Katherine Applegate

I'm looking forward to visiting @oldtownbooks.bsky.social in #AlexandriaVA next week to celebrate my new picture book, THE LITTLEST ELEPHANT. 💙🐘

This event is sold out. Stay up to date with my other tour stops here: katherineapplegate.com/events

Resource Spotlight: HRC’s 'School Boards Matter' Guide As national elections heat up, stay engaged locally! HRC’s guide provides board basics and tips for community advocacy to protect the freedom to read.

I wanted to share this great resource from @uabookbans.bsky.social.

It's a step-by-step guide for working with school boards, co-developed with @hrc.org and the School Board Integrity Project.

Also, a powerful reminder that local elections matter.

That's no small feat—congrats back to you!

I can't wait to go on tour for THE LITTLEST ELEPHANT. 💙🐘

A week from today, I'm kicking things off at the Tucson Festival of Books. So many wonderful authors and illustrators to meet all weekend long! tucsonfestivalofbooks.org?id=67

Find my other tour stops here: katherineapplegate.com/events

Wombat Waiting by Katherine Applegate In this wholesome verse novel by Applegate (Pocket Bear), based on a true story, a small stray dog scrapes out a living in a loc...

“Harrowing descriptions of… disaster—drawn from Southern California’s recent fires—[are] balanced by an undercurrent of hope” in Katherine Applegate’s “wholesome” middle grade verse novel WOMBAT WAITING, illustrated by Jen Bricking

Whooping Cranes Came Back From the Brink of Extinction. Now, New Threats Are Converging on Their Texas Wintering Grounds Some residents along the Gulf Coast are creating habitat for the endangered birds on their properties, but development, saltwater intrusion and bird flu are putting pressure on the species' recovery

An important story here about the whooping crane, a species that is one of our greatest conservation success stories, but that is staring down continued threats once more. We can't forget about the species we've helped.

Can't wait! 💙

A graphic promoting an event with Newbery Medalist Katherine Applegate, celebrating the THE LITTLEST ELEPHANT, her picture book adaptation of her middle grade novel, THE ONE AND ONLY RUBY. The event will take place on Friday, March 20 at 5:00pm at Blue Willow Bookshop.

We're so excited to welcome the one and only @kaaauthor.bsky.social back to the bookshop this month! 💙

Join us to celebrate THE LITTLEST ELEPHANT, her picture book adaptation of her bestselling #mglit novel THE ONE AND ONLY RUBY. 🐘

See you there, friends! buff.ly/mKYrHRr

Celebrate National Poetry Month

It's officially National Poetry Month! We’ve put together a roundup of titles to celebrate, including SHOOK by Julian Randall, which you can enter to win an early copy of at the link! 🌞 bit.ly/4bYZPOV

#edusky #novelsinverse #nationalpoetrymonth #poetry

People On Reddit Are Sharing The Book That Turned Them Into "Readers" From kids classics to popular fiction, this list is noteworthy!

Always an honor to see #Animorphs pop up in articles like this. As a former reluctant reader myself, it truly means a lot. (For me, the answer would be CHARLOTTE'S WEB.) ❤️

Book Bans ‘Kill Creativity,’ Sow Self-Doubt in Authors For the past few years, author Charlotte Sullivan Wild has been working on a picture book about an LGBTQ+ family who learns to cope with one member’s deployment to the military. The story is inspired…

As hard as we are fighting, book bans are having an impact on the books being written and published. To put this another way, a very small number of well-funded people who don't write books, don't teach books, don't work in libraries are trying to decide what books are available for everyone else

For booksellers, the ABA created this form to make it easy to contact your Rep about this terrible bill. www.bookweb.org/advocacy-act...

Hooray for Hank! 💙

Just two weeks until THE LITTLEST ELEPHANT!

I had such a fun time returning to Ruby's story and adapting it for younger readers. Spending time with these characters feels like home.

