Let’s strike the expression “ready to learn” from our collective vocabulary when it comes to young children. Learning begins in utero. Kids are born learning. There’s nothing to get ready for. Suggesting there is perpetuates the notion that learning begins in school. It doesn’t

Tomorrow is AAPI Heritage Month, so this is your annual reminder that the continent of Asia includes South Asia and the Middle East! If your book roundups only include East Asian countries, then you're doing it wrong. Here's a map to help ⬇️ #AAPIHeritageMonth

Love this little guy “reading along” with his dad. Infancy is where literacy begins.

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Hi. We're working on a story about Tourette Syndrome and hoping to interview a young person with TS (11-14 years old) who is looking for advice and can speak about their experience. Please email if you know someone, and we'll be glad to tell you more: [email protected]

The photos and videos coming out of Montpelier tonight are absolutely heartbreaking. @BearPondBooks - Gareth Hinds and I are sending best wishes to you and to everyone on your staff. 💔

Genius at work. 🧠 There are a host of early literacy skills on display in this video (vocabulary, book handling, concepts of print), but my very favorite part is watching our hero problem solve to expose the hidden mirror. Watch this part carefully. In order to bring the

Huge thanks to First Book for making sure books like Torrey Maldonado’s #HANDS & soooo many others at are available at affordable prices so educators can ensure kids have access to them & for all the other incredible resources you provide to educators! It means the world!

Love this poster design by Oliver Jeffers . I'm now going to look at every street corner as the spot where the pages meet in one big open book. (The gutter beside the gutter?)

This tweet might be the most important one I’ve shared. Because I often post about child development, I’m fielding a growing number of questions from parents and teachers about specific developmental concerns. Here’s my very best advice: First, if you have a concern about

Want to see something cool? Check out the process this little one uses to find the color blue. Russian psychologist and learning theorist Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934) helped us to envision three distinct phases of knowledge/ability: At one end of this continuum are the things we

Win classroom sets of our 2022 & 2023 Walter Award winners! Every year we hold our Walter Dean Myers Awards to celebrate excellence in diverse children's literature—and donate copies of the winning titles to schools and libraries. Educators, enter now: bit.ly/45hT72H

The first time I met an author, my life was changed forever. Join me on Oct. 3rd. Bring your students, your churchfolk, your niblings, your questions. Bring a hundred people. Or just yourself. #GRA23 #GRAJackie Register here: jacquelinewoodson.com/calendar

✨COVER REVEAL✨ Excited to share TWO new covers! My next picture book, SUMMER IS HERE, a love letter to the summer season, celebrates the iconic childhood joys with bright, sun-drenched art from Bea Jackson. Available 5/724 Bloomsbury U.S. #SummerIsHere #WritingForBlackGirls

Grateful to the The Washington Post for giving space and voice to what's happening. And so incredibly grateful for teachers like Mary Wood (They are Everywhere). Let's keep them in our prayers, our 'good trouble' struggle, AND our classrooms. wapo.st/3t0zGgn

So excited that we're able to give away reading buddies to up to 6,000 educators (!) at #NCTE23, and you don't have to be a Title I teacher to qualify! ALL EDUCATORS, come by booth 900 at some point during the show to meet some of our First Book team and pick up your bear!

It’s NEVER too soon to begin reading to your baby. ⏰ In fact, doing so while your little one is still in utero will begin familiarizing your soon-to-be newborn with the voices of the adults who will comprise their “circle of trust” after birth. Once your baby is born,

Grateful to have been given the opportunity to reengage my blogging "pen" 🤔 after 13 years away. Thank you, PWKidsBookshelf is now on Bluesky, for opening this door to me at a pivotal point in my career!

📣 Teachers and librarians! Now scheduling FREE virtual visits to talk about my new MG novel, which Kirkus Reviews called "powerful and timely" and SchoolLibraryJournal called "heartwarming" ⬇️

#Bookmail is the best! Thank you First Book for offering the one-and-only #author legend Rick Riordan’s #MGLit DAUGHTER OF THE DEEP! With the help of everyone who contributed to my #fundraiser I purchased 3 boxes of this AMAZING #story to share with #students at schools across