Shari Green
@sharigreen.bsky.social
author, poet, beach-wanderer 🇨🇦🏳️🌈 | she/her | Vancouver Island, BC | www.sharigreen.com
Thanks for sharing your 1st #picturebook SAVOR THE DAY @sharigreen.bsky.social illus by Gabby Grant (From Sleeping Bear Press). I feel calm just having read it. There's an imp message about appreciating every moment, no matter how small. canlitforlittlecanadians.blogspot.com/2026/06/savo... 👍🇨🇦📚
There are books that are great, there are books that are necessary. "Song of Freedom, Song of Dreams" is both. A stunningly beautiful novel-in-verse with a lyrical pulse throughout. Highly recommend. @sharigreen.bsky.social #writingcommunity #poetry #booksky sharigreen.com/books/song-o...
Song of Freedom, Song of Dreams
Winner of the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People, and a Governor General’s Literary Award finalist. Song of Freedom, Song of Dreams is a historical YA novel in…
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The story behind the story... 😊🐚☀️⛱️📚💛
Picture books, eh!@picturebookseh.bsky.social · 2mo agoNew blog! "The Unlikely Origin of a Book about Gratitude and Delight" by @sharigreen.bsky.social "I sat down to write a joyful little post about savouring the simple pleasures in life, but instead, I’m drawn to share the very personal origin story of Savor the Day." #picturebooks #kidlit #CANkidlit
We enjoyed an evening of kidlit & community at the first Great Canadian Picture Book Party of 2026! Thank you to the authors who shared their incredible new picture books, to @peterkatz1.bsky.social for his music, and to everyone who came out to support and celebrate! #CANkidlit
Hear Canadian creators read from their new picture books at the first Great Canadian Picture Book Party of 2026. Join the fun via Zoom on Monday, April 27 from 7-8:30pm ET. Sign up through CANSCAIP. If you're not a member, message picturebookseh@gmail.com for the link. #CANkidlit #kidlit
Savor the Day was inspired by my daughter, Lisa, who loved the beach & was esp good at savouring the simple joys in life. So today, I'm celebrating this "book birthday" in the best way I can, by savouring it all. ☀️🐚🌊⛱️📚❤️ Picture book, ages 4-8. Illustr by Gabby Grant, published by @sleepingbearpress.
#GIVEAWAY To celebrate the launch of #PictureBooksEh 2026, we’re giving away 4 manuscript crits & many PBs! Details on website below. To enter: 1. Follow @picturebookseh.bsky.social 2. Like + repost this post (extra entry for tagging a friend) 3. Winners announced Mar. 27 at 9 am #kidlit #cankidlit
Picture Books, Eh! launches in 2026!
There are many wonderful places where readers of all ages, including teachers, librarians and booksellers, can discover new Canadian picture books, and Picture Books, Eh! is one of them! We are...
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This morning I listened to a "cultural critic" and writer claim that all modern children's literature is horrible, simple, and dumbed down. Reader, I did not take it well. #kidlit
Verse novel fans, updated list is now available! 📚🇨🇦 MG and YA novels in verse by Canadian authors. New this year: includes French-language verse novels. #versenovels sharigreen.com/wp-content/u...
Yesterday I sent a new ms to my agent. It's the first novel-length project I've managed to write since trauma & loss shattered me almost 5 years ago, and honestly, to me it's the clearest evidence my brain and my heart really are healing. I'm verklempt. And I'm so grateful.
Music gets us through the bad days. It connects us with the people around us. It helps us explore the deeper parts of ourselves. These books from Canadian creators explore the many ways music enriches our lives. Book list: https://bookcentre.ca/blogs/articles/let-the-music-play-book-list
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Music gets us through the bad days. It connects us with the people around us. It helps us explore the deeper parts of ourselves. These books from Canadian creators explore the many ways music enriches our lives. Picture Books It Began with a Buzz Written and illustrated by Shiva Delsooz Owlkids Books, 2025 IL: Ag
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@sharigreen.bsky.social !! Congratulations on winning the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People for Song of Freedom, Song of Dreams!!!
