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Picture book author, librarian, educator. 🍼 MAZEL TOES (‘25) 🌔THE SCHLEMIEL KIDS SAVE THE MOON (‘24) 🎃 PUMPKIN SHABBAT (‘28) Rep: Rebecca Angus @ Howland Literary http://www.barbakoffbooks.com
✨FREE ONLINE WRITING CONFERENCE!✨Mark your calendar for the Writer’s Workout Conference! The WW team has lined up some amazing speakers. And I’m honored to be one of them this year! My presentation will be on “Balancing Your Voice & Market Needs in the #Kidlit Journey"😄👇👇
Link in the comments below!
A good problem to have! I’ll have to content myself with bidding on way too many of these incredible offerings. So heartened by this amazing community!
Is it still possible to donate? I’m not finding any info about how.
1st @ymwjpodcast.bsky.social episode of 2026 dropped Sunday with @barbakoffbooks.bsky.social 😁👇🎉 We hope it encourages you! #writingcommunity #kidlit
Welcome to 2026 Author sponsor @barbakoffbooks.bsky.social ! The Schlemiel Kids Save the Moon features a modern-day twist on a Yiddish folktale. It was named one of the Best Books of the 2024 by the Bank Street College of Education.
readyourworld.org/2026-author-...
#ReadYourWorld #ad #kidlit
lauraroettigerbooks.com/2025/11/04/w... my interview with @barbakoffbooks.bsky.social celebrating MAZEL TOES! Read the blogpost and comment to enter the #giveaway #writing #BookSky #Bilingual board book
You asked for it, so here it is 👀 The Season 3 line up!👇W/ @ryanraeharbuck.bsky.social @heathercashman.bsky.social @darahenrywrites.bsky.social
@abkoga.bsky.social @sophbriar.bsky.social @barbakoffbooks.bsky.social @amfaulkenbury.bsky.social & MORE! #WritingCommunity
At #NCTE ? Don’t miss this panel of brilliant author-educators!
lauraroettigerbooks.com/2025/10/30/w... Congrats to winner @laurenkerstein.bsky.social and thanks to Elizabeth Suneby!
Join me for next week’s interview with @barbakoffbooks.bsky.social #BookSky #giveaways #librarians
Happy happy book birthday to MAZEL TOES!!! I’m so excited to have this book, esp Annita Soble’s glorious art, out in the world!
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🎉 Congratulations to @barbakoffbooks.bsky.social! 🎉
📚 MAZEL TOES!, illustrated by Annita Soble, published by The Collective Book Studio, officially came out today. ✨
Find it here: buff.ly/wokPQHw
#kidlit #12x12PB
🎉 Congrats to @barbakoffbooks.bsky.social!
Her debut 📚 THE SCHLEMIEL KIDS SAVE THE MOON was named a 2025 BANK STREET BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (Age 5–9).
Illustrated by Rotem Teplow. Published by The Collective Book Studio.
#kidlit #12x12PB
Love meeting so many inspiring📚 indie booksellers 📚at #NVNR2025 ! They’re on the front lines of building community and getting diverse books into kids’ hands. @newvoicesnewrooms @naibabooksellers @siba_books
Don’t miss my panel this afternoon on partnering with children’s authors for all ages!
On @marketplace.org's Make Me Smart, ALA President @samhelmick.bsky.social explains how attacks on federal funding, book bans, and the shift to digital are threatening the future of public libraries and why it matters to every community.
www.marketplace.org/episode/2025...
#UniteAgainstBookBans
Stopped in my tracks by this sign pointing out the IMLS absence from #ALAAC25
At #ALAAC25? Don’t miss my panel on uplifting young readers through empowering stories! 9:30am Sunday with @leewind.bsky.social and Alicia McKenzie. Plus, book signing at 11 at booth 1548.
So proud and excited that THE SCHLEMIEL KIDS SAVE THE MOON is a Bank Street best children’s book of the year! 🎉🎉🎉 Thank you @bankstreet.edu!
Beyond excited to share this news! Pumpkin Shabbat 🎃 🍁 🍂 is on its way to fill your bookshelves with goofy giggles, fall fun, and Jewish joy!
I’m incredibly honored to collaborate with brilliant folks like @familiusbooks.bsky.social @bookfairyangus.bsky.social @howlandlit.bsky.social
As the author of Pride Puppy, I'm used to misinformation- but I didn't expect to hear these lies at SCOTUS. (Also- bondage? Was Gorsuch referring to the family's dog being on a leash? Who knows?!) Anyway, please read this to see what's actually in the book! www.whatwouldjuliedraw.com/pridepuppy
New ALA advice on responding to federal grant cancellations. Show up for our libraries, American Library Association
As libraries across the country receive notices of critical grants being canceled, ALA has new advice to help libraries & institutions navigating federal grant terminations.
Steps 1 & 2: Notify your legal counsel and preserve all documents.
Read the rest: www.ala.org/news/2025/04...
If you’re at the WA Library Association conference, come visit me at the book bash! #wla2025
WOW! My debut picture book, THE SCHLEMIEL KIDS SAVE THE MOON, is a #finalist for the 2024 Foreword Indies PB of the year award! Check out the list. www.forewordreviews.com/awards/final...
@bookfairyangus.bsky.social I’d love to do this for PB or activity books! Let’s talk about pitching @caitlinrenata.bsky.social
Quote that says “the most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.”
Yesterday, @barbakoffbooks.bsky.social & I recorded a @ymwjpodcast.bsky.social episode on Sharing Joy Through Writing Even Amidst the Hard Times. We discussed how writing can be a place where we self-actualize/can just be. Never give up moments of being with yourself & who you are. #writingcommunity
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Thanks for this reminder! I’m joining 12x12 for the first time this year. It seems like an amazing community! #kidlitchat #12x12PB
Kidlit Editors! Do you want a zany, voice-y PB with queer nonbinary Jewish rep and TONS OF PUMPKINS? 🎃🎃🎃 Of course you do. DM me or @bookfairyangus.bsky.social for a proposal! #onsub #pb
I am over the moon to be represented by @bookfairyangus.bsky.social at Howland Literary! Her vision and enthusiasm for my book, and her insight into the industry, are beyond incredible. So many good things to come!