BUTTERFLIES ON THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL ✍🏻 Annie Silvestro @anniesilvestro.bsky.social 🎨 Dream Chen 2019, Union Square Kids / Sterling Children’s #PB #school a girl 1st day of school 🦋 🦋 😮: 🦋 and then . . . 🥰 🥰 🥰 #kidlit #librarians #teachers #parents #school

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BUTTERFLIES ON THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL by Annie Silvestro @anniesilvestro.bsky.social (& Dream Chen @dream-chen.bsky.social ) A girl. School. Butterflies. Oh, yes! Precious. (2019, Union Square Kids) #PB #kidlit #librarians #teachers #illustrators

Here are the top 5 dogs of July!

And a happy Sunday to everyone 🥰 #coffee #cafe #latte #Sunday #BuyMyBooks

Working with a wonderful new illustrator. It's taken him weeks to redo the cover. What do you guys think? My other cover was pretty blah. I think the new one pops! #booksky #BookCoverReveal #KidLit #MiddleGradeMystery #ChildrensMystery #IndieAuthor Grab a copy here: www.amazon.com/dp/B07KWNQQH6/

This may be helpful to some of you :) Apple is now leasing their products. iPhone starting at $17.99 per month Apple Watch starting at $11.99 per month MacBook air leases start at $24.99 iPad stats at $11.99 #apple #ipad #macbook #applewatch #readmybooks www.apple.com/newsroom/202...

Apple Upgrade launches in the United States

Apple Upgrade — a new hardware leasing program — is now available on the Apple Store online, in the Apple Store app, and at Apple Store locations in the United States.

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Very interesting article discussing what your Chatbot knows about you. #nytimes #chatgpt #claude #privacy #ai www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/t...

4 Prompts That Can Tell You What Chatbots Really Know About You (Gift Article)

It can be unsettling what Gemini and ChatGPT have figured out about you and how easily your privacy can be punctured. Here’s how to find out.

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Working with a wonderful new illustrator. It's taken him weeks to redo the cover. What do you guys think? My other cover was pretty blah. I think the new one pops! #booksky #BookCoverReveal #KidLit #MiddleGradeMystery #ChildrensMystery #IndieAuthor Grab a copy here: www.amazon.com/dp/B07KWNQQH6/

Sadly, it took me a full minute.

She survived the man who owned her. Now she has to decide whether she's brave enough to love again. He was just a ranch hand. She was promised to someone else. The Complete Trilogy is now available! twistedkeypublishing.com/historical-western-romance-trilogy/ #RomanceBook #WesternRomance #BookSky

We should all be starfish. #starfish #humor #love #hugs #readmybooks

Lettuce begin. I'm frightened of that lovely leafy green vegetable. Yesterday I ordered a hamburger, no lettuce, no tomato. Just me and some dry buns (not me personally) and a circular slab of beef. When will the saga end? #lettuce #diarrhea #cdc #readmybooks

Oh my....I would like to apologize to everyone at the gym. Eesh. #WedgieHeardAroundTheWorld #wedgie #wednesday

Currently reading: Killer Instinct: YA thriller. Teen skills: Profiler. Emotion Reader. Lie Detector. Spatial Genius. Use their skillsets to help the FBI solve crimes. Verses for the Dead: Pendergast series. FBI Special Agent tracks down a serial killer in Miami. #iamreading #booksky #booktalk

I've been there. As a side note, I'm a little concerned about that man's tiny feet and future stability issues. #coffee #cafe #writing #wifi

A communal GASP from editors across the globe. #writing #humor #booktalk #booksky #reading #editing

How many points will you score? #BookSky

Hello my fellow Bluesky authors. Another lovely scammer is trying to pose as Carl Smith from Ink Publishers. This telephone number 737-240-4217 has been used in countless scams. Please be cautious! #writers #publishers #authors #booksky #scam #scamalert #writer #indieauthor #bookcommunity

TLC: Singing rescued elephants shows music reaches hearts across species. 🎶❤️ #MusicSky #Singing #Elephants @plumes officie!

I wonder if they have a similar word for the dishes stacked up in my kitchen 😂 #Tsundoku #reading #tbr #books #booksky #booktalk #iamreading

Dogs at the Rescue Center get to pick their own toy 🧸

Love this story. It's so much more than just a smile. For many it gives them their lives back. #smile #dentist #dentures #givingback www.cnn.com/health/this-...

This 22-year-old engineer 3D prints dentures to give low-income Americans their smiles back | CNN

At just 22, Connor Gibson is doing something he never dreamed possible: Using his engineering skills to 3D print dentures for America’s most vulnerable people — and giving them back their sense of dig...

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Follow me on #Amazon so they can annoy you every time I write a book :) #teachers #librarian #kidlit #school #mgbooks #library #bookstore #kindle #cozy #maybelline Click here to follow me: amzn.to/46Xap7l Oh my, that's an extreme close up of my face. Maybe he's born with it. Maybe it's Maybelline.

Thomas Lockhaven: books, biography, latest update

Follow Thomas Lockhaven and explore their bibliography from Amazon's Thomas Lockhaven Author Page.

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The true story of Charlotte's demise. #mail #spiders #charlottesweb #mailman #humor

In honor of Father's day. We begin with a family trek through the forest. “Dad, can you explain what a solar eclipse is?” “No sun.” 🌞 #fathers #father #fathersday #family #eclipse #bonnietyler

Neither of those are problems 😂 #books #book #reading #iamreading #booktalk #booksky #tbr

I feel your pain! 🥱💤 #sleep #insomnia #SadWhenAnEmojiMakesYouYawn

My money is on the crab! <3 🦀 #worldcup #football #soccer

No word too big! It's true. Think how many children can reel off dinosaur names. Pachycephalosaurus was my daughter's favorite when she was 6. #books #reading #booktalk #booksky #iamreading #lovebooks #writers #writing #authors www.npr.org/2026/06/17/n...

For author Jane Yolen, no word was too big for a children's book

Yolen, who authored The Devil's Arithmetic and the picture book Owl Moon, was an author's author — known for gathering loved ones in her Massachusetts home and collaborating with her friends and famil...

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Lately I've been doling out some killer advice. The giving continues. #books #lovebooks #booktalk #booksky #TBR #bookstore #reading #Iamreading

Heartbreaking 🥺💔