We need storytellers now more than ever. Please support SiWC and keep the magic alive. www.gofundme.com/f/support-siwc
It's Banned Book Week in the US, and here in Canada, we need to be standing up against censorship and defending the right to read. If you are a published Canadian author or illustrator, writing for kids or adults, please join Canadian Authors and Illustrators Against Book Bans.
I'm happy to share with you the beautiful cover of my debut picture book, SAVOR THE DAY, illustrated by the amazing Gabby Grant.🐚⛱️☀️ Coming April 15 from Sleeping Bear Press. Available for pre-order now. 😊 www.sharigreen.com/books/savor
For Kids 8 to 18: 19 Books about Mental Health - Looking for mental health-themed books suitable for parents and children to read together? See list, below. @kerncarter.bsky.social | @sharigreen.bsky.social | @deborahkerbel.com | @kloshaughnessy.bsky.social menderist.com/summer-readi...
Summer Reading: 19 Children's Books with Mental Health Themes - Menderist
Parents can help their children before the teenage years by sharing books about common youth mental health challenges.
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Please join us at our ONLINE WRITING RETREAT Fall Edition Saturday, September 20, 2025 PT 8am–6pm | MT 9am–7pm | CT 10am–8pm | ET 11am–9pm AT 12pm–10pm | NT 12:30pm–10:30pm Register: www.canscaip.org/event-6332271 #CANSCAIP #CanKidLit
I decided to read and review each of my fellow nominees for the BC Yukon Book Prize. Some seriously good books here! 😃 @cormorantbooks.bsky.social @sharigreen.bsky.social @bcyukonbookprizes.bsky.social
I'm absolutely thrilled that SONG OF FREEDOM, SONG OF DREAMS has been named a finalist for the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People--and in such wonderful company! Thank you so much to the jury and to @kidsbookcentre.bsky.social, and congrats to the other finalists! 📚🇨🇦
Canadian authors & illustators are speaking up against book bans in 🇨🇦. If you're a published Cdn author or illus, pls consider joining us? www.karijones.ca/canadian-aut... Thx @whatwouldjuliedraw.bsky.social (graphics), @robinstevenson.bsky.social, K. Jones (hosting). #CanKidLit #CanLit #BookBans
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you joy and happiness.
two men are sitting at a table with a sign that says schitt 's creek
ALT: two men are sitting at a table with a sign that says schitt 's creek
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February Grace@februarygrace.bsky.social · last yr.Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you joy and happiness.
I use Word, plus longhand in a notebook for brainstorming (sometimes) and for poetry. If my inner editor tries to take over when I'm drafting, I change the font colour to purple so I can't possibly take myself too seriously, lol.
Adam Christopher@adamchristopher.me · last yr.Honestly, this question is not procrastination, as I genuinely want to know: writers of Bluesky, what do you use to write? Word? Scrivener? Pages? Google Docs? A handwritten notebook? A typewriter? Give me the details! Give me the fonts! Tell me what works for you 🦾
In the #authorlife category of "things that make all the hard work worth it," a 99-year-old fan of SONG OF FREEDOM, SONG OF DREAMS cut out this article about Leipzig and gave it to me because she thought I'd enjoy it. (Leipzig was home to the peaceful protest movement I wrote about in SOFSOD.) 💛🥰
Victoria's Whitney Gardner explores fame, phantoms and free (not haunted) pianos in new graphic novel www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Victoria's Whitney Gardner explores fame, phantoms and free (not haunted) pianos in new graphic novel | CBC News
New graphic novel, Free Piano (Not Haunted), was inspired by an ad for a free piano, that was allegedly not haunted.
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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you don’t have “too many books.”
Summer Reads for Kids 8 to 18: looking for mental health-themed books for your children to read? See our list of 19 titles, including books by @kerncarter.bsky.social | @sharigreen.bsky.social | @deborahkerbel.com | @kloshaughnessy.bsky.social menderist.com/summer-readi...
Summer Reading: 19 Children's Books with Mental Health Themes - Menderist
Parents can help their children before the teenage years by sharing books about common youth mental health challenges.
menderist.com
