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Look for a link in our bio to register for BookFest @ Bank Street. Four middle-grade authors talk about NYC being the place where a thousand stories collide. Olugbemisola Adeniji, Emma Otheguy, Carlos Hernandez (on hiatus) ✍🏽🎓🎮, Karina Yan Glaser (Updates Only), Bank Street College, KidLit TV, #bookfest24

SLJ’s Shelley Vale moderates NYC Middle-Grade Authors We Love #BookFest24

“How much life is in a square mile in NYC” Author, Carlos Hernandez… the potential for story! #BookFest24

“I fell in love with NY because of books.” Karina Yan Glaser creator of The Vanderbeekers #BookFest24

Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich knew she wanted to write for middle grade at age ten, crafting books that support readers with the joys and challenges. #BookFest24

For middle grade writing, Emma Otheguy let’s the character’s voice take center stage. #BookFest24

⁦Roxie Munro⁩ introduces the members of “Studio 6.” #BookFest24

National Homeless Youth Awareness Month 2024 | Resources buff.ly/3UBOnBp via ReadYourWorld #ReadYourWorld #KidLit #homelessness

⁦Sophie Blackall⁩ speaks of The Kerlin Collection and archives! #BookFest24

‘Authors aren’t the [only] people who have ideas- they are the people who develop ideas.’ ⁦Brian Floca⁩ #BookFest24

“Literature in the Lives of Children” Lois Lowry’s keynote title #BookFest24

Full house Bank Street College regaling in Lois Lowry’s storytelling. (Each family photo with a book in hand…) #BookFest24

All faces turn, angled toward Lowry’s voice, as she brings us in on the “profound respect for the words” from her childhood. #BookJoy #Stories #BookFest24

Harrison Ford: When dozens of former members of the Trump administration are sounding alarms saying ‘For God's sake, don't do this again,’ you have to pay attention. They're telling us something important. I've got one vote, same as anyone else, and I'm going to use it to move

<Kids arrive at the library already who they are. They show up with their questions. No one became who they are because of a book.> Ben Harris in a tribute to his mom, #kidlit author Robie Harris #BookFest24

U.N. special rapporteur Francesca Albanese's new report recommends that Israel be unseated from the United Nations over its attacks on U.N. employees and violations of U.N. resolutions while standing trial for genocide in international court. democracynow.org/2024/10/31/fra…

Something to ponder as you head out to vote today, for free. In the Library's Rosa Parks Papers collection, there's a receipt for the poll tax she had to pay to vote in Alabama in 1956. Poll taxes, a Jim Crow-era voter suppression tool, were not abolished federally until 1964.

If you face any difficulty voting or have any questions about your ballot, help is just a phone call away at the election protection hotline ☎️

Reminder: Applications for #BankStreet’s Early Childhood Policy Fellowship are due on November 15. Learn more and apply now to join our 2024-25 cohort: bankstedu.info/4h0irk0 #earlyed #ECE

56 years ago today, Shirley Chisholm made history, becoming the first Black woman elected to the United States Congress. “Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.” -