And just wait until you see Lita Judge's breathtaking illustrations! 💙🐘

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A graphic promoting an event with Newbery Medalist Katherine Applegate, celebrating the THE LITTLEST ELEPHANT, her picture book adaptation of her middle grade novel, THE ONE AND ONLY RUBY. The event will take place on Friday, March 20 at 5:00pm at Blue Willow Bookshop.

We can't wait to welcome the one and only @kaaauthor.bsky.social back to the bookshop next month! 💙

Join us to celebrate THE LITTLEST ELEPHANT, her picture book adaptation of her bestselling #mglit novel THE ONE AND ONLY RUBY. 🐘

See you there, friends! buff.ly/mKYrHRr

Celebrate Women’s History Month! – MacKids School & Library MacKids School & Library

Sharing this great @mackidssl.bsky.social reading list / classroom resource for #WomensHistoryMonth. Great books for all ages, fiction and non!

If you're reading one of my books in the classroom or at home this spring, I hope you'll check out the Educator Resources page on my website—it's full of discussion questions, activities, and more. ❤️

You can download these resources here: katherineapplegate.com/educator-res... #mglit

How a Tiny Australian Town Relocated 500,000 Flying Foxes ... and didn't harm a single one.

A nice story here about one Australian town's efforts to safely relocate half a million flying foxes, to the benefit of all. A tale of patience, cooperation, and banging on saucepans! ❤️

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‘Pocket Bear’ by Katherine Applegate is like hot cocoa on a cold winter night — it warms you from inside You can’t go wrong with any book by Katherine Applegate. And “Pocket Bear” is just like her other ones in an important way — it is filled with quirky characters who learn im…

Pocket Bear by @kaaauthor.bsky.social is just as wonderful as her other novels - filled with characters you'll love and important truths kids need to read about. #booksky #bookreview
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If you are repped by anyone on this committee please CALL them and urge them to oppose this book banning legislation.

"Once upon a time, when stones were soft and stars were bits of dust, I loved a monster...."
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#Willodeen @mackidsbooks.bsky.social #mglit

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Dear Reader,
We wrote a middle-grade book together!!! A story that is filled with things we love and care about. A story with secrets, but also with lots of light. A story we wrote in a very unique way.
Love, Jasmine Warga and John Schu www.instagram.com/p/DVKLw87jlW...

So exciting! ❤️

Alessandra Balzer at Macmillan/Balzer + Bray has bought, in a preempt, North American rights to P.S. Are We Friends Now? by real-life friends John Schu (l.) (Louder Than Hunger) and Jasmine Warga (A Rover's Story). Told in alternating letters by two middle-graders who are assigned to each other as pen pals, it's the story of how they write their way through easy lies and hard truths, and ultimately learn to show up for one another. Publication is set for fall 2027; Molly O'Neill at Root Literary represented Schu, and Brenda Bowen at the Book Group represented Warga.

⏱️Start the countdown: ~18 months until everyone can read P.S. ARE WE FRIENDS NOW by dream team @mrschureads.bsky.social and Jasmine Warga!! 💌😍

Celebrate Black Creators: Share these books by Black authors and illustrators with your community – MacKids School & Library MacKids School & Library

Wanted to share this #BlackHistoryMonth resource from @mackidssl.bsky.social before February winds down. Some great titles here, and teacher's guides linked within!

Tour reminder! 💙🐘

I'm hitting the road next month to celebrate THE LITTLEST ELEPHANT, a picture book version of Ruby's story. If you're a fan of my "One and Only" books, I'd love to see you there!

Get all the details on my website: katherineapplegate.com/events

@harperkids.bsky.social

Kyiv zoo braves blackouts and bombardment to keep animals warm Staff are using stoves and generators to keep lions, camels and Ukraine’s lone gorilla safe from winter and war

Heartbreaking reporting from the Kyiv zoo. 💔 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

EAZA (European Association of Zoos and Aquaria) is accepting donations to an emergency fund to help care for these animals: www.eaza.net/emergency-fu...

"I want to be one of those brave mice you read about in books."

Writing the Dogtown series with my friend @kaaauthor.bsky.social has been a highlight of my career. I can't wait to tell you more about the third book!