I wrote this thread a year ago today, a step-by-step guide on verifying images on the internet.

With major elections in the US, UK, EU, India and many other countries this year, learning to check the veracity of images you see on social media is paramount.

Now available: I AM OSAGE: HOW CLARENCE TINKER BECAME THE FIRST NATIVE AMERICAN MAJOR GENERAL by Kim Rogers (Wichita and Affiliated Tribes) & Bobby Von Martin (Choctaw Nation of OK)(Heartdrum)! HarperKids HarperStacks 📚 WeNeedDiverseBooks

did you know that bookstores make a third of their money between Thanksgiving & New Year’s, & most ship nationwide 💌 personally I find this to be an excellent way to figure out any holiday gifts

Welcome to 2024 Author sponsor @angelahdale! Kirkus Reviews calls BUS STOP “Simple, snowy fun with a vocabulary-building boost…. Young fans of Ezra Jack Keats’ The Snowy Day (1962) will find this an enjoyable companion book.”

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Teachers, librarians, educators, parents, & readers! It’s #giveaway time! I need to find these 9 picture books a new home!

Follow, ❤️, and RT/QT or Comment+Tag a friend to enter for a chance to add these great books 📚 to your collection! Winner selected 11/12.

Welcome to 2024 Author sponsor Angela H Dale ❄️🚌⛄ BUS STOP Now Available📘 ! Her debut picture book, BUS STOP (Cameron Kids, 2022), illustrated by Lala Watkins, is available in stores & libraries everywhere (including the Museum of Modern Art store in NYC).

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Amazing opportunity to support writers and get top-notch coaching. Working with Sara Gentry this year on my #novelinverse and it truly wouldn't exist without her.
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Only one week until ENEMIES IN THE ORCHARD: A WORLD WAR 2 NOVEL IN VERSE launches on 9/12!

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The Angie Thomas Writers scholarship is a full ride scholarship at my alma mater Belhaven University for an aspiring young writer. Educators, please pass this along.

Picture Books About Making Music & Ask Valerie Bolling Anything GIVEAWAY! bit.ly/45OciAM via PragmaticMom @Valerie_Bolling #ReadYourWorld #picturebooks #music #giveaway

In honor of my birthday, I'm giving away a class set of This Is a Story for a teacher-librarian, homeroom teacher, special area teacher, or administrator to give away to students. RT before 9:00 p.m. EDT (8/28) to enter the drawing. mrschureads.blogspot.com/2023/01/this-i…

Folks “That Flag” is one of my all time favourite #childrenslit texts…EVER. What a great opportunity here from the author.

Where do 2️⃣ author friends meet to hangout?
The library of course! 📚
today’s #ILoveMyLibrary post 🤩 #NewBooks
A.J. Irving 💖💜💙 kip alizadeh / find me at kipalizadeh.bsky.social
Katey Howes & Dinaño Mirtalipova
Lesléa Newman & Maya Christina Gonzalez

Don’t miss this opportunity PB friends! Kristy is brilliant and lovely!

This is one of my all-time favorite quotes by James Baldwin. I found this on a building on Black Wall Street in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Baldwin's words are as powerful as ever, but feel especially piercing in this moment of time.

HEROES DON'T HAVE TO FLY...but armed with the right words, they can SOAR! Happy book birthday to my brilliant friend, author Shannon Anderson, M.Ed & amazing artist Olga Demidova! 🥰

Alison Weiss Jamie Novak is decluttering Alison is 100% right. I love a picture book with great rhyme but I cannot tell you how rare they are to fine. I am lucky enough to have one coming out with Angela H Dale ❄️🚌⛄ BUS STOP Now Available📘 next year, though, called Goodbye Hello: A Going Home Travel Adventure.