The Morning RSS for 11 April 2025
A collection of share-worthy items from our morning blog scroll.
Oof! In a world that is noisy and messy, days feel long and hard. It’s hard to find share-worthy posts, and we suspect its because our friends are finding it hard to concentrate.
Nevertheless, rays of sunshine are around us.
It’s National Poetry Month, and DEAR Day (tomorrow) … let’s dive in.
For Writers & Creators & Readers, too
📚Beverly Cleary published her first book 75 years ago. Tomorrow is her birthday. In The Literary Impact of Beverly Cleary, Julia Rittenbeg writes a post that is homage, literary tour, and analysis of a writer we all know and whose books we cherished as young readers. [source: Book Riot]
The literary impact of Beverly Cleary is in her choice to write about her real-life experiences and what she noticed around her. She’s a great author to teach children that their true lives are important and worthy of sharing with the world.
♿In a guest post at Teen Librarian Toolbox, author Kate Foster explains what the “right representation” of characters with disabilities looks like in children’s books.
Disabled people deserve to appear in a variety of positive storylines, the same ones in which abled and neurotypical characters typically populate.
🔖Nooks and tucked-away places are like reading sirens: they beg you to grab a book and just get away for a bit. We’re not subscribers, but you may be, so we’re sharing Megan Daly’s guest post at Your Kid’s Next Read.
Book Lists
Need a chortle? A belly laugh? Head on over to Literacious. Laura has a dozen recommended jokes and riddles books. Dad jokes. Knock Knock jokes. National Geographic riddles. Oh! And they’re rated E for everyone.
Not books, but poems! The Poetry Sisters are donning their capes and writing back to Lucille Clifton and her notes to clark kent series. Get the scoop at A(nother) Year of Reading and {fiction, intead of lies} [Tanita Davis’ blog]
Book Lists Bans & Censorship
Last year we opted out of sharing the head-shaking news for highlighting head-nodding ideas! We’ll keep doing that, but our theme this year is: Just. Keep. Fighting.
Other Bookish Stuff
That’s all
Grab your book
It’s time
Find your nook
~ Team CYBILS