@naomidanis
Picture book author of BYE, CAR and MY BEST FRIEND, SOMETIMES. Also WHILE GRANDPA NAPS and I HATE EVERYONE. Contributing writer at Lilith magazine. #KidLit (BYE, CAR cover illustration by Daniel RIeley, headshot by Joan Roth.) www.naomidanis.com
<I kept my head down during Torah study, hoping no one would call me Rakhel... No one talked to me. They only stared.>
CALL ME GEBYANESH, a picture book by Arlene Rosenfeld Schenker and Gebyanesh Addisu, illustrated by Chiara Fedele, is highlighted in LilithMagazine.
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<The next day, Leila tried to blend in. She didn’t want anyone to see she was Jewish. She tied back her curls. She tucked in her Star of David necklace.>
SHARING SHALOM, a picture book by Danielle Sharkman, illustrated by Selina Alko, is highlighted in LilithMagazine. lilith.org/articles/fem...
Kindergarten Gets Ready
#Bookaday I added @naomidanis.bsky.social and Pete Oswald's Kindergarten Gets Ready to my 2026 Books I Love presentation! www.pinterest.com/mrschureads/...
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<As [Maurice] Sendak himself put it, the picture book is “an ingenious juxtaposition of picture and word, a counterpoint. … Words are left out—but the picture says it. Pictures are left out—but the word says it.”> MacBarnett with Jon Klassen @stephenking.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/b...
<What book best captures the complexity of being a politician today?>
Senator LisaMurkowski: <Robert Fulghum’s “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten” .. with a few rules that honestly would make life a whole lot easier if we all adhered to them.> www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/b...
Writers of the Cambridge area! There is still time apply for the 2026 Writers in Residence program! A writer for adults & a writer for kids will get a place to work, the staff discount, & some other fun stuff. Deadline is 8/31! portersquarebooks.com/porter-squar...
<Family life is a drama rich in emotional alliances & rebellions, secret signals, idiosyncratic rules & ancestral rites. Plus jokes....[C]hildren’s books contain some of the most intense & memorable sibling relationships in literature.> —Annie Barrows www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/b...
<Illustrated children’s books that blend instruction and delight appeared, independently of one another, in two thriving commercial cities half a world apart: London and Edo (now Tokyo).> —Leonard S. Marcus www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/b...
<Frustrated by the vitriol in so much of what we read and hear, I began asking my business students at Stanford for an antidote: Surprise someone with a long overdue email saying thank you.And make it cinematic. Make the recipient laugh and cry.> — GlennKramon www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/o...
Also referencing Tolstoy, Marisha Pessl reviewed my picture book I HATE EVERYONE <It ends with the exhausted admission, “Somehow even while I am busy hating you … I love you.” Tolstoy was after this realization, too, and it took him 1,000 pages.> www.nytimes.com/2018/06/06/b...
<“Just because a book is tiny and its readers are little doesn’t mean it can’t be perfect,” Mr. Ahlberg told The Guardian in 2006. “On its own scale, it can be as good as Tolstoy or Jane Austen.”>
Allan Ahlberg, 87, Dies; Teamed With Wife on Acclaimed Children’s Books www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/b...
"It's about you, but it's not JUST about you." "You never know who needs to ready your story." "Vulnerability connects." "Who you are and what you've experienced holds inherent value." Ruth Chan in her breakout session: So You Want to Write a Memoir #scbwisummer25 @ruthchang.bsky.social
"My activist work is thru the biographies I write." Don Tate: Engaging Picture Book Biographies "How did I succeed? I was not afraid to ask for help. I always tell 3rd graders, never be afraid to try something new. You never know where it will lead you." @dontate.bsky.social
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Regarding the relationship between the beginning and the ending of your picture book. "Think about balance, not symmetry. Like eyebrows, they should be sisters, not twins." Heidi E.Y. Stemple on Revising Your Picture Book at #scbwisummer25 @heidieys.bsky.social
The Ins & Outs of Author Publishing. Lee Wind explained why <author-publishing> is a better description than <self publishing> or <indie-publishing> and why the decision to author-publish says more about a particular project than about you as a book creator. > #scbwisummer25 @leewind.bsky.social
"Do not despair if you feel invisible... You can learn something from everyone. Please credit illustrators. To late bloomers, it's never too late. Pay it forward." Advice from Debbie Ridpath Ohi, SCBWI StephenMooser Member of the Year Award recipient #scbwisummer25
"Harold (and His Purple Crayon) was just trying to get home the whole time. Use your secret weapon, your creativity. That's all I'm trying to do when I make a book. Trying to get home, taking my time." Bryan Collier #scbwisummer25
Thanks for including our picture book BYE, CAR with this beautiful illustration by Daniel Rieley in celebration of #PrideMonth.
As Iran war heats up, World Central Kitchen gets cooking to feed battered Israelis --Rossella Tercatin www.timesofisrael.com/as-iran-war-...
Eighth-grader Melanie whose mom suffers extreme anxiety after an accident, finally has a friend who understands, Dorit, whose dad suffers from his experience in the 1967 SixDayWar in Deborah Lakritz's THINGS THAT SHIMMER. @lilithmagazine.bsky.social lilith.org/articles/mor... @deblak1.bsky.social
A large family’s chaotic seder goes on for six months because they’re missing the afikomen to complete it. ONE LITTLE GOAT: A PASSOVER CATASTROPHE, a graphic novel by DaraHorn illustrated by @theo-ellsworth.bsky.social is highlighted in @lilithmagazine.bsky.social lilith.org/articles/mor...
In the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp a mother shows her 12-year-old daughter two pieces of chocolate they will save for when most needed. TWO PIECES OF CHOCOLATE by Kathy Kacer illustrated by Gabrielle Grimard, highlighted in @lilithmagazine.bsky.social #KidLit lilith.org/articles/mor...
Flying a paper airplane and doing a handstand in the aisle at Friday night services, RACHEL FRIEDMAN BREAKS THE RULES in their early chapter book by @sarahkapit.bsky.social, illustrated by @genevievekote.bsky.social, highlighted in @lilithmagazine.bsky.social lilith.org/articles/mor...
JELLA LIPMAN AND HER LIBRARY OF DREAMS: THE WOMAN WHO RESCUED A GENERATION OF CHILDREN AND FOUNDED THE WORLD'S LARGEST CHILDREN'S LIBRARY, a picture book biography by Katherine Patterson, illustrated by Sally Deng, highlighted in @lilithmagazine.bsky.social lilith.org/articles/mor... #librarian
“How had being pregnant turned me from a law-abiding citizen who just wanted to go to college to a girl who had to watch what she googled and lie to her period app...?” BIOLOGY LESSONS, a young adult novel by Melissa Kantor, highlighted in @lilithmagazine.bsky.social lilith.org/articles/mor...
Want a great green read about transport, pollution and energy?
BYE, CAR by @naomidanis.bsky.social illustrated by Daniel Rieley will spark classroom discussion and ideas for sustainable alternatives, inspiring young environmentalists, engineers and innovators.
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Writing Humor for Kids, Seriously
Amazing panel of #KidLit authors Cece Bell (El Deafo), Christopher Paul Curtis (The Watsons Go To Birmingham), Eugene Yelchin (The Genius Under the Table), moderated by Elizabeth Levy, May 3, free in NYC. worldvoices.pen.org/event/25-wri...
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