/Grace 👉https://www.kidlit.tv/ReadOutLoudABIGMOONCAKEFORLITTLESTAR @littlebrownyr.bsky.social

☀️📚 KIDS CRAFT & ACTIVITY BOOK GIVEAWAY! Our friends at Schiffer Kids are treating one winner to a summer's worth of mazes, crosswords, word searches, drawing books, flower-making kits, & MORE! 🌸 To enter, sign up for the KidLit TV newsletter 👉 https://kidlit.tv/newsletter @roxiesstudio.bsky.social

📚📢 Heads Up! Summer is BASEBALL season -- here's a picture book biography that belongs in every starting lineup: ¡VIVA VALENZUELA!: FERNANDOMANIA ERUPTS IN LOS ANGELES, by award-winning sports reporter @nathaliealonso.bsky.social  & illus by @johnparraart.bsky.social! It's a home run read! ❤️⚾

🌟 KLTV KID QOTW: "I love the book so much you are so sweet..." 😻 We ❤️ hearing from young readers! This reviewer watched @robinnewmanbooks.bsky.social read HILDIE BITTERPICKLES NEEDS HER SLEEP on ROL. 👉 http://www.kidlit.tv/RobinNewmanReadOutLoud 🗣️ Does your kiddo have a review?👇 It could be a QOTW!

🎂 🎉 BOOK BIRTHDAY BOOK TRAILER! 🦖DINOSAURS TO DRAGONS 🐲 by @shreevebooks.bsky.social & illus. by Violeta Encarnación = middle-grade nonfiction where mermaid, unicorn, & dragon lore meets real science! ✨ Out TODAY -- watch the trailer 👉  www.kidlit.tv/BookTrailerPremiereDINOSAURSTODRAGONS 🗣️ 🐉 or 🦕 👇

💛 📢 HEADS UP! The perfect gift for births, graduations, & all the milestones in between: I LOVE YOU MORE THAN YOU'LL EVER KNOW - by Broadway's Leslie Odom Jr. & Nicolette Robinson, & illus. @momisdrawing.bsky.social  - about the unwavering 💖 between parents & their kids. ✨ @mackidsbooks.bsky.social

🎉📚 Congratulations, Tina Johnson! 🎉 You've won a bundle of award-winning books from our friends at Bank Street! 🌞 Our Summer Book Giveaway is still going! Enter to win a stack of brilliant books - just sign up for the KLTV newsletter 👉 http://www.kidlit.tv/newsletter @bankstreetlibrary.bsky.social

✨NEW!✨ Paper? ✅ Pencil ✅ Markers ✅ Eyepatch...eyepatch?! @roxiesstudio.bsky.social may not be a real pirate, but she is a really amazing artist! Follow along on RSD & learn to draw a pirate ship like the ones in TREASURE THIEVES ON THE HIGH SEAS: PIRATES, PRIVATEERS, AND PLUNDER. 🦜🏴‍☠️

Premiering today on KidLit TV 🏴‍☠️Watch this super fun and educational drawing tutorial from the awesome @roxiesstudio.bsky.social !! #kidlit 🌊🏝️

KidLit TV@kidlittv.bsky.social · 2w ago

✨NEW!✨ Paper? ✅ Pencil ✅ Markers ✅ Eyepatch...eyepatch?! @roxiesstudio.bsky.social may not be a real pirate, but she is a really amazing artist! Follow along on RSD & learn to draw a pirate ship like the ones in TREASURE THIEVES ON THE HIGH SEAS: PIRATES, PRIVATEERS, AND PLUNDER. 🦜🏴‍☠️

🏴‍☠️ Ahoy! We've got a swashbuckling HEADS UP for you - TREASURE THIEVES ON THE HIGH SEAS: PIRATES, PRIVATEERS, AND PLUNDER by @roxiesstudio.bsky.social (Holiday House)! Roxie has answers to questions kids want to know like: "Did pirates really have peg legs?" & "Did captives actually walk the plank?"⚓

📢⚽ Miss the World Cup already? Here's a HEADS UP for you! CHRISTIAN'S SOCCER SUPERPOWERS by soccer star Christian Pulisic & Mike Bender, illus. by Marta Kissi, from Philomel — a young Christian learns the greatest superpower isn't size or speed… it's CONFIDENCE! 💪  @penguinkids.bsky.social

☀️ SUMMER is here! Dive into #KidLitCrafts w/ KidLit TV!  📚✂️ Easy-to-make, 📖-inspired pairings to keep kids busy 🌭 READ Caldecott-winner HOT DOG by Doug Salati & MAKE a recycled dachshund w/ paper roll, yarn, & corks 🌻 MORE budget-friendly ideas! 👉 https://www.kidlit.tv/KidLitCrafts&ActivitiesSUMMER

Its funny how everyone's idea of heaven is a complete untouched paradise, crystal clear waters, lush green forests, enough food for everyone, classless, moneyless, stateless, a Utopia of peace, unity and happiness. But here on earth it's considered a leftist ideology.

