The Morning RSS - Monday, 12 February 2024
A collection of share-worthy items from our morning blog scroll.
We’re gonna be sequestered for the next few days getting ready for, you know, the big announcement. Savor this newsletter. It has to last 47 hours and 55 minutes!
For Writers & Creators
Seems like we should call this the “in their own words” edition!
If you love learning about how authors find their voice or just how they write, then you’ll enjoy this (self described) Fascinating Interview with Children’s Author Adam Gidwitz at Melissa Taylor’s blog, Imagination Soup. Find Melissa here, too: https://substack.com/profile/59194085-melissa-taylor
How do two brothers, award-winning authors/illustrators in their own right, collaborate as illustrators for someone else’s book? It’s all in Betsy Bird’s interview of Antwan Eady and the Pumphrey brothers about their newest book, The Last Stand.
Calling #MGLit author: From Ms. Yingling Reads (on that site). Karen is a middle-school librarian who reads LOTS of books. She has been posting a review of a MG book every day for 10 years! She knows her stuff. Click to see the thread.
New Books & Book Lists
Welcome, Year of the Dragon! To celebrate, We Need Diverse Books has a BFYR book list for sharing all of the incredible traditions of the Lunar New Year.
For the Book-to-Screen crowd: Seven books adaptations slated to air during AppleTV’s 2024 season. [via
’s Today In Books, 2.9.24]And … for the board-game loving book crowd: Tabletop Games to Play Based on Your Favorite Books. For the win: Susie Drummond’s post has everything you need: gamer age, number of player, time it takes to play, and cost. 🏆
Book Bans & Censorship
For 2024, we’re going to flip the perspective on book bans and censorship. Instead of sharing the head-shaking news, we’re going to share head-nodding ideas!
A bit surprised but happy that this is happening here in the Commonwealth, but it’s a win … and makes Virginia the seventh state on the anti-book ban wagon. The Virginia legislature has put forth legislation to ban book bans by school boards. Get all the deets at
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Other Bookish Stuff
And to get you on your way, we share this image from 100 Scope Notes. Travis, we couldn’t agree with you more. This IS the best book-related vanity plate of 2024.
In the spirit of the vanity plate of the year, we’re off! To read more! ~ Team CYBILS