Do you know a family, classroom, or library that would like to celebrate their young interpreters? Make sure to share this post! 🥰 @penguinkids.bsky.social  @bankstreetlibrary.bsky.social @penguinkidses.bsky.social

⭐️🍎 Featured KidLit: 100 THINGS I LOVE ABOUT SCHOOL — the joyful 4th book in beloved author Amy Schwartz's (1954–2023) series, illustrated by Dasha Tolstikova. Join a special conversation with Dasha & Leonard Marcus, Amy's husband. 💛 https://www.kidlit.tv/FeaturedKidLit100THINGSILOVEABOUTSCHOOL

🗣️ KLTV KID QOTW! 🌟 "I'm definitely Bad Kitty's number 1 fan! No doubt about..." 😻 🧡 On #NationalKittenDay, celebrate with kidlit's favorite feisty 🐱! ⭐ Get featured: 1. Make a comic w/ BAD KITTY creator Nick Bruel: https://www.kidlit.tv/ready-set-draw-bad-kitty-makes-comics/ 2. 📸 of their comic 👇

✨NEW Storytime EN ESPAÑOL ⚽ When Cecilia's not scoring goals, she's her family's interpreter, Spanish ↔️ English.  🏅📖 LA INTÉRPRETE by Olivia Abtahi, illus. Monica Arnaldo, & transl. David Bowles, it's @bankstreet.edu's 2026 Gold Medal winner 👉https://www.kidlit.tv/ReadOutLoudLAINTÉRPRE

An AWESOME review of TRIAL AND ERROR by the AWESOME @ronnawriter.bsky.social! Thank you! ❤️⚖️🐜 @crestonbooks.bsky.social @pubspotlight.bsky.social @kidlittv.bsky.social Trial and Error by Robin Newman and Deborah Zemke www.goodreadswithronna.com/2026/07/07/t...

Trial and Error by Robin Newman and Deborah Zemke

This punny graphic novel chapter book, the first in a new series, features four animal-populated cases overseen by Sawyer, the critter lawyer.

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☀️📚 Win our Summer Book Bundle GIVEAWAY!  Make your kids' summer reading dreams come true! Enter to WIN a bundle of award-winning books from our friends at Bank Street’s Center for Children’s Literature! ✅ Sign up for the KidLit TV newsletter for your chance to win! 👉 https://kidlit.tv/newsletter

🥰 Welcome to our newest Author Sponsor @shreevebooks.bsky.social ! 📚 Her new #middlegrade nonfiction book DINOSAURS TO DRAGONS hits shelves 07.21 from @simonkids.bsky.social . 🐉💛 Find out more about Elizabeth & her books 👉 www.kidlit.tv/KLTVSuperFans&Sponsors2026 @ssedlib.bsky.social

ICE did that thing where it murders someone then tries to coerce witnesses into silence again. Horrific stuff via @gregsargent.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2129...

Texas ICE Killing Darkens: Rep Says Witnesses Pressured to Self-Deport

There were three others in the van with the man shot by ICE in Houston this week. A representative for the families tells TNR that the government is pressuring these potential witnesses to self-deport...

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New Podcasts are out today! 🎙️

KidLit TV@kidlittv.bsky.social · 4w ago

🎧 NEW on KidLit RADIO! ☀️ Fresh summer pods: UNFUNNY BUNNY w/ Kenan Thompson I'M PROUD OF YOU w/ @craigmelvin.bsky.social  StoryMakers #middlegrade Showcase w/ @jencalonita.bsky.social, Carina Finn, & @victorpineiro.bsky.social  StoryMakers w/ @readingrainbow's @mychal3ts  👉 www.kidlit.tv/KidLitRADIO

🌀✏️  A-MAZE-ING Fan Art! Check out the incredible mazes KLTV Kids drew along with author/illus @roxiesstudio.bsky.social while watching Ready Set Draw! 🤩  🖍️ It's Fan Art Friday! Watch Roxie's Busy Maze episode, follow along, & UPLOAD your kiddo's maze 👉 https://www.kidlit.tv/roxie-munro-maze/ #STEAM

Great fun signing "Treasure Thieves on the High Seas: Pirates, Privateers & Plunder" in the Holiday House Booth at ALA. Got to play like a pirate! (photo: Kate Kubert Puls) @kidlittv.bsky.social @holidayhouse.bsky.social

🐱 #NationalKittenDay is July 10th!  If you haven't noticed, we're cat lovers around here. 😻 We've gathered our most purr-fect kitty-themed #kidlit content all in one place.  🐾 Whether you're a parent or educator, these tails are the cat's meow!  👉 https://www.kidlit.tv/NationalKittenDay